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anythingabout.bsky.social
Ian Bartlett
@anythingabout.bsky.social
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This account is for birding and natural history, my other is for photography. Am going to try to keep them separate!
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Ok
I’ll take that! ✅

#Birding
November 8, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Progress….
#birding
September 27, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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And so it begins! 😂
September 24, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Last nights garden entertainment…

🔉🔉 #birding 🦉
August 30, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Brilliant!
Rock Dove’s homing instinct and ability to carry messages - the ‘original internet’!

@stephenmossauthor.bsky.social
Never heard that before! 👌
August 28, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Mute swans
#FirstBirdOfMyDay @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social
August 28, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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Reasonable to assume that this Maned Duck bu the water sports centre at Tees Barage has escaped from somewhere….. @teesbirds.bsky.social
It’s been here over a month..
August 28, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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Third time was NOT the charm.
But a fine time was had and the kites were impressive!
#birding
August 26, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Well the #FirstBirdOfMyDay at just after 5 am this morning @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social

Right at the very top of this tree.. 🦉
August 26, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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Morning @teeswildlife.bsky.social
Any idea what gives with these acorns spotted this morning?

🧐
July 31, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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Comma
Polygonia c-album

iPhone image from Sutton Bank, North Yorkshire yesterday.
@savebutterflies.bsky.social
July 7, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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After today’s annual trip to @rspbengland.bsky.social Bempton Cliffs and sojourn to Filey for fish supper, was treat to this *absolute spectacle* yards offshore
@teesbirds.bsky.social
@chrisgpackham.bsky.social
😊😍
July 5, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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That’s my name.
Don’t waste it!
July 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Fascinating read, which has prompted me to wonder if there is anything even remotely similar happening off the NE Coast @teesbirds.bsky.social (other than Farnes and Bempton….)?
June 18, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Rosemary Beetle, appropriately enough on Rosemary in the garden!

@durhamwildlife.bsky.social #beetles
June 17, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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My first visit (shockingly)!!!
Winner winner chicken dinner

#birding lifer
June 6, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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A very confiding juvenile Robin from yesterday - iPhone photography!! 😂
May 27, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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@stevepalmer.photography This looks familiar… 😊😉

Even better in the ‘flesh’. 👌
May 25, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Come on people!!
May 22, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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Rather (and pleasantly) surprised to come across Raven while ambling around Castle Howard…

Tawny owl too… #birding #YearList
@nybirdnews.bsky.social
May 10, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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There’s some nice clean air up in #northumberland
April 26, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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I’m taking this to be a Green Veined White…. on forget-me-not blooms.

#butterflies 🦋
April 24, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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WILLOW WARBLER
In these trees…

First of the year.
#birding
April 20, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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The local Tawny Owls giving it big licks last evening..

Sound up for best effect! 🔉🔉

#birding
March 26, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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Next up is this by @jmlockhart.bsky.social

Already I’ve found out something extraordinary about Nightjars / Mole Crickets… 😉

youtu.be/j-wEtmNLMgM?...
March 20, 2025 at 9:04 AM