Phalacrocorax carbo – Jill Orme Photography

19 Dec 2025

Nemesis

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Warwickshire | 0

This juvenile Cormorant has been hanging around Stratford for a couple of weeks now, but up until today it’s always managed to evade my lens. I’d even taken to calling it Nemesis. Today though, R spotted it diving in the … Continued

24 Oct 2025

Splashdown

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Oxfordshire | 0

I went to Farmoor Reservoir this morning, where the wind was vicious and the light only very slightly less so, in search of a pair of Twite that rocked up there yesterday afternoon and were reported again this morning. On … Continued

11 Feb 2025

Glad rags

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Oxfordshire | 0

Since I last went to Farmoor, four weeks ago, the bird population has plummeted, because most of the overwintering adult waterbirds have left to return to their breeding grounds. It was bizarre to see the reservoir so empty, with virtually … Continued

1 Jan 2025

Disallowed

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Warwickshire | 0

Well, this wasn’t on my New Year bird list bingo card. I hadn’t expected to be going out at all today, after waking to the tail end of yesterday’s storm, but by lunchtime the gale had blown through and the … Continued

5 Nov 2024

Peevish

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Oxfordshire | 0

I was feeling jaded and peevish this morning, and I only managed to overcome an almost unconquerable desire to stay tucked up in bed all day with a good book* by throwing myself bodily into some clothes, scooping up all … Continued

13 Oct 2024

Solo

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Worcestershire | 0

I was still lounging about in my jammies, reading an extremely poorly plotted mystery thriller, when R called to say that his walk had just taken him over the Workman Bridge in Evesham, and there were five Cormorants fishing next … Continued

13 Dec 2023

Bird on a stick

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Worcestershire | 0

This morning R and I cleaned every remaining reception room bar the snug, and decked them out in Christmas glitz. After lunch we went off to Evesham to run separate errands, meeting up afterwards in the Waitrose café, which is … Continued

2 Jan 2023

Scaly

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Worcestershire | 0

I went to Arrow Valley Lake in Redditch today, where the birding wasn’t especially exciting, but on the plus side I didn’t slip on a wooden fishing peg, go flying, and fracture a vertebra. So, swings and roundabouts. Bird of … Continued

13 Jan 2022

Cormorant

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Worcestershire | 0

I’ve been hearing recently that there’s a lot of otter action going on at Kemerton Lake, on the border between Worcestershire and Gloucestershire, so this afternoon I drove over to take a look. There have been periods when I’ve visited … Continued

20 Dec 2021

Bookends

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Wales | 0

Photographing distant birds with a 100mm macro lens is clearly a fool’s errand, and if I’d expected to be walking along the bank of the River Taff this afternoon I’d have taken a decent sized lens with me when I … Continued

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