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Helen Bennett 🌿
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Nature lover & trying, in my own small way, to conserve & protect it! Passionate about habitat creation & gardening for ALL wildlife.
Oh yes, I'm a nature photographer & I paint too! : ))

All images shared are my own © From South East, England, UK
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Helen Bennett 🌿 @helenbennett.bsky.social · 21h
For today's #ArtAdventCalendar here's my drawing of a Badger. This one took quite some time and I still think his eyes look a bit wonky but he was a lovely subject to draw.

Happy Tuesday everyone! 🕊️

#Mammals #Art #Nature #Badgers #Drawing #EastCoastKin
A coloured pencil drawing of a European badger. A head and shoulder view as he appears from the left, staring straight to the viewer. The background is mostly pastel creating a slightly mottled texture in shades of beige and green. Drawn on a light grey pastel mat paper.
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breeze420.bsky.social
"My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature." –Claude Monet
The water is covering the wetlands with mountains in the background.
December 10, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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stevenwright58.bsky.social
A good leg stretch @wildlifebcn.org PItsford Water SSSI today saw the best near the end of a 7 mile walk anticlockwise round the reserve.
Habitat pic. Reed Bunting Stonechat 5 Pied Wagtails
December 8, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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#waders #shorebirds
December 9, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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saskajanet.bsky.social
When you look at the feet they don’t look like they’re gripping at all. NUTHATCH MAGIC
#birds
A little white bird with black cap and grey back is somehow stuck to the side of a thick tree trunk with tail up and head down. Its head is stretched out giving a profile view. This is a white-breasted nuthatch.
December 9, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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vickclicked.bsky.social
A message in the sky: remember this moment, so I took the picture
#scape
A line of tall evergreen trees fronted by bare, thin trunks of Aspen trees is in the foreground. A barely visible, staggered line of Canada Geese flies overhead in a partly cloudy blue sky.
December 5, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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zooey1.bsky.social
Lovely male banded demoiselle #photography #macro
Male banded demoiselle perched on a blade of grass. The background is green and out of focus
December 8, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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fraggenstein.bsky.social
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #SideViews and the Alternative is #TurningAway birds not looking at you set by @robcrank68.bsky.social ~ A Female Kingfisher - photo taken @ Forest Farm NR, Cardiff, South Wales 🪶 🦉 #birdingWales #ukbirding #ukwildlife #birdphotography #photography #birds #kingfisher
Imagine a tiny, fast jewel that flashes bright blue and fiery orange/copper, darting low over water, with a big head, short body, and a long, sharp beak for catching fish. A kingfisher is known for its incredible speed, sitting still like a statue, then diving like a missile into water, protected by a clear third eyelid, making a peep-peep-peep sound as it zips by.
December 9, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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jaycee-visionlogic.bsky.social
'Shallow Bays, Hanging Gardens' (Obelus, 2022) -- Taking in the Splendid & Spacial Scenery at James Bond Island, Phang Nga National Park, Southern Thailand

#RockinTuesday ✨ #ClassicMono ✨

#Photography #Landscape
#Monochrome #ClassicMono
#EastCoastKin #JayceeCrawford
a world famous karst sea stack that was featured in several scenes of a james bond film (man with the golden gun), with jungle growth on the top and hanging down the sides rising above the shallow bays of southern thailand's phang nga national park archipelago
December 9, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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rina2012.bsky.social
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #SideViews and the alternative is #TurningAway birds not looking at you. 🪶

Always enjoy #thelittlethings 🫶

#birds #birding #SensoryArt #monochromatic #ClassicMono #photography #scape #PhotographersUnited #nature #outdoors #ArtAdventCalendar #photohour #EastCoastKin
A blackbird can be seen in profile on the right-hand side of the picture. The background is grey.
December 9, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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dunnjons.bsky.social
If there's a prettier Ophrys bee orchid than Ophrys reinholdii, I'd like to meet it.

Rhodes is a stronghold for this deliciously dark orchid. It's a daily delight for guests on the @mariposanature.bsky.social flagship #OrchidsOfRhodes tour, with plants within walking distance of our hotel.
Ophrys reinholdii, Orchids of Rhodes © Jon Dunn Ophrys reinholdii, Orchids of Rhodes © Jon Dunn
December 8, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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beachrelaxin.bsky.social
Takin' a stroll along the beach.

Hudsonian Whimbrel

#BirdOfTheDay #SideViews #ArtAdventCalendar #birds #nature #photography
A large, mottled-brown bird with a long, slightly curved beak walks along a shimmering, wet beach, its left foot with spread long toes slightly raised above the sand, in profile facing right. The late afternoon sun glints off its black eye and makes the low, foaming remains of a recent ocean wave sparkle in the distant background.
December 9, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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birdsbyalex.bsky.social
Morning flurries fall gently around an adorable Black-capped Chickadee.

#BirdOfTheDay #birds #nature #wildlife #photography
A small, fluffed songbird with a black cap and white cheeks perched on a branch in falling snow. Photographed in Avon, Connecticut.
December 8, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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whistberry.bsky.social
It's never too late to jump into #ArtAdventCalendar! It's very simple, just post one of your wonderful, human-made art pieces, throw in a little alt text, add the hashtag and sit back and let the joy roll in!

Not an artist? Scroll the hashtag for a joyful break!
Digital painting of a small brown wren perched among bright red poppies and tall green grasses.
December 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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bird-photography.bsky.social
The black hat on the Wilson's Warbler is so stylish! Also kind of looks like greaser's hair

📷 Canon R5
Canon RF100-500mm f/4.5-7.1L IS USM
M, f/7.1, 1/320, ISO 1600, 500mm
5/5/24

Northern Oregon Coast

#birds #bird #photography #ornithology #birdphotos #nature #naturephotography

🦉 🪶
A little all-yellow bird with an almost square-shaped patch of black on the top of its head rests on a dark brown stick. Faint streaks of black accent its wings from this angle. The bird is looking up and slightly to the right as we face its front, giving us a nice shot of its chest and head.
December 9, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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tonybeales.bsky.social
Cumbrian red squirrel showing off its magnificent tail
#UKwildlife #mammals
A red squirrel in profile on a broken branch. Its bushy tail with pale tip is arched up over its back.
December 4, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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mariposanature.bsky.social
Postcard from the field, from one of Team Mariposa's guests, Christina H. She's #orchid-hunting in Chile at the moment, with great success - here's Porcelain Orchid (Chloraea magellanica) & Lime Green Orchid (Gavilea supralabellata). Nice finds, Christina! Thanks for sharing.
Porcelain Orchid (Chloraea magellanica) © Christina H Lime Green Orchid (Gavilea supralabellata) © Christina H
December 9, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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emmasartworks.bsky.social
Sketches from a recent walk at the Teesmouth nature reserve, in northeast England.
#artAdventCalendar
🪶🐡
Ink and watercolour sketches of Kestrels, Curlew, Stonechat and an oyster shell from the Teesmouth nature reserve in northeast England
December 9, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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markhauser.bsky.social
We're starting the new week bright and yellow with this Yellowhammer.
Have a great day ☕🖖

#Goldammer #Yellowhammer #birdoftheday
#Nikon #Fotografie 📷 🌿 🐦
#naturephotography #photography #birds #wildlife
December 8, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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janiceroisl.bsky.social
Good morning lovely people, coffee is ready ☕️☕️ Have a pleasant Tuesday! 😊
Guten Morgen ihr Lieben, Kaffee ist fertig ☕️☕️ Habt einen angenehmen Dienstag! 😊
A close up of a red squirrel sitting on a branch, bushy tail only partly visible.
December 9, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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brainfog88.bsky.social
Great Blue Heron. Penn Cove, Whidbey Island, WA
#birds #naturephotography #pnw #whidbeyisland
December 9, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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onlyveesaz.bsky.social
Day 9 of #ArtAdventCalendar is a handsome Pyrrhuloxia portrait from June 🪶
Male Pyrrhuloxia, or Desert Cardinal
December 9, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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jayispainting.earthskyart.ca
Day 8 is 1/3 the way through #ArtAdventCalendar!

Close Encounter
40×48in 101x122cm
Oil on Canvas
2021

#art #painting
Abstract landscape: storm clouds and mothership lit from below over hills leading up to a mesa
December 8, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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rovingrollo.bsky.social
Morning All !

Day 9 of #MyPhotoAdvent2025, a photo a day of my favourite captures of 2025... with an explanation in Alt Text of my reason for choosing it.

Plus #BirdOfTheDay, the theme is #SideViews the Alternative is #TurningAway. A 'twofer' I feel 😆

#Birds #Seabirds #Photography #EastCoastKin
I called this 'The Watchers'. Four puffins on the Isle of Lunga, Mull, Scotland. They are standing on the edge of a cliff above the camera. The two in the middle have their bodies facing the camera but, their heads turned to the right. the out side pair are side on to the camera, the left hand one is looking to the right, the one on the right is looking back. I chose this because a) It's Puffins b)the way the light rims the puffins and highlights the sea thrift that grows from the rocks and c) The way the four birds stand out against the bright blue sky... and it's Puffins !
December 9, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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kerriedoodles.bsky.social
Day six of #ArtAdventCalendar.

Today’s offering is this coloured pencil drawing of a kingfisher.
A coloured pencil drawing of a kingfisher in flight. The bird has its wings spread and is facing towards the right.
December 6, 2025 at 6:24 PM
helenbennett.bsky.social
For today's #ArtAdventCalendar here's my drawing of a Badger. This one took quite some time and I still think his eyes look a bit wonky but he was a lovely subject to draw.

Happy Tuesday everyone! 🕊️

#Mammals #Art #Nature #Badgers #Drawing #EastCoastKin
A coloured pencil drawing of a European badger. A head and shoulder view as he appears from the left, staring straight to the viewer. The background is mostly pastel creating a slightly mottled texture in shades of beige and green. Drawn on a light grey pastel mat paper.
December 9, 2025 at 1:25 PM