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Based in 🇳🇱🇪🇺. I love cats (big and small), nature and wildlife, books (fiction and non-fiction), politics, history, photography (Nikon P950). Favourite series: Vera, The West Wing. All pictures are mine, unless I state otherwise.

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Jerry Cannon's Wild Life @jerrycannon27.bsky.social · 21h

Caught on the Kis Cam #birds

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monicapelger.bsky.social @monicapelger.bsky.social · 19h

Yes!

monicapelger.bsky.social @monicapelger.bsky.social · 19h

Thank you!

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EnriqueNY @enriqueny.bsky.social · 19h

Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias). Photo © Enrique Shore #birds #heron #nature #birdwatching #birdphotography #birdlife #beauty

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monicapelger.bsky.social @monicapelger.bsky.social · 21h

😂😂 Something like that yes.

monicapelger.bsky.social @monicapelger.bsky.social · 21h

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 It just had to be done! 😁

monicapelger.bsky.social @monicapelger.bsky.social · 22h

Fluff ball aka the long-tailed tit. 🪶

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monicapelger.bsky.social @monicapelger.bsky.social · 22h

I could hear the Cetti’s warblers calling this morning (loud), but they are so secretive I couldn’t find them. 🪶

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monicapelger.bsky.social @monicapelger.bsky.social · 22h

Bearded reedling foraging. 🪶

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monicapelger.bsky.social @monicapelger.bsky.social · 22h

May: our national bird, the black-tailed godwit. 🪶

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monicapelger.bsky.social @monicapelger.bsky.social · 22h

Migrating lapwings. I don’t know if they’re coming or going. 🪶

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monicapelger.bsky.social @monicapelger.bsky.social · 22h

The kestrel siblings are still hunting on their playground. 🪶 #kestrel

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monicapelger.bsky.social @monicapelger.bsky.social · 22h

The count. 🪶 #cormorant

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monicapelger.bsky.social @monicapelger.bsky.social · 22h

Tits it is for @robcrank68.bsky.social ‘s #BirdOfTheDay: a juvenile blue tit, the European crested tit, the bearded reedling/tit and the Eurasian penduline tit. 🪶

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monicapelger.bsky.social @monicapelger.bsky.social · 22h

What a great set, especially the male bearded reedling with those legs. Still haven’t managed to get one posing like that.

monicapelger.bsky.social @monicapelger.bsky.social · 1d

I do love great crested grebes. 🪶

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monicapelger.bsky.social @monicapelger.bsky.social · 1d

Female bearded reedling just taking off in flight. 🪶

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monicapelger.bsky.social @monicapelger.bsky.social · 1d

The first and so far the last time I saw a #squirrel hanging upside down to get the goods. #mammals

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monicapelger.bsky.social @monicapelger.bsky.social · 1d

Hawfinch telling you to eat your greens. I actually don’t like veggies, but I do eat them. 🪶

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monicapelger.bsky.social @monicapelger.bsky.social · 1d

Great crested grebe with a very big something in his beak. I rather like today’s theme for BirdOfTheDay. 🪶

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monicapelger.bsky.social @monicapelger.bsky.social · 1d

Bluethroat on the look-out. 🪶

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monicapelger.bsky.social @monicapelger.bsky.social · 1d

A long-tailed tit with a little something in its beak. 🪶

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monicapelger.bsky.social @monicapelger.bsky.social · 1d

Dear @support.bsky.team Could you please give us an edit option?

monicapelger.bsky.social @monicapelger.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you. Yes, we’ve been very lucky the built their nest in just the right spot.

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toritori @toritorihkd.bsky.social · 2d

The forecast promised clear skies, but a blanket of dawn mist over the lake turned the morning into this scene.
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思いのほか気温が低かったせいで朝靄が出てしまったけどこれはこれでアリかもね😎
#nature
#photography
#wildlife
#Waterbirds
#水鳥
#birds
#野鳥

A flock of waterbirds taking off from a misty lake at sunrise, their silhouettes glowing against the warm, golden haze.
朝焼けに染まる湖で、朝もやの中から飛び立つ水鳥たちのシルエットが浮かび上がっている様子。

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