otter

26 Apr 2024

Slimbridge

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

I wouldn’t usually post a photo of a captive animal when I have perfectly good bee photos that I took in the garden at home before setting off out, but R and the Boy Wonder met the otters at Slimbridge … Continued

15 Feb 2023

Love

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

I had a hundred things to do today, but knowing that the nice morning was forecast to give way to a wet afternoon, I abandoned them all and zoomed over to Kemerton Lake to spend an hour in the hide. … Continued

16 Jan 2023

Gently smiling jaws

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

Day 4729 of this beastly cold, and I’m thoroughly fed up now. I even did another covid test today, just in case the last one was wrong, but got the same negative result. This at least made me feel able … Continued

5 Jan 2023

Two out of three

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

I spent the morning waiting for a call-back from someone who’d left me an insistent message yesterday saying that I HAD to phone them today, only to be unavailable when I did. I find this kind of situation enraging, and … Continued

11 Feb 2022

Jam today

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

It was a lovely day, but I didn’t fancy going a long distance, so I risked another trip to Kemerton Lake, where – three hours into a four-hour stint in the water level hide – this is what happened. There … Continued

1 Dec 2019

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

There have been otters at Croome since the spring – two adults and two kits were reported in the early summer, but they were elusive and you had to be lucky to catch sight of one. As you know, I … Continued

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