Helen Bennett 🌿
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Helen Bennett 🌿
@helenbennett.bsky.social
Nature lover & trying, in my own small way, to conserve & protect it! Passionate about habitat creation & gardening for ALL wildlife.
Oh yes, I'm a nature photographer & I paint too! : ))

All images shared are my own © From South East, England, UK
Here's a Dipper painted in watercolour for today's #ArtAdventCalendar and also #BirdOfTheDay theme #OnTheRocks ! I've only ever seen a Dipper once, they really are wonderful birds 🪶 🤎

Painting inspired by one of the @rspb.bsky.social website dipper images!

#Birds #Art #UKWildlife #EastCoastKin
December 3, 2025 at 3:44 PM
To celebrate the start of #ArtAdventCalendar here's my watercolour of the pesky Wood Pigeon who keeps eating all the bird food! That guilty expression and full cheeks says it all! 🪶☺️

Happy December everyone 🕊️👋

#Birds #Art #BirdArt #Painting #EastCoastKin
December 1, 2025 at 10:50 AM
For #BlueSkyArtShow on the theme of #Warmth A beautiful Red Admiral butterfly feeding on the Rudbeckia flowers in our garden on a warm sunny early autumn day! 📷 💛 🦋

Happy Saturday everyone 🕊️👋

#Photography #Nature #Invert #Butterflies #EastCoastKin
November 29, 2025 at 9:58 AM
A silent figure in the land.

'His eyes are closed, a peaceful stare,
Lost in the sunlit, open air.
He looks beyond the earthly plight,
To grasp a guiding, inner light'.

"Faith" sculpture by South African artist Anton Smit 📷

#Scape #Photography #Landscape #Monochrome #ClassicMono #EastCoastKin
November 28, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Good afternoon. Here's a little mushroom #Scape to wish everyone a happy Friday and a wonderful weekend ahead. 👋

📷 🍄 Amanita rubescens

#FungiFriends #Photography #ForestFriday #EastCoastKin
November 28, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Something blue for #BlueSkyMonday A gorgeous Blue-grey Tanager to hopefully raise a smile. 💙

Happy new week everyone! 👋 📷 🪶

#Birds #Photography #EastCoastKin
November 24, 2025 at 1:39 PM
For #BlueSkyArtShow on the theme #Small here's a close up of the tiny fruiting body of a Chlorociboria fungi.... a lovely little Elfcup! 🧝‍♀️💙

Happy Saturday everyone!

#FungiFriends #Photography #Macro #EastCoastKin
November 22, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Wishing everyone a great Friday and a wonderful weekend ahead. 📷 🌿 💙

#Scape #Photography #EastCoastKin
November 21, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Here's a sweet Rufous-collared sparrow for #BirdOfTheDay #Sparrows that I saw rummaging in the undergrowth collecting nesting materials on holiday a few years ago. 🪶 📷 🧡

Wishing everyone a great day ahead 👋🕊️

#Photography #Birds #Nature #EastCoastKin
November 19, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Good evening.👋 Noticed these beautiful Camelia flowers leaning over a wall as I walked by earlier today... a lovely treat on a crisp cold morning! 🤍🕊️

#BloomScrolling #Photography #Gardening #EastCoastKin
November 18, 2025 at 4:13 PM
'Early summer memories' A gorgeous Marbled White butterfly for #MacroMonday I miss seeing these beauties fluttering around the downs. 📷 🦋

Happy Monday everyone, hope you all have a great week ahead 🕊️👋

#Photography #Invert #Nature #UKWildlife #Butterflies #EastCoastKin #TheSmallThings
November 10, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Here's Mr Crow for #BirdOfTheDay on the theme #takeoffs

He looks like he is falling off his perch rather than taking off! ☺️

Good evening from me, see you tomorrow 👋 📷 🪶

#Photography #Birds #UKWildlife #EastCoastKin
November 8, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Joining #BlueSkyArtShow on today's theme #Evening with my super moon! 🌝

For years I've tried to capture a sharp moon and detailed foliage in a single, balanced exposure but it's always a challenge; this was the best I could do!

Happy Saturday! 📷 🕊️

#photography #moon #landscape #EastCoastKin
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
'Autumn stroll' for today's #Scape

Sorry I haven't been able to post much this week....hope you are all keeping well 👋 📷 🍁 Happy Friday everyone! 🕊️

#Photography #Landscape #Autumn #EastCoastKin
November 7, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Good morning. Just loved the way this Robin was standing to attention.... looked like he was stationed on that post to keep watch! 📷 🪶 🌿

Wishing everyone a great new week ahead 🍁

#Birds #FestiveDailyRobin #Photography #UKWildlife #EastCoastKin
November 3, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Happy Halloween to you too! 👻
October 31, 2025 at 2:23 PM
One for #BirdOfTheDay theme of #hiding The Whitethroat birds always seem to love hanging around in thickets of brambles and hawthorn! I take so many pictures and occasionally a small part of the bird is in focus! 😁 🪶

Happy Friday everyone 🕊️

#Birds #Photography #UKWildlife #UKBirding #EastCoastKin
October 31, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Good evening everyone. I haven't shared any of my artwork for a while so here's an experimental piece of a Great White Heron trying to be spooky in the darkness for #Spooktober ! 👻
Hope you like it! ☺️ 🪶 🤍

#Birds #BirdArt #Art #EastCoastKin
October 29, 2025 at 4:53 PM
One for today's #BirdOfTheDay 'Pairs Of The Same Bird' I rarely can photograph two birds together where they are both in focus but this one isn't too bad! ☺️ 🪶 📷

Happy Tuesday everyone 🌿 🕊️👋

#birds #photography #Nature #UKWildlife #EastCoastKin #TwosDay
October 28, 2025 at 8:40 AM
It might be Common but this Inkcap seemed perfect to share for #WildFungiHour 🍄 It really was shouting 'look at me' on the dark woodland floor! 😊 📷 🌿

Good evening everyone ✨👋

#FungiFriends #Photography #WildFlowerHour #Nature #Fungi
October 26, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Wonderful deciduous conifer seen today at a small arboretum near by. I think it is a Bald cypress (Taxodium distichum) that looked stunning in its autumn colour! 📷 🧡 🌿

Wishing everyone a great weekend. 🕊️

#Photography #ForestFriday #Scape #EastCoastKin #Trees #Nature
October 24, 2025 at 3:17 PM
A tiny young Oakbug Milkcap fungi caught my eye in the woodland as the sun highlighted fresh latex exuding from it! 📷 🌿 🍄

Happy Monday everyone 🕊️

#FungiFriends #MacroMonday #Photography #Fungi #EastCoastKin #MushroomMonday #Nature #ShroomScrolling
October 20, 2025 at 7:49 AM
'Hello..... am I #colourful enough for #BirdOfTheDay ?'

A gorgeous Flame-coloured Tanager to brighten up our timelines today! 🧡 📷 🪶

Wishing everyone a great new week ahead 🕊️

#Photography #Stunday #Nature #Birds #EastCoastKin
October 19, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Not sure if my image qualifies for the #BlueSkyArtShow theme of #Vertical today but this gorgeous Long-eared Owl does have some #black feathers for #BirdOfTheDay !🦉 📷 🌿

Hope everyone has a good weekend 🕊️👋

#Photography #Birds #UKWildlife #Nature #Owls #EastCoastKin
October 18, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Many thanks Alan. They can be quick. I was so excited when I saw a leveret once in Norfolk; it was absolutely adorable playing in a nearby field albeit a distance away. It was such a ball of energy bouncing and darting about unpredictably that every single photo ended up out of focus!! 🤦‍♀️😆
October 15, 2025 at 3:51 PM