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Dee Dee May 🌲 @thewateriswide.net · Nov 23

Every night before I fall asleep I think about the Grand Canyon…

The Colorado River at the bottom of the Grand Canyon

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Dee Dee May 🌲 @thewateriswide.net · 3d

Oooh wow - you played the long game!

Dee Dee May 🌲 @thewateriswide.net · 3d

Wow at 400mm is amazing! My longest lens is 70-350 and I hired a 200-600. That photo was taken at 600. Plus my camera is APS-C so there’s the crop factor too. I need to get closer!!

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Dee Dee May 🌲 @thewateriswide.net · 4d

These are absolutely brilliant! Do you mind me asking what your setup is? I’ve become obsessed with trying to get a good kingfisher photo 😂 I even hired a longer lens. But I still didn’t manage to get detail like you’ve got! I need to get closer, or even longer lens! This is my best effort so far…

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Dee Dee May 🌲 @thewateriswide.net · 6d

This photograph is absolutely brilliant! I think the photographer should enter it into next year’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition 🐀 ⚽️

📷 Charlotte Wilson/Offside/Getty Images www.theguardian.com/football/202...

A rat leaps on to the pitch during the World Cup qualifier between Wales and Belgium. Photograph: Charlotte Wilson/Offside/Getty Images

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Dee Dee May 🌲 @thewateriswide.net · 6d

Love the little egret, their wings make such a beautiful shape 🪽 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Pictured: Winning entries for Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2025

South African photographer Wim van den Heever takes the main prize for his shot

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Dee Dee May 🌲 @thewateriswide.net · 6d

Yeah I regularly go to check the sewer outfall and usually one flies out of there. It’s so bitter-sweet to see kingfishers there. Often little egrets and herons too. And recently a grey wagtail. It became a noisy hangout in the summer for a while and they disappeared. But they’re back now.

Dee Dee May 🌲 @thewateriswide.net · 6d

Yes it was in the Olympic Park - in Henniker’s Ditch/Channelsea River - where the sewer outflow is 😞 I often see them there.

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Dee Dee May 🌲 @thewateriswide.net · 7d

Absolutely beautiful!!!! I got some more photos the other day. Couldn’t get close so had to crop in so much I lost all the detail 🙈 need a longer lens.

Kingfisher perched in a tree with a seagull flying past

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Nik Mortimer @nikmortimer.bsky.social · 8d

I thought it'd be fun to document my thoughts on the London Loop as I'm walking it, something I wish I'd done when I walked the Capital Ring last year. It's been a while since I flexed my creative muscles, really enjoyed writing this. nikmortimer.substack.com/p/london-loo...

London Loop Diaries #2

Section 1: Erith to Old Bexley (walked 4th October 2025)

nikmortimer.substack.com

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Nik Mortimer @nikmortimer.bsky.social · 18d

Finally kicked off the @ldnloop-capring.bsky.social this morning, a very windy 9 mile walk from Erith to Bexley with @gojauntly.bsky.social as my trusty guide. Hard to believe some of this scenery is still technically in London, gorgeous stuff. Looking forward to getting stuck in now.

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Dee Dee May 🌲 @thewateriswide.net · 14d

With a dollar in my hand 🎵

Dee Dee May 🌲 @thewateriswide.net · 15d

Where would you recommend for autumn and winter bird watching in Scotland? 🦅

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Dee Dee May 🌲 @thewateriswide.net · 22d

Do you miss London?

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Dee Dee May 🌲 @thewateriswide.net · 24d

That photo was meant to be of one flying out but I missed it entirely 🤦‍♀️

Dee Dee May 🌲 @thewateriswide.net · 24d

Saw a seal swimming in the Thames on the way to @rspb.bsky.social Rainham Marshes 🦭

They have a scope set up in the visitor centre and you can see seals basking on the opposite shore. There was a pup splashing about at the water’s edge 🌊

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Dee Dee May 🌲 @thewateriswide.net · 25d

Rare bird spotted on the way to @rspb.bsky.social Rainham Marshes 🐦

A woman (me) with a camera round her neck, by a Rainham Marshes sign, pretending to be a bird.

Dee Dee May 🌲 @thewateriswide.net · 25d

So cute and fluffy! Do they usually stay local or move to new territory once their parents chase them off?

Dee Dee May 🌲 @thewateriswide.net · 26d

Oooh so exciting!!! Feels like you’ve seen an otherworldly being! 🧚‍♀️

Dee Dee May 🌲 @thewateriswide.net · 26d

This is the outfall I mean. I often see them fly in and out of there or perched nearby. Well perched until I try and take a photo then they fly 😂

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Dee Dee May 🌲 @thewateriswide.net · 26d

It was by the outfall under Spitalfields carpark. I’ve seen them fishing there a few times. Here are some even worse photos I took at the same spot last week 🤪 maps.app.goo.gl/4g8q1t8UeJZa...

Out of focus kingfisher perched on a branch

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East London Kingfishers @londonkingfishers.bsky.social · 27d

A young kingfisher

When walking along the River Lea at Hackney Marshes, you can encounter these fledglings who are very confiding.

#LondonBirds #nature #wildlife #kingfisher #kingfishers #ukbirds #birds

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Dee Dee May 🌲 @thewateriswide.net · 27d

Kingfisher last night by the River Lea. Still not managed to get a decent photo of one! @londonkingfishers.bsky.social

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Dee Dee May 🌲 @thewateriswide.net · Sep 14

That’s brilliant!!!

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The Handwritten Letter Appreciation Society @letterappsoc.bsky.social · Sep 13

Happy #PostboxSaturday, everyone! This is the postbox that started the hashtag, found on Peveril Downs, the place where the idea for The Handwritten Letter Appreciation Society was born. #Swanage ☺️📮☁️🎉

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Dee Dee May 🌲 @thewateriswide.net · Sep 11

This looks amazing!!! Thank you 🐟