Peter Orr
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Peter Orr
@orrpix.bsky.social
UK-based photographer, Getty Images Artist.
Shooting through troubled times, where truth has taken a backward step and so many people don’t seem to mind.
A Red Kite on the Marlborough Downs in Wiltshire, UK.
🪶#bird #redkite #kite #marlboroughdowns #wiltshire #uk
November 8, 2025 at 6:59 PM
The beech trees offering all shades from green to brown in Savernake Forest, Wiltshire.
#autumn #savernakeforest #wiltshire
November 7, 2025 at 2:23 PM
A sea trout jumping a waterfall on the upper Wear in County Durham, UK.
🐟 #fish #seatrout #riverwear #countydurham #fishjumping #weardale #northpennines #jump #waterfall
October 10, 2025 at 3:22 PM
African Fish Eagle
🪶 #bird #africanfisheagle #flyingbird
September 25, 2025 at 8:38 AM
A Sacred Ibis preparing to land.
🪶 #bird #sacredibis #ibis #flyingbird
September 6, 2025 at 6:13 AM
@cat1988.bsky.social I’ve got plenty more owl photos if you need them
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August 15, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Tawny owl in woodland
🪶 #bird #tawnyowl #raptor #uk
August 14, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Sclater’s Crowned Pigeon
🪶 #bird #sclaterscrow edpigeon
August 10, 2025 at 11:56 AM
This brown hare was as surprised as I was when I stumbled across it while trying to photograph swallows. We stared at each other just long enough for me to change settings and record the encounter.
Immediately after, its ears pricked up and it shot into the undergrowth.
#hare #brownhare #wiltshire
August 6, 2025 at 9:01 AM
A male common darter dragonfly.
#dragonfly #uk
July 30, 2025 at 8:52 PM
A kestrel flying low through woodland.
🪶 #bird #kestrel #woodland
July 29, 2025 at 10:18 PM
An Egyptian Vulture soaring.
🪶 #bird #egyptianvulture
July 28, 2025 at 10:09 PM
A Great Grey Owl approaching.
🪶 #bird #greatgreyowl #owl #raptor
July 26, 2025 at 11:19 AM
A young barn owl about to take off.
🪶 #bird #barnowl #takeoff
July 25, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Starling murmuration at Ham Wall, Somerset.
🪶 #bird #starling #murmuration #hamwall #somerset #RSPB
July 20, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Short-eared owls in a scrap in the Cotswolds last February.
🪶 #bird #shortearedowl #thecotswolds #terratorialdispute #raptor #owl
July 20, 2025 at 4:52 AM
🌳 Dame Judi Dench is calling for the return of ancient woodlands. Will you sign the petition to help restore the Ghost Woods and protect our green spaces for future generations? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...
Bring back the ancient woodlands smothered beneath your timber plantations
Ancient woodlands are vanishing – and with them, some of our most loved and endangered wildlife. Forestry England manages over 100,000 acres of land that used to be ancient woodland - that’s bigger th...
you.38degrees.org.uk
July 16, 2025 at 8:08 PM
A barn swallow catching a fly.
🪶 #bird #barnswallow #flyingbirds
July 11, 2025 at 9:19 PM
A swift with a food pouch rammed full with hundreds of flies for its brood as it approaches its nest.
It is Swift Awareness Week in UK, where their numbers are dropping due to suitable nest sites being blocked up in houses to improve insulation.
🪶 #bird #swift #uk
July 2, 2025 at 7:17 PM
A red kite managing to deal with a mobbing crow that was trying to steal the carrion in the kite’s talons.
🪶 #bird #redkite #crow #mobbing
June 30, 2025 at 7:43 PM
A tawny owl flying in woodland.
🪶 #tawnyowl #owl #raptor
June 18, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Sunset over the poppy fields in Wiltshire, England, before the strawberry moon rose above the opposite horizon.
#sunset #poppyfield #wiltshire #uk
June 12, 2025 at 5:05 AM
A juvenile Great Grey Owl portrait.
🪶 #bird #greatgreyowl #owl #raptor
June 10, 2025 at 5:56 AM
A male Capercaillie trotting through Boreal Forest in Finland.
🪶 #bird #capercaillie #taiga #borealforest #finland
June 2, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Black grouse lekking on a frozen lake in Finland.
🪶 #bird #blackgrouse #lek #finland
June 2, 2025 at 12:07 PM