Lizzie Wallis DPAGB, EFIAP, BPE3*
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lizziewallis.bsky.social
Lizzie Wallis DPAGB, EFIAP, BPE3*
@lizziewallis.bsky.social
600 followers 36 following 1.2K posts
UK based, love photographing wildlife, landscape, macro and people. I try to get my images 'right' in camera, with little post processing.
I'm drawn to either fast action or slow shutter speeds.
Copyright on all images I post (except reposts).
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#HolidayRobin
Waiting for an otter to show, this Robin was displaying nearby.
It's one of my first "proper" images and demonstrated to my other "superb wildlife 'tographer" half, that I had finally learnt that the background is as important as the subject.🤣
#ukbirds
#birds
#EastCoastKin
A lichen covered branch runs horizontally across the lower part of the image. A small brown bird sits facing right, tail cocked in display. The bird has brown back and red breast. The background is diffused blue and beige.
November 26, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Today's #birdoftheday set by @alan678.bsky.social is #OnTheEdge, any bird at the edge of a body of water.
This red-necked phalarope swam over, hopped onto a rock right next to me, and started preening.
I love it when wildlife is comfortable with my presence.
#birds
#EastCoastKin
#birdphotography
A small wader sits on a rock, head down, long sharp beak open as it preens its chest feathers. A white breast, with red head and neck, white cheeks, grey back. The rock sits in a body of water.
November 26, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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"Kittiwake #abstract" #birdoftheday theme by @robcrank68.bsky.social is #HangingAround ='Birds at Unusual Angles'.

Heavy snow little light. Ideal for slow shutter: 1/160 sec

I love only the yellow bill being sharp, slowed down by the water.
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekVforVowels
#EastCoastKin
#birds
A slow shutterspeed image of a predominantly white gull flying low over water and dipping its yellow beak in the water to grab fish guts. It's wings are outstretched high abovebits back. It is snowing and the slow shutterspeed leaves white snow tracks across the image. The yellow bill is the only park of the image that is sharp.
November 25, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Arctic terns bonding with a glass eel in the rain.

Today's #birdoftheday theme by @robcrank68.bsky.social is #Mr&Mrs.

I like photographing in the rain (or snow). It adds another layer of interest and atmosphere to an image.

#EastCoastKin
#birds
#birdphotography
#NaturePhotography
#UKBirding
Two mainly grey birds are sitting on a wooden deck. They have red legs, red sharp beaks, and black heads. The bird on the left is offering a small glass eel to the bird on the right, who is crouched down with an open beak to receive it. The background is streaked with rain.
November 23, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Swallows on a wire (Hirundo rustica)

Today's #birdoftheday set by @alan678.bsky.social "down under" is #birdonawire.

These #small birds undertake an epic 6,000-mile round trip migration between breeding in the UK to wintering in sub-Saharan Africa.

#BlueSkyArtShow
#birds
#ColorADay #GreenSat
Two swallows (small birds with dark, glossy-blue backs, red throats, pale underparts, and long tail streamers). The female is sat on a wire, whilst the male, wings outstretched, lands on her back in preparation for mating. The background is green. Swallows are extremely agile in flight and spend most of their time in the air
November 22, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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Kittiwake on Snow
Today's #birdoftheday theme set by @robcrank68.bsky.social is #GroundedGulls.
#EastCoastKin
#birds
#birdphotography
A snowy scene, a grey and white gull sits in deep snow. The gull has a yellow beaks, black legs, grey back and black tail feathers.
November 21, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Today's #birdoftheday set by @alan678.bsky.social is #shadesofgrey with alternative #beakopen.

A sanderling delicately preening.

Being gentle and not postinh a k/f or gull (yet🤭) - I suspect Alan may have a 😩.
#Stunday
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekTforTelevision
Grace 2021-
#birds
#EastCoastKin
A small wader reaches back to preen its tail feathers. It is standing in shallow water. The bird is mottled grey with brown streaks and white underparts.
November 16, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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Coot Fight
Today's #birdoftheday theme set by @robcrank68.bsky.social is #Cootsandmoorhens.

Survival 1961-2001
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekTforTelevision
#BlueSkyArtShow
#bright
#birds
#SensoryArt
#Loud
3 black water fowl are fighting. Two are facing each other and are locking feet, wings touching the water. A third bird on the left is joining in the melee. There is lots of water spray above the blue water of a lake.
November 15, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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We don't often get snow on the North Norfolk coast, so when we do, a few #bright red apples are a welcome present for the garden birds.

#BlueSkyArtShow
#HolidayRobin
#birds #birdphotography #Birdlife
A shiny bright red and yellow apple sits on a snow covered log. A red Robin stands to the right, tail cocked. Its head is at a jaunty angle, and its face is bright orangey red. The background is snowy.
November 15, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Whooper pair on ice.
Taken 27th May: Varanger, N. Norway is still in grip of winter. Spring is short.

Alan, @alan678.bsky.social, has chosen #swans for today's #birdoftheday.

"The Two of Us" 1986-1990
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekTforTelevision

#EastCoastKin
#birds
Two white swans walk side by side across an icy lake. Yellow and black beaks show they are whooper swans. Black legs, one raised as it takes a step. The landscape is frozen lake with some snow.
November 14, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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"Waiting for Spring"
@robcrank68.bsky.social's #birdoftheday theme is #DucksOutOfWater.
Male long-tailed duck. Summer plumage very different from winter.
31st May: still very wintery in the high Arctic.

"Duck Quacks Don't Echo" 2014-17
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekTforTelevision
#EastCoastKin
#birds
A long-tailed duck stands on the snowy ground, facing right. Summer plumage is markedly different from winter. In summer the head, neck and breast is brown, a few of the winter smart white feathers on the neck still visible.
November 13, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Godwits Galore.
Today's #birdoftheday set by @alan678.bsky.social is #Paddling birds (standing or walking in shallow water).
A group of bar-tailed godwits paddle through shallow sea.
#EastCoastKin
#birds
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekTforTelevision
"Birds of a Feather" 1989
5 waders marching across the image from right to left, paddling through shallow sea. A large rock provides the background to the left of the image, smaller rocks and seaweed the foreground. Incoming low waves are visible beyond the birds. The birds are mottled brown grey with long straight beaks and white belly.
November 12, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Puffin in Bluebells and Campion.
Today's #birdoftheday theme set by @robcrank68.bsky.social is #BirdsOnTheGround.
I love taking ground subjects through flowers or foliage.
#EastCoastKin
#birds
#birdphotography
A puffin, wings outstretched, standing in white campion and green foliage. The puffin has a white breast, black neck band, white cheeks, colourful blue and orange striped beak. The background is black with out of focus purple blobs of bluebells.
November 11, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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"Casper"
A few years ago, there was a leucistic barn owl near us, locally known as "Casper".
Seen here with dinner.
It was a ghostly sight flying over the fields.
For @robcrank68.bsky.social's #birdoftheday theme of #StandingOnThings.
#EastCoastKin
#birds
#birdphotography
#Stunday
A white barn own (it is leucistic and lacks pigment in its feathers). It has a brown shrew in its mouth. It is sitting on a wooden post of a barbed wire fence. The foreground is long grass and the background hedgerow.
November 9, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Kingfisher preening.
Today's #birdoftheday theme set by @robcrank68.bsky.social is #StandingOnThings.
Since I have been teasing @alan678.bsky.social with relentless gull images, I've exercised restraint and chosen a local kingfisher.😁
#EastCoastKin
#birds
#birdphotography
#Stunday
A small orange and blue kingfisher sits on a bare branch. The kingfisher is preening it's chest with its black beak. The background is green.
November 9, 2025 at 9:21 AM
lizziewallis.bsky.social
Today's #birdoftheday set by @alan678.bsky.social is #takeoff.
I have chosen a purple sandpiper taking off from seaweed covered rocks.
#EastCoastKin
#birds
#birdphotography
A small brown mottled wader is taking off from a rock. Its wings are aloft, yellow legs dangling below. It has a yellowy orange beak, white belly. The background is seaweed and water.
November 8, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Dovrefjell, Norway.
Camping in a tent in -30°C.

#BlueSkyArtShow
#Evening
#EastCoastKin
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekSforShadows
3 red and yellow tents, illuminated by torches within, are pitched on a snowy slope. Skis and poles pushed into the snow nearby. A rocky mountain visible in the background on the left. The sky is bluey black with some clouds. A nighttime scene.
November 8, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Mid-air gull squabble.

Today's #birdoftheday theme set by @robcrank68.bsky.social is #fighting.

Never one to turn down an opportunity to post gulls, just for @alan678.bsky.social 🤭.

#EastCoastKin
#birds
#birdphotography
#FlyDay
Two herring gulls locked in mid-air fight, beaks clamped around each other's. The bottom gull is looking up, wings out, legs 'walking' the air. The top gull is facing down, tail splayed out, outstretched wings disappearing out of the frame.
November 7, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Lone tree in the middle of a field.
Elan Valley, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
#AlphabetChallenge
#scape
#WeekSforShadows
#EastCoastKin
A lone oak, bare leaved, stands in a golden green field, its shadow falling to the left. The field is edged with trees, only parts of which are visible.
November 7, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Oystercatcher dispute.

Today's #birdoftheday theme set by @robcrank68.bsky.social is #fighting.

Two Oystercatchers fighting at RSPB Titchwell.

#EastCoastKin
#birds
#birdphotography
#FlyDay
A black and white large wader stands facing left in water. Its head is submerged because a second Oystercatcher has grabbed it behind the head using its long orange beak. This second bird is a few inches airborne, wings outstretched, water trailing from its orange feet. A mud bank is in the foreground, and a rocky shell strewn bank is beyond the water.
November 7, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Light through the window.
Popped up to the bedroom earlier this evening and was transfixed by the shadows cast by the car headlights as they travelled across the wall opposite the leaded window.
📷 #mobilephotography
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekSforShadows
#EastCoastKin
A black bedroom wall is illuminated by the passing car headlights. The crisscross shadow of the leadlight window is thrown onto the wall and travels across it. A black bedroom wall is illuminated by the passing car headlights. The crisscross shadow of the leadlight window is thrown onto the wall and travels across it. A black bedroom wall is illuminated by the passing car headlights. The crisscross shadow of the leadlight window is thrown onto the wall and travels across it. A black bedroom wall is illuminated by the passing car headlights. The crisscross shadow of the leadlight window is thrown onto the wall and travels across it. A red tinge from a cars brake lights travelling in the opposite direction
November 6, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Ring plover with worm spaghetti.
Today's #birdoftheday set by @alan678.bsky.social is #lunchtime.
These birds were so adept at running along the beach, spotting and eating worm after worm. Their tummies must have been so full!
Taken in North Uist 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿.
#EastCoastKin
#birds
#birdphotography
A small wader stands on white sand, facing right. The bird has a brown back, white underparts, black ring around chest, white collar, black cheeks, brown back of head with a white stripe above black eye. Legs are bright orange, as is the bill with a black tip. A red worm forms a taut line from beak to sand.
November 6, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Juvenile Herring gull. Today's #birdoftheday theme set by @robcrank68.bsky.social is #CloseUps.
Think this fits the theme (I was going to say "fits the bill" but long bill was yest🤭).
I love the markings on juvenile herring gulls, especially around the eye.
#EastCoastKin
#birds
#birdphotography
A close up image of a herring gull's head. The bird is facing left, and its plumage is mottled soft grey brown. There is a catchlight in its eye.
November 5, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Today's #birdoftheday set by @alan678.bsky.social is #rock or alternatively #longbeak.
My late submission: a pair of black-tailed godwits.
On a rock 👍 and with long beaks 👍.
#RockinTuesday
#TwosDay
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekSforShadows
#EastCoastKin
#birds
#birdphotography
Two long-legged waders (both godwits) stand on a rock, one above the other, facing in opposite directions. The birds are mottled brown and have long, straight, pinky brown beaks. Water is visible in front of the rock and behind in the background.
November 4, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Northern Gannet Eye.
For anyone who has wavered from the photographic path they want to take for fear of others not "getting it".
Or for anyone who has sat through a camera club judging. 🤣
#imageandverse
#Stunday
#EastCoastKin
#birds
#birdphotography
A close up image of the eye of a northern gannet. Largely yellow plumage, blue ring around a pale iris. Black line delineate the beak from the plumage and the eye.
November 2, 2025 at 6:03 PM