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Maz Finch
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• Taking photos of nature in UK
• Gardener
• Birder

* amateur in all of above

🌿 #birds 🪶 #nature 🌱
#UKwildlife #UKbirding
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First time visit to RSPB Frampton Marsh, had a great day

I did take photos of birds, but need to upload them… so for now here is a photo of the view from my phone
#RSPB #FramptonMarsh
A layer of cloud dramatically going across with blue sky above and below it. Photo taken on a grassy ridge, with water on each side down below.
November 8, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Last minute decision to go to Brandon Marsh (Coventry)

Didn’t expect to see a green sandpiper! 😃

#BrandonMarsh #ukbirds
#ukbirding #ukwildlife #birds
Green sandpaper wading through grey-mirrored water looking for food
July 27, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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It’s sooo fluffy!!

#ukwildlife #ukbirding
#birds #nature
Parent and chick oyster catchers. Parent in black and white with orangey-red bill. Baby is a very fluffy grey and white, its bill also orangey-red but with a black tip. Standing next to each other in lush green vegetation.
June 23, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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From the window I thought starlings were accidentally feeding sparrow chicks! 😲

It was only with the camera that I could see they were feeding their own babies ☺️

#ukwildlife #uknature
#ukbirding #birds
Two newly fledged starling chicks. One has its beak inside the parents mouth to retrieve food. They’re on top of the bird feeder, but the parents were actually getting food from the ground rather than the feeder. The chicks are full beige-brown. It is their long beaks that identify them as starling chicks.
June 14, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Asked AI what body it would choose for itself 👇
AI chose to be a shiny metal duck-billed platypus with wings
June 14, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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Bank Holiday babies being fed (2 of 2)

#ukwildlife #ukbirding #birds
#uknature #nature
Parent Grebe feeding its chick A little grebe swimming next to it’s chick
May 26, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Bank Holiday babies being fed (1 of 2)

#ukwildlife #ukbirding #birds
#uknature #nature
Parent wagtail has its head in babies mouth to feed it Fluffy wagtail with mouth open waiting for nearby parent to feed it
May 26, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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I’ve seen many house sparrows, but this is my first tree sparrow. Lovely chestnut crown 😊

#ukwildlife #birds #ukbirding
#uknature #nature
A small bird perched on a branch with green leaves in the background. The bird has a sturdy looking black beak and also has a little black eye keeping an eye on me as I take the photo. The tree sparrow has the gorgeous chestnut colouring on top of its head.
May 25, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Spotted this puffin gathering grass for its nest 🐣

…I don’t know if you call it a nest when it’s on a cliff ledge
🤷‍♀️
#birds #ukbirding #ukwildlife
#nature #uknature #puffins
Puffin on a grassy ledge of a cliff, with a mouthful of grass ready to build a nest
May 22, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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Guillemot checking their egg
(Bempton Cliffs)

#birds #ukbirding #ukwildlife
A pear shaped speckled blue egg is nestled into a small shelf on a cliff face. The guillemot parent has a dark brown head, black back and white belly. The parent looks down, its strong beak gently touching the egg to check it’s doing okay.
May 18, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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love is in the air for these Sand Martins 💘

#birds #ukwildlife #ukbirding
Two sand martins sitting next to each other on a wire, staring into each others eyes
May 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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wonderful warbler warbling
☺️

#birds #ukwildlife #ukbirding
Pale coloured bird with a darker strip across its eye, the sedge warbler. It is unusually singing from a tree rather than hiding amongst reeds.
May 5, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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some might say common
…I say pretty pochard 😁

#Birds #UKBirding
#UKWildlife #UKBirds
The common pochard has a chestnut coloured head and neck, silver body and black rear. It looks incredible floating on the pale blue water. Its reflection is slightly broken by a ripple in the water.
December 13, 2024 at 5:48 PM
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Apologies for making your heart melt ☺️

#birds #UKbirding #UKwildlife
Today at #WWTSlimbridge
Gorgeous little long-tailed tit sat on a branch surrounded by pinky red winter blossom - to add, when I say blossom, I’m not actually sure what the pinky red things are, as they do not look like berries, but the birds were eating them or else from them
December 2, 2024 at 5:11 PM
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What big wings you have!! 😲

Bit blurry as I wasn’t ready to take photo as it took off
(Great Egret)
#Birds #UKbirding #UKWildlife
A great egret is about to take off to fly away. Large white bird with yellow beak and black feet. Its wings are spread wide but drooping low, almost looking like it’s difficult to hold them up as they are so big!
November 29, 2024 at 11:49 AM
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A treat on a frosty morning walk seeing a cormorant and a blue sky ☺️

#birds #UKwildlife #UKbirding
Almost looks as if the cormorant is in a seat of power, overseeing all its land and subjects, ready to give commands. It perches on a bare tree branch, its black colouring stands out bold against a blue sky on a frosty morning.
November 23, 2024 at 8:34 AM
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Snow in November?! ❄️

I sprinkled extra food on the ground for larger birds - who are too big to get food from the bird-feeder

#birds #UKwildlife #nature
Black and white of a magpie standing on snow, with a few strands of grass peeking through. One brown leaf has landed on the snow. The magpie found its treasure on the snow, a sunflower heart to eat.
November 19, 2024 at 8:39 AM
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Yay! I finally got a photo of the woodpecker at my feeder (sunflower hearts) 😃

#birds #nature #UKwildlife
A black and white woodpecker, with bright red nape and rump, hanging onto the frame of a bird feeder. It’s wondering whether sunflower hearts will be tasty and worth putting his beak inside to try.
November 15, 2024 at 3:36 PM
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6 days this young woodpigeon has been stuck in my garden

Sitting in the plant pot is a first though 😅

It doesn’t seem injured and flaps its wings every so often

I’ve given it food & water, and we’ve named it Laddie 😊
#UKWildlife #Birds #UKBirds
Young woodpigeon sitting in a plant pot. In the background is green grass and white clover. The bird has been studying older birds in the garden through the past few days, maybe learning how to fly.
June 29, 2024 at 8:08 PM
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Think it’s been in a fight 😦

#UKButterflies #Nature
#Butterflies #UKWildlife
Sorry looking peacock butterfly, with a chunk missing from its right wing. It’s sitting on a flower having lunch.
May 25, 2024 at 3:13 PM
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Tree creeper
…not so much creeping, but snuggling in to the moss

#UKBirds #Birds #Nature 🌿
#BrandonMarsh #UKWildlife
Tree creeper nestled in moss on a tree branch
May 25, 2024 at 3:07 PM
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Walk around Thornton Reservoir (Leicestershire)

and saw these two beauties 😊

#Birds #UKBirds #UKWildlife
#Nature 🌿
It’s actually two great grebe, but one of them is scrunched up low to the water. The other is in the normal position showing it’s long neck, and has its beak open amongst a yellow flowering plant floating in the water.
May 15, 2024 at 5:33 PM
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Close to falling asleep! But suddenly thought it could be once in a lifetime opportunity

So drove out into countryside to see the Northern Lights 😃

Outskirts of Birmingham, UK
#aurora #northernlights #nature #skyatnight
Diagonal light streams of purples and green, with silhouette of trees below More vertical than diagonal on this one, green at the bottom and parallel lines of purple above reaching upwards. Below is silhouette of a hedge and two road signs.
May 10, 2024 at 11:45 PM
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This robin is so mad at me!!

I swear I’m sitting about 20ft away, and it’s giving me big clicks alarm call

I don’t feel welcome in my own garden 😅
#birds #ukwildlife #ukbirds
Angry robin. Perched on my washing line post and giving me all his click noise as loud as possible. Hey buddy, I’m just trying to relax in my garden on a bank holiday 😁
May 6, 2024 at 11:41 AM
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Whitethroat having a sit down
- taking a break between lots of singing! 🎵 😃

#UKBirds 🪶 #birds #UKwildlife #nature 🌿
Whitethroat perched on a thin branch, with lime green leaves and white fluffy blossom in background.
May 5, 2024 at 6:46 PM