Red-handed

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Do you know your face is covered with seed? No, but if you play it, I’ll sing it. I’m pointing out that you’re eating my bird food. Fake news. I’m just hangin’ here, admiring the view. A couple of weeks … Continued

Evening light

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It looks quite nice up in the Cotswolds, doesn’t it? It wasn’t nice. At all. I gave up and came home about eight hours ago, and I still haven’t properly warmed up. But, you know, self-inflicted wound and all that. … Continued

Illustrative

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“I like that,” said R, peering over my shoulder when he brought me a glass of wine this evening. “It looks like a book illustration.” I’d rather you kept this to yourselves, because I don’t want him getting complacent, but … Continued

Triumph

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My second thought on seeing mallard lurve happening on the Avon this morning (after I wish they were closer, so I could get better photos) was that it surely can’t be the right time of year for this sort of … Continued

Rainy

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As forecast, the weather is horrible today, so I’ve been trying to clear some of the backlogged piles of admin paperwork off my desk – properly, rather than by simply filing them vertically in the handy receptacle that lives next … Continued

Golden hour

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It seems strange to have driven all the way to the Cotswold Water Park today, and then to be posting a photo of a swan, but this was the nicest light I found all afternoon, and the only thing that … Continued

Fieldfare

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When I arrived at the owl field today the lane was strangely quiet – I think that some of the usual suspects have deserted Gloucestershire for Somerset, where short-eared owls are rumoured to be showing well at Steart – and … Continued

Attention

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I hate Black Friday. I hate it with a vicious, anti-capitalist passion. I hate the emails I get from every company I’ve ever dealt with, offering me 10/15/20% off everything from garden statuary, through DVDs, to vitamins; and I especially … Continued

Love a duck

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It was pure luck that I caught the exact moment when this tufted duck bobbed back up to the surface of the river – it’s almost impossible to judge where they’re going to surface, because they’re champion divers, and the … Continued

Greylags in the mist

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The weather forecast today said to expect a mixture of sun and cloud. It neglected to mention that the cloud would reach all the way down to the ground, and the sun would present only occasionally as a vague area … Continued