Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦⬛
@barneycooper.bsky.social
Bromsgrove based tea drinking enthusiast & a Springer Spaniel’s walking companion (I take care of business). I’m fond of birds too.
#worcsbirds Midday Lickey Hills daily dog walk delivered a result today. Finally after 4 sightings since October, I captured a record shot of a cock Crossbill, one of a feeding flock of 8 birds. 🪶
December 5, 2025 at 1:39 PM
#worcsbirds Midday Lickey Hills daily dog walk delivered a result today. Finally after 4 sightings since October, I captured a record shot of a cock Crossbill, one of a feeding flock of 8 birds. 🪶
#WaderWednesday An early summer Lapwing at Upton Warren.🪶
October 8, 2025 at 3:46 PM
#WaderWednesday An early summer Lapwing at Upton Warren.🪶
Beautiful Dunlin.
September 25, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Beautiful Dunlin.
I followed a Pipit along a beach on southern tip of Llyn Peninsular today. It was always 1 sand groyne ahead of me (50 metres). Consequently, I only had a rear view. Initially I thought Rock Pipit, but looking at the supercilium on my sharpest photo, is it? Any ID opinion much appreciated.
September 24, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I followed a Pipit along a beach on southern tip of Llyn Peninsular today. It was always 1 sand groyne ahead of me (50 metres). Consequently, I only had a rear view. Initially I thought Rock Pipit, but looking at the supercilium on my sharpest photo, is it? Any ID opinion much appreciated.
Morning dog-walk sighting before the clouds rolled in. I frequently see Red Kites nowadays, usually soaring. This bird was off upwards as soon as I stopped and unbagged my camera.
August 28, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Morning dog-walk sighting before the clouds rolled in. I frequently see Red Kites nowadays, usually soaring. This bird was off upwards as soon as I stopped and unbagged my camera.
Elation and melancholy: They’ll be off soon and I wonder if any will come back next year. 🪶
July 17, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Elation and melancholy: They’ll be off soon and I wonder if any will come back next year. 🪶
Hard to credit, but I didn’t get a Wheatear in 2024. So, a drive out to the coast remedied that for 2025. So, sleek and alert and absolutely beautifully marked. And seemingly common as muck along the Anglesey coastal path.
May 1, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Hard to credit, but I didn’t get a Wheatear in 2024. So, a drive out to the coast remedied that for 2025. So, sleek and alert and absolutely beautifully marked. And seemingly common as muck along the Anglesey coastal path.
Raven perched atop a conifer against an incongruously blue sky (incongruous for England anyway). #InternationalCrowAndRavenAppreciationDay! #birds #crow #Corvid #cawmunity
April 28, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Raven perched atop a conifer against an incongruously blue sky (incongruous for England anyway). #InternationalCrowAndRavenAppreciationDay! #birds #crow #Corvid #cawmunity
Shockingly poor record photo of a Barn Owl at dusk near Droitwich. A brief glimpse of it through a hedge as it landed had me poking my bridge camera into the foliage and the autofocus was jumping like crazy. When I got to the field gate it had departed. #worcsbirds 🪶
April 27, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Shockingly poor record photo of a Barn Owl at dusk near Droitwich. A brief glimpse of it through a hedge as it landed had me poking my bridge camera into the foliage and the autofocus was jumping like crazy. When I got to the field gate it had departed. #worcsbirds 🪶
April 21, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Every time I look up in Amersham there’s a Red Kite casting its shadow. Photo opportunity even with an iphone.
April 20, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Every time I look up in Amersham there’s a Red Kite casting its shadow. Photo opportunity even with an iphone.
Red Kites everywhere, but a diversion from birdwatching in the Chilterns. Early doors crayfish hunt, Good Friday on the Misbourne in Old Amersham with grandchild No:1 before the weather changed.
April 20, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Red Kites everywhere, but a diversion from birdwatching in the Chilterns. Early doors crayfish hunt, Good Friday on the Misbourne in Old Amersham with grandchild No:1 before the weather changed.
Eurasian Jays where I live are always totally spooked by even distant movement of people and dogs and I usually only see them in flight, fleeing. Thus morning I was lucky. #ukbirding #birds
April 12, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Eurasian Jays where I live are always totally spooked by even distant movement of people and dogs and I usually only see them in flight, fleeing. Thus morning I was lucky. #ukbirding #birds
8am got a better image of a Willow Warbler than yesterday’s dog walk result. Hoped for my 1st Lickey’s Whitethroat of the year. I got this and I don’t think it’s a Whitethroat. An ID confirmation, other than Merlin’s, would be very welcome. #ukbirding #birds
April 12, 2025 at 9:51 AM
8am got a better image of a Willow Warbler than yesterday’s dog walk result. Hoped for my 1st Lickey’s Whitethroat of the year. I got this and I don’t think it’s a Whitethroat. An ID confirmation, other than Merlin’s, would be very welcome. #ukbirding #birds
Almost in-focus Willow Warbler this morning. Fidgety buggers, why can’t they sit still on an exposed perch to sing like the Whitethroat does? (Probably because they don’t have a white throat to advertise I suppose)! #birds
April 11, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Almost in-focus Willow Warbler this morning. Fidgety buggers, why can’t they sit still on an exposed perch to sing like the Whitethroat does? (Probably because they don’t have a white throat to advertise I suppose)! #birds
A visit to New Fancy produced Crossbill, but perhaps a tad early for Goshawk so I dipped. A Dipper at Cannop Ponds (poor photo), Mandarins & Goosander there also AND a Marsh Tit (on feeding station). Hawfinch at Parkend, rounded off with a pint of Guinness, so a good day.
February 13, 2025 at 12:17 PM
A visit to New Fancy produced Crossbill, but perhaps a tad early for Goshawk so I dipped. A Dipper at Cannop Ponds (poor photo), Mandarins & Goosander there also AND a Marsh Tit (on feeding station). Hawfinch at Parkend, rounded off with a pint of Guinness, so a good day.
I was a good 50 metres away, so I’ve no idea why this particular Redshank was so cross with me.
January 13, 2025 at 10:28 PM
I was a good 50 metres away, so I’ve no idea why this particular Redshank was so cross with me.
Could Tennyson possibly have been watching Ravens in late November when he wrote, ``this is the time of year when ``a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.''
November 22, 2024 at 12:58 PM
Could Tennyson possibly have been watching Ravens in late November when he wrote, ``this is the time of year when ``a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.''
A European Robin belting out a tune. It may even be 🎶Happy Birthday To You🎶. 🪶
September 2, 2024 at 7:58 PM
A European Robin belting out a tune. It may even be 🎶Happy Birthday To You🎶. 🪶
August 19, 2024 at 9:24 PM