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Ron McIntyre
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Birder. Bird surveyor. Butterflies.Moths.RSPB and BTO volunteer, photography mainly natural history & landscapes, I only use my photographs on here except for reposts.Norfolk , UK. No DM’s. No posts or bio and I will block you.🇬🇧
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Ron McIntyre @ronmac11.bsky.social · Dec 4
Old fish boxes set up for kittiwakes to nest, Vardo, Norway.
#birds
Kittiwakes nesting in old fish boxes.
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A bit of frosted foliage for
#macromonday
A black coloured grass with a frost coating. Green leaves and red berries on a Cotoneaster with frost. A frosty cyclamen, pink flowers hanging down above dark green leaves.
February 9, 2026 at 11:45 AM
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shadowmacphotos.bsky.social
Shoreline Wanders - Golden Ears Provincial Park, British Columbia 🇨🇦

#reflection #lake #calm #tranquility #Stunday #blueskyartshow #pano #landscapephotography #peak #travel #britishcolumbia #panorama #nature #photography #mirror #mountains #forest #hike #explorebc #bc #scape #explorecanada #canada
February 8, 2026 at 6:59 PM
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From a recent wander down to Ullswater. End of the day clearing skies provided some lovely light over the Helvellyn range and great reflections. PS I nearly packed up and went home, patience and cold hands sometimes pays off

#landscapephotography
#ullswater
#lakedistrict
#cumbria
#winter
#uk
Sunset at Ullswater, clam conditions, started off very cloudy but as which is part of the course in winter the cloudy skies started to dissapear and provided some lovely golden light filtered through the clouds
February 8, 2026 at 2:47 PM
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Pale Bellied Brent Geese overwintering in Wirral waters.
#SuperSeabirdSunday #Sundayvibes
February 8, 2026 at 8:12 AM
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anthrobirder.bsky.social
Here are a couple of Southern Giant Petrels, seen recently in the South Atlantic and Antarctic. They have a face only a mother could love, but also a striking white phase that was regularly seen in Antarctica.
#Birds #SuperSeabirdSunday
A Southern Giant Petrel is flying against a blue sky. It's a large brown seabird with a thick bill and paler head. A white Southern Giant Petrel is flying against a grey sea.
February 8, 2026 at 8:56 AM
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anthrobirder.bsky.social
A favourite from the southern oceans was Black-bellied Storm-Petrel. Similar to the numerous Wilson's Storm-Petrels they share the seas with from above, they show their striking underside as they bank. Often seen delicately bouncing over the surface, feet pattering.
#Birds #SuperSeabirdSunday
A Black-bellied Storm-Petrel is flying over a silver sea. It's a small, dark seabird with a white rump. A Black-bellied Storm-Petrel flying over a silver sea. It shows its white underparts with black belly stripe. A Black-bellied Storm-Petrel is flying over a grey sea, angling its legs and feet towards the sea surface.
February 8, 2026 at 10:16 AM
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A Great aak for #SuperSeabirdSunday
Our brothers of the Arctic on Fowl Craig, one fine summer.

#Papay
#Orkney
February 8, 2026 at 8:58 AM
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anthrobirder.bsky.social
Part of a huge swarm of rose-tinged Franklin's Gulls that were wintering along the Pacific shore at Mantagua, central Chile last month.
#Birds #SuperSeabirdSunday
A large group of Franklin's Gulls are landing on a sandy beach. Ocean waves are breaking in the background.
February 8, 2026 at 9:09 AM
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anthrobirder.bsky.social
A Dolphin Gull busying itself amongst the seaweed in Ushuaia, Argentina recently.
#Birds #SuperSeabirdSunday
A Dolphin Gull is walking through some seaweed covered rocks and pools. It's a dark gull with blackish wings, greyish body and red bill and legs.
February 8, 2026 at 9:02 AM
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zitronenkaffee.bsky.social
#SuperSeabirdSunday
Black-headed Gull
Watercolour and ink painting of a gull
February 8, 2026 at 9:06 AM
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Mediterranean Gull #SuperSeabirdSunday
February 8, 2026 at 9:26 AM
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Welcome to Super Seabird Sunday where we ask you to share photos, videos & artwork of seabirds to brighten up timelines. Here is my contribution; nesting Kittiwakes with young #SuperSeabirdSunday
February 8, 2026 at 8:36 AM
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The black-browed albatross scanning the gannet colony for a place to land at #Bempton Cliffs, #EastYorkshire on the 4th July 2021. #Seabirds #Wildlfe #Photography
Please check out all submissions at #SuperSeabirdSunday and give this a like and repost. Thank you.
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February 8, 2026 at 9:27 AM
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Guillemot colony at St.Bees Head.
#SuperSeabirdSunday
A group of black and white birds perched on a natural rock ledge on sea cliffs.
February 8, 2026 at 10:51 AM
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Mugimaki flycatcher.
#smallbirdsaturday
A black and white bird with orange breast.
February 7, 2026 at 5:19 PM
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It's a chilly Spring morning at Potawatomi State Park and the sun has just risen. Wisconsin, April 2017.

#BlueskyArtShow #sunlight #Potawatomi #Wisconsin #photography #travel #camping #sunrise #forest
It's a chilly Spring morning at Potawatomi State Park and the sun has just risen. The dark trunks of trees filter the warm light coming from the sun. The ground is covered in brown and orange leaves.
February 7, 2026 at 3:46 PM
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Winter heliotrope. I love the scent these flowers have, sometimes cherry/marzipan or vanilla .
#flowers
#winterplants
A spike of florets push through heart shaped leaves.
February 7, 2026 at 12:17 PM
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A male hooded merganser (Lophodytes cucullatus) racing his reflection. Photo taken at Isleta Lakes, New Mexico on February 6, 2026.

#nature #naturephotography #birds
The aesthetic key to this image is the finely and evenly rippled water. The ripples are mostly brown above (reflecting winter vegetation) and blue below (reflecting the sky). Flying just above the rippled water, the male hooded merganser has his wings in their downbeat. His head is black with a white patch, and with his hood folded back (think aerodynamic drag). The beak is black and the eye is yellow-orange. The outer parts of the wings are gray but the visible inner part of the near upperwing is patterned white, black, and gray. The breast and belly are white. Near the tail, above the midline, is a patch of brown. The tail is seen on edge so the details aren't apparent. Below the merganser, its reflection is blurred by the ripples in the pond's surface.
February 6, 2026 at 11:01 PM
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Carpe deum
A peregrine falcon takes to the air from a church belfry having spotted its unsuspecting prey below
February 7, 2026 at 8:43 AM
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Storm clouds and sunbeams over Loch Arkaig, Scotland for the #BlueSkyArtShow theme #Sunlight

#EastCoastKin #PhotoHour #photography #landscape
February 7, 2026 at 7:33 AM
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McNeal, #Arizona. #Fridayscape #scape #wildlife #nature #anzotd #photography #Southwest #outdoors #lake #trees #westcoastkin #eastcoastkin #blueskyphotography
February 6, 2026 at 3:37 PM
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shadowmacphotos.bsky.social
Sunbeam Trails - Golden Ears Provincial Park - British Columbia 🇨🇦

#sunbeam #sunlight #forest #nature #calm #tranquil #serene #blueskyartshow #scape #stunday #trails #hiking #camping #explorebc #travel #britishcolumbia #sunrise #panorama #landscapephotography #sharecangeo #canadavisuals #canada
February 5, 2026 at 8:59 PM
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A swallowtail on a thistle flower seen at the beach #FlyDay #EastCoastKin #scape
A swallowtail butterfly landing on a purple thistle flower on a sandy beach
February 6, 2026 at 7:16 PM
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davemeredith.bsky.social
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Birds&Berries. A Redwing eating a Holly berry in a garden in south #Cheshire, England.

Photographed in the 1980s on #Kodachrome and published in a field guide to garden wildlife of Europe.

#PhotographersOfBluesky
#EastCoastKin #photography #birds #nature #wildlife
February 6, 2026 at 8:58 AM
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#floralfriday
#flowersonFriday
#bloomscrolling
#Macromedia

@sofiimagines.bsky.social
Macro shot of what appears to be a purple tulip the center is orange with four visible stamens and one large pistil.
February 6, 2026 at 4:37 PM