small tortoiseshell – Jill Orme Photography

29 May 2025

Clean

by JDO | posted in: Butterflies, Dragonflies, Invertebrates, Odonata, Worcestershire | 0

I really didn’t want to, but it had to be done, so I made another trip to Ripple today, in search of Common Clubtails. I trudged grumpily down to the dragonfly pond, around North Lake, up to the river, along … Continued

14 Mar 2022

Game on

by JDO | posted in: Bees, Butterflies, Flowers and plants, Invertebrates, My garden, Worcestershire | 0

Today brought another couple of solitary bee species to the garden, as well as my first two butterflies of the year, and a single bee-fly. The season is properly under way! This little beauty, which I spotted on the winter … Continued

14 Jun 2020

Tortie

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

I was surprised and pleased this morning when I spotted a Small Tortoiseshell browsing on one of the blooms of my champagne rose: they more often than not choose a far less photogenic background than this to rest against. Admittedly … Continued

31 May 2020

Bold

by JDO | posted in: Butterflies, Flowers and plants, Invertebrates, My garden, Worcestershire | 0

I like a bold colour scheme as much as the next woman (I have in the past painted entire rooms red), and I generally adopt a permissive attitude to the life choices of the creatures that share my garden. But … Continued

21 Oct 2019

Holy Trinity

by JDO | posted in: Buildings, Butterflies, Invertebrates, Warwickshire | 0

When I last saw the rheumatologist a few months ago, I ‘fessed up to a few things, and he sent me for a battery of tests and scans. Today I went back and saw him again, and we had an … Continued

20 Sep 2019

Tortie

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

We’re having some work done on the house at the moment, and for much of the day the place was pretty much barricaded behind vans, ladders, and heaps of materials and equipment. The workmen said that if either of us … Continued

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