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Simon Tull
@simontull.bsky.social
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⛰️ Nature and landscape photographer 📍East Yorkshire 🇬🇧 https://simontullphotography.com/ Original images ©️ Simon Tull.
✍🏻 wildlife blogger - see here https://www.ywt.org.uk/blog/simon-tull. Birder & conservationist. OSME Council Member - osme.org.
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Good morning all, for today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme of #PeacefulSolitide - here’s a single greaterflamingo silhouetted on a calm lake, lit by the rising sun. #Birds #wildlifephotography #birdwatching #birdphotography #photography #nature #naturephotography #silhouette
a single flamingo silhouetted on a calm lake, lit by the rising sun
February 18, 2026 at 7:39 AM
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H All. An offering for the #EastCoastKin theme #TidesOutTuesday Seilebost beach, Isle of Harris. Taken from a roadsid lay-by with reputedly the best view in the UK … #Scotland #photography #isleofharris #outdoorphotography #seacscape #landscapephotography #landscape_lover
Seilebost beach, isle of harris. Pure white tidal sands contrast with blue-green seas. overlooked by low rounded hills
February 17, 2026 at 10:23 AM
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Here’s my offering for today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme of #CollectingFood, and for the Alt theme of #Grey..This Grey Heron and its enormous roach breakfast. #Birds #wildlifephotography #birdwatching #birdphotography #canon #photography #nature #naturephotography #heron
A grey heron with a large roach (fish) in its bill
February 17, 2026 at 9:56 AM
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Here’s my offering for today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme of #BirdButts - this osprey telling me what it thought of me taking its photo #Birds #wildlifephotography #birdwatching #birdphotography #canon #photography #nature #naturephotography #guano #osprey
An opsrey on some drift wood, it has it's butt towards the viewer and a stream of poo jetting out
February 15, 2026 at 9:44 AM
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Here’s my #BirdOfTheDay on the theme of #Portrait - good for Valentines’s Day too, a canoodling pair of gannets. #Birds #wildlifephotography #birdwatching #birdphotography #canon #photography #nature #naturephotography #Gannet #Valentine #Seabird
A pair of gannets bill touching as part of their bonding display
February 14, 2026 at 8:04 AM
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Here’s my offering for today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme of #DivingForFood,- an osprey preparing for and then executing a dive #Birds #wildlifephotography #birdwatching #birdphotography #canon #photography #nature #naturephotography #Raptor #BirdofPrey #Osprey
four photos in a square panel showing an osprey hovering and then diving
February 13, 2026 at 7:45 AM
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Good morning. My contribution to the #BirdOfTheDay theme of #Birds&Bugs is this blue-cheeked bee-eater and the last moments of a vagrant emporer dragonfly. #Birds #wildlifephotography #birdwatching #birdphotography #canon #photography #nature #naturephotography
A blue-cheeked bee-eater on a telegraph wire with a captured dragonfly; it eats it in a sequence of 4 photos
February 12, 2026 at 8:53 AM
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Good Day All. My offering for today’s #BirdOfTheDay themes of #WaterBirds, is this very impressive spot-billed pelican, and for the alt theme of #Blue this indian roller. #Birds #wildlifephotography #birdwatching #birdphotography #canon #photography #nature #naturephotography
A spot-billed peilican takes off from a lake. it's wings are thrown forward and it trails splashes of water behind it A cinnamon pink and blue indian roller pears out from the top of a bush
February 11, 2026 at 9:42 AM
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Good Day All. My offering for today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme of #OddCouples, a black-winged stilt and its cousin a common sandpiper. A very mismatched couple. #Birds #wildlifephotography #birdwatching #birdphotography #canon #photography #nature #naturephotography #wader #shorebird
A very long legged black-winged stilt and a much smaller common sandpiper together on the edge of a water tank
February 10, 2026 at 10:39 AM
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Good Day All. My offering for today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme of #StareDown - this greater spotted eagle. #Birds #wildlifephotography #birdwatching #birdphotography #canon #photography #nature #naturephotography #eagle
a greater spotted eagle looks directly at the camera. It is standing on a series of metal pipes and wires of an irrigator
February 9, 2026 at 8:50 AM
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Will you be watching #SuperbOwl?
A little owl in flight looking directly at you
February 8, 2026 at 9:05 PM
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Good Day All. My offering for today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme of #posted - this pristine masked shrike. #Birds #wildlifephotography #birdwatching #birdphotography #canon #photography #nature #naturephotography #shrike
A masked shrike stood on a post. It is a long tailed bird, with black and white markings above and an orange-red flush below
February 8, 2026 at 8:43 AM
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Good Day All. My image for the #BirdOfTheDay alt theme of #blurred - this view of a large flock of barnacle geese, taken as they took off when disturbed by a tractor. #Birds #wildlifephotography #birdwatching #birdphotography #photography #nature #naturephotography #shorebird #geese #wildfowl
The sky is filled by flying barnacle geese. Their wing beats are blurred reflecting the sense of movement
February 7, 2026 at 1:59 PM
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Good Morning All. My offering for today’s #BirdOfTheDay alt theme of #Black&White is this view of black-winged stilts. A very elegant bird. #Birds #wildlifephotography #birdwatching #birdphotography #photography #nature #naturephotography #shorebird #wader
three blackwinged stilts in flight; their long pink legs trailing behind them. The birds are softly reflected in the water they are flying over
February 5, 2026 at 6:14 AM
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Good Day All. My offering for today’s #BirdOfTheDay alt theme of #longnecks is this BOGOF of a Great White Egret & Spot-Billed Pelican. #Birds #wildlifephotography #birdwatching #birdphotography #canon #photography #nature #naturephotography #egret #stork
A great white egret and a spot-billed pelican on top of a dead tree
February 4, 2026 at 11:39 AM
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Good day alll. My offering for today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme of #Reflections - this fishing Little Egret, caught mid-splash. #Birds #wildlifephotography #birdwatching #birdphotography #canon #photography #nature #naturephotography #egret
A little egret, perfectly reflecting in water, its head i and caught mid splash while fishing
February 3, 2026 at 2:11 PM
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Morning All. My offering for today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme of #openbeak is this Egyptian Nightjar and its amazing moth-catching gape at full stretch. #Birds #wildlifephotography #birdwatching #birdphotography #canon #photography #nature #naturephotography
An egyptian nightar, mottled in shades of brown and orange. Its beak is wide open, you can see the pink interior of its gape.
February 2, 2026 at 9:49 AM
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Hi All. My offering for today’s #BirdOfTheDay alt theme of #Pigeons - this eye-catching Sri Lanka Emerald Dove (aka Green-Winged Pigeon). #Birds #wildlifephotography #birdwatching #birdphotography #canon #photography #nature #naturephotography #dove #emerald
A brilliant purple and green coloured Sri Lanka Emerald Dove on the jungle floor
January 31, 2026 at 12:29 PM
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Moring All. My offering for today’s #BirdOfTheDay alt theme of #Blue - is this Rock Thrush. #Birds #wildlifephotography #birdwatching #birdphotography #canon #photography #nature #naturephotography
A blue and orange coloured rock thrush on a lawn
January 30, 2026 at 10:20 AM
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Hi All. My offering for today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme of #Iridescent - is this very smart (and shiny) Sri Lanka Blue Magpie - an endemic species to that island's jungles. #Birds #wildlifephotography #birdwatching #birdphotography #canon #photography #nature #naturephotography #magpie #srilanka
A gingery brown and irridescent blue Sri Lanka Blue Magpie. It its sittinng on a branch. It's feet and bill are bright red
January 28, 2026 at 9:44 AM
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My offering for today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme of #BrownIsBeautiful - this family of lilith owlets (the middle eastern cousin of little owl), with their amazing bright watchful #Yellow eyes. #Birds #wildlifephotography #birdwatching #birdphotography #canon #photography #nature #naturephotography #owls
three lilith owlets on rocks, staring with their bright yellow eyes
January 27, 2026 at 11:20 AM
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This is my #BirdOfTheDay on the theme of #Paddling - a very focused squacco heron, and #ForJanet a white-throated robin #Birds #wildlifephotography #birdwatching #birdphotography #canon #photography #nature #naturephotography #robin #heron
A brown and white streaked squacco heron, with bright yellow legs and feet makes a splash as it paddles in shallow water A slaty coloured white-throated robin,its breast a bright orange on a small branch
January 26, 2026 at 11:56 AM
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This is my #BirdOfTheDay on the theme of #poise - a very nimble desert wheatear atop a spindly bush (wheatear is derived from the anglo-saxon #white arse), good for the alt theme too. #Birds #wildlifephotography #birdwatching #birdphotography #canon #photography #nature #naturephotography
A desert wheatear balanced on the top of a bush, its wings spread out
January 25, 2026 at 8:27 AM
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Here’s my contribution to the #BirdOfTheDay theme of #Swans - three very elegant Whooper Swans flying in close formation. #Birds #wildlifephotography #birdwatching #birdphotography #canon #photography #nature #naturephotograph #Swans
Three Whooper Swans flying close to each other
January 24, 2026 at 12:49 PM
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Here’s my contribution to the #BirdOfTheDay theme of #birdinabush - this rather stern looking Eurasian Scops Owl. #Birds #wildlifephotography #birdwatching #birdphotography #canon #photography #nature #naturephotograph #Owl
A eursaina scops owl with bright yellow eyes standing in a bush
January 23, 2026 at 7:04 AM