Lizzie Wallis DPAGB, EFIAP, BPE3*
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lizziewallis.bsky.social
Lizzie Wallis DPAGB, EFIAP, BPE3*
@lizziewallis.bsky.social
590 followers 36 following 1.1K posts
UK based, love photographing wildlife, landscape, macro and people. I try to get my images 'right' in camera, with little post processing.
I'm drawn to either fast action or slow shutter speeds.
Copyright on all images I post (except reposts).
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Whooper pair on ice.
Taken 27th May: Varanger, N. Norway is still in grip of winter. Spring is short.

Alan, @alan678.bsky.social, has chosen #swans for today's #birdoftheday.

"The Two of Us" 1986-1990
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekTforTelevision

#EastCoastKin
#birds
Two white swans walk side by side across an icy lake. Yellow and black beaks show they are whooper swans. Black legs, one raised as it takes a step. The landscape is frozen lake with some snow.
November 14, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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"Waiting for Spring"
@robcrank68.bsky.social's #birdoftheday theme is #DucksOutOfWater.
Male long-tailed duck. Summer plumage very different from winter.
31st May: still very wintery in the high Arctic.

"Duck Quacks Don't Echo" 2014-17
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekTforTelevision
#EastCoastKin
#birds
A long-tailed duck stands on the snowy ground, facing right. Summer plumage is markedly different from winter. In summer the head, neck and breast is brown, a few of the winter smart white feathers on the neck still visible.
November 13, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Godwits Galore.
Today's #birdoftheday set by @alan678.bsky.social is #Paddling birds (standing or walking in shallow water).
A group of bar-tailed godwits paddle through shallow sea.
#EastCoastKin
#birds
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekTforTelevision
"Birds of a Feather" 1989
5 waders marching across the image from right to left, paddling through shallow sea. A large rock provides the background to the left of the image, smaller rocks and seaweed the foreground. Incoming low waves are visible beyond the birds. The birds are mottled brown grey with long straight beaks and white belly.
November 12, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Puffin in Bluebells and Campion.
Today's #birdoftheday theme set by @robcrank68.bsky.social is #BirdsOnTheGround.
I love taking ground subjects through flowers or foliage.
#EastCoastKin
#birds
#birdphotography
A puffin, wings outstretched, standing in white campion and green foliage. The puffin has a white breast, black neck band, white cheeks, colourful blue and orange striped beak. The background is black with out of focus purple blobs of bluebells.
November 11, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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"Casper"
A few years ago, there was a leucistic barn owl near us, locally known as "Casper".
Seen here with dinner.
It was a ghostly sight flying over the fields.
For @robcrank68.bsky.social's #birdoftheday theme of #StandingOnThings.
#EastCoastKin
#birds
#birdphotography
#Stunday
A white barn own (it is leucistic and lacks pigment in its feathers). It has a brown shrew in its mouth. It is sitting on a wooden post of a barbed wire fence. The foreground is long grass and the background hedgerow.
November 9, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Kingfisher preening.
Today's #birdoftheday theme set by @robcrank68.bsky.social is #StandingOnThings.
Since I have been teasing @alan678.bsky.social with relentless gull images, I've exercised restraint and chosen a local kingfisher.😁
#EastCoastKin
#birds
#birdphotography
#Stunday
A small orange and blue kingfisher sits on a bare branch. The kingfisher is preening it's chest with its black beak. The background is green.
November 9, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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Today's #birdoftheday set by @alan678.bsky.social is #takeoff.
I have chosen a purple sandpiper taking off from seaweed covered rocks.
#EastCoastKin
#birds
#birdphotography
A small brown mottled wader is taking off from a rock. Its wings are aloft, yellow legs dangling below. It has a yellowy orange beak, white belly. The background is seaweed and water.
November 8, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Dovrefjell, Norway.
Camping in a tent in -30°C.

#BlueSkyArtShow
#Evening
#EastCoastKin
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekSforShadows
3 red and yellow tents, illuminated by torches within, are pitched on a snowy slope. Skis and poles pushed into the snow nearby. A rocky mountain visible in the background on the left. The sky is bluey black with some clouds. A nighttime scene.
November 8, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Mid-air gull squabble.

Today's #birdoftheday theme set by @robcrank68.bsky.social is #fighting.

Never one to turn down an opportunity to post gulls, just for @alan678.bsky.social 🤭.

#EastCoastKin
#birds
#birdphotography
#FlyDay
Two herring gulls locked in mid-air fight, beaks clamped around each other's. The bottom gull is looking up, wings out, legs 'walking' the air. The top gull is facing down, tail splayed out, outstretched wings disappearing out of the frame.
November 7, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Lone tree in the middle of a field.
Elan Valley, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
#AlphabetChallenge
#scape
#WeekSforShadows
#EastCoastKin
A lone oak, bare leaved, stands in a golden green field, its shadow falling to the left. The field is edged with trees, only parts of which are visible.
November 7, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Oystercatcher dispute.

Today's #birdoftheday theme set by @robcrank68.bsky.social is #fighting.

Two Oystercatchers fighting at RSPB Titchwell.

#EastCoastKin
#birds
#birdphotography
#FlyDay
A black and white large wader stands facing left in water. Its head is submerged because a second Oystercatcher has grabbed it behind the head using its long orange beak. This second bird is a few inches airborne, wings outstretched, water trailing from its orange feet. A mud bank is in the foreground, and a rocky shell strewn bank is beyond the water.
November 7, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Light through the window.
Popped up to the bedroom earlier this evening and was transfixed by the shadows cast by the car headlights as they travelled across the wall opposite the leaded window.
📷 #mobilephotography
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekSforShadows
#EastCoastKin
A black bedroom wall is illuminated by the passing car headlights. The crisscross shadow of the leadlight window is thrown onto the wall and travels across it. A black bedroom wall is illuminated by the passing car headlights. The crisscross shadow of the leadlight window is thrown onto the wall and travels across it. A black bedroom wall is illuminated by the passing car headlights. The crisscross shadow of the leadlight window is thrown onto the wall and travels across it. A black bedroom wall is illuminated by the passing car headlights. The crisscross shadow of the leadlight window is thrown onto the wall and travels across it. A red tinge from a cars brake lights travelling in the opposite direction
November 6, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Ring plover with worm spaghetti.
Today's #birdoftheday set by @alan678.bsky.social is #lunchtime.
These birds were so adept at running along the beach, spotting and eating worm after worm. Their tummies must have been so full!
Taken in North Uist 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿.
#EastCoastKin
#birds
#birdphotography
A small wader stands on white sand, facing right. The bird has a brown back, white underparts, black ring around chest, white collar, black cheeks, brown back of head with a white stripe above black eye. Legs are bright orange, as is the bill with a black tip. A red worm forms a taut line from beak to sand.
November 6, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Juvenile Herring gull. Today's #birdoftheday theme set by @robcrank68.bsky.social is #CloseUps.
Think this fits the theme (I was going to say "fits the bill" but long bill was yest🤭).
I love the markings on juvenile herring gulls, especially around the eye.
#EastCoastKin
#birds
#birdphotography
A close up image of a herring gull's head. The bird is facing left, and its plumage is mottled soft grey brown. There is a catchlight in its eye.
November 5, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Today's #birdoftheday set by @alan678.bsky.social is #rock or alternatively #longbeak.
My late submission: a pair of black-tailed godwits.
On a rock 👍 and with long beaks 👍.
#RockinTuesday
#TwosDay
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekSforShadows
#EastCoastKin
#birds
#birdphotography
Two long-legged waders (both godwits) stand on a rock, one above the other, facing in opposite directions. The birds are mottled brown and have long, straight, pinky brown beaks. Water is visible in front of the rock and behind in the background.
November 4, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Northern Gannet Eye.
For anyone who has wavered from the photographic path they want to take for fear of others not "getting it".
Or for anyone who has sat through a camera club judging. 🤣
#imageandverse
#Stunday
#EastCoastKin
#birds
#birdphotography
A close up image of the eye of a northern gannet. Largely yellow plumage, blue ring around a pale iris. Black line delineate the beak from the plumage and the eye.
November 2, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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"Egg thief"
Today's #birdoftheday set by @alan678.bsky.social is #underrated.
What could be more #underrated than the thieving herring gull? 🤭
Here, stealing a guillemot egg from Stack Rock, Pembrokeshire.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
#WeekRforRocks
#AlphabetChallenge
#birds
#EastCoastKin
#Stunday
#birdphotography
A busy guillemot colony on a rocky cliff. Lots of black and white guillemots are nesting, sitting on the small ledges. A large Herring gull is stealing one of the eggs. It's wings are aloft, and its head is reaching beneath one of the nesting birds. A Herring gull in flight, photographed against a cliff with rocks and grassy patches. The gull is flying right to left and has a turquoise speckled egg in its beak.
November 2, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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Swirling sea.
1/10s handheld, peering over a very tall cliff in Pembrokeshire, in windy conditions whilst having a break from photographing fulmars in flight.
#StunDay
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekRForRock
#landscapephotography
#waves
A slow shutterspeed image of the dark turquoise seas swirling around a rock. White foam flecks the image where the water moves slowest, becoming a white mass as it swirls round the top of the rock.
November 2, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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Red-necked grebe stretching.
Today's #birdoftheday theme set by @robcrank68.bsky.social is #grebes.
#EastCoastKin
#birds
#birdphotography
A small grebe sits on blue water, its left leg extended up behind it. The grebe has a black head, white cheeks, russet red neck, black back and grey mottled sides.
November 1, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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#Autumn in the Elan Valley
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
#BlueSkyArtShow
#EastCoastKin
#landscapephotography
An autumn landscape image showing 3 bands of ground (green bottom right, russet from bottom left stretching to right and bright pale green across the centre). Lines of trees demark the edges of the different areas. Taller oak trees catch the sunlight in the centre, and shadowy dark green pines recede in the background. The overall feel is a clean crisp autumn day.
November 1, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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Skrinkle Haven.
A wave crashes through a gap in a rock wall. At low tide, the intrepid can gingerly descend through this slippery barnacle encrusted tunnel to spend a couple of hours on a 'secret' beach with no other accessible by foot route.
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekRForRock
#Scape
#EastCoastKin
A 2 sec shutterspeed shot of the sea crashing white through a hole in a dark rock wall. Spray arcing white. The rocks are glistening wet.
October 31, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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A curious puffin peering out of its burrow.
Today's #birdoftheday set by @alan678.bsky.social is #hiding.
#EastCoastKin
#FlyDay
#birds
#birdphotography
#Skokholm
A colourful puffin's head is visible through a hole in a mud bank. Its white cheeks, triangular eye marking of black and orange, and its wonderful triangular black and orange ridged beak are all clearly visible. A single green leaf pokes out of the RHS of the opening.
October 31, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Today's #birdoftheday theme set by @robcrank68.bsky.social is #OddAngles with the alternative being "black-headed bird who must not be named for fear of annoying @alan678.bsky.social"
I give you....
A black-headed gull (in winter plumage so without it's chocolate head), wings outstretched just about to dive into the water. The bird's beak is just touching the water and the wingtips are just above the water.
October 30, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Red Kite Diving
Today's #birdoftheday theme set by @robcrank68.bsky.social is #OddAngles.
Delighted to be informed this morning that my image has been selected for #SheClicks Sept challenge Twists and Turns.
Don't worry, Rob, I wont let you down: I have a second pic planned🤭
#EastCoastKin
#birds
A large raptor turns mid dive, twisting into strange shape. Yellow legs top right, outstretched wings bottom left, head pointing down. Background is branches.
October 30, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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In that case, forgive the re run of "Ouch!" for #funny and #gulls for your #birdoftheday.
I'll do my best to comply for a week!😛
A white gull, with wings outstretched sits astride a navigation light atop a boat mast. The sky is cloudy grey.
October 29, 2025 at 9:08 PM