Bird on a stick
When I woke up this morning with a burning desire to be somewhere else, I thought about the past few days and realised that I hadn’t set foot outside the muddy trench we call home for almost four days. No … Continued
Sunk cost fallacy
Here is the story of my day at the owl field: Weather: fine; mainly sunny Temperature: 5°C, but feeling like 2°C due to windchill Wind: North-easterly; 8mph, gusting to 16mph Owls seen: 0 Birds photographed: 3 Photos taken: 66 Photos … Continued
The wind-hover bird
“So then I said…” After spending the night in a hotel on the Carmarthenshire coast, R and I meandered back homewards today via the National Botanic Garden of Wales. This is a terrific garden, with lots of different zones and … Continued
Shouting match
It was another long afternoon of nothing much happening up in the Cotswolds, suddenly but briefly enlivened by a confrontation between a short-eared owl and a kestrel. The owl had just gone up to hunt when the kestrel bombed over … Continued
Emergency kestrel
The weather this morning looked very promising for owling – right up until I reached the top of the Cotswold escarpment, when the sky blackened and the wind picked up. As you probably know, short-eared owls hunt largely by hearing, … Continued