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𝓛𝓾𝓲𝔃 𝓕𝓮𝓵𝓲𝓹𝓮 ⋆ ˚ ʳᵉˢᶜʳⁱᵇᵉ ˚ ⋆

@liperobadey.bsky.social

#flyfriday #airbusa340

November 6, 2026 at 9:00 PM

Rumyana Whitcher

@rumiwhitcher.bsky.social

~Flight of the Grey Heron ~🪽🪽🪶

After spending some time looking for prey at the lake, this Grey Heron took off with grace and a bit of splash!

Happy Friday everyone!

#nature #wildlife #photography #bird #Burdphotography #wader #GreyHeron #wildlifephotography #flight #FlyFriday

November 6, 2026 at 11:06 AM

Emyr Wyn Jones

@emyr-wyn.bsky.social

Herring Gull (3cy) in flight for #FlyFriday

Who said 'Jonathan Livingston' . . . ?

#ECK #FlyFriday #Flyday #birds #BirdPhotography #PhotographersOfBlueSky @whatbirds.bsky.social @bbappnews.bsky.social @britishbirds.bsky.social

October 30, 2026 at 12:29 PM

jtkindt

@jtkindt.bsky.social

Nice little anthomyiid fly (genus Eutrichota?) last weekend on my Packera for #flyfriday.

#bugsky #flyday #diptera

Side view of fy with burgundy eye, orange femurs, otherwise black with light gray hair bands, at the scalloped edge of a long narrow green leaf.

October 30, 2026 at 11:25 PM

Rumyana Whitcher

@rumiwhitcher.bsky.social

~Wings of power~🦅🦅

This White tailed eagle was swooping down with power at Poole Harbour, Dorset, UJK.
What a magnificent wingspan!

#bird #nature #natureconservation #flyfriday #wildlife #photography #flight #wings #eagle🦅 #FlyDay

October 23, 2026 at 2:27 PM

Sarah

@sarahfaulkner.bsky.social

Quite possibly not the right kind of fly for #FlyFriday ....but aren't these lovely?! 😍

There is something so captivating about Fly Algaric #fungi. They are fab at all stages, but I most love them as a little knob, as pictured bottom left, very cute and just perfect. 🍄

#fungifriday
#fungifriends

Fly Algaric seen in Dorset this week.
Photos of them at various stages of growth. All lovely.

October 23, 2026 at 7:40 PM

jtkindt

@jtkindt.bsky.social

For #flyfriday a large-tailed aphid eater, Eupeodes volucris, Clear Creek County Colorado 7/2025.

#flyday #bugsky #insects

View of fly facng the camera. Fly has big brown eyes that meet at the top if the head, yellowish face with small dark antennae; thin orange legs, bronze shiny thorax, mostly clear wings extended to the sides and swept back, and abdomen that is yellowish with a central black stripe running down it and five hirizontal black stripes.

October 23, 2026 at 8:31 PM

jtkindt

@jtkindt.bsky.social

Yellow-spotted falsehorn (Temnostoma daochus) hover fly trying on her Halloween costume: a scary wasp with long antennae. (photo from April 2021)
#flyfriday #flyday #diptera #bugsky #insects

Side view of Insect on a leaf. Insect has wasp-like yellow and black striped body, large dark eyes, and blobbish mouthparts extended down to surface of leaf. She is holding her forelegs straight out to either side of her face, so that their long dark ends look a bit like antennae. Her actual antennae are little yellow paddles with wispy extensions.

October 9, 2026 at 5:03 PM

𝓛𝓾𝓲𝔃 𝓕𝓮𝓵𝓲𝓹𝓮 ⋆ ˚ ʳᵉˢᶜʳⁱᵇᵉ ˚ ⋆

@liperobadey.bsky.social

Voando alto | Flying high

Embraer EMB 120 "Brasilia"

#flyfriday #flysky

October 2, 2026 at 4:14 PM

Erica McAlister

@flygirlnhm.bsky.social

For #flyfriday - paratypes of Machimus cowini - the Manx robberfly seen here in the Manx Museum entomology collections

The Manx robberfly was 1st discovered on the Isle of Man in the 1940s but has since been found else where but not ‘across’ (eg UK) as they say here.

@dipteristsforum.bsky.social

October 2, 2026 at 3:02 PM

𝓛𝓾𝓲𝔃 𝓕𝓮𝓵𝓲𝓹𝓮 ⋆ ˚ ʳᵉˢᶜʳⁱᵇᵉ ˚ ⋆

@liperobadey.bsky.social

O pioneiro.

Embraer EMB-110 "Bandeirante".

#flyfriday #flashbackfriday #flysky #embraer

September 25, 2026 at 10:20 PM

jtkindt

@jtkindt.bsky.social

Happy #flyfriday! This is a soldier fly of genus Psellidotus. Some flies in that genus have really surprising mint-green coloration, but this one is a bit more sedate. I’ve only found these a handful of times over the years. From May 2023.

#bugsky #insects #flyday

Fly on a carpet of small white flowers. Fly is mostly black with pale green patches, has a fairly wasp-shaped body, has some yellow pollen on belly and legs.

September 25, 2026 at 9:14 PM

Clive Baker 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇮🇪

@elyclive.bsky.social

#FlyFriday
#Birds
#BirdPhotography
Ruff
Red kite
Kittiwake
Gannets

September 18, 2026 at 5:32 PM

jtkindt

@jtkindt.bsky.social

Happy #Flyday! Here is a little black Lauxanid fly, I believe genus Xenochaetina, from back in April when they were all over the place.

#flyfriday #bugsky #diptera

Fly with shiny black body, short sparse hairs, yellowish wings folded over body, medium sized red eyes, short orange antenna. Kind of hunched over on a green leaf.

September 18, 2026 at 3:17 PM

𝓛𝓾𝓲𝔃 𝓕𝓮𝓵𝓲𝓹𝓮 ⋆ ˚ ʳᵉˢᶜʳⁱᵇᵉ ˚ ⋆

@liperobadey.bsky.social

Jumbo #flyfriday

747's prototype, late 1960s #flysky

Protótipo do 747 sobre Washington, final dos anos 60.

September 18, 2026 at 4:49 PM

It'sFromJenni

@itsfromjenni.bsky.social

A blossom a day
Keeps the darkness away
#MacroMonday #Flowers #ColoraDay #Bloomscrolling #Natur #CloseUp #Flyfriday #Insects #Wildlife #TTArtisan #Canon #Bluesky #Photography #SchoenesGegenDoofes #EastCoastKin

Auf einem Blütenblatt eines Sonnenhutes sitzt eine Schwebfliege.

A hoverfly is sitting on a coneflower petal.

September 14, 2026 at 5:39 AM

jtkindt

@jtkindt.bsky.social

Don’t worry little soldier fly, I’ll keep the Jorō spider webs out of the yard!

Microchrysa flaviventris female. Looking closely at wing venation the discal cell is partially open in this species.

#flyfriday #flyday #bugsky #diptera