Bird therapy
The weather seesawed back to ‘Dreary’ today, and I felt the need of some bird therapy. There were no interesting bird alerts anywhere within a fifty-mile radius though, so I took the line of least resistance and went up to … Continued
Local Ice Cream
From time to time I amuse myself by wondering what people from the past would think of the way we live now, if they suddenly time-travelled forward from their own era. This pondering began at a time when I was … Continued
Splashdown
I went to Farmoor Reservoir this morning, where the wind was vicious and the light only very slightly less so, in search of a pair of Twite that rocked up there yesterday afternoon and were reported again this morning. On … Continued
Missing link
I went to Croome this afternoon for another look at the Glossy Ibis, but there was no sign of them either at the lake or out along the ‘river’. It’s possible that they were roosting under cover of vegetation on … Continued
Succeeding
“Are you trying to photograph dragonflies?” said the young man, with a kind of laughing sneer. I returned a bland smile. “Trying,” I replied. “And succeeding.” As he turned away he let out a quiet snort, which for a split … Continued
