Fringilla montifringilla – 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

17 Jan 2022

Redemption

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

After wasting the morning on a wholly unproductive trip to Kemerton Lake – the surface of the lake being almost entirely frozen over, despite the fact that it was several degrees warmer today than it had been at the end … Continued

12 Jan 2022

Lifer

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

When HelenJG messaged me yesterday afternoon and said that she’d photographed a redpoll at Hillers, I knew where I’d be going today. I think I may have seen redpolls once before, but I can’t be sure because I didn’t manage … Continued

4 Dec 2021

Reprise

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Warwickshire | 0

You’d be forgiven for thinking that I couldn’t be bothered to take any photos today, and had just pulled out another image from Thursday for my post: it’s obviously the same perch, and I’m almost certain it’s the same bird. … Continued

2 Dec 2021

Brambling

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Warwickshire | 0

When I was at Hillers a few days ago, the nice man I was chatting to in the hide told me that there had been a brambling there a week or so earlier, but that it had now left and … Continued

12 Feb 2019

Turnstone

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Wales | 0

As an avid viewer of BBC Winterwatch, you’ll of course have identified this on sight (episode 1 from 14m 50s, if you didn’t see the segment); and you’ll have remembered that it’s a visitor to the UK, and not a … Continued

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