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Sarah Vallance
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Amateur photographer, Europhile, and lover of wildlife.
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August 28, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Farage leaving the ECHR would take away YOUR right to ...

🔥 A fair trial
🔥 Fair laws
🔥 Protection from execution
🔥 Protection from discrimination
🔥 Protection from torture
🔥 Protection from slavery
🔥 Freedom of speech
🔥 Freedom of lifestyle
🔥 Freedom to decide if you want or don't want children
August 26, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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So much gorse at Thursley Common NNR at the moment, and a first for me - a wood lark. Such a lovely song.
April 29, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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My first ever hare in the sun, sheltering from an icy wind. What a gorgeous creature.
February 4, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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The emergence of Emile and his affectionate new friend:
February 4, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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'Passage' - beautiful gravity-defying land art - by German artist, Cornelia Konrads

Photos taken during the construction of this piece, here: www.cokonrads.de/portfolio/si...

#art #installationart
Archway made from wood and twigs... some looking like they are suspended in the air.
January 31, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Walter the Wren. Photographed yesterday with his big coat on. #birds #ukwildlife #wildlife #nature
January 28, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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“Over the past 50 years, there has been a drastic loss in the global wildlife population that will gradually get worse.

Currently, an estimated 200 species have been lost in the UK.”
Climate change is affecting our wildlife. Can we help nature?
Wildlife loss is prominent in Greater Manchester. Why is this happening, and is there anything we can do to prevent further loss?
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January 26, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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Bobbin the Robin giving me one of his stern looks today. Photographed today. #birds #ukbirds #wildlife #nature
January 25, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Neil the Nuthatch. Photographed today. #birds #photography #wildlife
January 25, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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You can't see him... but I just heard a Blackbird singing in the woods opposite our house. First I've heard this year 🎶🎵🎶

#birdsong #birds
January 25, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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And a Song Thrush, too... 🎶 🎵 🎶

#birdsong #birds #wildlife #nature #signsofspring
January 25, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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We craft these episodes not to increase your exposure to Trump insanity, but to minimise it. With warmth, humour, and calm, we filter out the panto and focus on what matters.

And there's nobody better than @brianklaas.bsky.social at this. Best analysis you'll hear this week, in my view.
January 24, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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One of the coolest aspects of insect photography is the realization that colors and textures are CRAZY up close. What may seem like a solid color or a plain matte surface becomes something astounding up close. This net-winged beetle in the family Lycidae is one of my favorite pix of 2024 #bugsky 🌿
An orange beetle, pretty flat and oval-shaped. The wing covers are covered in a texture that looks almost like graph paper, little raised lines and darker colored square pots. The legs are black, and so are the antennae. The antennae are comb-like, very spiky.
January 13, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Lulu the Long-tailed Tit. #birds #photography #wildlife
January 14, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Juvenile Pileated Woodpeckers have brown eyes (like this female), while adults have bright yellow.
January 12, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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I’m so tired of him as well.
January 7, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Friday favourite. Gareth the Great Tit. #photography #wildlife #birds #nature
January 3, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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Here are some nice mushrooms
A family of mature splitgill mushrooms grow off the side of an upturned branch. They overlap and fill the frame, each one radiating double-gills from their centers like a cluster of fireworks All photos by me
December 29, 2024 at 2:34 PM
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I post this every year & nobody ever believes that it's real but it is, no editing at all except a small crop. Leighton moss a few years ago eating an apple & as I went to take another bite a robin landed on the apple, inches from my face. An amazing moment 😆. Merry Christmas everybody #UKBirding
Robin on an apple!
December 24, 2024 at 3:14 PM
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Maureen the Mallard caught grazing on blackberries overhanging the river. #photography #wildlife #ukwildlife #birds #nature
December 24, 2024 at 2:25 PM
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An adult Jay feeding a young one. I've only rarely seen them raise their head feathers like this and it's the only time I've ever captured it. #wildlife #ukwildlife #birds #nature
December 23, 2024 at 10:41 AM
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Day 22 of the 2024 #ArtAdventCalendar coincides with #nationalrobinday so it has to be this little watercolour robin.

#kleineKunstklasse
A stylised robin sits on a spiky icy/snowy branch.
December 22, 2024 at 10:00 AM
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A Sandhill Crane taking a morning stroll on the frozen lake.
December 16, 2024 at 11:52 PM