predator – 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

7 Oct 2025

Arachtober

by JDO | posted in: Arachnids, Invertebrates, My garden, Wasps, Worcestershire | 0

I know that many of you hate wasps, so I thought you’d be pleased to see the fate that befalls increasing numbers of them at this time of year. You’re more than welcome. I was heading out this morning on … Continued

3 Aug 2025

Dinner time

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

The first full day of the family holiday came in overcast, with a threat of rain, but R and I went off out anyway, to explore the marked nature trails around the estate. Lower Mill encompasses about ten of the … Continued

12 Jun 2025

Hunter

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Wales | 0

When I first checked the weather forecasts at 5.30 this morning, conditions on Skomer looked set to be apocalyptic, and I was sure they would cancel the day’s sailings. But over the next couple of hours all my weather apps … Continued

6 May 2025

Brutal

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

Talk about Nature, red in tooth and claw. Your entire life has been leading up to this. You spend two years as a nymph, living in a burrow on the river bed, using your gills to create a water current to … Continued

19 Mar 2025

Ouch

by JDO | posted in: Arachnids, Invertebrates, My garden, Worcestershire | 0

I thought it might comfort those of you repulsed by spiders to know that from time to time they eat each other. I can’t tell you what the unfortunate victim was – of the almost 700 species of spider in … Continued

2 Mar 2025

Fierce

by JDO | posted in: Arachnids, Family life, Invertebrates, My garden, Worcestershire | 0

“And though she be but little she is fierce.” William Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1605) According to my Wild Guide to Britain’s Spiders, March is the beginning of the Zebra Spider season, so I was a bit surprised to … Continued

6 Feb 2025

Sunk cost fallacy

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Gloucestershire | 0

Here is the story of my day at the owl field: Weather: fine; mainly sunny Temperature: 5°C, but feeling like 2°C due to windchill Wind: North-easterly; 8mph, gusting to 16mph Owls seen: 0 Birds photographed: 3 Photos taken: 66 Photos … Continued

17 Oct 2024

Flashy

by JDO | posted in: Arachnids, Invertebrates, My garden, Worcestershire | 0

We were finally blessed with a sunny day today, which brought out a large number of bees, bugs, and hoverflies, but of all the invertebrates I photographed in the garden this afternoon I was happiest to have spotted this tiny … Continued

11 Oct 2024

Catch

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Gloucestershire | 0

If you read descriptions of the diets of different wading birds, they quite often say: “something, something, something… and small fish” – but in my (admittedly relatively limited) birding experience it’s rare to see one actually taking a small fish. … Continued

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