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Rob Crank Photography
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Very much an Amateur Hobbyist Photographer who loves Wildlife.

#EastCoastKin Arts Collective Member

User of Canon Gear

ONLY HERE FOR THE Wildlife, Fauna & Flora

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I'm covering #twosday and #festivedailyrobin #holidayrobin with this picture. It's wishful thinking if this Blue Tit thinks a Robin will be happy to share! Taken at Forest Farm NR 14/01/25. 🪶 #birdingwales #ukbirding #nature #wildlife
December 9, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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fraggenstein.bsky.social
Here's another photo of yesterday's Mr. Grumps looking much happier for today's #HolidayRobin - #FestiveDailyRobin ~ 🪶 🦉 #birdingWales #ukbirding #naturephotography #birdphotography #robin
A robin can be described to someone partially sighted by focusing on its sounds, feel, and a simplified visual outline of its shape and colours. It is a small bird with a distinctive orange-red chest, a soft chirping song, and a round, plump shape. You can touch its soft feathers to give a tactile sense of the bird and its lightness. It has a cheerful and varied song that is often described as a series of liquid, fluting notes, like a sweet, bubbling stream. It also makes sharp "tuk" or "tick" sounds, especially when it's alarmed or calling to other robins. You can hear the soft rustle of its wings as it flies and the light patter of its feet on the ground. A robin's feathers are very soft and light. You could compare the feeling to a fluffy piece of wool or a very soft, downy material. It has a plump, round body with a short tail. Imagine a soft, plump ball with a short, stubby tail attached. Its head is rounded and small. It's about the size of a small fist. The most striking feature is the bright orange-red on its chest, which feels warm and stands out against the other colours. You can imagine a bright, warm spot of colour on the front of its body. The rest of its back and head are a soft, dull greyish-blue or brown, which you could describe as feeling like a soft, warm stone or a wet pebble after a rain shower.
December 9, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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mstreefrog.bsky.social
A Steller’s Jay enjoying a peanut. 🥜
#BirdOfTheDay #SideViews
#TongueOutTuesday
#ColorADay #BlueTue
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With dark head and shoulders, and a Goth crest, a Steller’s Jay tosses and catches a peanut. It has bright blue wing feathers, tail feathers, and lower body. Perhaps a younger Jay with its pink gape.
December 9, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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freedomtodoubt.bsky.social
Great shots Rob!
Among many #SideViews of birds, I've chosen this Meadow Pipit in the Hawthorn in late April before the May flowers fully open as for me it's so evocative of a green & sunny spring day so needed in these dark wet days.
#BirdOfTheDay #EastCoastKin #birds #photography
December 9, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #SideViews, so here's a profile in courage: a pair of American Goldfinches out foraging among the thistles on a crisp winter morning — it was twenty below yesterday! Tough little corkers.

#birds #Birding #BirdWatching #Photography #EastCoastKin #NaturePhotographer
Two Goldfinches among the thistles.
December 9, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Snowy egret, Ford Channel, SF Bay.

#BirdOfTheDay
#SideViews
December 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Tongue
December 9, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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figureoutthesea.ca
#BirdOfTheDay: I'm going to go with #TurningAway

This resplendent Anna's Hummingbird dude was sitting on a nearby fence, but didn't even deign to look at me!

-- Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary, January 2025

#photography #birds
Closeup of a male Anna's Hummingbird head and upper chest. Its body is mostly facing me, but the head is turned camera left. Some of the gorget's feathers are shining pinkish
December 9, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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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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House finch in profile. 312 area code.

#birds #Sideview #Birdoftheday
December 9, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Here’s #SideViews of a Great Egret in breeding green eye color lores for today's #BirdOfTheDay theme . #eastcoastkin #birds #nature #photography
December 9, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #SideViews and the Alternative is #TurningAway birds not looking at you.
Here is a #Curlew and a #NorthernWheatear for you.
#Birds #Birding #Nature #Wildlife #Photography #EastCoastKin
Ein Brachvogel im Flug Ein Steinschmätzer dreht mir den Rücken zu
December 9, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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msriffle.bsky.social
Today's #BirdoftheDay theme is #SideViews. I think this image of a beautiful brown pelican fits. It came in for a landing on these old pilings as I stood on the beach not far away. #photography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #EastCoastKin #birds #birdsinflight #pelicans
December 9, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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atlanticbirding.bsky.social
🪶 Rob has chosen #Sideviews as today’s #BirdOfTheDay. Alternative #TurningAway
A chance to show one of the shots I got before the storm this morning of a bullfinch eating willow buds

#irishbirding #birds #birdsofbluesky #birdphotography #naturetherapy #wildlifetherapy #eastcoastkin #Bullfinch
A Male Bullfinch shot through the willow branches. The bird is side on with a tree trunk behind it, it is fully visible although an out of focus branch is slightly blocking its feet and tail. The rest of the picture is a tangle of branches with light in between.
December 9, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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julielfrost.bsky.social
A Tennessee warbler #turningaway earlier this fall for today’s #BirdOfTheDay alternate theme.

#Birds #Nature #WildlifePhotography #Photography #Warblers
#PhotographersUnited
A view of a Tennessee warbler from behind. It sits on a branch with its head turned slightly sideways.
December 9, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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lyndyphotos.bsky.social
The theme today is #SideViews for #BirdOfTheDay. In Miami starlings are beautiful but invasive pests. This starling stole a cavity nest built by red-bellied woodpeckers in a dead palm. This happens frequently and sometimes the starlings will kill woodpecker chicks in the nests. #EastCoastKin #birds
December 9, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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msriffle.bsky.social
So the alternate theme for today's #BirdoftheDay is #TurningAway. And that's just what this tern was doing, terning away. 😎 I love the challenge of photographing terns in flight. They are so fast. #photography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #EastCoastKin #birds #terns #birdsinflight #HighKey
December 9, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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mfoley25.bsky.social
Today's #BirdOfTheDay alternative theme is #TurningAway as set by Rob @robcrank68.bsky.social
Here is one of our resident California quails giving me the cold shoulder 😉
#EastCoastkin
#WestCoastKin
#Oregon #PNW
#Birds #Quails
#Nature #Photography
a male California quail is perched on a branch with deep red leaves. the bird has intricate feather patterns, featuring a black face with a white border and a gray-brown body with prominent white streaks on its flanks and a black, forward-curving topknot plume made of six feathers. the background is a blurry green.
December 9, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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thebirderbob.bsky.social
The Varied Thrush is a beautiful west coast bird. This one somehow ended up near Haliburton, Ontario in the winter of 2020. #birds #birding #BirdOfTheDay #vagrant
A varied thrush in profile view, looking to the left, standing in snow. It is a gorgeous combination of orange with a black band across its chest and black eye stripe.
December 9, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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chuck4242.bsky.social
Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme of #SideViews. Here's a side profile of the Barred Owl I was chasing yesterday.

#Birds #Birding #Wildlife #Nature #Photography #Animals #PhotographersUnited #Owl #EastCoastKin
A side profile of a Barred Owl as it perches on a tree limb.
December 9, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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paulmwall.bsky.social
I posted this several months ago but today’s #birdoftheday alt is Birds Not Looking At You so I had to post it again I had no choice whatsoever #birds
Rear view of a great egret standing tall. Every feather is solid white. You cannot see any individual features of the bird, only the overall bright white elongated teardrop shape standing in contrast with the dark water in the background.
December 9, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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#BirdOfTheDay #SideView
December 9, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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lmcurry.bsky.social
An Osprey in flight…

#bird #birdphoto #photography #blueskybirds #birdsofbluesky #birding #birdofprey #wildlife #nature #birdoftheday #canonphotography #osprey
December 9, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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davemeredith.bsky.social
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #SideViews. A female Evening Grosbeak showing why they're members of the Grosbeak family.

#EastCoastKin #birds #birdphotography #nature #wildlife #photography
December 9, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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boesephotography.bsky.social
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #SideViews and the Alternative is #TurningAway birds not looking at you. So as usual I have a #RedTailedHawk that fits this bill 🤪
#UrbanNature #Toronto
#EastCoastKin
December 9, 2025 at 12:50 PM