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Notice, respect and protect nature. Amateur nature photography, mainly taken on Samsung phone. All images, except reposts my own.
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Alan's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #ODG, any Owl, Duck or Goose, so here's another goose pic.
Goose stands upright, head up, facing left, its eye on the viewer. The goose has a pale orange beak and feet, it's head has a brown band over its eye and a white circle on its cheek. It's long neck is brown, it's chest white with slight brown banding which becomes more pronounced over its back. Its tail is brown, darkening towards the ends. It's a fine looking bird, standing in a hard surfaced park in from of green grass.
September 17, 2026 at 6:09 AM
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Using embroidery, yarn, and wool, Peruvian artist Ana Teresa Barboza creates textile art depicting land and seascapes #WomensArt
Embroidery hoop with embroidered image of a a turquoise sea and waves with yarns handing out of the hoop. All against a white background
September 16, 2026 at 4:47 AM
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#BirdsWithBerries is today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme; any bird captured with berries. Thrush enjoying honeysuckle berries on our flat roof, after rain.
Thursday stands upright on flat roof, looking intently, with tilted head, at orange and yellow berries of honeysuckle
September 16, 2026 at 6:36 AM
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Today’s #BirdOfTheDay alt theme is #MyBestSide, bird capture in profile: a fine looking male Mallard.
Male Mallard in profile. Looking at camera with head slightly tilted. Head is irridescent green, above a white neck band, dark brown throat and paler brown back. Yellow beak. Against lush green grass background. Looking pretty fine.
September 13, 2026 at 6:49 AM
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For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme: #BirdsInAbstract, Cormorant, reflection, and ripples.
A Cormorant swimming on a grey green lake. It appears as just its black back above the water and its S shaped neck, which is reflected in the water. A stroke of orange indicates its face and a brief white line indicates its long beak. The water is heavily rippled.
September 12, 2026 at 8:26 AM
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Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is:
#ABCD, any bird name beginning with any of these letters. We watched these Black Headed Gulls, during one of the heatwaves, skimming the surface of a lake, presumably fishing (this is just one, they were all at it). Then congregating afterwards on a tree.
A gull flies just above a lake, its wings both fully raised upwards as it gains height after skimming the surface. The water of the lake is browny green but is marked white where the gull briefly struck the surface. The lake is framed by green trees and an orange coloured buildin, reflected in the water. This was at National Trust landscaped gardens at Stowe, Bucks, during July heatwave. 8 blackheads Gulls sit on a large dead branch resting in the water of a lake which is framed with green foliage.
September 9, 2026 at 6:39 AM
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#BirdOfTheDay #Borbs #Birds #BirdPhotography, a round Robin
Robin sits on flat rock surface, feathers fluffed out into a ball shape. Bird is looking slightly upwards. It sits in front of a tropical backdrop of bright green foliage with umbrella plant leaves and some magenta flowers, at Bodnant gardens, North Wales
September 7, 2026 at 7:39 AM
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For Helen's #BirdOfTheDay theme, #BirdNaps Any bird caught snoozing, napping or just looking incredibly sleepy, I've posted this before, but as it doubly fits the bill, here's two Greylag Geese, synchronised napping.
Two white Geese napping, in identical poses, each stood on its orange left leg, with its head tucked backwards, under its wing. The form one legged, round white shapes, one at bottom left and one top right. They stand on green grass, with a band of beige pathway cutting across from left to right.
September 4, 2026 at 6:09 AM
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Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme Alt. is #Thrushes; any bird from the thrush family, this is, I think, a Mistle Thrush seen in our local wood, busying about, foraging on the forest floor.
Brown thrush with speckled front, low to ground, looking for food on forest floor, against background of grass and low level plants, twigs and dried leaves.
September 3, 2026 at 6:06 AM
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For #BirdOfTheDay theme:
#ItsAllWhite, birds main colour is White. Swan on ice.
White swam sitting on ice. Ice is a brownish colour. Swan has its head turned backwards and tucked under wing, with just black and orange beak showing. Is otherwise completely white and is reflected in the ice.
September 2, 2026 at 6:26 AM
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I learned the word “grebettes” for this 4 (!) #babybird fed a #fish

Thanks for that @atlanticbirding.bsky.social

#Parenting = #BirdOfTheDay theme

#grebe #grebette #greatcrestedgrebe #Podicepscristatus #fuut #Haubentaucher #babyanimals #chick #juvenile #Stunday #ForJanet #ECK @alan678.bsky.social
August 30, 2026 at 11:55 AM
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For #BirdOfTheDay theme:
#Parenting; the local Canada Geese have maintained constant, feisty, vigilance over their young, as they have grown iver the summer,even while this has tied them to area with a decreasing availability of grass, because of the drought. Flight feathers are now coming through!
August 30, 2026 at 1:40 PM
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@robcrank68.bsky.social said Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BestOfTheMonth

Thrilled to find Nankeen Night-Herons in the neighborhood, not usually found here! And here’s one with it’s 3 breeding plumes!

#birds #birdphotography #BirdsOfAustralia #ProtectBirdHabitat #EastCoastKin #BirdsSeenIn2026
You can see the 3 breeding plumes on the back of its head as it stands proud and tall in the treetops! Not usually out during daylight hours as per their name!
August 29, 2026 at 6:11 AM
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Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BestOfTheMonth I spend a lot of time watching the Geese at our local lake, so was curious to see the impact of the partial solar eclipse on their behaviour. Here's the adults who don't have young, flying off as the eclipse passed.
Several Canada Geese flying upwards from right to top left. Outstretched wings and heads up, against pale blue sky. They are flying into the light just after the partial solar eclipse.
August 29, 2026 at 7:47 AM
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#FullMoon in #August is also known as the Barley Moon or the 

#SturgeonMoon
Artwork by Tamsin Abbott, English stained glass artist #WomensArt
Stained glass artwork featuring a hare faceubg right lying diwn in a golden field at night under a full moon
August 28, 2026 at 5:43 PM
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For today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme

#Coastal&River any coastal or river birds and the
Alt: #Rocky any bird capture with a rock in view. I'll resubmit my capture of a Dipper, on a rock in the river at Stroud, as a #twofer.
A small brown Dipper with white chest stands on a mossy rock, facing frontwards, looking to the right, above a small river with moving water. There are other slabs of rock behind. The bird has a ring on one leg. A small brown Dipper with white chest stands on a mossy rock, facing right, above a small river with moving water. The river bank is behind. The bird has a ring on one leg.
August 28, 2026 at 6:24 AM
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#BirdOfTheDay #NaturalSeeds today’s theme by
@helenbennett.bsky.social is a Coot feeding its chick on pondweed seeds.
#coot #feeding #young
August 27, 2026 at 4:11 PM
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Hazel McNab, contemporary UK printmaker known for her linocut work often featuring the Cornish coast #WomensArt
Print featuring clear coastal water and a rocky shore
August 25, 2026 at 3:16 AM
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Fortoday's #BirdOfTheDay theme #ReflectionsAndShadows we have this splendid Male Manderin taking a drink.
#duck #waterfowl #color #colour
August 25, 2026 at 2:29 PM
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For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme, #RecentGardenBirds, most recent capture/s of a bird/s in your garden: one of the Robin's that hatched a nest a few week's back and now comes regularly to our garden table for snacks
Robin, with ruffled feathers, perched on back if white metal chair, facing left. Background of green leaves and a piece of wooden trellis
August 25, 2026 at 6:11 AM
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For today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Simple; any bird against a simple background, some of the local Canda Geese flying into the sky just after the recent partial eclipse.
Eleven Canada Geese flying with outstretched wings, all heading upwards from bottom right to top left of image. Their bodies are pale coloured and wings are in silhouette. They fly against a pale blue sky, lighter in the bottom right, darker towards top left.
August 23, 2026 at 7:30 AM
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Short-eared owl flyby. #BirdOfTheDay #AwesomeOwls

📷🌿🪶🦉
A photo of a short-eared owl (Asio flammeus) in flight, flying toward the left of frame, with its head turned looking toward the camera. It is a medium-sized owl with brown and cream barred plumage, a round face, very short ear tufts, and bright golden-yellow eyes. The lighting is soft and diffuse, in the evening, and the background is blurred autumn foliage in browns and oranges.
August 20, 2026 at 6:09 AM
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Good morning, Helen has said:

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is: #AwesomeOwls 😊🦉
Yay! A chance to use my Barn Owl shots again!!!!

#birds #photography #ECK
August 20, 2026 at 8:20 AM
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#Birdoftheday alt today is #BirdNameG any bird starting with the letter G, a juvenile Greylay Gosling, with hybrid feather markings, walking across the arid grassland, around our local lake.
Juvenile goose, with orange beak and feet, white body with grey markings to wing and head, feathers still downy. Walking with one foot off the ground, directly to camera across dry sparse grassland which is mainly brown.
August 20, 2026 at 8:42 AM
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For today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme #BirdInABush; a Robin sat in the beautiful subtropical planting around a pool at Bodnant Garden, North Wales
Robin sat on stone edging, feathers ruffled, looking slighlty upwards. If sits under dark green umbrella shaped leaves against a bright green background, with splashes of magenta flowers from the top left
August 19, 2026 at 7:46 AM