Good morning! For today's #BirdOfTheDay, it's #birds with #character. I feel like a Southern cassowary fits this bill quite nicely, although I admittedly never met one in the wild. This one was in the Augsburg Zoo 🇩🇪. Great pick, @alan678.bsky.social! #EastCoastKin #photography #birds #nature

Another #mountainscape from the Dolomites 🇮🇹 for today's #ScapeFriday. I think this is the Rosengarten/Catinaccio group, but I'm really not sure. I am sure that this was a stunning sunset, however. #EastCoastKin #photography #travel #landscape #landscapephotography #mountains #scape

The Jan Karski Monument in Kraków 🇵🇱, decorated by colourful flowers. Karski was a member of the Polish resistance in WW2, who delivered first-hand reports of the Holocaust to the Western Allies at great personal risk. #EastCoastKin #photography #travel #UrbanGaze #urban #statues #history

A bit late to the #BirdOfTheDay party today. @alan678.bsky.social has decided the alternate theme today is #reflection and I do love this shot of a gull (sorry 😅) in the evening light reflected in the calm waters. #EastCoastKin #photography #birds #birdphotography #animals #nature

A grey heron looking for a snack in the grass for today's #BirdOfTheDay theme #longnecks. I think I saw this one somewhere in Bavaria 🇩🇪. #EastCoastKin #photography #birds #nature #wildlife #animals

A #macro shot of a blooming fuchsia for #MacroMonday and #PinkMon. #EastCoastKin #photography #bloomscrolling #flowers #ColorADay #garden

Turns out I *do* have one fitting photo saved on my phone, @alan678.bsky.social! Here's a majestic swan during a less majestic moment, struggling with a #beakful of weeds. Taken at the Naturpark Donauauen 🇦🇹, during the morning #goldenhour. #EastCoastKin #photography #birds #BirdOfTheDay #nature

Today is #flyday, so we're sharing critters that fly. Here's a little bee sticking the landing on a lavender blossom. #EastCoastKin #photography #insects #garden #bloomscrolling #flowers #bees #pollinators

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme, hosted by @alan678.bsky.social, is #spotted. Heres a little one asking accusingly: "Why don't you take a picture? It'll last longer!" Which I did, obviously. Possibly a juvenile Northern Wheatear, but not sure. #EastcoastKin #photography #birds #nature #animals

A #macro shot of a ladybug sitting inside an autumn crocus. I would have liked to get a better focus, but it sadly refused to sit still. Living insects are complicated models. #EastCoastKin #photography #ColorADay #RedWed #bloomscrolling #insects #macrophotography #garden

Theme for #BirdOfTheDay (host @alan678.bsky.social) today is #migration. A perfect fit for the time of year and lucky for me. On Sun I woke up to hundreds of starlings using the tree outside my window as a pit stop. Here's two of them. #EastCoastKin #TwosDay #AnimalArtTuesday #birds #photography

Good morning! Here's a closeup shot I took of a fly when playing around with focus stacking for today's #MacroMonday. I love the colours in this one, sorry B&W Macro crowd. This is also my entry for #sharemondays2025. #EastCoastKin #photography #macro #insects #macrophotography

I did find something other than a puffin, @alan678.bsky.social. Here's an Eurasian hoopoe taking a little break from flying around. Sadly, I only saw this one in the Zoo in Augsburg 🇩🇪, not yet in the wild. #EastCoastKin #photography #BirdOfTheDay #Walks #nature #animals

The Old Light on Lundy 🇬🇧, illuminated by a perfect sunset, for this #Stunday. I've never experienced a place that simultaneously has such raw natural beauty and also is that approachable at the same time. Desperately want to go back. #EastCoastKin #photography #travel #landscape

Today @robcrank68.bsky.social is asking for duck pics. Please make sure there's no typo. Here's a beautiful white mallard I found in my archive, but sadly don't know where I saw it any more. Somewhere on a holiday. #EastCoastKin #photography #BirdOfTheDay #nature #animals

I have a new #macro lens, allowing me to get into super macro territory. This is the face of a shield bug in my garden. Also experimentting with some B&W looks for that, although I do usually really like the colours. #EastCoastKin #BNWmacro #ClassicMono #macrophotography #photography #insects

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme, is #birds in the snow, rain, wind and ice. Fitting theme for the surprisingly frosty temperatures this morning in Vienna. Heres a pretty puffed up blue tit I photographed around christmas. #EastCoastKin #AllWeathers #photography #animals #nature

Some #MediumFormat #film shots for this #BWFri. Occasionally, I take my #MamiyaRz67 for a spin and I always love the results. Film cameras just make everything look special. These are captures from a walk on the beach in Arhus 🇩🇰. #EastCoastKin #ColorADay #ClassicMono #photography #travel

The #BirdOfTheDay - today hosted by @robcrank68.bsky.social - is any goose or tit. Could have picked a merlin as the alternate, just to stick with the Top Gun theme 😉. Here's a Canada Goose I saw in London 🇬🇧 on a trip in 2022. #EastCoastKin #birds #photography #birdphotography #nature #animals

Posting memories of summer as autumn has finally arrived in #Vienna with single-digit temperatures. This is the Monument in honor of the soldiers of the Soviet Army next to the Hochstrahlbrunnen at the Schwarzenbergplatz. #EastCoastKin #UrbanGaze #photography #streetphotography

So @alan678.bsky.social wants to see #birds with #attitude today. I feel like this is going to be a lot of gulls again. But I have a duck that stared me down like it was prepared to peck me. I didn't test it's patience. #EastCoastKin #BirdOfTheDay #photography #birdphotography #animals #nature

Today's #BirdOfTheDay is any bird whose main colour is white. I'm going with this majestic white stork, busy grooming its impressive plumage, while watching the nest. Seen in Baden-Württemberg 🇩🇪. #EastCoastKin #birdphotography #birding #birds #nature #animals #photography #AnimalArtTuesday

Today, @alan678.bsky.social has requested our #favourite #birds. Of the ones I've photographed, mine is the Atlantic #Puffin. This one was kind enough to land close to us at the Battery on Lundy 🇬🇧. #EastCoastKin #BirdOfTheDay #photography #birdphotography #animals #nature #seabirds #ukbirding

A colourful peacock for #BirdOfTheDay , matching my earlier butterfly. Definitely has more than three colours, as requested by today's host @robcrank68.bsky.social. This one was strolling around at Castle Ambras, Innsbruck 🇦🇹. #EastCoastKin #photography #birds #birdphotography #animals #travel

A colourful peacock butterfly. I can't remember where I saw it, but I'm always happy when I do, and even more so when they're sitting still long enough for a photo. #EastCoastKin #photography #Stunday #bloomscrolling #butterflies #garden #insects

Going with another beautiful #memory of a stunning July morning in the Dolomites 🇮🇹 for this Friday's #scape. This is the basin between Monte Pradazzo and Col de Margarita. #EastCoastKin #photography #travel #mountains #landscape #mountainscape #WeekMforMemories #AlphabetChallenge

Today @robcrank68.bsky.social has chosen birds taking a bath as the theme for #BirdOfTheDay. I do love this series, because it makes me go and look at photos I otherwise wouldn't post. Here's an Inca Tern taking a splash at the Zoo Augsburg 🇩🇪. #EastCoastKin #birds #photography #animals #nature

The starry #NightSky as seen on Hardangervidda 🇳🇴. The orange and yellow lights are towns or cars, the green is the Aurora. The snow, clouds, #stars and lights all combine into a perfectly #dreamy #landscape, fitting for #SleepySep. #EastCoastKin #photography #travel #nightscape #nightphotography

The #BirdOfTheDay theme today, as declared by @alan678.bsky.social, is birds sitting on #notabranch. Perfect excuse to post this adorable moorhen chick, seemingly cross that it's getting too heavy for its lily pad. #EastCoastKin #photography #birds #birding #birdphotography #animals #nature

Good morning! Here's a, creatively named, red bug from my garden for #MacroMonday. In German they're called Feuerwanzen - fire bugs. I have these all over my tomato plants. Not sure if that's good or bad, but they don't seem to do any harm. #EastCoastKin #photography #macro #insects #garden

Good morning! @alan678.bsky.social has picked #WebbedFeet as the theme for #BirdOfTheDay. I'm choosing this shot of a formation of greylag geese, which I saw flying south over Roskilde 🇩🇰. A sign that summer is ending. #EastCoastKin #photography #birds #birding #birdphotography #animals #nature

Today's #BirdOfTheDay is any dove or pigeon. Here's a racing pigeon that has decided to rather retire on Lundy 🇬🇧 than keep on racing. Thanks to @robcrank68.bsky.social for hosting again! #EastCoastKin #photography #birds #birding #birdphotography #animals #nature

The anchor and mooring #lines of one of the historic #viking ships at Roskilde Vikingeskibsmuseet 🇩🇰. Well worth a visit, if you're in the area. You can even sail out in one of the ships. #EastCoastKin #photography #AlphabetChallenge #WeekLforLines #travel #history

A view straight from my bathroom window a few weeks ago. I love how the #clouds look like strokes from a watercolour paintbrush in the #sky. The building is a historic grain storage, famous for being Napoleon's HQ during the battle of Aspern in 1809. #EastCoastKin #photography #SleepySep #scape

Today's #BirdOfTheDay is hosted by @robcrank68.bsky.social, and the theme is any bird that's black and/or white. Here's a Razorbill photographed on Lundy 🇬🇧 this June. #EastCoastKin #photography #birds #nature #wildlife seabirds #birdphotography

A gorgeous red and chrome #cadillac I saw at a meet-up for historical cars in 2017. Shot on film with my old #Minolta Autocord. I really love the commitment to the theme, down to the red devil on the dashboard. #EastCoastKin #ColorADay #RedWed #oldcars #photography #filmphotography #mediumformat

A brass sun dial photographed at a special exhibition at the Musée d’Orsay, Paris 🇫🇷, if I remember correctly. Easy to read with all those #lines, isn't it? Sadly, I didn't write down any details about the piece. #EastCoastKin #photography #AlphabetChallenge #WeekLforLines #travel #museums

Today's #BirdOfTheDay, hosted by @alan678.bsky.social, is any bird #walking. Here's a series of an Atlantic #Puffin entering its cave on Lundy 🇬🇧. They're very elegant in the water. Less so in the air or on the ground. #EastCoastKin #photography #birds #seabirds #nature #wildlife #animals

A feather lost by a young bird in flight, slowly floating towards the ground. I spotted it and luckily managed to focus before it came down. I like these surprise-shots that just happen when you're out with your camera, keeping your eyes open. #EastCoastKin #photography #MinimalMonday #minimalism

It's #gulls again, is it? Not complaining, as I have many gull pictures. This one was flying over the Roskilde 🇩🇰 harbour when the sun was setting. I think it's a Black-headed Gull, albeit confusingly named in this particular case. #EastCoastKin #photography #BirdOfTheDay #birds #animals #nature

Some more mountain-goodness from the Dolomites 🇮🇹 for this #Stunday. This should again be the Pala di San Martino, on a beautiful July morning. #EastCoastKin #photography #travel #mountains #outdoors

Bird butts? I guess when you've done #BirdOfTheDay as long as @alan678.bsky.social, you need to get creative. Made me dig through some unedited pics, which was fun. I'll do multiple, since I doubt I'll ever use them anywhere else. Descriptions in ALT. #EastCoastKin #birdbutt #birds #photography

#Home is wherever you're most comfortable. For my dog, Socke, this is definitely the sofa. Coincidentally, also where I plan on spending my Saturday. #EastCoastKin #BlueSkyArtShow #photography #pets #dogsofbluesky

I just learnt that @grays.art has declared Fridays to be #FlyDay. Here's shot from a kestrel (I think), taken at the Museum Heuneburg in Baden-Württemberg 🇩🇪. If you're up early enough, you can watch them hunting on the slopes below the wall. #EastCoastKin #photography #birds #animals #nature

Some #macro photos of a shield bug that I've just taken in my #garden. It was kind enough to pose on a pretty #yellow flower for me. Just right for #YellowThu. #EastCoastKin #photography #insects #nature #closeup # bloomscrolling

An array of colourful nautical signal flags in the Hundested 🇩🇰 harbour. I wonder if what's written here is amusing to people who actually learnt the meaning of them. Let me know if you do! #EastCoastKin #photography #travel #urban #streetphotography #UrbanGaze

A curious and beautiful #deer we saw on our way back from watching birds at the Aresø 🇩🇰. It clearly spotted us before I spotted it, but did not seem to be overly concerned. #EastCoastKin #WildlifeWednesday #photography #wildlife #nature #animals

A #macro shot of a blowball flower, half blown away by the wind already. #EastCoastKin #photography #bloomscrolling #flowers #nature #garden

Another view from the #Dolomites 🇮🇹 on #MountainMonday. I think this was at the Rosengarten group looking at the Seiseralm, but I'm not sure I remember correctly. #EastCoastKin #photography #travel #mountains #outdoors

Here's one for @robcrank68.bsky.social's #BirdOfTheDay, the Eurasian Blue Tit. This was when I was visiting my parents' home over Christmas, I think. I love how the colourful #birds contrast with the white and greys of winter especially. #EastCoastKin #photography #nature #animals #birdphotography