Mother's Day

This is one of the beautiful irises from my Mother's Day flowers. I've been spoiled in other ways too today: both Offspring have phoned home, and R cooked me a lovely meal. I'm feeling very lucky.

The weather wasn't great for birding today - the owling forecast especially was quite poor, and I decided to believe it and not drive up into the Cotswolds - but it was dry enough this morning for R and me to take a walk around Croome, where I managed to snap a couple of the usual suspects from the bird hide.