tufted duck – Jill Orme Photography

21 Jan 2024

Sparkly

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With Storm Isha approaching, I’d expected that we would have to batten down the hatches and stay safely at home all day, but late this morning the sun suddenly emerged, and the urge to be out and about in it … Continued

20 Jan 2024

Pomp

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I was driving into Stratford this morning, en route to meeting up with R for lunch, when he phoned to let me know that there were several Tufted Ducks on the river off the Bancroft Gardens. When I parked and … Continued

26 Dec 2023

Relaxed

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At lunch time the Welsh section of the family set off on the next stage of their festive round-Britain progress. The rain of the past three days had finally eased – almost unbelievably, because over Christmas it had felt as … Continued

12 Nov 2023

Duck!

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“So tell me,” I enquired of R when I caught up with him in Boston Tea Party, “did you also get half way across the bridge, hear yourself say “Duck!”, and when the people walking in front of you turned … Continued

30 Oct 2023

Clean

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I was back in Stratford this morning to have bloods taken at the hospital. Afterwards R and I met up for coffee, then he went to do some shopping while I walked down to the river. When I first saw … Continued

14 Oct 2023

Inchrested

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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

13 Oct 2023

Changeover day

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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

7 Feb 2023

Late

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I’d thought that the tufted duck season was over in our neck of the woods, but when R and I were driving over Bidford Bridge this morning, on our way back from coffee at Hillers, I spotted four of them … Continued

25 Jan 2023

Temper

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I knew how he felt, to be honest – I was less than happy myself. First thing this morning it was quite bright, but by the time I set off for Stratford at noon the weather was closing in, and … Continued

24 Jan 2023

Safety in numbers

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Just when I finally began to beat the cold I developed a fortnight ago (which I’d feared at one stage might need medical intervention), I layered a new one on the top of it, courtesy of the Boy Wonder. This … Continued