Hillers bird hide – Page 9 – Jill Orme Photography

25 Nov 2019

Attitude

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Warwickshire | 0

R and I went to Hillers for lunch today, and though I only managed half an hour in the hide, it was quite a productive session. As well as a range of small birds visiting the bird table, I was … Continued

17 Nov 2019

Elusive

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

“Did you get it?” said the man sitting next to me in the hide. “I think so,” I replied – with no confidence whatsoever, because in the forty minutes I’d been sitting there the nuthatch had made perhaps ten lightning … Continued

5 Nov 2019

Protective

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

I’m glad that I was out and about with the camera during yesterday’s sparkling morning, as it seems to have used up our entire quota of light for the week. When I woke up at 8am this morning I was … Continued

1 Nov 2019

Alert

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I’d been in the hide at Hillers for about five unproductive minutes when this fallow doe appeared and picked her way delicately through the woodland. She saw me and stopped, but after a few seconds during which neither of us … Continued

29 Oct 2019

Elegantly raddled

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Warwickshire | 0

“A woodpecker over there!” hissed the little girl sitting next to me in Hiller’s bird hide this afternoon, She was about eight, and already a competent photographer – I predict that she’ll be very good indeed in a few years, … Continued

24 Oct 2019

Nuthatch

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Warwickshire | 0

I’m posting this because I’ve never been so close to a nuthatch before, and because they’re quite tricky to photograph, on account of the fact that they’re in almost constant motion. Which makes it the most notable event of my … Continued

14 Oct 2019

Pheasant

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Reptiles, Warwickshire, Workshops | 0

After a brief interlude of niceness yesterday afternoon that lulled us into a false sense of optimism, the weather today was, once again, horrible. We went up to Hillers in the middle of the afternoon, at which stage it was … Continued

3 Oct 2019

Lunch

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

R came back from a run this morning and asked if I knew what bird made a kind of Chuckchuckchuckchuck-waaaah noise. I said that I did not, and he said, “Well there’s one making it in a tree opposite the … Continued

22 Aug 2019

Cautious

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

R and I went up to Hillers this afternoon for coffee, and – I confess – cake, and then I left him reading in the café and went round to see what might be going on at the bird hide. … Continued

13 Mar 2019

Nom

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

Mmmm… white farmhouse – my favourite! Sorry – say what? Cabbage? That’s a joke, right? Despite my Senna the Soothsayer predictions, the A. plumipes that emerged last weekend have survived frost, gale, and flood, and appear to be thriving. In … Continued

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