April 2025 – Jill Orme Photography

19 Apr 2025

Engineer

by JDO | posted in: Family life | 0

Bar a few minutes in the witching hour at the end of the afternoon, when the Boy Wonder and I – both tired and hungry – threw a minor strop at one another, today was a thoroughly enjoyable day. This … Continued

18 Apr 2025

Babes

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Family life, Gloucestershire | 0

We went to Slimbridge this morning, to rendezvous with L and take charge of the Boy Wonder for a couple of days. The weather wasn’t great, but he still elected to spend some time in the reserve rather than going … Continued

17 Apr 2025

Reward

by JDO | posted in: Invertebrates, My garden, Sawflies, Worcestershire | 0

This morning, because the weather had suddenly turned warm and sunny again, and the timelines of my socials are currently full of the early Odonata which seem to be bursting out absolutely everywhere but here, I went off on a … Continued

16 Apr 2025

Windswept

by JDO | posted in: Bees, Bugs, Invertebrates, My garden, Worcestershire | 0

The weather went completely insane today, blowing a gale the like of which we haven’t seen since the old privy roof took off and tried to take out a power line, back in December. In fact, en route to collecting … Continued

15 Apr 2025

Sit!

by JDO | posted in: Flies, Invertebrates, My garden, Worcestershire | 0

If evolution ever designed a fly that looks more like a small dog – or perhaps one of those battery-powered toy dogs that turns back flips – I’d very much like to see it. This is a conopid fly, or … Continued

14 Apr 2025

Greenish

by JDO | posted in: Butterflies, Invertebrates, Worcestershire | 0

It was a dour and fairly cold day, and invert activity was minimal. I went out for coffee and cake in Stratford with R, which was good, and then went shopping for supplies for some batch cooking I’m about to … Continued

13 Apr 2025

Vibrant

by JDO | posted in: Hoverflies, Invertebrates, My garden, Worcestershire | 0

Did I say vibrant? Sorry – I meant vibrating. The weather has definitely turned. It was cloudy and cold for much of the day, with a biting, gusty wind. From time to time we had brief and unexpected bursts of … Continued

12 Apr 2025

Boxy

by JDO | posted in: Bugs, Invertebrates, My garden, Worcestershire | 0

The beetles and bugs have been surprisingly slow to come out this year, despite a fortnight of temperatures that have been closer to June’s than to a normal English April. Today that weather began to break, and my scorched aucuba … Continued

11 Apr 2025

Masonry

by JDO | posted in: Bees, Invertebrates, My garden, Worcestershire | 0

I present here another instalment in my occasional series: Orange(ish) Bees on Pink Crab Apple Blossom. If you saw yesterday’s post you might remember the rather spiffy Common Carder queen I caught on the same tree in almost exactly this … Continued

10 Apr 2025

Common Carder

by JDO | posted in: Bees, Invertebrates, My garden, Worcestershire | 0

My day began well, with a productive invertebrate hunt while the morning was still cool after overnight frost. Then things went badly awry, when I decided to tidy up the little free-standing container pond on the patio, and discovered that … Continued

Monthly Archives: April 2025