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#addbirder 🪶🦉

🦉Bullfinch, Cetti’s and hybrid Pochardxtufted

🍄🍄‍🟫 #fungi Devil’s fingers

I have a very bad feeling about this...

Had worse days

Few from today

Most of the damselflies at Amersham Flood today were Scarce Blue-Tailed. Just a few Common Blue Tailed and Common Blue( one having succumbed to a Furrowed Orb Weaver. Water Scorpion was nice to see. @chilternstreams.bsky.social

All from one field and surrounding hedges and trees

Nice selection today including a few firsts for me and two county rarities

Insect day two locally scarce Chrysotoxum verralli is a species of hoverfly belonging to the subfamily Syrphinae. Stratiomys longicornis, the long-horned general, is a European species of soldier fly.

One Common Spotted amongst thousands of Green Winged.

Military Orchid 🎖️🪖

Few from today 🪶

Firecrests and Spotted Flycatchers kinda day 🪶

Odonata kinda day

Bucks ✅ 248🪶🐦‍⬛

This katydid from Ecuador has been affectionately named by photographers "candy-cane katydid". The truth is... we are not sure which species it is. One possibility is a Harroweria nymph, but until someone witnesses the transformation into the adult stage it will remain a mystery.

New year new list 🪶🦉 Great White Egret and Siskin

White Fronted Geese still on Dorney Common. A family party of 5 for their thirteenth day. #ukbirding🪶🪿

Stonechats on my local patch that have until today eluded me and seemingly only me! #ukbirding🪶🦉

A rose made of galaxies..

Beautiful autumnal day today #ukbirding 🪶🦉

'From the Misty Crags' and 'Bird's Eye View' - collagraph prints - both by Yorkshire artist and printmaker, Hester Cox, whose work I absolutely love #birds #birdart #art #printmaking #RingOuzel #Skylark

Farewell to the Bluesky friends and proto-friends who've decided that they're too cool for me. 👋 This is such an evergreen song. Timeless. That's the word. youtu.be/RTW5z2IWBFo?...

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Fairy Helmets Alight

Nice to have a beaut of a Whooper on local patch at Spade oak today #UKbirds 🪶

Nice to have a beaut of a Whooper on local patch at Spade oak today #UKbirds 🪶

Eclipse (partial) drake Pintail local patch Spade Oak #ukbirding 🪶

A life and bike ✅ at Staines Res. this morning- Lapland Bunting.

Nice surprise local year ✅ at Grimsbury Reservoir in Banbury with this pair of Velvet Scoters that were found this afternoon. First record for the Banbury recording area. #ukbirding #ducks @birdguides.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social

Fungi day🍄🍄‍🟫

Fungi day 🍄‍🟫🍄

Devil’s fingers fungi🍄🍄‍🟫

Yellowhammer #ukbirding🪶