Worcestershire – Page 72 – Jill Orme Photography

30 Sep 2022

Twofer

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

It was dark and stormy today, though it didn’t actually rain until I was half way round the garden on my lunchtime invertebrate hunt. At which point, as I knew I already had usable images, I called it quits. I … Continued

27 Sep 2022

Chilled

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

R and I were busy today, preparing for an overnight stay by the Family B. The weather was also very changeable – windy, with scudding clouds and rain showers, interspersed with short spells of sunshine. All of this made bug … Continued

25 Sep 2022

Breakfast

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

I was making my breakfast this morning when I spotted this green woodpecker hunting ants on the top lawn. I’d rather not have shot her through a double-glazed window, obviously, but being ground feeders, green woodpeckers are very nervous and … Continued

24 Sep 2022

Puzzling

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

This is only the second Eristalis intricaria I’ve photographed this year, and the first I’ve seen in the village for five years. It’s a widely distributed species, but according to the Hoverfly Recording Scheme it’s especially abundant in northern and … Continued

20 Sep 2022

Rainbow

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

Trench Wood was a strange place today – warm and at least intermittently sunny, and with a fair amount of devil’s bit scabious still flowering, but virtually devoid of nectar-feeding inverts: across two hours I reckon I saw just three … Continued

19 Sep 2022

Placeholder

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

This Paroligolophus agrestis – beaten from a viburnum during a late afternoon scuttle around the garden, holds today’s place in my journal for the simple reason that I don’t post pictures of pictures. Apart from this brief burst of activity, … Continued

17 Sep 2022

B-Day

by JDO | posted in: Dragonflies, Invertebrates, Odonata, Worcestershire | 0

R and I met the Family B at Croome this morning, to effect a transfer of the Boy Wonder, who’s staying with his Ageds overnight again. Having a much shorter and more predictable journey than the Welsh contingent we arrived … Continued

16 Sep 2022

Grounded

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

I swept this harvestman out of our ornamental weeping pear this afternoon. It’s one of several Paroligolophus agrestis I found today, but wins the prize for having given me my most unusual image. I was using an old hazel log … Continued

14 Sep 2022

Lesser thorn-tipped longhorn beetle

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

Following a discussion with uniqueandlovely last week I bought myself a sweep net, and this afternoon I wandered around the garden, sweeping across soft vegetation and beating trees and shrubs, to see what I could find. The answer was: plenty … Continued

13 Sep 2022

Cinnamon

by JDO | posted in: Beetles, Bugs, Invertebrates, Worcestershire | 0

I got a little bit overexcited when I first spotted this bug, thinking that I might have found a firebug, but by the time I’d taken its photo I’d realised that it was “the other one” – Corizus hyoscyami, the … Continued