corvid – Jill Orme Photography

5 Feb 2022

Poseur

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

It was still cold and windy today, and forecast to be stormy by the afternoon, but the light wasn’t too bad this morning, so as soon as I’d prepared a sausage casserole and got it seething in the slow cooker, … Continued

5 May 2021

Raven

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Warwickshire | 0

After I put this photo up in a bird forum to check that I wasn’t deluding myself about the identification, my notifications went wild: birders, it seems, love a raven. I’m fairly keen on them myself, though if I had … Continued

24 Jan 2021

Dusting

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

It was snowing when we got up this morning, and a reasonable dusting had settled, but by the time we were dressed and ready to go out for a walk the fall was easing, and the lying stuff was already … Continued

11 Feb 2020

Rook

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Gloucestershire | 0

Dearest Martha, After two days of bitter struggle we truly believed that we had vanquished the forces of Catalina, when this morning we achieved musical synchronisation between our various devices. But the application that we must now, I fear, call … Continued

17 Sep 2019

The chase

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Gloucestershire | 0

A group of us were standing in the Zeiss Hide at Slimbridge this afternoon, watching nothing very interesting going on, when suddenly all the ducks and waders went skywards. “Peregrine!” said someone. “Marsh harrier!” said someone else. They were both … Continued

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