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#warblers for #BirdOfTheDay
Garden Warbler, Reed Warbler, Chiffchaff and Blackcap
#birds #photography #ukwildlfe #EastCoastKin
November 24, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Did someone say #YellowEyes ? Here’s a fierce one for #BirdOfTheDay
#birds #ukwildlife #photography #EastCoastKin
Here’s a headshot of a male Sparrowhawk. With a light copper coloured throat, cheeks and chest. Grey head and back, and yellow at top of beak with a grey/ black colour down to the tip. The black at the centre of the eye encircled with a piercing yellow. A formidable hunter of small to medium sized birds
November 24, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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atcherleyons.bsky.social
Re-sharing this one for #SuperSeabirdSunday, and also for #BirdOfTheDay (the theme today is #MrAndMrs, and you can almost see this couple enclosed in a heart shape ❤️).

#Birds #BirdPhotography #UKWildlife #EastCoastKin 🌿
atcherleyons.bsky.social Steve Jackson @atcherleyons.bsky.social · Jun 12
The look of love. 🥰 A pair of Puffins on Skomer Island gazing into each other's eyes.* #Plumescrolling #Birds #Nature #WildlifePhotography #UKWildlife 🌿

* Or engaged in a staring contest and waiting to see who will blink first. 😉
Photo of two Atlantic Puffins (Fratercula arctica) standing on a ledge, looking at each other. The Puffin on the left has their back to us, and their head turned to the right. The Puffin on the right is standing with their right side towards us, and their head turned so that we see their full face. The birds have black backs, wings, tails and necks, with the tops of their heads also black while the sides of their faces are white. Their eyes are black with orange rims, and their legs and webbed feet are orange. Their colourful beaks are narrow when seen from the front, triangular in shape seen from the side. The base of the beak has a a large patch of blue-grey enclosed within a pale yellow border, while the rest of the beak is red with a couple of pale yellow stripes.
November 23, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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atcherleyons.bsky.social
One week on from my radioactive iodine treatment. It has not been a brilliant week. Tempted by the sunshine today however, I got myself over to Fawsley for a meander with my camera. Very, very tired now but what a joy it was to be out there again!

#OnePlaceStudy #Scape #EastCoastKin #StormHour
Photo of the view looking across a small lake (Horse Pond, by Fawsley Hall in Northamptonshire). Most of the trees around the lake are without leaves now, but two coniferous trees (including a Cedar of Lebanon) with their evergreen foliage stand out. The sky above is a beautiful shade of blue, with hints of thin, white cloud. The sky and the trees are reflected in water of the lake.
November 21, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Giving us a nice view of his or her underwing and forked tail, the Red Kite continues to fly, against the backdrop of a beautiful blue sky. [3/3]

#FlyDay #Birds #BirdPhotography #UKWildlife #EastCoastKin 🌿
Photo of a Red Kite (Milvus milvus) in flight, heading towards the right side of the image. We see the right side of the bird's head and body, and the underside of the right wing, which is raised up, almost fully outstretched, above the bird. The Red Kite has a hooked bill, yellow at the base and dark at the tip; a greyish head with black streaks; yellow eyes with black pupils; and reddish-brown plumage over much of the rest of the body. The tail feathers are blackish, and there both blackish and whitish patches on the underside of the wing.
November 21, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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We have lift off! The Red Kite takes to the air. [2/3]

#FlyDay #Birds #BirdPhotography #UKWildlife #EastCoastKin 🌿
Photo of a Red Kite (Milvus milvus) who has just taken off from his or her perch in a leafless Oak tree. The bird is heading towards us and slightly to the right side of the image, wings outstretched on either side and legs dangling below. The Red Kite has a hooked bill, yellow at the base and dark at the tip; a greyish head with black streaks; yellow eyes with black pupils; and reddish-brown plumage over much of the rest of the body. The tail feathers are blackish, and there are blackish patches on the underside of the wings; the legs and talons are yellow.
November 21, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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atcherleyons.bsky.social
A 3-part thread for #FlyDay featuring more pics taken at Fawsley earlier today. Now, this Red Kite (one of four who were sitting in an Oak tree close to the Knightley Way) is not flying. But he or she soon will be... [1/3]

#Birds #BirdPhotography #UKWildlife #EastCoastKin 🌿
Photo of a Red Kite (Milvus milvus) perched on a small branch in a leafless Oak tree. The bird is facing towards the left side of the image, with wings closed. The Red Kite has a hooked bill, yellow at the base and dark at the tip; a greyish head with black streaks; yellow eyes with black pupils; and reddish-brown plumage over much of the rest of the body. The tail, in this image, is in shadow. The feathers on the upper parts of the wing are reddish-brown with blackish markings; towards the wing tip they are largely blackish in colour.
November 21, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Mr&Mrs my set is Mandarin Ducks, Robins, Puffins and Gannets.
#birds #ukwildlife #photography #EastCoastKin
A male and female Mandarin Duck. The ever so colourful male to the left, and a wonderful brown and grey female to the right A pair of Robins in springtime courtship. The male to the left passes food to the female on the right A male and female Puffin rub beaks together Beaks up for this pair of Gannets, a much sought after photo of these amazing seabirds
November 23, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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Sunrise hits a cloudy and misty sky as three Great White Egrets pass by. #silhouette #BirdOfTheDay #EastCoastKin #photography #ukwildlife #birds
November 23, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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A juvenile #GroundedGulls looking for snacks in the River Severn
#BirdOfTheDay #birds #photography #EastCoastKin
November 21, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Today’s theme is #thrushes so here’s a beautiful Song Thrush that really didn’t mind me taking its pic.
November 20, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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My brother @robcamera.bsky.social hopes I'll soon be well enough for us to get together again for days out combining #NaturePhotography and general silliness. Like that time we saw a certain waterbird and I started singing "Gordon is a Moorhen!" 1/2

#BirdOfTheDay #UKWildlife #EastCoastKin 🌿
Photo of a Common Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus) on the surface of a pool of water. The bird, a type of Rail, is swimming towards us and slightly to our left, with his or her head turned to our right. The Moorhen is mostly black or dark grey in colour, with dark brown wings, some white along the flanks, and white on the underside of the tail. The beak has a yellow tip; the rest is red, and that red colour extends from the base of the upper part of the beak onto a 'shield' on the front of the face. The eye is a dark red-brown colour, with a black pupil. The water on which this Moorhen is swimming is reflecting the bird itself, some of the green lakeside foliage, and the blue sky above.
November 15, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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atcherleyons.bsky.social
For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme of #round I am re-sharing this post from a year ago very nearly to the day, part of one of my #PlumeScrolling threads. Make sure your #Robins are optimally inflated for the Winter weather folks! 😉

#Birds #BirdPhotography #UKWildlife #EastCoastKin #HolidayRobin 🌿
atcherleyons.bsky.social Steve Jackson @atcherleyons.bsky.social · Nov 17
#PlumeScrolling PSA: The advice I gave in another post, about Squirrels, applies to #Robins too. With colder weather incoming, please ensure they are optimally inflated (30-35 PSI), as demonstrated here at Brandon Marsh last Winter. Thank you, and enjoy the rest of your day.😊

#Birds 🦉 #UKWildlife 🌿
Front view of a European Robin perched on a wooden signpost, head turned slightly to the bird's right and looking at us with his or her left eye. The bird's face and chest are an orangey red in colour, with a grey border. The belly and flanks are whitish, with some darker parches. What little we can see of the wings and the tail are brown. The fairly short beak is dark in colour, and legs and feet pinkish.
November 19, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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Ever wondered where the saying “round Robin” came from? Here’s your answer 😂. #round #BirdOfTheDay #HolidayRobin #birds #photography #ukwildlife #EastCoastKin
November 19, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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#blurred a Peregrine Falcon makes off with a Moorhen on the other side of the lake at Venus Pool. #BirdOfTheDay #birds #ukwildlife #photography #EastCoastKin
November 18, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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The #mottled back of the Treecreeper is a fabulous way of blending in with trees for camouflage, unfortunately I don’t have a picture of how well that works.
#BirdOfTheDay #birds #treecreeper #EastCoastKin
November 18, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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#StareDown from this Gannet at RSPB Bempton Cliffs. #BirdOfTheDay #birds #photography #ukwildlife #EastCoastKin
November 17, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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#StareDown is the theme for #BirdOfTheDay today, so I could not resist sharing this pic again. A Bohemian Waxwing at Brandon Marsh near Coventry in February 2024, who seemed to be giving me a hard stare that Paddington would be proud of.

#Birds #BirdPhotography #UKWildlife #EastCoastKin 🌿
A Bohemian Waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus) perched on a twig, looking directly at the photographer (me!) with what seems to be a very stern look on his or her face. The bird has a pinkish-coloured chest, a whitish belly, black wings with white markings, black legs and feet, a tail which is red below a yellow tip, a tuft of pinkish-coloured feathers on the head which are a richer reddish-brown colour at the base (just above the eyes), black eye-stripes, and a large black throat patch.
November 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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#BeakOpen from this #HolidayRobin
#birds #BirdOfTheDay #ukwildlife #EastCoastKin
November 16, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Striking a GQ pose on the pier in Huntington Beach, CA. #BirdOfTheDay #ShadesOfGrey
#EastCoastkin
#WestCoastKin
#Birds #Pelican
#Nature #Photography
November 16, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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A Dunnock covering both themes of #BirdOfTheDay it has #BeakOpen and definite #ShadesOfGrey
#birds #photography #EastCoastKin
November 16, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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The alternative #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #BeakOpen, so here is a #HolidayRobin / #FestiveDailyRobin singing away at Brandon Marsh, near Coventry, at the end of March 2024.

#birds #BirdPhotography #UKWildlife #EastCoastKin 🌿
A singing European Robin (Erithacus rubecula) perched on a twig in a Hawthorn bush. The bird's body is facing us and turned slightly to our left, with the head turned further to our left with the beak open. The face, throat and breast are orangey-red in colour, bordered with grey. The belly is white, the cap, upper body (what little we can see of it), wings and tail are brown, the beak dark, and the legs and feet pinkish.
November 16, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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#HolidayRobin here to brighten up your evening.
#BirdOfTheDay #birds #photography #ukwildlife #Robin
November 15, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Coots and Moorhens are the subjects for #BirdOfTheDay today. I’m starting with diving #Coots, sharing one pic that I posted as part of a #PlumeScrolling thread a while back, and one that I haven’t posted here before, both taken at Brandon Marsh.

#Birds #BirdPhotography #UKWildlife #EastCoastKin 🌿
Photo of a Eurasian Coot (Fulica atra) almost completely out of the water, moments before he or she plunges below the surface. The body is raised upward at an angle of around 45 degrees, the rear end and the feet are submerged, and the head is pointed down with the tip of the beak almost touching the surface of the water. That beak, which is fairly short, is white in colour, with a small white 'shield' extending from the base of the upper part, onto the bird's forehead. The eye is red, with a black pupil, and the head, neck and body are black. The rest of the body is grey. There are water droplets falling from the briefly-exposed belly. The water, reflecting the foliage surrounding the pool, looks greenish.
November 15, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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#ducklings photographed on the River Severn in Newtown. I lay down in all the stones that the low river had exposed, while a family of 14 ducklings ran riot. So enjoyable.
#BirdOfTheDay #birds #photography #ukwildlife #EastCoastKin
November 15, 2025 at 11:51 AM