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Elaine Freezer
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A birder with a box of pencils
Helps monitor #Seabirds
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Yorkshire and Hampshire
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For #SuperSeabirdSunday and #Auktober here's a photo of Guillemots at RSPB Bempton Cliffs. If you look closely you can just about see there is an egg being tucked under one adult Guillemot (centre left) and a chick being sheltered by the one with the yellow tag 🥰🥚🐣🐥
A photo of Guillemots at RSPB Bempton Cliffs. There is an egg being tucked under one adult Guillemot (centre left) and a chick being sheltered by the one with the yellow tag
October 26, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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A gorgeous Gannet posing for a photo plus some more Gannets in flight both taken at RSPB Bempton Cliffs for today's #SuperSeabirdSunday #seabirds #Gannets
Photo of a Gannet Gannets in flight
October 5, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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Sharing a couple of my photos and sketches from monitoring Common Terns this year for #SeabirdSeptember

Summer wouldn't be summer without Seabirds 🌊🐧🪿

#CommonTerns #Seabirds #UKBirding
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Three images going clockwise - watercolour Sketch of a juvenile Common Tern, watercolour sketch of chick, photo of adult Tern.
September 15, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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Happy #SuperSeabirdSunday everyone. My contribution today is a yawning Gannet, well it must get a bit boring being photographed all the time 😄📷🪿

#Gannet #Seabirds #YorkshireBirding #UKBirding
A Gannet yawning
August 17, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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A group of House Sparrows dust bathing in the soil by the olive tree. Dirt all over the path. Then they descended on the bird bath and turned it into a mud bath.

Here's one I helped save earlier this spring
A newly fledged House Sparrow
August 10, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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I don't often share my bird drawings but as it's #WaderWednesday here's a graphite pencil study of an Avocet chick looking almost as elegant as its parents. It's been great to see lots of chicks this year on my patch #birdart #UKbirding. Wishing everyone a very happy day 💚🐦
Drawing of an Avocet chick
August 6, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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For #SuperSeabirdSunday here's my contribution of Gannets in the sunshine at Bempton Cliffs

Wishing everyone a super Sunday 💚🪿

#Seabirds #YorkshireBirding #UkBirding #Gannets
Gannets at RSPB Bempton Cliffs
August 3, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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It's been a hot summer for our seabirds this year and here's a Gannet trying to keep cool at Bempton Cliffs

#Gannet #Seabirds #UKBirding #SuperSeabirdSunday #YorkshireBirding #BemptonCliffs #RSPB
July 20, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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Please can someone write this book?
July 17, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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Delighted to have my Common Tern sketches in the latest issue of Seabird Monitoring Programme News. It's also full of Archie's on amazing science, conservatio and awesome seabirds.

Also a recent sketch of one of this year's chicks 😊🐣

#Seabirds #SeabirdMonitoringProgramme
#SuperSeabirdSunday
A watercolour sketch made in the hide of a Common Tern chick. Through my scope I've managed to get to watch a couple hatch this year which has been a big highlight for me. The second image is a page including some of my sketches in the latest Seabird Monitoring Programme newsletter.
June 22, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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For #SuperSeabirdSunday a Razorbill chick having a hug at RSPB Bempton Cliffs

#Seabirds
June 15, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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A beautiful Mint Moth on my window. A much overlooked jewel from the herb garden 🦋🌿

#TeamMoth #Moth #Lepidoptera
A Mint Moth
June 10, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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One of the Common Terns I help monitor doing a spot of preening, also having a well deserved rest from feeding its three hungry chicks.

Happy #SuperSeaBirdSunday 💙🌊🪿🐧

#Seabirds #CommonTern @smp-seabirds.bsky.social
June 8, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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A Black-tailed Godwit in its warm breeding plumage at Normandy Marshes, Hampshire doing its best impression of a sewing machine #Godwits #UKBirding #Birds #HantsBirds
April 21, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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For personal reasons (caring for elderly family and then an ankle injury), I've not posted much. Pleased to say I'm finally back birding again so here's a Turnstone doing what it does best at Keyhaven #UKBirding #Birds #Hantsbirding
March 7, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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For #WorldWetlandsDay a small oil painting of one of my favourites from the Reed beds the Bearded Tit

#OilPainting #Bird #Art #UKBirder
A small oil painting of a Bearded Tit
February 2, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Happy #SuperSeaBirdSunday

My contribution for today is a couple of young Gannets hanging out in the Club at RSPB Bempton Cliffs

#UKBirders #YorkshireBirding #Birds
Two juvenile Gannets at RSPB Bempton Cliffs
February 2, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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Working on a charcoal drawing of a Kingfisher on toned paper

#UKBirding #Birds #Art #BirdArt
Work in progress of a charcoal drawing of a Kingfisher on toned paper
January 30, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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A beautiful and almost camouflaged Eurasian Curlew at Keyhaven Marshes the other day #UKBirding #HampshireBirding #birds #curlew

Wishing everyone a very happy day 💚
A Curlew out in Keyhaven Marshes
January 30, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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A gorgeous Gannet engaged in some feather maintenance at RSPB Bempton Cliffs. Looking forward to visiting there very soon 💙🪿

Wishing everyone a very happy day and stay safe in this stormy weather.

#SuperSeabirdSunday
#Gannet #seabirds
A Gannet engaged in some feather maintenance at Bempton Cliffs
January 26, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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First post in a while and it's of a delightful Blackbird singing in my urban garden this evening 🐦‍⬛🎶

#britishbirds #birder #UKBirder #blackbird
January 25, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Here's a charcoal study of a Herring Gull for #SuperSeabirdSunday

Wishing everyone a very happy and peaceful Sunday 💚🐧🪿

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#BirdArt #Gulls
Charcoal study of a Herring Gull on tan toned paper by Strathmore.
December 15, 2024 at 9:21 AM
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A Stonechat taken at Keyhaven Marshes, Hampshire. They have to be the most photographed birds out there, tbf they are very obliging models. They always remind me of a folklore story of them being the Devil's bird.

#ArtAdventCalendar #britishbirds #Birds #HantsBirder
A Stonechat
December 14, 2024 at 1:53 PM
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A graphite pencil sketch of a Kingfisher.

I often see a male Kingfisher at my local patch and very occasionally the female. They are always a delight to see.

Wishing everyone a very happy and peaceful day 💚🐦

#birds #art #birdart #sketchbook #ArtAdventCalendar
Graphite pencil drawing of a Kingfisher on a branch
December 12, 2024 at 8:37 AM
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A hard stare from a House Sparrow wanting to know why I haven't restocked the bird table

#Bird #UKbirder #UrbanBirding #HouseSparrow
Photo of a House Sparrow doing it's best hard stare
December 11, 2024 at 12:44 PM