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Sonja
@hhsonja.bsky.social
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Film enthusiast, Whovian, amateur bird photographer, part-time musical theatre junkie. Multiple PhDs in Gishology. she/her
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#BlueTits is a lovely alternative theme, but whenever it’s appropriate to post #gannets, I will post gannets. Summer of the most beautiful birds imho. #BirdOfTheDay
A northern gannet flying parallel to the photographer, wings outstretched. The background is a light gray sea and foggy sky melting into each other A portrait/headdshot of two gannets side by side in soft evening sunlight A gannet standing on the red rocky ground of Heligoland. A gannet flying in high winds, photographed from behind. Wings and legs are stretched out diagonally in all directions. The body and head are obscured by bushy tail feathers
November 29, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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A green woodpecker in #morninglight for #BirdOfTheDay
A green woodpecker clinging to the edge of a big hole in a tree trunk
November 28, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Two siskins #hangingAround for #BirdOfTheDay. #birds #winter
Two yellow and grey/black siskins hanging from twigs and angling for seeds in an alder tree. It’s winter, and every part of the tree is frozen and white
November 25, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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A "few" #wigeons and teals on the river yesterday. The wigeons especially were very communicative, fun listening to their whistling.
Then, suddenly, all had disappeared (while I crossed through a small wood, lost sight for maybe 30 seconds). I blame the guy in the last pic 😍🦅 #birds #eagle
a large number of ducks - mostly wigeons, but also teals and mallards (and somewhere in there a shoveler) swimming on a river, a part of the muddy, dark brown riverbank in the background a male wigeon swimming, its head turned somewhat towards the photographer a white-tailed eagle, photograph taken from below and slightly behind, flying overhead. it seems to be an adult bird, as it already has the typical white tail feathers
November 23, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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#HolidayRobin #singing its song - perfect for #BirdOfTheDay, too.
A robin sitting on top of a twig, its beak open in song
November 21, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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#round -ish song sparrow. #BirdOfTheDay
Song sparrow standing on a metal ledge, its body a somewhat round shape
November 19, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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repost with the right tag: #ShadesOfGray is the #BirdOfTheDay theme today, and it's a great opportunity to show off this cute #dunnock. #Heckenbraunelle
A dunnock - a roughly sparrow-sized brown and grey bird - sitting on a bare twig.
November 16, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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It’s been a few days, how about another #holidayrobin? #birds
A close-up picture of a robin, seen from the front, standing on a tree branch. It’s got its head turned slightly to the right, its beak is open as if in mid-song
November 15, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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There’s something I don’t see every day: a mallard in a tree. (Tbf, she wasn’t that high up, about 1.5 meters)
#BirdOfTheDay #DucksOutOfWater #birds
A female mallard framed by the wide v-shaped tree crotch of the willow tree she is standing on
November 13, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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Sandwich Terns standing at/in the shallow end of the Big pool. #BirdOfTheDay #paddling
4 black and white sandwich terns, all seen from the side and looking left, standing at the water’s edge of the North Sea. a small wave has broken and is coming in towards them
November 12, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Another one with only 2 entries on my camera roll, a rather new addition, the blue-headed vireo #BirdOfTheDay #least
A blue-headed vireo sitting on a small branch in a maple(?) tree, seen from the front, framed by leafs. The bird has a white breast, yellow-greenish wings, and a blue-grey head. The blue-headed vireo on a branch of a maple tree, its head partially in the shadow of a leaf.
November 10, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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One of my only two pictures of the free-roaming rose-ringed parakeets in Cologne. #BirdofTheDay #least
Not hard to find, but I've only been to the city once since I started birding.
Three rose-ringed parakeets are perched onto the top of a tree. One of the birds is seen from the front looking downwards, roughly towards the photographer, the other two are turned to the side
November 10, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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#BirdOfTheDay is about #StandingOnThings except the floor, or the alternative, #gulls. I thought I’d cover both today.
A kestrel sitting on a pole in a field Gulls standing on concrete fortifications on the coast
November 9, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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A very fluffy #HolidayRobin for the weekend. #birds
A very puffy robin sitting on a bare twig, its sleek tail feathers looking almost comically small in comparison to the fluffy body
November 8, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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Calling this #Fighting might be pushing it a bit, it was more a neighbourly disagreement about the best spot on the cliff. #BirdOfTheDay #birds
Two gannets on stony ground, with beaks stretched towards each other and interlocked breaks The same gannets, one is still stretching its neck towards the other, while the second one has its head thrown back Gannet s
November 7, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Another one for #BirdOfTheDay , a cormorant fighting with its #lunchtime snack. For a second or two it looked as if the fish might escape. It did not.
A cormorant swimming in the ocean between waves. Its beak is wide open, and a fish is „flying“ in front of its beak after having been thrown in the air by the bird The cormorant has caught the fish out threw in the air, but did not manage to swallow it, as the writhing fish is curled around the lower part of the beak
November 6, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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This pine siskin is going veggie today. #BirdOfTheDay #birds #lunchtime
A pine siskin, a small brown-ish bird with a yellow patch on its wing, sitting in a bush, snacking on blue berries
November 6, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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Good morning! Here’s another #DailyFestiveRobin to hopefully brighten your day. #birds
A robin standing on a fallen branch close to the twig- and leaf-covered ground. It’s a frontal view of the bird‘s red breast, while its head is turned to the left
November 5, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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For #BirdOfTheDay I picked these guillemots on the red #rock of Heligoland.
7 guillemots standing on the red sandstone cliff of Heligoland, against a backdrop of the grey sea
November 4, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Halleluja! took nearly a year, but am currently uploading the last 20 movies onto my NAS. Everything that doesn’t fit onto my shelves anymore anymore available to stream locally.
The DVDs themselves (350+) will go into a box under the bed.
Several DVDs stacked on top of each other
November 2, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Almost forgot about my #FestiveDailyRobin. #birds
A robin sitting on a twig, chest puffed
November 2, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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My #bgstats for October. Not many games, thx to a travel-induced break. Still, a new one (Pandamonium), and one I enjoyed at a meet-up earlier this year, and now found on BGA (Distilled). #boardgames
A 4x4 grid of board game titles. Only 12 games, the bottom row of the grid is empty.
November 1, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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I'm not a fan of this trend of Christmas cookies being sold in August, or markets open early November, but this is one thing I can get behind 😁 #Birds #FestiveDailyRobin (and don't worry, non-birding followers, I don't have a Robin for *every* day until Christmas)
A Robin sitting on a bare tree branch, it's head tilted to the side
November 1, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Happy Halloween
4 cookies laid out next to each other, each has a Halloween design stamped onto it: a ghost, a witches hut, a spider’s net, and a mummy
October 31, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Perfect theme for me, birds like to hide from me. Here’s a Northern Flicker. Or at least part of it. Didn’t manage to get one shot with the complete bird in it 😆 #BirdOfTheDay #Hiding #birds
A Northern Flicker (a type of woodpecker) halfway hidden behind the stem of a tree
October 31, 2025 at 4:54 PM