Muntiacus reevesi – Jill Orme Photography

13 Jan 2024

Baby

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

Babies everywhere. This one is slightly less pink and squishy and rather more hairy than Grandson Two, whom R and I met over a Facetime call this morning, but is already walking and feeding itself very competently, and eating an … Continued

4 Jan 2023

Garnish

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

By lunch time I needed a break from my desk, and despite the Vale being shrouded in heavy cloud, and the weather forecast for most other places in the vicinity being equally poor, I decided to risk a trip to … Continued

16 Apr 2022

Pieces of eight

by JDO | posted in: Birds, My garden, People, Pets, Wild animals, Worcestershire | 0

Not wanting to try your patience at this stage of the year by posting too many invertebrates*, I’m bringing you a couple of rather more unusual sightings today. Both of them were pointed out to me by R, so if … Continued

29 Dec 2021

Mr Tumnus

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

After a dreary, dark morning, the light improved slightly at around 2pm, and I thought it might be worth nipping up to Dunnington to spend half an hour in Hillers’ hide. It turned out that I was right – the … Continued

14 Feb 2020

Ginger

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

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

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

15 Aug 2019

Muntjac

by JDO | posted in: My garden, Wild animals, Worcestershire | 0

We get muntjac in the garden regularly though infrequently; they also turn up in our neighbours’ gardens, and I’ve seen them in an old orchard in the very centre of the village, so I’m pretty sure that they’re resident here. … Continued