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Oskareel
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Birds, wildlife, nature, dogs. Target is a crisp, detailed shot of a common swift. All photos mine unless quote/repost or stated.
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I get why puffins are so popular, but when I visit RSPB Bempton Cliffs it’s these guys I go to see.

This gannet looks like (black eye) it’s one of the lucky ones that got through avian flu www.discoverwildlife.com/news/gannet-... #photography #BirdOfTheDay #gannet #birds #birding #nature #wildlife
November 29, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Nictitating

The bird’s third eyelid moving horizontally across the eye, cleaning and lubricating it

Cock pheasant, Snaizeholme Wood, Yorkshire Dales, UK

#photography #BirdOfTheDay #Headshot #birds #ukbirds #birding #ukbirding #wildlife #nature #shutterspeed #fast #shutter #blinkofaneye #eye
November 27, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Colour on a grey day

Goldfinch, RSPB Ouse Washes, Manea, March, Cambridgeshire, UK

#photography #BirdOfTheDay #birdonawire #birds #birding #ukbirds #ukbirding #wildlife #nature #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #naturelovers #colour #contrast #Nikon
November 22, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Phasianus colchicus rotundus

Surely a clever evolutionary trick: eat so much you can’t fly then no-one can shoot you out of the sky!

Snaizeholme Wood, Yorkshire Dales, UK

#photography #BirdOfTheDay #round #birds #birding #ukbirds #ukbirding #wildlife #nature #pheasant #gamebird #rotund #Nikon
November 19, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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A close encounter of the Tufty kind

Red squirrel, Yorkshire Dales, UK

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#photography #wildlife #nature #redsquirrel #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #naturelovers #animals #mammals #animalportrait #closeup #furry #cute #forest #woodland #coniferous #Nkon
November 17, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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“Wha’s ‘appening Bro’?”

Moorhen chicks, Fletcher Moss Botanical Gardens, Didsbury, Manchester UK

#photography #BirdOfTheDay #CootsandMoorhens #birds #birding #ukbirds #ukbirding #moorhen #rails #wildlife #nature #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #naturelovers #Nikon #pondlife
November 15, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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It all happens under the surface

Mute swan, Balmaha, Scotland, UK

#photography #BirdOfTheDay #swans #birds #ukbirds #birding #ukbirding #wildlife #nature #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #calm #wildfowl #waterbird
November 14, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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On the annual pilgrimage to Stainforth Force to witness a phenomenon that leaves me awestruck and bewildered every time. How is this possible? ribbletrust.org.uk/salmon-run/ #photography #nature #wildlife #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #migration #fish #salmon #journey #endurance #lifecycle
November 13, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Despite tremendous success as a mute swan this bird's determined to keep its feet on the ground

Moses Gate, Wigan, UK

#photography #BirdOfTheDay #BirdsOnTheGround #birds #ukbirds #birding #ukbirds #ukbirding #wildfowl #swan #wildlife #nature #animals #webbed #feet #Nikon #wildlifephotography
November 11, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Full swing

The moment you realise you’re on the menu at #lunchtime as you’re about to be faceplanted into a branch

@rspb.bsky.social Fairburn Ings @rspbengland.bsky.social

#photography #BirdOfTheDay #birds #ukbirds #birding #ukbirding #wildlife #nature #animals #fish #prey #kingfisher #brutal
November 6, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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It’s only in putting together this #BirdOfTheDay post, #closeups, that I’ve noticed the amount of green on this female mallard’s head and to the left of the eye. The wide range of colouring on female mallards is also something I’ve noticed recently #photography #birds #wildlife #nature #ducks #Nikon
November 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Upgraded from black & white to colour

Leucistic oystercatcher, RSPB Snettisham, Norfolk, UK

Alternative #BirdOfTheDay #longbeak #photography #birds #ukbirds #birding #ukbirding #wader #wildlife #nature #animals #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #naturelovers #colour #melanin #leucism #Nikon
November 4, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Dumpy dabchick

The little grebe was once known in Lancashire as “little footy arse” because of how far back its feet are, and the grebes’ family name, Podicipedidae, is a mash-up off the Latin for rump and foot. Thanks again “Birds Britannica”. #BirdOfTheDay #Grebes #photography #birds #wildlife
November 1, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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A wood pigeon half #Hiding in the lower branches of an oak tree @rspb.bsky.social Burton Mere. It let me get pretty close so I hope it was ok. #photography #BirdOfTheDay #birds #ukbirds #birding #ukbirding #pigeon #wildlife #nature #animals #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #naturelovers
October 31, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Kevin decided it was time to sort that roof out.

Kestrel, RSPB Ouse Washes, Manea, Cambs, UK #photography #birds #birding #ukbirds #ukbirding #raptor #falcon #wildlife #nature #wildlifephotography #naturephotography
October 28, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Sunset over The Wash from Snettisham beach #photography #landscape #sunset #clouds #beach #reflection #iphone #iphonephotography
October 27, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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The Sun helped this make this ibis glossy at RSPB Ham Wall earlier in the year. It was a first sighting for me…little did I know they’d arrive in such numbers! #photography #BirdOfTheDay #Sunlit #birds #birding #ukbirds #ukbirding #wildlife #nature #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #Nikon
October 25, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Ancestor

Velociraptor, model, Manchester Museum, UK

#photography #BirdOfTheDay #Raptor #dinosaur #museum
October 22, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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Flipping the fish around to make sure it’s facing the right way…wouldn’t want to get those fins stuck in the throat!

Little egret, RSPB Leighton Moss, Lancashire, UK

#ukbirds #ukbirding #birds #nature #birdphotography #wildlife #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #birding #photography
October 15, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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Somewhere between a grey heron and a great egret, this purple heron in Aiguillon Bay seems to fit the #BirdOfTheDay #longneck challenge quite nicely #photography #birds #birding #wildlife #wildlifephotography #nature #naturephotography #Nikon
October 14, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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The northern lapwing is a black & white bird

Except when it isn’t

Eric Morecambe hide, RSPB Leighton Moss, Lancashire, UK

#photography #BirdOfTheDay #Wings #birds #birding #ukbirds #ukbirding #wildlife #nature #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #birdsofbluesky @rspb.bsky.social #Nikon
October 13, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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Another one of these cartoons birds as #BirdOfTheDay is the #Tit family. A bit of a cheat as, while they’ve generally been known as bearded tits, they’re not actually a tit and are increasingly being called bearded reedlings. #photography #birds #birding #wildlife #nature #naturephotography #paridae
October 12, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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Full may be pushing it, but this female bearded reedling came out onto the path this morning to collect grit and it’s definitely got something in its gob! RSPB Leighton Moss, Lancashire, UK #BirdOfTheDay #Beakful #photography #birds #birding #wildlife #nature #ukbirds #ukbirding #naturephotography
October 11, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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PING TITS!

It’s that time of year when these very reclusive birds emerge from the reeds in search of grit to help their stomachs adjust from a summer diet of insects to a winter one of seeds. OK, you can call them bearded reedlings if you really must.

#photography #birds #wildlife #nature #Nikon
October 10, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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And this is the beautiful fella they’re waiting to kill. I simply don’t understand.
October 8, 2025 at 8:25 PM