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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 · 1d
A #HolidayRobin to brighten up the timelines and to wish you all a good weekend. 📷 🪶

#Birds #Photography #UKWildlife #ArtAdventCalendar
#EastCoastKin #Nature
A photograph of a European Robin that is facing forward showing off his bright orange chest. His head is turned to the right as viewed as he clings on to a thin branch. The background is festive that shows blurry shadows of surrounding fir tree branches and light snow falling.
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pathwaymoments.bsky.social
And just like that the day light broke through 📷🕊️ ….
Walking up the trail in heavy fog suddenly the Sun rays crested through the tree limbs like a beacon.
December 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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jeope.bsky.social
For the #ArtAdventCalendar – a grouchy great horned owl trying to simultaneously sleep and soak sun. I quickly left it be. #birds
A brightly lit large tufted owl perches high in a conifer tree, among branches and patches of bright blue sky. The owl is staring into your soul.
December 4, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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smokehead.bsky.social
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
A late sunset photo over the sea, some shore visible in the foreground and islands in the distance. A few scattered clouds are lit orange
December 6, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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steve-sando1.bsky.social
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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biggiecrabs.bsky.social
Eastern Phoebe #BirdOfTheDay #BirdsOnTwigs 🪶📷
Eastern Phoebe on a twig
December 7, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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#Sunset #birds #loughNeagh #photography #Herons #landscape #EastCoastKin #Scape
As the sun descends, birds take flight, forming silhouettes against the fiery sky, a beautiful and fleeting dance of nature.
December 4, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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sharonwelby.bsky.social
Before sunrise 🌄 #Clouds #sky #Northern Ireland #StormHour
The sky colours were purple and orange before sunrise.
December 6, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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thecraigmancometh.bsky.social
Glowing tupelo swamp

#photography #naturephotography #landscape
Staggered cypress and tupelo trees standing in calm water, their trunks and autumn colors echoed on the water's surface.
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
Look at the photographic detail on this little bird of yellow, tan, gray, and black.
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
Our picture shows a dramatic, wide view of the sky at either sunrise. The entire scene is filled with thick, textured clouds that look like rippling waves spread across the sky. The clouds glow with deep, fiery colours,burnt orange, bright gold, and soft pink especially near the lower centre where the sun is hidden just beyond the horizon. Toward the top of our picture , the colours fade into darker shades of blue and grey, giving a strong contrast between light and shadow. The brightest area is near the bottom middle, where a warm, golden light appears to break through the clouds, as if the sun is just behind them. There is no land, sea, or buildings visible only an expansive, glowing sky filled with layered, flame-coloured cloud formations that create a powerful, almost storm-like atmosphere. And finally our picture is finished with a simple white border frame.
December 6, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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hlkfotos.com
Post them too much but they're right there, and blue, and their crests are so tall!

📷🌿🪶
A photo of a Steller's jay (Cyanocitta stelleri), a large songbird with a deep blue torso, wings, and tail, dark eyes, black beak, and black head topped with a tall crest. It is perched on a bare gray tree branch facing the camera with its head turned toward the right of frame, and out of focus fall foliage in vivid hues of yellow and orange in the background behind it.
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
A bright red bird with an upright crest, a black face mask, a triangular, orange beak, and a long, thin tail perches on a thin branch in profile facing right against a background of blurred, tangled branches and whitish-gray sky. His head is turned just slightly toward the camera and is tucked into his enormous body of feathers puffed up against the cold with a bit of a strained look to his eye as if he is trying to hold his shape which is looking a bit like a square with a triangle perched on top.
December 5, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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timosborne.ca
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
A female grizzly bear sits up while surround by small branches and a rock face behind her.
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.
Ophrys sicula, Orchids of Rhodes © Jon Dunn Ophrys halia, Orchids of Rhodes © Jon Dunn Ophrys calypsus, Orchids of Rhodes © Jon Dunn Ophrys colossaea, Orchids of Rhodes © Jon Dunn
December 7, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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handcranked.bsky.social
Snacking in a winter wonderland

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

#AnimalArtTuesday
#ArtAdventCalendar
#EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #photography
#ArtYear
A black squirrel facing left while eating bird seed on a small broken branch in the woods. It's snowing and it has some snow in his fur.
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
Blue bird with white throat an light gray belly perched on a rock turned to the side and looking very proud
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
A photo of blue European columbine taken from the side. It's a single flower head on a stem with several leaves on it. The background is greenish bokeh and blurry photographed.
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
Photo of a female northern cardinal sitting in a bare shrub in winter. Snow can be seen on the branches and she has all her feathers puffed up to stay warm Photo of a female northern cardinal sitting in a bare shrub in winter. Snow can be seen on the branches and she has all her feathers puffed up to stay warm Photo of a female northern cardinal sitting in a bare shrub, just a couple of green leaves remain, in winter. Snow can be seen on the branches and she has all her feathers puffed up to stay warm
December 5, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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jay-shrike.bsky.social
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
Common Kingfisher (Cobalt-eared) ♂ นกกระเต็นน้อยธรรมดา 𝘈𝘭𝘤𝘦𝘥𝘰 𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘥𝘰𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘴 Sulawesi, Oct 2025 Common Kingfisher (Cobalt-eared) ♂ นกกระเต็นน้อยธรรมดา 𝘈𝘭𝘤𝘦𝘥𝘰 𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘥𝘰𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘴 Sulawesi, Oct 2025 Common Kingfisher ♂ นกกระเต็นน้อยธรรมดา 𝘈𝘭𝘤𝘦𝘥𝘰 𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘴 Chiang Mai, Nov 2025 Common Kingfisher ♂ นกกระเต็นน้อยธรรมดา 𝘈𝘭𝘤𝘦𝘥𝘰 𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘴 Chiang Mai, Nov 2025
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
A wide sky of deep blue with big summer clouds drifting across
December 6, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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rp-photographic.bsky.social
#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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jayispainting.earthskyart.ca
For day 4 #ArtAdventCalendar evening

Bolt From The Blue
26×34 66×86cm
Oil on canvas
2023
Storm clouds at night with a lightning bold in the middle over a valley with a river
December 5, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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paulrods16.bsky.social
It's that time of year again, not Xmas, the other one. Beardie time 😉 🪶 Taken at RSPB St Aidans last weekend.
A male Bearded Reedling clings to the top of reed where it has been eating the seeds. They change from an insect diet to a seed diet during the winter months and can be seen feeding on the tops. They pulp the seeds in their stomach by also swallowing grit. The male is a small bird with a orangey brown body with black and white marks on the wings. It has a blue grey head and a distinctive black moustache. It has a yellow beak and a yellow eye and black pupil.
December 5, 2025 at 6:15 PM