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Helen Bennett 🌿
@helenbennett.bsky.social
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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A #HolidayRobin to brighten up the timelines and to wish you all a good weekend. 📷 🪶

#Birds #Photography #UKWildlife #ArtAdventCalendar
#EastCoastKin #Nature
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And just like that the day light broke through 📷🕊️ ….
December 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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For the #ArtAdventCalendar – a grouchy great horned owl trying to simultaneously sleep and soak sun. I quickly left it be. #birds
December 4, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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Gotta finish #BlueSkyArtShow #Sky day with something local…from the local beach, a #sunset shot looking out over the Clyde Estuary, Scotland

#EastCoastKin #Arran #Seascape
December 6, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Firecrest still at Hannafore beach a couple of days ago.
#Cornwallbirding #birds #birding
#birdphotography #Naturelovers
#Naturephotography
December 7, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Eastern Phoebe #BirdOfTheDay #BirdsOnTwigs 🪶📷
December 7, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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December 4, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Before sunrise 🌄 #Clouds #sky #Northern Ireland #StormHour
December 6, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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December 6, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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The exact same yellow-rumped #warbler
I posted just like a minute ago
This is a different pose
Like a straight-on latera view

#bird #birdphotography 🪶
#yellow
December 5, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Morning #BlueSky ☕️ Let me take you back to a wonderful Summer sunrise & gaze in wonder at the palette of Mother Nature’s splendour. Have a fab day friends ☺️ #BlueSkyArtShow #sky #Photography #EastCoastKin #PhotographyOfBlueSky #Sunrise #PhotographersOfBlueSky #Dawn #Golden #SkyInferno #BlueSkyArt
December 6, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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Post them too much but they're right there, and blue, and their crests are so tall!

📷🌿🪶
December 6, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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"How much borb do you want? Any more, and I'll lose my shape completely!"

Northern Cardinal

#BirdOfTheDay #borbs #ArtAdventCalendar #birds #nature #photography
December 5, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Day 6 of #ArtAdventCalendar: I was watching this Grizzly Bear and her cub when she stopped for a moment, sat up, and seemed to just take in the view as the sun began to set. #wildlife
December 6, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Having an incredible time down South, milder weather and a lot of fungi still about. Including the weird and wonderful like this White Basket! (Ileodyction cibarium) 😍
December 6, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Every year I, or my European orchid-hunting friends, find at least one flavescens or chlorantha variety of Ophrys bee orchid in Rhodes. Always a pleasant surprise to see the way the genetic dice have rolled and come up with something slightly wayward, where normal rich colours are diminished.
December 7, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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Snacking in a winter wonderland

Zoom in for the snow. I love the black squirrels in Ottawa.

#AnimalArtTuesday
#ArtAdventCalendar
#EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #photography
#ArtYear
December 2, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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A proud California Scrub-Jay for the #songbirds theme of #birdoftheday.
Like all corvids it is in the suborder Passeri, or songbirds, in case you were wondering…

#birds #photography #birdphotography #jays #birding #nature
December 4, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Per @javajanegallery.co.uk, Saturday! Time for the small ones to shine ✨ Welcome to join in, QP/repost and add to the 🧵 #SmallBirdSaturday

Male Rufous Hummingbird #birds #photography #EastCoastKin
December 6, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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For #ArtAdventCalendar of day 5 a photo taken of a blue European colombine.

#Photo #photography #EastCoastKin
December 5, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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Time for the daily #BirdOfTheDay post. And today’s theme is all about #Borbs, Birds looking round.

Here’s a set of Female Northern #Cardinals looking very round. From last winter ❄️

#EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #photography #birdphotography #birds
December 5, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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The radically different #subspecies of Common Kingfisher ♂
𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘥𝘰𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘴 (first two) from #Sulawesi, #Indonesia in Oct vs. 𝘣𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘴 (last two) from #Thailand in Nov

#Birdphotography #BirdsSeenIn2025 #birding #birdwatching #taxonomy #naturebeauty #cutebirds #kingfishers #wildlifephotography #birds
December 6, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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I never seem to catch shots of sunsets but summer skies always catch my attention too. #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Sky all day Saturday. Link to the feed in comments.
#photography #clouds #summer
December 6, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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#birdoftheday is #songbird so why not actual song? I’ve only ever seen photos, but why not, here’s a Canyon Wren doing its thing in Northern Nevada!
December 5, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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For day 4 #ArtAdventCalendar evening

Bolt From The Blue
26×34 66×86cm
Oil on canvas
2023
December 5, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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It's that time of year again, not Xmas, the other one. Beardie time 😉 🪶 Taken at RSPB St Aidans last weekend.
December 5, 2025 at 6:15 PM