Wild animals – Page 7 – Jill Orme Photography

3 Feb 2020

Recession

by JDO | posted in: Warwickshire, Wild animals | 0

I didn’t have much time to spare today, and anyway it was still far too windy for owls, so I zoomed off to my go-to place for white chocolate and macadamia shortbread reasonably reliable wildlife photos, and spent a very … Continued

6 Jan 2020

Porky

by JDO | posted in: Warwickshire, Wild animals | 0

After a seriously tedious morning at Stratford Hospital, having yet more bloods taken, and then meeting a rheumatology person to whom I wound up giving what felt like my entire medical history yet again, I met R for coffee and … Continued

3 Jan 2020

Family group

by JDO | posted in: Warwickshire, Wild animals | 0

This morning R and I took our “visitors” to Charlecote for Compulsory Fun. In the end I think I can say that a good time was had by all of us, though the whole process of gathering everyone together and … Continued

23 Dec 2019

Weasel

by JDO | posted in: Warwickshire, Wild animals | 0

I went to Draycote Water today after the great northern diver that’s been up there for around a week now. I didn’t find it, though I bumped into other people who’d had distant views of it during the morning, but … Continued

1 Dec 2019

Otter

by JDO | posted in: Wild animals, Worcestershire | 0

There have been otters at Croome since the spring – two adults and two kits were reported in the early summer, but they were elusive and you had to be lucky to catch sight of one. As you know, I … Continued

17 Nov 2019

Elusive

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Warwickshire, Wild animals | 0

“Did you get it?” said the man sitting next to me in the hide. “I think so,” I replied – with no confidence whatsoever, because in the forty minutes I’d been sitting there the nuthatch had made perhaps ten lightning … Continued

12 Nov 2019

Berrying

by JDO | posted in: Birds, My garden, Wild animals, Worcestershire | 0

This old and rather tired rowan tree lives in the front garden, and mostly fails to enhance it. We’ve discussed taking down and replacing it, but I always reprieve it because in late summer the blossom provides a brief but … Continued

5 Nov 2019

Protective

by JDO | posted in: Warwickshire, Wild animals | 0

I’m glad that I was out and about with the camera during yesterday’s sparkling morning, as it seems to have used up our entire quota of light for the week. When I woke up at 8am this morning I was … Continued

2 Nov 2019

Saturday squirrel

by JDO | posted in: My garden, Wild animals, Worcestershire | 0

The good thing about one of your bigger siblings hogging the seed feeder, and you having to pick up what you can from the ground underneath it, is that you wind up inadvertently saving quite a lot about your person … Continued

1 Nov 2019

Alert

by JDO | posted in: Warwickshire, Wild animals | 0

I’d been in the hide at Hillers for about five unproductive minutes when this fallow doe appeared and picked her way delicately through the woodland. She saw me and stopped, but after a few seconds during which neither of us … Continued

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