Down but not out
June and July are the prime months for Black-tailed Skimmers, but it’s about six weeks since I last saw one, and I assumed that they’d now died out in this area for this season. So I was surprised to see … Continued
Talk to the claw
R and I went for a walk at Croome this morning, where it was extremely hot and steamy. We strolled down to the lake and made one circuit around it, then R walked over to the house and back up … Continued
Three generations
Starting at 5.45am with the piping alarm call, “Granma! GRANMA!”, the Boy Wonder and his maternal oldies had a busy and fun-filled morning: breakfast, car ride with singing, Stratford playground, feeding of swans and geese on the Avon (no ducks … Continued
Bird on a stick
I always find that photos taken under artificial domestic lighting are a nightmare to get right, and having sent myself cross-eyed for most of the morning, processing images from B’s birthday party, by lunch time I was in desperate need … Continued
Deer wi’ hawnsh on head
I’m going to gloss over the horrors of Friday night, I think. Suffice it to say that it didn’t go well. Nevertheless, the Boy (who, to be fair, managed around nine hours of sleep – albeit in chunks – which … Continued
Olive Oysterling
I popped over to Croome this morning “for an hour”, arriving in nice light just after the doors were opened at 10am, and leaving, toadally zorsted, four hours later. During that time I found a lot of fungi, did what … Continued
Wrinkled Peach
Armed with information from my friend RC who works there, I went to Croome today to look for fungi, and spent several happy hours fossicking around in the shrubbery. I was only asked once if I needed any assistance, which … Continued
