lake – Jill Orme Photography

15 Oct 2025

New

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Flies, Invertebrates, Worcestershire | 0

R had an OMG-hundred hours appointment in Stratford this morning, and given how many times he’s stepped up for me when the boot was on the other foot, I volunteered to drive him in, so that in the event of … Continued

23 Sep 2025

Glossy

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Worcestershire | 0

I wasn’t even properly up and about this morning when a Messenger call came in from my current friend Richard (I may yet have to expel him from the Circle of Trust, for being insufferably good with a camera) – … Continued

15 Aug 2025

Hot

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

This morning R and I felt the need to walk off a slight surfeit of cake. The bottle of fizz we drank last night, while puzzling out the answers to a kind of This Is Your Life crossword that L … Continued

2 Aug 2025

Lower Mill

by JDO | posted in: Buildings, Gloucestershire, Landscape | 0

I’ve idly wondered for years what it would be like to live within the Cotswold Water Park, and for the next week I’m going to have the chance to find out: this afternoon the Cardiff, Leeds and Shire crews all … Continued

9 Jul 2025

Red-veined Darter

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

A second trip to the Knighton Reserve this morning got me the Red-veined Darter I failed to find yesterday, and also a third, unexpected “lifer”, in the shape of the Keeled Skimmer I’ve added as an extra. This took my … Continued

3 Jul 2025

Number 25

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

Come in, Number 25! I wailed*. My time is almost up! Dragons aren’t usually noted for being cooperative, but right on cue the Norfolk Hawker I’d been trying desperately to track with the camera for the previous quarter of an … Continued

27 Jun 2025

Teamwork

by JDO | posted in: Damselflies, Odonata, Worcestershire | 0

He wasn’t actually trying to help her, of course – he just wanted to make sure that no other male got to her and removed his sperm before she’d laid the batch of eggs he’d just inseminated, and in reality … Continued

29 May 2025

Clean

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

I really didn’t want to, but it had to be done, so I made another trip to Ripple today, in search of Common Clubtails. I trudged grumpily down to the dragonfly pond, around North Lake, up to the river, along … Continued

9 May 2025

Flexible

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

Yesterday, despite the cold, one of the Worcestershire Odonata recorders found a newly emerged Common Clubtail on the river bank at Ripple. In fact the temperature seems to have played in his favour: unlike Southern Hawkers, Clubtails generally prefer to … Continued

17 Mar 2025

Ducking out

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Warwickshire | 0

By coincidence, I had two unconnected appointments at Stratford Hospital today – routine blood tests at 11am, and an eye clinic consultation, for which R would need to drive me, at 2pm. Rather than us making two separate car journeys, … Continued

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