Hover fly
Black-headed Gulls aren’t really built for hovering, but they do their best when food is being thrown and they’re hoping to catch some. There’s a small footbridge at the town end of the Bancroft Basin, and today when I saw … Continued
Brown-water rafting
Most of England has suffered far less from Storm Babet than Scotland has, but even in the Midlands we had very heavy rain overnight, and woke to flash flooding this morning. Living in a valley as we do, it was … Continued
Too much lens
I had to go to Stratford this morning, to collect a book I’d ordered for the Boy Wonder. I hadn’t asked for rain, or expected it given that the forecast merely threatened cloud, but as I arrived it began to … Continued
Inchrested
Another supermarket delivery fail had me back in Stratford this morning, where despite the sunshine there were no Migrant Hawkers out because it was only 10°C. This is far closer to the seasonal average for mid-October, but still a bit … Continued
Changeover day
This morning at Lucy’s Mill, while photographing Migrant Hawkers, I was moaning at some innocent civilians about the lack of tufted ducks in Stratford, and blaming the unseasonably warm weather for causing them to delay their southward migration. Then I … Continued