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31 Dec 2025

New Year’s Eve

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Warwickshire | 0

R and I like to have lunch out on 31st December, because this lets us pretend to celebrate an occasion that seems to be important to most of the rest of the world, while ensuring that we’re safely tucked up … Continued

30 Dec 2025

Blue

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Warwickshire | 0

In the interests of looking at something other than a Mute Swan or a Black-headed Gull, I went over to Hillers at Dunnington this morning, and spent an hour in the bird hide. Cutest of the day was this little … Continued

29 Dec 2025

Same old

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Warwickshire | 0

Same old pain. Slightly better, perhaps, but not much. Same old beat, round Stratford between the bridges. A little quicker today than yesterday, maybe. Same old birds on the river – no chance now of getting out somewhere to top … Continued

28 Dec 2025

Angelic

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Warwickshire | 0

Day 5 (though it feels more like 105 – to me, and probably by now to you too) since I tried to turn the flexible but protective box of my rib cage into a postable delivery envelope, and I’m still … Continued

22 Dec 2025

Looking up

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Warwickshire | 0

I had a rheumatology appointment at Stratford Hospital this morning, the anticipation of which made me a little tense, because these meetings haven’t always been entirely enjoyable. Today though, my rheumatologist pronounced my bloods to be “perfect”, made no change … Continued

21 Dec 2025

Bubbles

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Warwickshire | 0

I’m forever blowing bubbles….. Today was another dreary day, of rotten light, too much tedious stuff to do, and when I finally made it to the river, still no gulls. Among the Mute Swans and feral and Canada Geese, it … Continued

20 Dec 2025

Antsy

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Warwickshire | 0

We’re into the ‘tweaking’ phase of the seasonal proceedings now: buying strange odds and ends that haven’t made it onto previous lists, but suddenly seem as if they might be the one crucial thing that makes or breaks Christmas. Sigh. … Continued

19 Dec 2025

Nemesis

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Warwickshire | 0

This juvenile Cormorant has been hanging around Stratford for a couple of weeks now, but up until today it’s always managed to evade my lens. I’d even taken to calling it Nemesis. Today though, R spotted it diving in the … Continued

16 Dec 2025

Mine!

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Warwickshire | 0

Among humans possession is nine-tenths of the law, allegedly, but in the world of birds it mainly comes down to an equation between size and natural aggression. If the antagonist here had been a Blackbird or a Jackdaw, I doubt … Continued

14 Dec 2025

Storm-tossed

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Oxfordshire | 0

R and I went over to Farmoor Reservoir this morning, where a Great Northern Diver was reported, and photographed, yesterday. Sadly, we found that it had moved on overnight, which was pretty ungenerous of it as today is my birthday, … Continued