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Rob Crank Photography
@robcrank68.bsky.social
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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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For Robs #BirdOfTheDay theme #SideViews or the alternative #TurningAway birds not looking at you. This Cooper's Hawk seems to be very focused on something - glad it wasn't me! #Birdphotography #birds
December 9, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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catseyelens.bsky.social
A tiny hummingbird rests on a rescue towel after flying into the house.

#BirdOfTheDay #SideView #Hummingbird #Photography, #EastCoastKin
A colour photograph side view, close-up of a small, hummingbird resting on a white and blue tea towel after being rescued from within the house. Shortly after capturing the picture, it flew off into the trees.
December 9, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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fraggenstein.bsky.social
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #SideViews and the Alternative is #TurningAway birds not looking at you set by @robcrank68.bsky.social ~ A Female Kingfisher - photo taken @ Forest Farm NR, Cardiff, South Wales 🪶 🦉 #birdingWales #ukbirding #ukwildlife #birdphotography #photography #birds #kingfisher
Imagine a tiny, fast jewel that flashes bright blue and fiery orange/copper, darting low over water, with a big head, short body, and a long, sharp beak for catching fish. A kingfisher is known for its incredible speed, sitting still like a statue, then diving like a missile into water, protected by a clear third eyelid, making a peep-peep-peep sound as it zips by.
December 9, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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peteddd.bsky.social
A busy Downy.
#Downy #DownyWoodpecker #Woodpecker #BirdOfTheDay #TurningAway #nature #wildlife #photography 🪶
A male Downy Woodpecker busily “works” on a White Oak tree trunk. He’s a little obscured by a small out of focus branch in the foreground, and turned away from us, but still cuts a handsome figure.
December 9, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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fizbin.bsky.social
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme set by @robcrank68.bsky.social is #SideViews

I wanted to feature this Downy Woodpecker I saw last week, but couldn't decide which picture of hers to use, so here's two.

#birds #Photography
A close-up photograph of a Downy Woodpecker clinging to the rough bark of a tree trunk. The bird is black and white, with a checkerboard pattern on its wings and a white stripe down its back. It is facing slightly up and to the left against a blurred, bright background suggesting the last of fall leaves on other trees. Palmyra Cove Nature Park, Palmyra NJ, USA ƒ/7.1; 1/400 s; 183 mm; ISO 1000 A close-up photograph of a Downy Woodpecker clinging to the rough bark of a tree trunk. The bird is black and white, with a checkerboard pattern on its wings and a white stripe down its back. It is facing slightly up and to the left against a blurred background of blue and brown suggesting most of the other trees have shed their leaves. Palmyra Cove Nature Park, Palmyra NJ, USA ƒ/7.1; 1/400 s; 183 mm; ISO 640
December 9, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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fozziefotos.bsky.social
#BirdoftheDay #sideviews #birds #turningaway @robcrank68.bsky.social #photography #birdphotography #photo #wildlife #nature #EastCoastKin

A very cute young swallow both side-on and looking away.
a young swallow sat on the top of a grainy, knotted wooden fence. you can just about spy its red chin as it turns its head away
December 9, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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streetbiologist.bsky.social
‪American Robin.
#HolidayRobin #birds #birdphotography #wildlife #nature #photography #EastCoastKin #AlbertaBirds #CanadaBirds #photographersofBlueSky #Nikon
December 9, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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photographyguy28.bsky.social
#Birds🪶🦉
#NaturePhotography
#PhotographersOfBlueSky
#NatureLover
#WildlifePhotography
Good Morning and Happy Tuesday
BlueSky Folks Here is a close up picture of a #HolidayRobin that I saw last week while on a Hike
Captured on a canon EOS R50
The picture shows a small bird perched on a branch. The bird has a distinctive appearance with: - An orange-red breast and face - Greyish-brown upperparts (back, wings, and head) - A black beak and dark eye - White underparts below the orange breast - Slim pinkish legs This is a European Robin (Erithacus rubecula), a common and well-loved garden bird in Europe, instantly recognizable by its bright orange-red breast. The background is softly blurred with natural green and brown tones, suggesting the photo was taken outdoors in a woodland or garden setting. The bird appears alert and is looking slightly to the left.
December 9, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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blueberrysyrup.bsky.social
#HolidayRobin #birds #EastCoastKin #Robin #photography #EastCoastKin

A robin
Robin on wooden fence facing to our left with golden autumn leaves behind
December 9, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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atlanticbirding.bsky.social
🪶 Time for today’s #HolidayRobin
I’ve got this one I met on the edge of the forest yesterday

#irishbirding #birds #robin #birdsofbluesky #birdphotography #naturetherapy #BirdOfTheDay #naturephotography #FestiveDailyRobin #wildlife
A European Robin perched on a broken stem of bramble. The bird is close up in side profile looking to the left. The background is out of focus vegetation
December 9, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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tomfinnerty.bsky.social
#SideViews is the #BirdOfTheDay theme for today.

This was an unexpected visitor to our garden a while back. Assumed some kind of domestic pigeon? Was gone before I could find out.

#EastCoastKin
#photography #photographie #photographers #Birds #Wildlife #Ireland
December 9, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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knotweed-ireland.bsky.social
Bird of the day - (Side Views) - Blinkin' Magpie... Galway, Ireland. #BirdOfTheDay #Birds #SideViews #Magpie #Wildlife #Ireland #Nature #EastCoastKin #Photography #BirdingIreland #Birding #NaturePhotography #Birdwatching #BirdPhotography #PhotographyIsArt
Magpie standing in the sun.
December 9, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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aintright.bsky.social
#HolidayRobin #birds #photography #EastCoastKin
December 9, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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thegardenjungle.bsky.social
#SideViews is the #BirdOfTheDay theme for today, so we have a Black Winged Stilt, White Throated Kingfisher, Wryneck and a Nightingale #birds #thegardenjungle #wildlifephotography #birdwatching #shropshire #UKwildlife #birdphotography #canon #photography
Black Winged Stilt (Croatia) White Throated Kingfisher (Sri Lanka) Wryneck (Croatia) Nightingale (Croatia)
December 9, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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Today's alternative #BirdOfTheDay theme is #TurningAway. A male Common Kingfisher ignoring the photographer in the hide (blind).

A #Kodachrome from the early 1990s.

#EastCoastKin #birds #birdphotography #nature #wildlife #naturephotography
December 9, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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see3trees.bsky.social
Here’s #SideViews of a Lineated Woodpecker for today's #BirdOfTheDay theme . #eastcoastkin
Similar to Pilated Woodpecker, but has dark brown face and body with a white stripe on neck and part of the back wing. Its tufted crown is bright red. Oaxaca , Mexico.
December 9, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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aintright.bsky.social
Walter the Wren #BirdOfTheDay #SideViews #ukbirds #birds
December 9, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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rovingrollo.bsky.social
Morning All !

Day 9 of #MyPhotoAdvent2025, a photo a day of my favourite captures of 2025... with an explanation in Alt Text of my reason for choosing it.

Plus #BirdOfTheDay, the theme is #SideViews the Alternative is #TurningAway. A 'twofer' I feel 😆

#Birds #Seabirds #Photography #EastCoastKin
I called this 'The Watchers'. Four puffins on the Isle of Lunga, Mull, Scotland. They are standing on the edge of a cliff above the camera. The two in the middle have their bodies facing the camera but, their heads turned to the right. the out side pair are side on to the camera, the left hand one is looking to the right, the one on the right is looking back. I chose this because a) It's Puffins b)the way the light rims the puffins and highlights the sea thrift that grows from the rocks and c) The way the four birds stand out against the bright blue sky... and it's Puffins !
December 9, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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rina2012.bsky.social
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #SideViews and the alternative is #TurningAway birds not looking at you. 🪶

Always enjoy #thelittlethings 🫶

#birds #birding #SensoryArt #monochromatic #ClassicMono #photography #scape #PhotographersUnited #nature #outdoors #ArtAdventCalendar #photohour #EastCoastKin
A blackbird can be seen in profile on the right-hand side of the picture. The background is grey.
December 9, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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denterrick.bsky.social
For Rob&Alan's #BirdOfTheDay #TurningAway

#Nature #Photography #NaturePhotography #EastCoastKin #Birds #Swan
A male mute swan giving a little wing display and turning away from the camera. He decided I wasn't a source of food after all.
December 9, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Egyptian goose, known to be the greatest poseur of our littleThames-side park.
A brown, beige, with a little bit of black and white, Egyptian goose perched on a river wall. In the background, a grey bridge with its arches edged in pink. (Lambeth Bridge over the River Thames.)
December 9, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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jancasavant.bsky.social
For today's bird not looking at you, here's a #Red-tailedHawk facing away from me. Loved the way the tree branches were framing the bird! (Concord, MA, 12/7/25) 😍🪶

#birds #hawks #raptors #AnimalArtTuesday #BirdOfTheDay #TurningAway #EastCoastKin #BirdPhotography #OM-1 @robcrank68.bsky.social
A dark brown and white Red-tailed Hawk with orange/red tail feathers perched high up in a tree with winding branches and clumps of buds and seeds. Seen on a cloudy day with gray skies at Great Meadows NWR in Concord, Massachusetts.
December 9, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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lotaylor23.bsky.social
Rob has chosen #SideViews for today's #BirdOfTheDay theme. I have gone with an Egyptian Goose taken in the Broads NP.
December 9, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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neildbarker.bsky.social
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme from @robcrank68.bsky.social is #SideViews and the Alternative is #TurningAway birds not looking at you. I am sharing this #GreenHeron I saw this past Summer turning away from me. #birds #herons #Photography #EastCoastKin
December 9, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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What the grey days of winter need most is a shocking burst of pinkness. And what's pinker than a pink flamingo? For the #sideviews theme of today's #BirdoftheDay by @robcrank68.bsky.social
December 9, 2025 at 11:16 AM