A long-tailed tit making a dash from one tree to another. Taken near Hulme End, Staffordshire Moorlands, UK #photography #BirdOfTheDay #SideProfiles #birds #birding #ukbirds #ukbirding #wildlife #nature #flight #inflight #fast #shutterspeed #shutter #Nikon #wildlifephotography #naturephotography

A Chiloé wigeon…I think anyway as it’s off an SD card found today with pics taken @wwtworldwide.bsky.social Martin Mere a few years ago. Its bill is a beautiful colour #photography #BirdOfTheDay #Grounded #birds #birding #duck #pato #wildfowl #wildlife #nature #animals #wings #piebald #Nikon

Focus I can’t think of any bird that does it better than a heron This one was at the bottom of a weir on the River Calder outside The Hepworth Wakefield, Yorks UK #photography #birds #birding #BirdOfTheDay #QuietObserver #ukbirds #ukbirding #wildlife #nature #longexposure #motionblur #Nikon

Gulp! A redwing enjoying a festive feast of haws at Neumann’s Flashes, Cheshire, UK #photography #BirdOfTheDay #NaturesPantry #birds #birding #ukbirds #ukbirding #wildlife #nature #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #fruit #red #thrush #feeding #winter #migrant #hawthorn #feast #Nikon

At last, acknowledgement from the model 👏👏👏 So many think they’re doing you a favour, but where would they be on the socials without us? Shelduck, Neumann’s Flashes, Cheshire, UK #photography #BirdOfTheDay #splashes #birds #birding #wildlife #nature #botd #duck #humour #Nikon #wildfowl #ukbirds

A common swift with nest material in its beak? Swifts collect it in the air, but it doesn’t mean they escape the proliferation of plastic in the environment. A study found more than third of swift nests contain plastic www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #photography #BirdOfTheDay #NestBuilders

Meadow pipit bath time at RSPB Snettisham #photography #BirdOfTheDay #movement #birds #birding #ukbirds #ukbirding #wildlife #nature #splash #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #water #droplets #shutter #shutterspeed #fastshutter #Nikon

I get why puffins are so popular, but when I visit RSPB Bempton Cliffs it’s these guys I go to see. This gannet looks like (black eye) it’s one of the lucky ones that got through avian flu www.discoverwildlife.com/news/gannet-... #photography #BirdOfTheDay #gannet #birds #birding #nature #wildlife

Nictitating The bird’s third eyelid moving horizontally across the eye, cleaning and lubricating it Cock pheasant, Snaizeholme Wood, Yorkshire Dales, UK #photography #BirdOfTheDay #Headshot #birds #ukbirds #birding #ukbirding #wildlife #nature #shutterspeed #fast #shutter #blinkofaneye #eye

Colour on a grey day Goldfinch, RSPB Ouse Washes, Manea, March, Cambridgeshire, UK #photography #BirdOfTheDay #birdonawire #birds #birding #ukbirds #ukbirding #wildlife #nature #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #naturelovers #colour #contrast #Nikon

Phasianus colchicus rotundus Surely a clever evolutionary trick: eat so much you can’t fly then no-one can shoot you out of the sky! Snaizeholme Wood, Yorkshire Dales, UK #photography #BirdOfTheDay #round #birds #birding #ukbirds #ukbirding #wildlife #nature #pheasant #gamebird #rotund #Nikon

A close encounter of the Tufty kind Red squirrel, Yorkshire Dales, UK www.rospa.com/about-us/his... #photography #wildlife #nature #redsquirrel #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #naturelovers #animals #mammals #animalportrait #closeup #furry #cute #forest #woodland #coniferous #Nkon

“Wha’s ‘appening Bro’?” Moorhen chicks, Fletcher Moss Botanical Gardens, Didsbury, Manchester UK #photography #BirdOfTheDay #CootsandMoorhens #birds #birding #ukbirds #ukbirding #moorhen #rails #wildlife #nature #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #naturelovers #Nikon #pondlife

It all happens under the surface Mute swan, Balmaha, Scotland, UK #photography #BirdOfTheDay #swans #birds #ukbirds #birding #ukbirding #wildlife #nature #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #calm #wildfowl #waterbird

On the annual pilgrimage to Stainforth Force to witness a phenomenon that leaves me awestruck and bewildered every time. How is this possible? ribbletrust.org.uk/salmon-run/ #photography #nature #wildlife #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #migration #fish #salmon #journey #endurance #lifecycle

I've just emailed my MP and asked them to vote to protect nature in the Planning and Infrastructure Bill. Will you take action too? action.rspb.org.uk/page/180990/...

Despite tremendous success as a mute swan this bird's determined to keep its feet on the ground Moses Gate, Wigan, UK #photography #BirdOfTheDay #BirdsOnTheGround #birds #ukbirds #birding #ukbirds #ukbirding #wildfowl #swan #wildlife #nature #animals #webbed #feet #Nikon #wildlifephotography

Full swing The moment you realise you’re on the menu at #lunchtime as you’re about to be faceplanted into a branch @rspb.bsky.social Fairburn Ings @rspbengland.bsky.social #photography #BirdOfTheDay #birds #ukbirds #birding #ukbirding #wildlife #nature #animals #fish #prey #kingfisher #brutal

It’s only in putting together this #BirdOfTheDay post, #closeups, that I’ve noticed the amount of green on this female mallard’s head and to the left of the eye. The wide range of colouring on female mallards is also something I’ve noticed recently #photography #birds #wildlife #nature #ducks #Nikon

Upgraded from black & white to colour Leucistic oystercatcher, RSPB Snettisham, Norfolk, UK Alternative #BirdOfTheDay #longbeak #photography #birds #ukbirds #birding #ukbirding #wader #wildlife #nature #animals #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #naturelovers #colour #melanin #leucism #Nikon

Dumpy dabchick The little grebe was once known in Lancashire as “little footy arse” because of how far back its feet are, and the grebes’ family name, Podicipedidae, is a mash-up off the Latin for rump and foot. Thanks again “Birds Britannica”. #BirdOfTheDay #Grebes #photography #birds #wildlife

A wood pigeon half #Hiding in the lower branches of an oak tree @rspb.bsky.social Burton Mere. It let me get pretty close so I hope it was ok. #photography #BirdOfTheDay #birds #ukbirds #birding #ukbirding #pigeon #wildlife #nature #animals #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #naturelovers

Kevin decided it was time to sort that roof out. Kestrel, RSPB Ouse Washes, Manea, Cambs, UK #photography #birds #birding #ukbirds #ukbirding #raptor #falcon #wildlife #nature #wildlifephotography #naturephotography

Sunset over The Wash from Snettisham beach #photography #landscape #sunset #clouds #beach #reflection #iphone #iphonephotography

The Sun helped this make this ibis glossy at RSPB Ham Wall earlier in the year. It was a first sighting for me…little did I know they’d arrive in such numbers! #photography #BirdOfTheDay #Sunlit #birds #birding #ukbirds #ukbirding #wildlife #nature #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #Nikon

Ancestor Velociraptor, model, Manchester Museum, UK #photography #BirdOfTheDay #Raptor #dinosaur #museum

Flipping the fish around to make sure it’s facing the right way…wouldn’t want to get those fins stuck in the throat! Little egret, RSPB Leighton Moss, Lancashire, UK #ukbirds #ukbirding #birds #nature #birdphotography #wildlife #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #birding #photography

Somewhere between a grey heron and a great egret, this purple heron in Aiguillon Bay seems to fit the #BirdOfTheDay #longneck challenge quite nicely #photography #birds #birding #wildlife #wildlifephotography #nature #naturephotography #Nikon

The northern lapwing is a black & white bird Except when it isn’t Eric Morecambe hide, RSPB Leighton Moss, Lancashire, UK #photography #BirdOfTheDay #Wings #birds #birding #ukbirds #ukbirding #wildlife #nature #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #birdsofbluesky @rspb.bsky.social #Nikon

Another one of these cartoons birds as #BirdOfTheDay is the #Tit family. A bit of a cheat as, while they’ve generally been known as bearded tits, they’re not actually a tit and are increasingly being called bearded reedlings. #photography #birds #birding #wildlife #nature #naturephotography #paridae

Full may be pushing it, but this female bearded reedling came out onto the path this morning to collect grit and it’s definitely got something in its gob! RSPB Leighton Moss, Lancashire, UK #BirdOfTheDay #Beakful #photography #birds #birding #wildlife #nature #ukbirds #ukbirding #naturephotography

PING TITS! It’s that time of year when these very reclusive birds emerge from the reeds in search of grit to help their stomachs adjust from a summer diet of insects to a winter one of seeds. OK, you can call them bearded reedlings if you really must. #photography #birds #wildlife #nature #Nikon

And another vid of the Bempton white-throated needletail brilliantly captured by @philflam.bsky.social Must have been thrilling to see…and so close.

Great vid of the white-throated needletail at Bempton by @jobirding.bsky.social The wind turbine comment at the end will be because one that turned up on the Isle of Harris a decade or so ago was killed when it hit a turbine. #video #birds

Starling wings! 😍 Taken this weekend at the Huntspill seawall in Somerset. 😊🐦 #birds 🪶 All my links; linktr.ee/carlbovis

Waiting to kill Pheasant shoot, Wildboarclough, Cheshire, UK #photography #nature #wildlife #birds #gamebirds #shooting

Fancy Feral pigeon, Moses Gate Country Park, Leigh, Gtr Manchester, UK #photography #birds #ukbirds #ukbirding #wildlife #wildlifephotography #nature #naturephotography #pigeon #colour #color #green #pink #brown #bright #display #vivid #dazzling #intense

Why did the chicken cross the road? #BirdOfTheDay #Walks #photography #animals #birds #nature #funny #joke

The others have decided to start ignoring Gary when he does his “walking on water” gag #BirdOfTheDay #geese #goose #greylag #RSPB #BurtonMere #photography #birds #birding #ukbirds #ukbirding #wildlife #nature #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #naturelovers #wirral #deeestuary #nikon #wildfowl

This is the clearest pic of the ring @philwoollen.bsky.social

If it's a pipit then I usually default to meadow, but I thought this one had quite dark legs so I searched online for info re the rings and wirralbirders.blogspot.com/2025/08/hilb... came up trumps...it's a rock 😀 @philwoollen.bsky.social @hilbrebirdobs.bsky.social #photography #birds #birding

A couple of distant shots of the surprising Slavonian grebe at West Kirby, a gobsmacking 4 glossy ibises at Parkgate and an obliging GSW on the feeder at RSPB Burton Mere. A good day on the Dee estuary! #photography #birds #birding #ukbirds #ukbirding #wildlife #nature #wirral @rspb.bsky.social

Every one of them looking guilty as hell. Rock doves in a troglodyte cave, Montsoreau, Maine-et-Loire, Loire Valley, France. #BirdOfTheDay #notabranch #photography #birds #birding #birdphotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #nature #naturephotography #Nikon

Kestrel hunting over reedbeds south of RSPB Minsmere #bird #birds #birdsofprey #birdphotography #ukwildlife #wildlife #wildlifephotography #nature #NaturePhotography @rspb.bsky.social

A pristine, presumably post-moult female Northern Wheatear on the beach. Esnandes, Charante-Maritime, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France #photography #birds #birding #wildlife #wildlifephotography #nature #naturephotography #nikon

What a stunning bird, a real buzz to see for the first time. I hadn’t realised what a long and slim neck they have. Just beautiful! Pointe Saint-Clément, Baie de l’Aiguillon, France #photography #birds #birding #birdsinflight #wildlife #wildlifephotography #nature #naturephotography #purple #nikon

Came upon a crayfish on a Sunday stroll today. It reared up as I nearly stepped on it…plucky thing to do really, given the size difference. My best assessment is that it is of the invasive signal variety and therefore spreading plague and undermining river banks #photography #wildlife #nature

Couldn’t help notice as I scrolled down my feed how @bsky.app had matched the excellent work of 2 photographers I follow, @mike-carr.bsky.social and @knsc.bsky.social #serendipity #photography #photographers

Amazed that this Speckled Wood allowed me to get so close and impressed by the detail picked up by my iPhone 12. Coulon, La Marais Poitevin, France #photography #wildlife #nature #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #butterfly #beauty #lepidoptera #insects #iphonography #iphonephotography

Anyone any good at gulls? I think black-headed, but want to rule out Mediterranean. Taken yesterday on the beach at Concarneau, Brittany, western France. Any telltales? #photography #bird #birds #birding #wildlife #wildlifephotography #nature #naturephotography #nikon #oiseau #oiseaux #France #gull