monicapelger.bsky.social
@monicapelger.bsky.social
Based in 🇳🇱🇪🇺. I love cats (big and small), nature and wildlife, books (fiction and non-fiction), politics, history, photography (Nikon P950). Favourite series: Vera, The West Wing.
All pictures are mine, unless I state otherwise.
There was a glaring sun that day, but I just had to take a picture of the humbug grebe. I love the contrast.
Great crested grebe. 🪶
January 3, 2026 at 8:12 AM
Time for some #mammals, well at least one. Roebuck.
January 3, 2026 at 8:05 AM
When my cat looks at me like that, I know I’m in trouble.
Little owl 🪶
January 3, 2026 at 8:03 AM
Black woodpecker male 🪶
January 3, 2026 at 8:02 AM
Little owl 🪶
January 3, 2026 at 8:00 AM
A windswept whinchat 🪶
January 3, 2026 at 7:58 AM
For Alan’s two themes #CaughtInMotion and #BirdsOfPrey I present a hovering kestrel. #BirdOfTheDay
January 3, 2026 at 7:56 AM
Living surrounded by forests, we don’t get to see many house sparrows. But there’s a colony at the castle. 🪶
January 3, 2026 at 7:54 AM
Male bearded reedling. 🪶
January 3, 2026 at 7:51 AM
But it is pretty outside.
January 3, 2026 at 7:47 AM
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January 2, 2026 at 6:46 PM
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European Robin (Erithacus rubecula): Thank you Jeremy Franklin for sharing your photo of a Robin taken in Hampshire, UK. #robin #robinredbreast #redrobin #bird #birds #wildlife #nature #wildlifephotography
January 2, 2026 at 1:21 PM
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Good morning the #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #caughtinmotion birds captured in movement and the alternative is #BirdsofPrey which speaks for itself. Good luck. #birds #photography #EastCoastKin
January 3, 2026 at 7:11 AM
At any other time I would have appreciated this kind of snow fall. But just not this week.
January 3, 2026 at 7:25 AM
Hubby’s surgery went well. Five bypasses 😳 He’s still out cold now 💤 in recovery, then off to the ICU.
Thanks for all the well wishes, peeps.
January 2, 2026 at 12:29 PM
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This year, I’m hoping to get over my fear of birds in flight —
mostly by letting the camera do the hard work 📷✨😅🪶
今年は飛翔写真が苦手とかいう甘えを克服したいッ‼️🤔
#nature #photography #animals #wildlife #White-tailedEagle #オジロワシ #BlackKite #トビ #birds #野鳥 #猛禽曜日 #FlyDay
January 2, 2026 at 10:41 AM
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Photographing the iridescent gorget of a male Anna’s #hummingbird, requires #GoodLight, with a low angle sun straight behind the photographer, and the bird should have raised it gorget feathers. I prefer a light overcast for the best colors. @robcrank68.bsky.social #BirdOfTheDay #birds #nature
January 2, 2026 at 11:33 AM
And since it’s #FlyDay .. Eurasian spoonbill. 🪶
January 2, 2026 at 10:59 AM
Long-tailed tit. 🪶
January 2, 2026 at 10:56 AM
Female cuckoo 🪶
January 2, 2026 at 10:55 AM
Juvenile hawfinch 🪶
January 2, 2026 at 10:53 AM
Kingfisher 🪶
January 2, 2026 at 10:52 AM
And while the snow is tumbling down like mad, some memories of summer. Peacock butterflies #insects #butterflies
January 2, 2026 at 10:51 AM
Roe deer doe and her very shy and well hidden fawn. #mammals
January 2, 2026 at 10:49 AM
Those beaks look like polished steel. Hawfinch 🪶
January 2, 2026 at 10:46 AM