Tillys field – Jill Orme Photography

9 Sep 2023

Festive

by JDO | posted in: Invertebrates, Orthoptera, Worcestershire | 0

Grasshoppers vary greatly in colour and pattern within species, but according to Evans and Edmondson’s Grasshoppers & Crickets of Britain & Ireland, it’s the females that have the widest variation. They go on to say: “Many grasshopper species have an … Continued

13 Aug 2023

Compare and contrast

by JDO | posted in: Invertebrates, Orthoptera, Worcestershire | 0

R and I went out for lunch today to celebrate his birthday, and then on to Compton Verney to see a couple of art exhibitions. Birds of America was impressive, and through the exhibits and explanations I came to find … Continued

6 Aug 2023

Clean

by JDO | posted in: Invertebrates, Orthoptera, Worcestershire | 0

Ever since I started this nature photography malarkey, I’ve struggled with grasshoppers. Specifically, I’ve driven myself and them mad by trying, and usually failing, to get clean images of them, with all the identification features clear. And also, I’ve never … Continued

2 Aug 2023

Hairy

by JDO | posted in: Invertebrates, Orthoptera, Worcestershire | 0

The weather forecast for today was horrible, but apart from a sharp shower in the middle of the morning it was actually quite a pleasant day. Failing to take advantage of this unexpected gift, I spent most of the day … Continued

11 Jul 2023

Relief

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

Photographing small, mobile subjects in poor light and strong, gusty wind really is a fool’s errand: I took around three hundred photos today, and I’ve kept nine of them. By early afternoon I hadn’t produced a single image I actually … Continued

2 Jul 2023

Small Skipper

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

Yesterday I took a walk around Tilly’s field, the hay meadow that’s about a hundred metres from our house, and found not only Small and Essex Skippers, but scores – maybe hundreds – of grasshoppers and crickets, in different stages … Continued

2 Apr 2023

Picnic

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

“Is it,” I asked myself, “maybe a little too early in the season to be posting predation porn?” I considered the question for all of about two seconds, before deciding that it’s never too early. Plus, it seemed only fit … Continued

16 Jul 2022

Big-headed

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

Today was hot and sunny – though nowhere near as hot as the next three days are expected to be – and I turned my back very firmly on all the work that was waiting for me in the house, … Continued

15 Jul 2022

Rooster

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

I really must stop letting the Boy Wonder play with my camera. He loves fiddling with it, and I like to encourage his interest, but I discovered this evening that he’d reprogrammed it yesterday, and the file size was now … Continued

13 Jul 2022

Gatekeepers

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

The (excellent) decorator who’s currently painting the outside of our house was using a cherry picker today, to get him safely up to the chimneys, and needed to run a generator at regular intervals to power it. After a while … Continued

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