duck – Page 6 – Jill Orme Photography

26 Jun 2022

Chapeau

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Day four back from holiday. Still desperate for a lie-in, but Baby B’s ten hours of peaceful, unbroken sleep lasted from 7.30pm yesterday to – well, you do the maths. Perhaps I should have done it too, in advance, instead … Continued

19 Jan 2022

Shooting through

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

I’ve now changed my mind so many times about which of today’s birds to feature in this post that I’ve circled all the way through the possibilities and arrived back where I started. I’ll try not to change it again … Continued

6 Jan 2022

Jittery

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Just before Christmas I received a missive from the rheumatologists, telling me that I’d failed my December blood tests, and that I needed to shape myself within the next couple of weeks and take them again, preferably putting in a … Continued

23 Nov 2021

Sculpted

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I’ve always thought of the male eider as being the art deco duck, but the male pintail could make a good case for itself as well. I love these elegant creatures, with their long, sculpted back and tail feathers and … Continued

11 Nov 2021

Mobile

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After my lost day yesterday, it was a relief to wake up this morning feeling better – still sub-prime, but at least capable of being up and (more or less) functional. The weather was as dreary as I was, which … Continued

4 Nov 2021

Upton Warren

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Worcestershire | 0

After being tied to a hot computer all morning, I gave myself the afternoon off and zoomed over to Upton Warren in search of fresh air, exercise, and birds. It felt strange to be back there after so long – … Continued

1 Nov 2021

Windswept

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After the heavy rain of the weekend we were treated to a cold but sparkling morning, and Baby B graciously consented to allow R and me to take him to Stratford, for coffee and cake (us) and water and apple … Continued

22 Oct 2021

Strange

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In today’s edition of Herons Behaving Weirdly, we meet one of the Stratford-upon-Avon birds, which decided today to climb up onto an abandoned coot nest, several feet above the river, from where it had a good view of the fish … Continued

13 Oct 2021

Impassive

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After a wet morning the weather cleared, and R and I went into Stratford to run a couple of errands we’d managed to forget on our last trip. Sigh. When we arrived it was sunny, and there were a couple … Continued

9 Oct 2021

Ducky

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Warwickshire | 0

R and I managed to dredge up some errands this afternoon, to justify a trip to Stratford. The return of the Indian summer had brought out scores of tourists too (how dare they!!), but despite the irritation I experience whenever … Continued

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