Chilly
As I drove home from the owl field last night it became increasingly misty. It even looked as though an inversion might be forming over Chipping Campden, and I made a mental note that it would be worth going up … Continued
Draycote birding
It was a perfect owling day, but I wasn’t feeling up to dealing with hordes of people, so I decided to go to Draycote Water for a Christmas-carb-busting walk and a Great Northern Diver. Both of which I got, though … Continued
Disallowed
Well, this wasn’t on my New Year bird list bingo card. I hadn’t expected to be going out at all today, after waking to the tail end of yesterday’s storm, but by lunchtime the gale had blown through and the … Continued
New Year’s Eve
R and I went to Stratford for lunch today, as we like to do on New Year’s Eve. At the third time of trying we finally managed a meal at the Turquoise Kitchen (the previous two bookings having had to … Continued
Flight practice
This morning H and S set off back to the Frozen North (H still a bit under the weather with what now looks pretty clearly like a virus), and suddenly the house was huge and empty. So R and I … Continued
Golden hour
The Cardiff crew managed to depart the Shire at lunchtime, despite multiple delaying tactics by the Boy Wonder. His word of the day is “alleyway”, which he learned this morning when R and I walked over to the Airbnb and … Continued
