Gordon the Goldcrest #birds #ukbirds #nature #wildlife #BirdOfTheDay

Marsh Tit on our balcony. 🪶 #MarshTit #glanskop

Male bearded reedling. 🪶 #BeardedReedling #Baardmannetje

White stork. 🪶 #WhiteStork #ooievaar

Little owl. 🪶 #LittleOwl #steenuil

From the archives: red deer stag after a decent mud bath. #mammals #reddeer #stag #edelhert #geweidrager

Five degrees C this morning. Cold enough to see my breath leaving my body. Cold enough for hot cocoa and whipped cream. #hotcocoa

Any bird with yellow on it, is @robcrank68.bsky.social ‘s #BirdOfTheDay. So I chose my favourite balcony visitor: a juvenile #hawfinch. Its plumage will change completely once an adult. 🪶 #appelvink

It's getting hot in Tsavo and when the sun's at its peak, everyone is happy to find a little shade. Rescued orphan black rhino Chamboi found just the right spot, where he was soon joined by Keeper Jackson, and then Bombi the zebra decided she didn't want to be left out. Sharing is caring after all!

Soon the leaves will fall and winter will be here. Fingers frozen from adjusting the 📷. A mug filled to the brim with hot cocoa and overflowing with whipped cream when I get home. #winter #stunday

Summer exhales her last breath in colour— not sudden, but slow, a quiet surrender to the patient arms of an Irish autumn. #sunset #Ireland #photography #Stunday #EastCoastKin

I should check what the #BirdOfTheDay is before I post anything, especially a duckling with #webbedfeet which is Alan’s theme for this #SwanDay. My contribution is Bewick’s swans, so far a once in a lifetime sighting for me. But they winter here, so who knows ... 🪶 #BewicksSwan #KleineZwaan

Sibling juvenile black woodpeckers. 🪶 #BlackWoodpecker #ZwarteSpecht

Our balcony is a Mcfly for birds like this blue tit snapping up a sunflower seed. 🪶 #BlueTit #pimpelmees

Meadow pipits having a conversation about food, I think. 🪶 #MeadowPipit #graspieper

For some cuteness this morning a baby black-tailed godwit. The parents are never far off and can cause quite a pandemonium with their alarm calls. 🪶 #BlacktailedGodwit #grutto

The #whinchat is a bird I don’t see often. I’ve seen it twice so far. We only have some 250-300 breeding couples in the whole country. 🪶 #paapje

A Bowie hairdo for the great crested grebe. 🪶 #GreatCrestedGrebe #fuut

I really wish they would stop giving birds names with “common” or “lesser” in it in English (or Latin). Call them great, middle, small or give them a different name altogether to distinguish them. Anyway, our #grasmus is called common Whitethroat. 🪶

Morning exercise. 🪶 #duckling

Breakfast is served by the male great spotted woodpecker. 🪶 #GreatSpottedWoodpecker #GroteBonteSpecht

This Marsh warbler with the big hair knows a multitude of songs and can imitate many birds, African and European, that it meets during its trek. It’s a late arrival (May) and early leaver (August) here. It flies all the way from and to South Africa. Respect! 🪶 #MarshWarbler #bosrietzanger

Gaudy Commodore (Precis Octavia): This Butterfly is native to Africa & has a summer and winter form. The summer is red with black markings, and winter form is blue with a line of red markings on the wings. Incredible image taken by Ann Warner in Zimbabwe. #gaudycommodore #butterfly #nature #zimbabwe

A sweet little wren as the sun sets where I am. 🪶 #EurasianWren #winterkoninkje

A Blackbird female with a healthy appetite. 🪶 #blackbird #merel

Song thrush. We used to have one visiting us for years. 🪶 #SongThrush #zanglijster

We need them more than they need us.

I can’t help it. The grackles are still here, and need to be photographed 🤣 The male Common Grackles usually take every opportunity to display, especially in the spring! But it’s Fall, and this male was displaying a lot! Apparently, he knows what he looks like🤣 #Birds #photography #wildlife 🪶

Looking at today’s pics, I was like Whoa, there’s one paratrooper stuck. Of course there wasn’t. I think. Could be I just happened to catch one as he was jumping. Anyways, no casualties reported. End of Falcon Leap/Market Garden.

It's three landscapes from me tonight. For a few years, I was able to get away with the camera for four nights a year. The last few years this hasn't been possible. Maybe next year. The famous tree at Buttermere. It took me ages to find it #photography #landscape

Surprise surprise, another red-shouldered hawk! 🪶🌿 Live Oak Park, Fallbrook, CA.

While watching the planes this small creature landed next to me. A rare one for these parts, I read: a September Thorn. #insects #invertebrates #butterflies #moths #SeptemberThorn #GehakkeldeSpanner

The Tawny Owl was snoozing in his tree. 🪶 #TawnyOwl #bosuil

The sounder of wild boars I saw yesterday. One of the sows was rounding up the little ones. That went too fast for me to capture. The off-limits-for humans is to my left and that’s where they went off to. #mammals #wildboar #wildzwijn

Planes that dropped the paratroopers yesterday. It’s a mix of British, German, Dutch, Italian, Greek, Polish and Spanish airforces . The USA joins the commemoration today. Tomorrow memorial service at the Airborne cemetery. Those men must be spinning in their graves. #FalconLeap #MarketGarden

Even in the darkest forests there is a speck of light. #ForestFriday

I took this photo July 2024, it’s a grasshopper warbler. I have only seen it once, heard its call twice. 🪶 #GrasshopperWarbler #sprinkhaanzanger

It was still quiet in the forest this morning. No signs or sounds of rut yet. This pic is from last year. #mammals #reddeer #stag #edelhert

Green woodpecker. 🪶 #GreenWoodpecker #GroeneSpecht

A very puffed up bearded reedling female. 🪶 #BeardedReedling #baardmannetje

A spoonbill in a blue sky, that should do it for @alan678.bsky.social ‘s #BirdOfTheDay. 🪶 #EurasianSpoonbill #lepelaar

'The Annunciation', light on Stob nan Cabar. Over a decade ago but still get goosebumps thinking about this day, a brief ray of light puncturing the heavy skies to illuminate the glistening flanks of Buachaille Etive Beag #Scotland #GlenCoe #Highlands www.damianshields.com

Some more pics from last year’s commemoration. In picture 3 you can see the Beluga fly. #FalconLeap #MarketGarden #GinkelseHeide

Airborne division exercise Falcon Leap and in preparation of the commemoration Operation Market Garden tomorrow. This is from last year, but they have been circling above us for the last two days. #FalconLeap #MarketGarden #GinkelseHeide

Good morning peeps. It’s #ForestFriday and there’s no better place to be at this hour. Saw five wild boar mammas with kids. We have a rare summer burp where temperatures will reach 28°C. 😳 Have a good one.

For @robcrank68.bsky.social ‘s #BirdOfTheDay, a bird with black and/or white, I found this grebe’s #humbug, sitting comfy on it’s parent’s back. 🪶 #GreatCrestedGrebe #fuut

Cuteness overload!! Didn’t Neil Young write a song about his Cinnamon Squirrel? #photography #landscape #nature #photo #squirrel #squirrels #animals #wildlife #animallovers #wildlifephotography #photo #naturephotography #bluesky

Plenty of young robins in different stages of moult. 🪶 #EuropeanRobin #roodborstje

A slight misunderstanding between the robin and the chaffinch. 🪶 #EuropeanRobin #chaffinch #roodborst #vink

❤️ 🦊 #mammals #fox #vos