duck – Page 3 – Jill Orme Photography

13 Nov 2024

Flushed

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Warwickshire | 0

Flushed with yesterday’s birding success, I went off in search of rarities again this morning: my bird alerts had a Red-breasted Merganser and a Scaup joining the long-staying Ferruginous Duck at Draycote Water, and I thought there was a fair … Continued

9 Nov 2024

Colour pop

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Family life, Gloucestershire | 0

The Boy Wonder is staying with R and me for the weekend, for the first time in over six months. This morning we rendezvoused with L in the car park at Slimbridge to make the handover (which seemed to involve … Continued

2 Oct 2024

Weathered

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Cambridgeshire | 0

Tomorrow I’m booked on a Naturetrek day trip out on the Norfolk coast, which unlike the last one I did in the Forest of Dean isn’t really achievable within the day, so I’ve decided to make an early weekend of … Continued

16 Aug 2024

Massacre

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Damselflies, Invertebrates, Odonata, Worcestershire | 0

I spent a very happy three hours at Kemerton Lake today, where there was so much going on I hardly knew where best to point the camera. My aim had been to get some photos of dragonflies in flight, and … Continued

17 Feb 2024

Playtime

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Family life, Gloucestershire | 0

R and I took temporary possession of the Boy Wonder in the car park at Slimbridge this morning. He was still obviously a bit viral – wan, taciturn, and more fragile and contrary than usual – but offered the choice … Continued

21 Jan 2024

Sparkly

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Warwickshire | 0

With Storm Isha approaching, I’d expected that we would have to batten down the hatches and stay safely at home all day, but late this morning the sun suddenly emerged, and the urge to be out and about in it … Continued

20 Jan 2024

Pomp

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Warwickshire | 0

I was driving into Stratford this morning, en route to meeting up with R for lunch, when he phoned to let me know that there were several Tufted Ducks on the river off the Bancroft Gardens. When I parked and … Continued

26 Dec 2023

Relaxed

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Warwickshire | 0

At lunch time the Welsh section of the family set off on the next stage of their festive round-Britain progress. The rain of the past three days had finally eased – almost unbelievably, because over Christmas it had felt as … Continued

12 Nov 2023

Duck!

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Warwickshire | 0

“So tell me,” I enquired of R when I caught up with him in Boston Tea Party, “did you also get half way across the bridge, hear yourself say “Duck!”, and when the people walking in front of you turned … Continued

30 Oct 2023

Clean

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Warwickshire | 0

I was back in Stratford this morning to have bloods taken at the hospital. Afterwards R and I met up for coffee, then he went to do some shopping while I walked down to the river. When I first saw … Continued

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