Hillers bird hide – Page 7 – Jill Orme Photography

4 Dec 2021

Reprise

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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

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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

21 Nov 2021

Skittish

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“Rather elusive” says the RSPB, but also “sedentary”. This gives the impression that nuthatches like to find a hidden corner where they can sit and read a book or do some knitting without being disturbed, but it actually means that … Continued

20 Nov 2021

Iconic

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I’d been expecting a fairly bright day today, and had plans for it, so I was depressed to wake up to a thick blanket of cloud. It did break eventually, but not until the very end of the afternoon, by … Continued

4 Mar 2020

Waterproof

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Being domestic goddesses, R and I cleaned some windows this morning. At which point, obviously, it began raining. So we went to Hillers, where it was also raining, but where they have cake. The clearing outside the hide was very … Continued

25 Feb 2020

Searching for spring

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Oh please – just make it stop now. As I ate my breakfast this morning the sun came out, my spirits lifted, and I was looking forward to taking the macro and searching the garden for invertebrates. But by the … Continued

18 Feb 2020

Damp

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I wanted to try out my new lens today, and I decided to use it on the crop-sensor camera, to see how nicely they would play together. Although I use the 7DII a lot with a macro lens in the … Continued

14 Feb 2020

Ginger

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This little muntjac is so fluffy that I think that it must still be quite young – we quite regularly see adults in our garden, and even in winter they have much sleeker coats than this. It was very nervous, … Continued

8 Feb 2020

Robin

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When I was at the owl field yesterday I got into conversation with another photographer I’ve been seeing up there a lot recently, and she asked what I thought it was that kept us coming back over and over again. … Continued

3 Feb 2020

Recession

by JDO | posted in: Warwickshire, Wild animals | 0

I didn’t have much time to spare today, and anyway it was still far too windy for owls, so I zoomed off to my go-to place for white chocolate and macadamia shortbread reasonably reliable wildlife photos, and spent a very … Continued

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