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Oskareel
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Birds, wildlife, nature, dogs. Target is a crisp, detailed shot of a common swift. All photos mine unless quote/repost or stated.
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#FavouriteOfTheMonth in terms of the bird, but definitely not the photo. This guy just wouldn’t move to a clearer part of the tree. It was almost as if he didn’t want the publicity!

Male bullfinch, Highfield Country Park #Levenshulme, Manchester, UK

#birds @robcrank68.bsky.social’s #BirdOfTheDay
January 30, 2026 at 12:42 PM
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🎶“Walk on, walk on, with hope in your heart…”🎵

A red, red robin #singing #ynwa

Highfield Country Park, Levenshulme, Manchester, UK

#photography #birds #birding @alan678.bsky.social’s #BirdOfTheDay #nature #wildlife #ukbirds #ukbirding #songbird #passerine #liverpool #naturelovers #lfc
January 21, 2026 at 11:25 AM
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Scoff

A grey squirrel devouring precious winter fuel

Highfield Country Park, Levenshulme, UK

#photography #wildlife #nature #AlphabetChallenge #WeekCforCloseUp #animals #rodents #mammals #woodland #zoom #winter #feeding #naturelovers
January 20, 2026 at 4:50 PM
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The getaway

A female blackbird raiding a crab apple tree for winter loot

Levenshulme, Manchester, UK

#photography #birds #birding @robcrank68.bsky.social’s #BirdOfTheDay #FeedingTime #wildlife #nature #naturelovers #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #flight #motion #shutterspeed #Nikon
January 20, 2026 at 10:40 AM
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An early candidate for the 2026 Christmas card? The #perfectperch for claiming territory and food, as well as @alan678.bsky.social’s #BirdOfTheDay

Robin, Highfield Country Park, Levenshulme, Manchester, UK

#photography #birds #birding #wildlife #nature #levenshulme #ukbirds #ukbirding #Nikon
January 17, 2026 at 12:39 PM
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When you take the campervan to France with no big idea of where to go and then someone mentions there are vultures in the Gorge du Tarn…..🚐💨💨

Griffon vulture, Lozère, France, 2024

#photography #birds #birding @alan678.bsky.social’s #BirdOfTheDay #Raptor #wildlife #nature #birdofprey #gyps #Nikon
January 15, 2026 at 12:43 PM
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A monogamous gannet in #Solitude on the nest, perhaps waiting for its partner to return with food

RSPB Bempton Cliffs, Yorkshire, UK June 2025

#photography #birds #birding @alan678.bsky.social’s #BirdOfTheDay #ukbirds #ukbirding #wildlife #nature #seabirds #cliffs #wildlifephotography #Nikon
January 13, 2026 at 1:16 PM
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A stunning sky silhouetting a black-headed gull (I think!) at Snettisham, looking across The Wash, back in October

#photography #birds #birding @robcrank68.bsky.social’s #BirdOfTheDay #BirdsInFlight #ukbirds #ukbirding #wildlife #nature #animals #sunset #sky #Norfolk #beauty #Nikon #cloud #orange
January 12, 2026 at 11:16 AM
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It may not have the bright colours, bordering on gaudy, of the male, but the pattern and feather structure of a female pheasant are just as captivating

Snaizeholme, Yorkshire Dales, UK

@alan678.bsky.social’s #BirdOfTheDay #Feathers&Form #photography #birds #birding #wildlife #nature #ukbirds
January 9, 2026 at 12:21 PM
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The Blue Tit...a bird with a strap-on beak

Highfield Country Park, Levenshulme, Manchester, UK

#photography #birds #birding #BirdOfTheDay #ShortBeaks #ukbirds #ukbirding #wildlife #nature #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #blue #yellow #animals #Nikon #passerine #songbird
January 8, 2026 at 10:12 AM
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Wild UK peregrines targeted to feed falconry demand in the Middle East
January 7, 2026 at 1:11 PM
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Got it!

A male blackbird feeding on berries in the snow

Highfield Country Park, Levenshulme, Manchester UK

#photography #birds #birding #BirdOfTheDay #FoodFinds #BirdsSeenIn2026 #ukbirds #ukbirding #wildlife #nature #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #feeding #Nikon
January 7, 2026 at 11:35 AM
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King of the Castle

Must have been taking this just as @alan678.bsky.social was setting the #BirdOfTheDay as #speckles&spots

Starlings are particularly speckly and spotty in the winter

#photography #birds #birding #ukbirds #ukbirding #animals #wildlife #nature #wildlifephotography #Nikon
January 5, 2026 at 1:23 PM
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Charge!

A duckling #caughtinmotion on the Mersey in Didsbury, Manchester, UK

#photography #BirdOfTheDay as set by @alan678.bsky.social #birds #birding #ukbirds #ukbirding #animals #nature #wildlife #wildfowl #ducks #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #Nikon
January 3, 2026 at 9:48 AM
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#GoodLight and a tailwind helped capture this floating meringue at Neumann’s Flashes, Cheshire, UK

Mute swan

#photography #BirdOfTheDay #birds #birding #ukbirds #ukbirding #wildlife #nature #animals #wildfowl #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #Nikon #feathers #badhairday #windswept #Nikon
January 2, 2026 at 11:07 AM
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Even though it’s essentially a b&w bird, I like this Canada goose portrait converted to full b&w.

Neumann’s Flashes, Cheshire, UK

#photography #birds #birding #ukbirds #ukbirding #BirdOfTheDay #b&w #wildfowl #portrait #b+w #blackandwhite #black&white #black+white #bandw #Nikon #wildlife #nature
January 1, 2026 at 1:48 PM
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One of those funny guys with the frantic wing beat

Puffin, Bempton Cliffs, Yorkshire UK

#photography #BirdOfTheDay #Outstretched #birds #birding #ukbirds #ukbirding #wildlife #wildlifephotography #nature #naturephotography #puffin #auk #seabird
December 27, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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A long-tailed tit making a dash from one tree to another.

Taken near Hulme End, Staffordshire Moorlands, UK

#photography #BirdOfTheDay #SideProfiles #birds #birding #ukbirds #ukbirding #wildlife #nature #flight #inflight #fast #shutterspeed #shutter #Nikon #wildlifephotography #naturephotography
December 23, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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A Chiloé wigeon…I think anyway as it’s off an SD card found today with pics taken @wwtworldwide.bsky.social Martin Mere a few years ago. Its bill is a beautiful colour

#photography #BirdOfTheDay #Grounded #birds #birding #duck #pato #wildfowl #wildlife #nature #animals #wings #piebald #Nikon
December 22, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Focus

I can’t think of any bird that does it better than a heron

This one was at the bottom of a weir on the River Calder outside The Hepworth Wakefield, Yorks UK

#photography #birds #birding #BirdOfTheDay #QuietObserver #ukbirds #ukbirding #wildlife #nature #longexposure #motionblur #Nikon
December 18, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Gulp!

A redwing enjoying a festive feast of haws at Neumann’s Flashes, Cheshire, UK

#photography #BirdOfTheDay #NaturesPantry #birds #birding #ukbirds #ukbirding #wildlife #nature #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #fruit #red #thrush #feeding #winter #migrant #hawthorn #feast #Nikon
December 16, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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At last, acknowledgement from the model 👏👏👏

So many think they’re doing you a favour, but where would they be on the socials without us?

Shelduck, Neumann’s Flashes, Cheshire, UK

#photography #BirdOfTheDay #splashes #birds #birding #wildlife #nature #botd #duck #humour #Nikon #wildfowl #ukbirds
December 12, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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A common swift with nest material in its beak?

Swifts collect it in the air, but it doesn’t mean they escape the proliferation of plastic in the environment. A study found more than third of swift nests contain plastic www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#photography #BirdOfTheDay #NestBuilders
December 8, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Meadow pipit bath time at RSPB Snettisham

#photography #BirdOfTheDay #movement #birds #birding #ukbirds #ukbirding #wildlife #nature #splash #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #water #droplets #shutter #shutterspeed #fastshutter #Nikon
December 6, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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I get why puffins are so popular, but when I visit RSPB Bempton Cliffs it’s these guys I go to see.

This gannet looks like (black eye) it’s one of the lucky ones that got through avian flu www.discoverwildlife.com/news/gannet-... #photography #BirdOfTheDay #gannet #birds #birding #nature #wildlife
November 29, 2025 at 6:45 PM