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Lorraine 🦆🦋🐝🦔🦊🌿

@lotaylor23.bsky.social

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Bird and nature photographer (very amateur). Gardener for wildlife. Hate shooting & hunting. Norwich City. Confirmed member of the bat & newt fraternity.

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Lorraine 🦆🦋🐝🦔🦊🌿 @lotaylor23.bsky.social · 6h

Thanks Alan.
We were very lucky to have quite a few here in Norfolk this year.

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Aintright @aintright.bsky.social · 7h

Harriet the House Sparrow #BirdOfTheDay #birdinabush #birds #photography #EastCoastKin

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Lorraine 🦆🦋🐝🦔🦊🌿 @lotaylor23.bsky.social · 6h

Good morning 🌞
Alan's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BirdInABush with #reflection as an alternative. I have gone with this Sedge Warbler who was doing his best not to be seen! #Birds #BirdPhotography

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Lorraine 🦆🦋🐝🦔🦊🌿 @lotaylor23.bsky.social · 6h

Beautiful 😍

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Michelle Cozens @measureofcalm.bsky.social · 1d

For today’s #BirdOfTheDay this great blue heron is showing off its #longneck while it appears to be doing some yoga. It was actually poised to take off. I used to live near the Cuyahoga Valley National Park in northeast Ohio, and these birds were plentiful. #EastCoastKin

A great blue heron is perched on an old tree branch. It is leaning toward the left with its neck outstretched and its wings lifted but not stretched out.

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Lorraine 🦆🦋🐝🦔🦊🌿 @lotaylor23.bsky.social · 1d

🤞

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Kelvin Noden @nikonkelv.bsky.social · 1d

Great White Egret 🥰

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Lorraine 🦆🦋🐝🦔🦊🌿 @lotaylor23.bsky.social · 1d

Fantastic 😊

Lorraine 🦆🦋🐝🦔🦊🌿 @lotaylor23.bsky.social · 1d

Hope you're feeling much better soon

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Lorraine 🦆🦋🐝🦔🦊🌿 @lotaylor23.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you, Rob ☺️

Lorraine 🦆🦋🐝🦔🦊🌿 @lotaylor23.bsky.social · 1d

Good morning BlueSky (not so blue sky here this morning, just damp and grey).
Rob's #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #Birds with Long Necks. I have chosen a mute swan who seems to be trying to straighten his out!

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Lorraine 🦆🦋🐝🦔🦊🌿 @lotaylor23.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry to hear that. Hope you are feeling better.

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Lorraine 🦆🦋🐝🦔🦊🌿 @lotaylor23.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you 😊

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Alan H @alan678.bsky.social · 1d

What a fabulous day of BOTD. Thank you to all our amazing contributors. Absolutely stunning captures. Wishing you all a great rest of your day, wherever you are in the world. #BirdOfTheDay is part of the #EastCoastKin community. Leaving you with a flock of Goldfinches in the distance. #birds

A large flock of European goldfinches in flight against a pale blue sky. The birds’ bright yellow wing patches and red faces stand out vividly as they move in a scattered but coordinated formation, creating a sense of motion and harmony in the open air.

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Lorraine 🦆🦋🐝🦔🦊🌿 @lotaylor23.bsky.social · 1d

😁

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Aintright @aintright.bsky.social · 2d

When you're as tiny as Walter the Wren, you learn when to keep your head down. #ukbirds #birds #wildlife

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Rina @rina2012.bsky.social · 2d

I will not lose sight of you...🤍

#BirdOfTheDay #wings #birds #owl #photography #onlybeautifulthings #photohour #AnimalArtTuesday #nature #thelittlethings #EastCoastKin

The picture shows a snowy owl in flight, its wings hanging straight down with the wing tips crossing at the front. Only one of its yellow eyes is visible, and it is looking directly into the camera. The background is blurred and consists of green leaves.

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Lorraine 🦆🦋🐝🦔🦊🌿 @lotaylor23.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you ☺️

Lorraine 🦆🦋🐝🦔🦊🌿 @lotaylor23.bsky.social · 2d

I can't wait to see all the #BirdOfTheDay photos today. Alan's chosen the theme #wings so I have chosen an Avocet doing his best to attract his mate. #Birds #BirdPhotography

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Lorraine 🦆🦋🐝🦔🦊🌿 @lotaylor23.bsky.social · 2d

Fab photo, Alan.

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David Minshall @dbminshall.bsky.social · 2d

Alan’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #wings (alternative #droplets).
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I've selected this juvenile and adult Gannet. The photo was taken at @rspb.bsky.social Bempton Cliffs, East Riding of Yorkshire. (16.09.25)

#birds #UKWildlife @alan678.bsky.social

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Lizzie Wallis DPAGB, EFIAP, BPE3* @lizziewallis.bsky.social · 3d

"Crested Tit"
Today's #birdoftheday theme set by @robcrank68.bsky.social. is the "Family Paridae of birds" which constitutes 'Tits, Chickadees and Titmice'.
#EastCoastKin
#Stunday
#birds
#birdphotography
#Birdlife

A lichen covered twig stretches across the bottom of the frame. Perched, facing right, is a small brown tit, with a distinctive black and white crest sticking up above a predominantly white face with black chin and black stripe running from eye round cheek. The background is mottled grey and brown of a pine forest in winter.

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Lorraine 🦆🦋🐝🦔🦊🌿 @lotaylor23.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks for sharing these lovely photos, Rob.

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Lorraine 🦆🦋🐝🦔🦊🌿 @lotaylor23.bsky.social · 2d

Been looking forward to this ever since I saw a trailer for it.

Lorraine 🦆🦋🐝🦔🦊🌿 @lotaylor23.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you Alan. That means a lot.