Great to see 3 Penduline Tits at Aust today, with @kev4nature.bsky.social - first time I've seen this species since January 2022! Didn't get a photo of the male, first 3 show a female, 4th a first-year bird. #UKbirding #birds #🪶#BirdsSeenIn2025

For today’s ‘December #FestiveDailyRobin and #HolidayRobin theme.’ This photo taken at Aberthaw nature reserve in South Wales. #BirdingWales #UKbirding #🪶 #NaturePhotography #Wildlife

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is birds #LookingAtYou, and the Alternative are birds #OnTheRocks set by @robcrank68.bsky.social Here is a delightful little Firecrest giving me the evil eye😉 #birdingwales #Wildlife #BirdPhotography #🪶 #naturephotography #nature

My first photo for the December #FestiveDailyRobin and #HolidayRobin theme. This photo taken today at Forest Farm, nr Cardiff, UK #BirdingWales #UKbirding #🪶 #NaturePhotography #Wildlife

I see that today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BerriesandBeaks Bird–berry interactions, colour contrasts, or seasonal food sources. The alternative is #corvids set by @alan678.bsky.social Well, here is both themes, a Magpie feasting on sloe berries #birds #birdingWales #🪶 #wildlifePhotography

Morning all, my first post on @alan678.bsky.social #BirdOfTheDay theme of #paddling this Great Egret taken at Westhay Moor NNR last Saturday, got a bit of yellow in it too! #birds #🪶 #wildlife #wildlifephotography

Firecrest amongst the hawthorn berries! The joint smallest bird in the UK along with the Goldcrest weighing about 5/6 grams, the same as a 20p piece in the UK or a nickel in the US! Aberthaw Nature Reserve, Wales, UK. #birdingwales #UKbirding #🪶 #wildlife #nature

An apple a day…….. Crow making the most of the bountiful fruit crop! Aberthaw Nature Reserve, UK #birds #naturephotography #🪶 #wildlife #autumn #fall

I think I’ve been spotted👀 Common Buzzard yesterday at Forest Farm NR, Wales, UK. #birds #birdingwales #🪶 #nature #wildlife

Kingfisher fly pass on a brief visit to my local nature reserve this morning. Forest Farm NR, Cardiff, UK. #birds #birdingwales #birdphotography #nature #🪶

Amazing experience with this beautiful Peregrine Falcon this afternoon at my local nature reserve. Probably stopped over for a rest on its migration south. #birdingwales #birds #wildlife #naturephotography #🪶

I’m really looking forward to seeing these wonderful Short-eared Owls returning to the Cotswolds again in a few weeks. #birds #ukbirding #birdphotography #wildlife #nature

Sorry (not really😉) for posting another Bearded Reedling, but had another brilliant day on the Somerset Levels with @cactusfranks.bsky.social This beautiful male taken at Westhay Moor NNR #birds #ukbirds #BirdsSeenin2025 #wildlife #rspb

Love this one @fraggenstein.bsky.social 😍

Yellowhammer from my local patch on the weekend. A red listed bird in the UK but seem to being doing well here🤞🤞🤞 #birds #UKbirding #UKwildlife #nature #naturephotography

Strutting into Sunday! A cute Little Rock Pipit on the path at Trecco Bay, Porthcawl, UK. #birdingwales #UKbirding #UKwildlife

Magnificent stag Red Deer at Margam Vountry Park yesterday. Could hear it bellowing in the woods for a couple of hours before it made its way down to the meadow with the rest of its clan! #UKWildlife #nature #Wildlife

A beautiful Violet Dropwing dragonfly seen near Archidona, Spain a couple of weeks ago. #EuropeanWildlife #NaturePhotography #Wildlife #Dragonflies #WildlifePhotography #nature

A lovely juvenile Hobby making the most of the remaining dragonflies over the River Ely in Cardiff before continuing its journey south.

Another trip over to the Somerset Levels, yesterday. This Bearded Reedling and Goldcrest were my favourites of the day! #birds #birdphotography #BirdsSeenIn2025 #SomersetLevels

Some Bearded Reedlings from Westhay Moor NNR yesterday. #birds#birdphotography#birdsseenin2025#SomersetLevels

Two-tailed Pasha (Charaxes Jasius) butterfly taken in the woods above the Embalse de Guadarranque, Andalusia, Spain. #eurobutterflies#butterflies# butterflyconservation#butterflyphotography

Brown Hairstreak (Thecla Betulae) Alners Gorse Dorset 10/7/25 #butterflyconservation #eurobutterflies @savebutterflies #DorsetWildlifeTrust

Female Clouded Yellow f.helice raising her abdomen to inform the incoming male she’s not interested. Lake Kherkini National Park, Greece. June 2025

Swallowtail butterfly Hickling Broad, Norfolk, UK 18th May 2025 #butterflyconservation #nature#Britishbutterflies #Norfolkbutterflies #UKWildlife

Brilliant day at RSPB Gwenffwrdd-Dinas, Pied and Spotted Flycatchers seen amongst others but the highlight was seeing and photographing an elusive Wood Warbler, a lifer for me! #rspb

Lesser Whitethroat. Aberthaw NR

Mating Green-veined Whites and an Orange Tip butterfly. Magor Marsh NR 20/4/25

My first post on this platform, a Kestrel from Aberthaw, a Green Hairstreak butterfly from Warminster, a Sand martin from Cardiff Bay and a Dartford Warbler from the New Forest. All taken in the last few weeks.