gravel – Jill Orme Photography

7 Jul 2023

Glowing

by JDO | posted in: Butterflies, Invertebrates, Worcestershire | 0

I didn’t actually need to leave the homestead today to photograph something interesting: a morning walk around the garden had netted me a few nice invertebrates, including two female Common Darters. But I had to go to Evesham anyway, to … Continued

19 Aug 2022

Migrant Hawker

by JDO | posted in: Butterflies, Dragonflies, Invertebrates, Odonata, Warwickshire | 0

I broke the 100-400 zoom back out of storage today, and went off to Stratford to see if I could get some flight shots of Migrant Hawkers. The sunshine came and went, and so did the hawkers – I know … Continued

6 Aug 2020

Basking

by JDO | posted in: Dragonflies, Invertebrates, Odonata, Worcestershire | 0

R and I went to Croome this morning, where the dragon-fest I was anticipating failed to happen, but where we had a very pleasant walk nonetheless. This Ruddy Darter was basking on the gravel path near the house, and having … Continued

22 Jul 2020

Mr Grumpy

by JDO | posted in: Bees, Invertebrates, My garden, Worcestershire | 0

I was doing some gardening this afternoon in the yard where we park the cars – mainly cutting back some overenthusiastic grape vines along the old farm wall that I refer to as our bee hotel – when I became … Continued

12 Jul 2019

His Royal Purpleness

by JDO | posted in: Butterflies, Invertebrates, Warwickshire | 0

I was tired this morning, after all the gadding about and silversmithing(!), so I resisted the temptation to do a major road trip, and went back to Oversley Wood in search of butterflies. I arrived at 9am, meeting a chap … Continued

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