Honking greylag (Anser anser). "Goose/Geese" for today's #birdoftheday theme set by @robcrank68.bsky.social. I meant to post this yesterday for #attitude but the day ran away from me. #EastCoastKin #birdphotography #birds

Two puffins at sunset. For today's #birdoftheday theme set by @alan678.bsky.social - #Silhouette. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekNforNight #EastCoastKin #birdphotography #Birdlife #NaturePhotography

For today's #birdoftheday theme set by @alan678.bsky.social, one of my absolute #favourite birds is the Northern Gannet (morus bassanus). I like the dense layering of feathers on the neck. #BlueSkyMonday for the striking eye ring. #EastCoastKin #Birdlife #birds #NaturePhotography

Today's #birdoftheday theme by @robcrank68.bsky.social is "Any Bird with 3 or More Colours". On Tues we went to see if the tide had washed away our local Kingfisher perch. One was sitting there when we arrived and came back several times whilst we lay in the muddy reedbed! #EastCoastKin #BirdLife

The road across the high arctic tundra in the middle of the Varanger Peninsula, N. Norway. 28 May 2019, it's still wintery. The bleak landscape matched my outlook. My mum had died a few days earlier, with me 3625km away. #TheRoad #BlueSkyArtShow #AlphabetChallenge #WeekMforMemories #EastCoastKin

"Urban desert" A seaside resort can be bleak out of season. Add in the impending lockdown, and it became quite surreal. No one around. I remember it felt like the world had ended. Great Yarmouth. 5th March 2020. 11am. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekMforMemories #ColorADay #BWFri #scape #EastCoastKin

A wren for today's #birdoftheday theme of "smallest bird" set by @robcrank68.bsky.social Taken on Skomer, with the red Campion and bluebells providing a colourful backdrop. #EastCoastKin #birds #BirdsofBlueSky

Pied Kingfisher #BirdofTheDay theme today, chosen by @alan678.bsky.social, is #ClassicMono I remember spending hours and hours in the extreme heat of Keoladeo National park, Rajasthan, trying to capture these tiny birds in flight. #EastCoastKin #WeekMforMemories #AlphabetChallenge #birds

"Any bird having a bath" is today's #birdoftheday theme, so here is a Sandwich Tern. We waded out through the channels at low tide, into the middle of Blakeney Pit, a huge expanse of sand & creek. Always alert to the time/tide. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekMforMemories #EastCoastKin

Male bearded reedling (Panurus biarmicus) (aka Bearded tit) on a reed in North Norfolk. I'm a bit late for today's #BirdofTheDay theme: #NotABranch #EastCoastKin #birds #birdphotography

King Eider swallowing a whelk whole. I remember lying on a pontoon in the snow, so cold I couldn't feel my fingers or tell whether I'd pressed the shutter button. #Duck/#Geese for today's #birdoftheday theme set by @robcrank68.bsky.social #WeekMforMemories #AlphabetChallenge #EastCoastKin

Today @alan678.bsky.social 's #BirdofTheDay theme is #WebbedFeet, so please enjoy this colourful King Eider duck taking off. #Stunday #EastCoastKin #BirdsofBlueSky

I love the way light reflecting on windows and mirrors reveals a completely different scene. Cley Windmill, North Norfolk. Physics. #EastCoastKin #WeekLforLines #AlphabetChallenge #BlueSkyArtShow #Angles #photography

@alan678.bsky.social #birdoftheday today is any bird against a #bluesky background, so my offering is this Avocet in Flight, with its striking black lines on its back. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekLforLines #EastCoastKin #BirdsofBlueSky #Birds

For #birdoftheday @robcrank68.bsky.social is asking for birds with black and/or white today, so with an oblique nod to @alan678.bsky.social #birdbutt, here is a shag, defecating a squiggly line of guano. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekLforLines #birdphotography #EastCoastKin

"Shakin' in the rain" You don't get a much cuter bird than a puffin. 1/250s shutter speed shows the lines the water droplets make as they fly off. #BirdofTheDay #Cute #AlphabetChallenge #WeekLforLines #BirdsofBlueSky #EastCoastKin

Delightfully delicate sanderling, trying to catch up with the line of its shadow. #WeekLforLines #AlphabetChallenge #BirdofTheDay #Walking #EastCoastKin #birds #BirdsofBlueSky

Been travelling all day (Pembrokeshire to Norfolk), so very late to @robcrank68.bsky.social today's #birdoftheday which inexplicably, but fortuitously, is #gulls again. "Ouch" is my offering. #EastCoastKin #birds #photography #birdphotography

Our #home when we go on our Great Adventures. Here on the road to Hamningberg, in the far northeast of Norway on a 3 month campervan trip a couple of years ago. The stark high arctic tundra landscape is very dramatic. Taken in June, still snowy. #BlueSkyArtShow #home #Scapes #landscapephotography

Welcome back, @alan678.bsky.social , hope you had a great break. May I present my #Birdbutt offering to your #birdoftheday theme: Male Long-tailed Duck. I like the arc of water drops thrown from the tip of its tail as it dived. #EastCoastKin #birds #photography

"One Corvid to rule them all" The magnificent, stonking chough. Doing well in Pembrokeshire, Wales, where closely grazed, open swards provide the ideal foraging habitat. For @robcrank68.bsky.social #ThursJay #Corvids #WildlifePhotography #EastCoastKin #NaturePhotography #birds #photography

"You're the one that I want" John Travolta & Olivia Newton John/ Grease Two Northern Gannets pair bonding with a feather. #WeekKforKaraoke #AlphabetChallenge #TwosDay #ColorADay #BlueTue #EastCoastKin #birds #birdphotography

"Oops, I did it again" Britney Spears Hummingbird hawkmoth on valerian. #MoneyShotMonday (albeit not a bird🤷‍♂️) #WeekKforKaraoke #AlphabetChallenge #MacroMonday #ColorADay #PinkMon #EastCoastKin

Whooper swans in the snow. Lake Hornborgasjön, Sweden. A #Swantastic image for @robcrank68.bsky.social 's #SwanDay #EastCoastKin #birds #photography 📷 #birdphotography

"That's it, just there!" Bridled common guillemots re-establishling their bond. The bridled morph is a recessive variant of the common guillemot, controlled by a single gene. Their offspring will be bridled. #StunDay #WeekJForJetBlack #AlphabetChallenge #BirdsofBlueSky #Birds #Photography 📷

"Last of the Summer Light" #Summer #BlueSkyArtShow #BirdofTheDay alternative #Flying and it's a #gull to boot, @alan678.bsky.social 😉📷 #EastCoastKin #birds #BirdsofBlueSky #Photography

Loch Morlich beneath the Cairngorms in Scotland's Glenmore Forest Park. I quite like blocked out blacks, to create drama. Judges hate them, wanting to see detail. What do you think? #scape #WeekJForJetBlack #AlphabetChallenge #EastCoastKin #landscapephotography #ColorADay #BWFri #ForestFriday

"Is he back yet? Is he? Is he"? Bet @alan678.bsky.social can't wait to see more gull pics!🤣 #trios #3sDay @robcrank68.bsky.social #EastCoastKin #birds #birdphotography

"Oystercatcher Mussel Thief" At one of our local tidal muddy creeks, men bring mussels ashore and size sort them into a pile for later bagging. Not all mussels make it into the bags! #WeekJForJetBlack #AlphabetChallenge #WaderWednesday #Birds #EastCoastKin #photography #WildlifePhotography

"Red kite" The iconic conservation success story: persecuted to just a few pairs in Wales, an intensive conservation effort has seen a spectacular recovery in population, increasing by 2,464% between 1995 and 2023. More info in Alt txt. #Stunday #AlphabetChallenge #WeekIforIconic #Photography

Emperor dragonfly early morning. Waiting to dry off before it can fly. #BlueSkyArtShow #shiny #photography #photographersofBlueSky

The iconic Northern Polar Circle Globe on the small island of Vikingen, marking the sea crossing of the Arctic Circle. #scape #WeekIforIconic #AlphabetChallenge #EastCoastKin #landscapephotography

#BirdofTheDay theme for today is birds standing on one leg, so I can't resist a revisit of "Ruff Yoga" pose. Have a great break @alan678.bsky.social ! #BirdsofBlueSky #EastCoastKin

Birds in profile is today's theme for @alan678.bsky.social 's #BirdofTheDay. Here is a very hardy wader: purple sandpiper. Well camouflaged, stays up in the high arctic in brutal conditions all winter (although a few softies come down to our coast in East Anglia, UK). #BirdsofBlueSky #EastCoastKin

"Arctic Angel" Today's #BirdofTheDay run by @alan678.bsky.social is a bird with a #BlueSky background. I present an Arctic Tern, the most beautiful sky dancer. #EastCoastKin #birds #BirdsofBlueSky

"Checking out the girls" Fulmar flypast. Wings raised @alan678.bsky.social, and not a gull (see how kind I am?!🤣😘). #BirdOfTheDay #EastCoastKin #BirdsofBlueSky

Raised wings, @alan678.bsky.social? Iconic, @sheena-mck.bsky.social? May I present the Avocet. Iconic wader. Emblem of the RSPB (Royal Society for the Protection of Birds). That beak! They breed here in Norfolk, but are poor parents. #WeekIforIconic #AlphabetChallenge #BirdOfTheDay #EastCoastKin

In case you thought I'd been completely diverted by #birdoftheday, here is my last submission for @sheena-mck.bsky.social 's #WeekHforHats #AlphabetChallenge Another one taken at the Sheringham 1940s weekend (held every September). The hat design was extraordinary. #EastCoastKin

Dartford warbler singing. I love the silvery tones of the image. Is it on enough of a "branch" to qualify for @alan678.bsky.social #birdoftheday "Birds on branches" theme? We'll see... I think it qualifies for #stunday anyway. #EastCoastKin #BirdsofBlueSky

Little tern (Sternula albifrons). We are lucky to have a small breeding population here on the North Norfolk UK coast. Sweet little birds. Flight shot for @alan678.bsky.social #BirdOfTheDay theme. #EastCoastKin #BirdsofBlueSky

"Raven snowfall" I don't often get a #Skyline in my flight shots, unless you count the sea. This shot of a raven flying in a snowstorm was taken in Vadsø, Varanger, N Norway. I like the feeling of silence, only broken by the raven's "croak". #BirdOfTheDay #BlueSkyArtShow #EastCoastKin

"Gannet fly-by" @alan678.bsky.social theme #BirdOfTheDay today is "Birds in Flight". One of my favourite things to photograph. I love action photography, repeatable, so I get lots of opportunities to have a go. #EastCoastKin

"Hannah" This man looked scary, but he had the kindest, softest eyes. I didn't like to ask whether Hannah was the name of his current/ex partner, child, or pet chameleon. 📷 #AlphabetChallenge #WeekHforHats #HumansOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin #UrbanGaze #StreetPhotography

"Sufferance" I love the expression which seems to shrug "I know, what can I do?". 📷 #WackyWednesdayArt #EastCoastKin #AlphabetChallenge #WeekHforHats

Every year, my local town hosts a 1940s weekend where folk all dress up accordingly. Great event to practice #StreetPhotography as no-one minds being photographed. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekHforHats #ColorADay #RedWed #EastCoastKin

"Mirror circles in the salon". An image I took for a series entitled "Work". I like the reflection of the man in the nearest mirror. #Stunday #EastCoastKin #AlphabetChallenge #WeekGforGlass #ClassicMono #SensoryArt #CopyPaste

Two puffins silhouetted against the fiery sunset which is reflected on the sea. #Stunday #ColorADay #EastCoastKin #OrangeSun Don't worry @sheena-mck.bsky.social, not even I would be cheeky enough to try and sneak that into your marvellous #AlphabetChallenge #WeekFForFire 😉

As mentioned in my previous post, nature is full of jaggedness. Hoar frost rims leaves of a shrub in my late m-in-l's garden. #ColorADay #GreenSat #EastCoastKin #BlueSkyArtShow #Jagged

Sand trees. Water permeates through sand. Nature is by definition #jagged (feather edges, rocks, foliage etc.). And @sheena-mck.bsky.social if you turn it upside down could it be flames? Pretty please🙏 #WeekFForFire #AlphabetChallenge #EastCoastKin #BlueSkyArtShow #AbstractAug #water