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13 Jan 2023

Onomatopoeic

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Worcestershire | 0

I’m suffering from a horrible cold at the moment, and I was in two minds today whether to get up and go out, or just pull the duvet back over my head and suffer horizontally. But bright sunny days in … Continued

9 Jan 2023

Tumbling

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Gloucestershire | 0

I spent a thoroughly enjoyable few hours at Slimbridge today. It was bitterly cold, and the light was patchy, but the birding was all you could reasonably wish for. Pick of the day, rarity-wise, was a Scaup – but it … Continued

6 Jan 2023

Pomp

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Warwickshire | 0

Here in the UK we can sometimes be a tad apologetic about our native birds, because on the whole they’re less spectacular than those of warmer and sunnier countries, and some of them (whisper it) are maybe even a little… … Continued

5 Jan 2023

Two out of three

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

I spent the morning waiting for a call-back from someone who’d left me an insistent message yesterday saying that I HAD to phone them today, only to be unavailable when I did. I find this kind of situation enraging, and … Continued

4 Jan 2023

Garnish

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

By lunch time I needed a break from my desk, and despite the Vale being shrouded in heavy cloud, and the weather forecast for most other places in the vicinity being equally poor, I decided to risk a trip to … Continued

2 Jan 2023

Scaly

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Worcestershire | 0

I went to Arrow Valley Lake in Redditch today, where the birding wasn’t especially exciting, but on the plus side I didn’t slip on a wooden fishing peg, go flying, and fracture a vertebra. So, swings and roundabouts. Bird of … Continued

1 Jan 2023

Tick

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Worcestershire | 0

“I think you should go birding,” said R. Usually this would suggest that he’s finding me more than usually irritating and is trying to get me to leave the premises and be somewhere else, but today I think he was … Continued

30 Dec 2022

Coal tit

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Warwickshire | 0

I got a few useful things done this morning, then decided to reward myself with an hour in Hillers’ bird hide. The light was awful for most of the time I was there, but the site has been cleaned up … Continued

29 Dec 2022

Stratford

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Warwickshire | 0

After my old camera gear had been collected this morning, R and I went off to Stratford. It was cold and blustery, but bright, and after the previous forty eight hours of rainy gloom there were many other people who … Continued

19 Dec 2022

Possession

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

Busy, busy, busy. Yesterday R and I brainstormed a meal plan for the stretch through Christmas, and today we did the supermarket delivery order, and then trekked around Warwickshire and Worcestershire sourcing the things we either couldn’t or didn’t want … Continued

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