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Steve

@steveredwolf.bsky.social

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Lifetime naturalist finds my inspiration and solace in Nature, My love of birds has been with me from my earliest years -Retired from teaching I now enjoy my garden and growing all our fresh food on my allotment held since 1983!

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@s4r4h-l @s4r4h-l.bsky.social · 6d

#InsectThursday with a beautiful #RedAdmiral soaking up some warmth on a yellow flower at lunchtime yesterday. Delightful to see, as we are now approaching the end of the season and one day soon I'll see my last of the year. #Butterflies @savebutterflies.bsky.social #Lancashire #vitaminN

Beautiful red admiral hiding in plain sight yesterday lunch time

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@s4r4h-l @s4r4h-l.bsky.social · 5d

#FlutterbyFriday with those seen this last week in #Lancashire & #NorthYorkshire red admiral, small copper, comma, and speckled wood. @savebutterflies.bsky.social #joy

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@s4r4h-l @s4r4h-l.bsky.social · 5d

#FungiFriday Aminata version! Going over now but I couldn't resist a look at the fly agaric, one had had all its spots washed off in the rain! Plus very strongly coloured blusher, one looking like a chocolate biscuit! #mushrooms #fungi #Lancashire

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@s4r4h-l @s4r4h-l.bsky.social · 4d

Phwoar! 🍄Even with nibbles in I love fly agarics, so bright and beautiful, reminding me of childhood fairytale stories which always featured them! Poisonous but I only take photos of them anyway and leave them to nature. #fungi #mushrooms #vitaminN

A fly agaric aminata that's been nibbled by snails or slugs!

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@s4r4h-l @s4r4h-l.bsky.social · 2d

#MushroomMonday Fantastic colour on these turkey tail rosettes, I've not seen blueish grey on them before frost before! Very attractive. #mushrooms #fungi #Lancashire

Fabulous turkey tails in shades of sage, grey/blue, velvety chocolate brown, very pretty!

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@s4r4h-l @s4r4h-l.bsky.social · 1d

#ThickTrunkTuesday with a mighty beech tree in Conway Drive Woods last Saturday. #Preston #trees #vitaminN #Lancashire

A huge beech tree in a local woodland, just a little golden hue coming through in the foliage

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@s4r4h-l @s4r4h-l.bsky.social · 18h

#JoinMeOnMyWalk from last Sunday at #RHSBridgewater, looking beautiful and mysterious with it's misty start. Fabulous #flowers, fantastic #fungi, incredible #autumncolours & a very handsome pheasant! @photohour.bsky.social #Manchester #vitaminN

Fly agaric mushrooms, dahlias, golden ginko leaves, rich red oak leaves, view of autumn leaves in the mist, toad flowers and even a pheasant

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@s4r4h-l @s4r4h-l.bsky.social · 6h

Wishing you a blooming lovely #RoseWednesday from #RHSBridgewater last weekend. What a beauty! #bloomscrolling #DailyFlowers

Gorgeous rose at RHS Bridgewater Gardens

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@s4r4h-l @s4r4h-l.bsky.social · 6h

#WildWebsWednesday with some more finds at #RHSBridgewater a huge blusher, common puffballs, stinking dapperling, LOTS of fly agaric, russala and a hares foot inkcap. #fungi #mushrooms

Top row; blusher aminata, common puffball, stinking dapperling
Lots of fly agaric
Purple russala
Bottom right hares foot inkcap

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@s4r4h-l @s4r4h-l.bsky.social · 6h

Wishing you a blooming lovely #RoseWednesday from #RHSBridgewater last weekend. What a beauty! #bloomscrolling #DailyFlowers

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Lorraine 🦆🦋🐝🦔🦊🌿 @lotaylor23.bsky.social · 6h

Good morning 🌞
Alan's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BirdInABush with #reflection as an alternative. I have gone with this Sedge Warbler who was doing his best not to be seen! #Birds #BirdPhotography

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JJ @javajanegallery.co.uk · 7h

#waderwednesday #heronsday #birds #birdphotography

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mayfieldbirder.bsky.social @mayfieldbirder.bsky.social · 7h

From Sunday’s @sussexornitholo.bsky.social walk at #CissburyRing : a posing female Kestrel, Falco tinnunculus, a species found in 50% of Sussex tetrads, and a non-posing Yellowhammer, Emberiza citrinella, found in 33% (Sussex Bird Report 2023).
#sussexbirding
#ukbirding

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@s4r4h-l @s4r4h-l.bsky.social · 6h

#WildWebsWednesday A #throwback to July and August, I love all #butterflies but my favourite has always been the peacock, and this summer I was blessed with lots of visits to my garden buddleia by them, with 3 present at one time. ♥️ #Lancashire @savebutterflies.bsky.social #joy

Stunning peacock butterflies in MY garden this summer

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Steve @steveredwolf.bsky.social · 6h

Thanks Rob much appreciated

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Rob Crank Photography @robcrank68.bsky.social · 1d

Nice capture Steve

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Steve @steveredwolf.bsky.social · 6h

Happy grey Wednesday
Miserable high cloud day here -neither use nor ornament - the soil is soo dry still was like sand digging the allotment yesterday
So a sunny robin to cheer you all up
Im visiting Mum Later
Have a great day wherever you are
Take care🤗
#Birds #NatureUK #Photography #wildlife

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Steve @steveredwolf.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Tuesday
Another dry but dreary grey day here neither use nor ornament actually
Here is a grey heron but hes magnificent in the sunshine!
Have a good day wherever you are
Take care 🤗
#Birds #NatureUK #Photography #Wildlife

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Sonja @hhsonja.bsky.social · 3d

Bearded tits are definitely on my "want to see someday" list. So adorable. In the meantime, here's a blue tit for today's #BirdOfTheDay . #birds

A blue tit clinging to the end of an almost perpendicular standing twig.

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Sonja @hhsonja.bsky.social · 4d

Doesn’t get much fuller than with this ring-billed gull fighting to get down an almost too big fish. She did manage in the end, but it took a while and several attempts. #BirdOfTheDay #toronto ##Beakful #birds

A ring-billed gull stamding on a beach, a dead fish in its beak

A ring-billed gull standing on a beach, a dead fish in its beak. It’s trying to swallow the fish, which is about double the length as the bird’s head

A ring-billed gull stamding on a beach, a dead fish in its beak. The fish seems to be further out of its beak again than in the last picture

A ring-billed gull stamding on a beach, a dead fish in its beak. The beak is wide open, the fish half hanging out, as if the bird can’t quite manage to swallow it

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Sonja @hhsonja.bsky.social · 6d

for today's #spotted theme I've found both meanings in one picture: this Eurasian Siskin seemed as surprised as I was when she landed almost directly next to me. #BirdOfTheDay

a female siskin, with a blotchy chest, and yellow markings all over the rest of its body, sitting on a mossy treebranch, and looking directly at the photographer

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Steve @steveredwolf.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you

Steve @steveredwolf.bsky.social · 2d

Hello hello hes back again! GSW breakfasting yesterday on fat balls
Happy Monday everyone - after glorious weekend weather we have drizzle dank dark dampness today
What a difference a day makes! Have a good one
Take care 🤗
#Birds #NatureUK #Photography #Wildlife

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Jenny @jenneke1961.bsky.social · 3d

A pensive Blue Tit for Rob's 'Family Paridae of Birds' which constitute 'Tits, Chickadees, Titmice.' for #BirdOfTheDay

Blue Tit , sitting on a branch in the shadows, catching a bit of sunlight on its yellow chest.

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Fraggs Photography 📸🦊🦉🦋🦔 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @fraggenstein.bsky.social · 3d

Morning All 👋 For those that follow the page you may remember the little Dunnock fledgling I photographed in the garden a few months back ~ the little one has stayed and see it everyday now in the garden 😍🦉 #birdingwales #ukbirding #ukwildlife #naturephotography #birdwatching #naturetherapy

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