Aberration
With storms forecast, I went out this morning to search the ivy hedges around the village for inverts before the rain arrived. It was already very windy, and my subjects were skittish, so most of the time I used my … Continued
With storms forecast, I went out this morning to search the ivy hedges around the village for inverts before the rain arrived. It was already very windy, and my subjects were skittish, so most of the time I used my … Continued
I went to Oxfordshire today, for a long-overdue catch-up lunch with my sister, and en route I stopped off at the National Trust car park on Watlington Hill, and took a little walk around Christmas Common in search of butterflies. … Continued
I broke the 100-400 zoom back out of storage today, and went off to Stratford to see if I could get some flight shots of Migrant Hawkers. The sunshine came and went, and so did the hawkers – I know … Continued
I’d wanted her to be a Brown Argus (which we do get in this village, though I don’t remember ever seeing one in the garden), and for a while I thought she was – largely because she was extremely skittish … Continued
After the hottest night I ever remember failing to sleep through, the morning was dark and overcast, and eventually it rained a little. The temperature has now dropped into the normal range for a British summer, but we’re going to … Continued
The (excellent) decorator who’s currently painting the outside of our house was using a cherry picker today, to get him safely up to the chimneys, and needed to run a generator at regular intervals to power it. After a while … Continued