Aythya fuligula – Jill Orme Photography

Shooting through

19 Jan 2022

Shooting through

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Trees, Warwickshire | 0

I’ve now changed my mind so many times about which of today’s birds to feature in this post that I’ve circled all the way through the possibilities and arrived back where I started. I’ll try not to change it again … Continued

Jittery

6 Jan 2022

Jittery

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Warwickshire | 0

Just before Christmas I received a missive from the rheumatologists, telling me that I’d failed my December blood tests, and that I needed to shape myself within the next couple of weeks and take them again, preferably putting in a … Continued

Mobile

11 Nov 2021

Mobile

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Warwickshire | 0

After my lost day yesterday, it was a relief to wake up this morning feeling better – still sub-prime, but at least capable of being up and (more or less) functional. The weather was as dreary as I was, which … Continued

Windswept

1 Nov 2021

Windswept

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Warwickshire | 0

After the heavy rain of the weekend we were treated to a cold but sparkling morning, and Baby B graciously consented to allow R and me to take him to Stratford, for coffee and cake (us) and water and apple … Continued

Strange

22 Oct 2021

Strange

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Warwickshire | 0

In today’s edition of Herons Behaving Weirdly, we meet one of the Stratford-upon-Avon birds, which decided today to climb up onto an abandoned coot nest, several feet above the river, from where it had a good view of the fish … Continued

Ducky

9 Oct 2021

Ducky

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Warwickshire | 0

R and I managed to dredge up some errands this afternoon, to justify a trip to Stratford. The return of the Indian summer had brought out scores of tourists too (how dare they!!), but despite the irritation I experience whenever … Continued

Transition

24 Sep 2021

Transition

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Warwickshire | 0

It’s unusual for me to be photographing Migrant Hawkers and incoming tufted ducks in Stratford on the same day, but that’s what happened this morning: a small, mobile, and twitchy flock of nine tufties was exploring the area between the … Continued

Good grooming

29 Mar 2021

Good grooming

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Warwickshire | 0

R and I went to Stratford this afternoon, to meet up with our…. in-laws? ….. out-laws?….. I don’t know if there’s an accepted noun that covers our relationship, but co-grandparents is probably the neatest term I can come up with. … Continued

Lucky duck

19 Mar 2021

Lucky duck

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Warwickshire | 0

Lucky for me that is – I’m not so sure about the duck. I went to Stratford this morning to have my eyes tested, and because it turned out that I needed exactly none of the rush hour time cushion … Continued

Mr Grumpy

19 Dec 2020

Mr Grumpy

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Warwickshire | 0

When R and I went to Broadway this morning so that I could exchange a faulty item at OKA, there was some dark and threatening weather moving northward over the Cotswold scarp, and spilling down the Edge towards the village. … Continued