#BeakOpen from this #HolidayRobin #birds #BirdOfTheDay #ukwildlife #EastCoastKin

The alternative #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #BeakOpen, so here is a #HolidayRobin / #FestiveDailyRobin singing away at Brandon Marsh, near Coventry, at the end of March 2024. #birds #BirdPhotography #UKWildlife #EastCoastKin 🌿

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A few of my favourites from this year. We are lucky to have such stunning birds either visiting or residents of Suffolk. There have been many more, and they are really wonderful to see. I share these images to show and tell a short story about the birds, suported with my photos.

For today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme #ShadesOfGrey I’m quoting a post with a Jackdaw photo from one of my #PlumeScrolling threads and adding a close-up of the subject’s head. #Birds #BirdPhotography #UKWildlife #EastCoastKin 🌿

“Yeah, but you should see the other tree...” 😉

Today is the last day before the big hike in fees charged by the Probate Search service for copies of England & Wales wills dating from 1858 to the present. I think I am now done with ordering, for my #OnePlaceStudies and my own #FamilyHistory. I won't miss using that clunky-beyond-belief website!

This is what many of us have been saying. Part 3 of the Planning & Infrastructure Bill is based on a myth: that we don't have enough homes because wildlife and green spaces are protected. It will solve nothing, and inflict terrible harm on our remaining ecosystems www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

I've posted similar images for #Stunday. I stood in knee deep water with a couple friends and opened the shutter many times for somewhere between 15 and 30 seconds hoping to catch oak leaves doing their fall dance on the water. #photography #landscape #EastCoastKin #oaktrees #trees #longexposure

#BirdOfTheDay theme today is #shadesofgrey any bird with grey in their colours and the alternative is #beakopen set by @alan678.bsky.social so I'm going with the alternative beak open with this Mallard that had an awful lot to say for itself 🪶 🦉 #ukbirding #birdingWales #photography #EastCoastKin

If you’re feeling a bit sad it might help a little to know that this painting exists. It’s called Dynamism of a dog on a leash, by Giacomo Galla, 1912:

Unusual sight: North American river otter startling a great blue heron in Algonquin Park (photo 1/2) #eastcoastkin #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #heron #birds #otter #algonquinpark #ontario #canada #nikon

This is an official BlueSky team response to a CSA victim complaining about BlueSky banning Patton Oswalt for saying "Wood chipper. Feet First' regarding Megyn Kelly's defense of CSA and Jeffrey Epstein.

Painted Lady passing on by...

My brother @robcamera.bsky.social hopes I'll soon be well enough for us to get together again for days out combining #NaturePhotography and general silliness. Like that time we saw a certain waterbird and I started singing "Gordon is a Moorhen!" 1/2 #BirdOfTheDay #UKWildlife #EastCoastKin 🌿

#ducklings photographed on the River Severn in Newtown. I lay down in all the stones that the low river had exposed, while a family of 14 ducklings ran riot. So enjoyable. #BirdOfTheDay #birds #photography #ukwildlife #EastCoastKin

If you’re starting to think about Christmas shopping, check out the replies to this.

Beautiful November light and colours near Ullswater, Cumbria 😍

A roseate spoonbill drops gently into the wetlands, its pink wings fanned wide as it prepares to land among the lush greens below. rebeccaherranen.com/featured/spo... #birds #nature #wildlife #buyintoart #naturephotography #photography #fineart #giftideas #birdlovers #waterbirds #art

Now finding & ordering post-1858 wills for my Fawsley #OnePlaceStudy. The Knightleys have titles, which makes finding them on the Probate Search site ‘fun’. Possibly dumb question: when ordering we are cautioned to enter full names or get a ‘no find’ notification—should the title(s) be entered too?

Looking forward to adding this eBay acquisition to my Atcherley Archive when it arrives. A press pic of Richard “Batchy” Atcherley as Professor Charles Beresford-Smythe of Oxford University, who performed his ‘crazy flying’ routine at the National Air Races in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1931. #OneNameStudy

Coots and Moorhens are the subjects for #BirdOfTheDay today. I’m starting with diving #Coots, sharing one pic that I posted as part of a #PlumeScrolling thread a while back, and one that I haven’t posted here before, both taken at Brandon Marsh. #Birds #BirdPhotography #UKWildlife #EastCoastKin 🌿

RED SQUIRREL BUM! That is all.

As the mist swirled and danced, Glastonbury Tor took central stage. Photograph from this morning.

#BirdOfTheDay theme today #CootsAndMoorhens so I’ve covered both here. #photography #ukwildlife #birds #EastCoastKin

Spending lots of valuable time with one species, gives you a better understanding about their behaviour. Most of all, some wonderful moments witnessed/captured in the same puddle time after time. Sometimes there was no body there, and that peace and quiet is good for the soul especially these days 😊

I like big buttresses an’ I can not lie...

Well, I'm flagging now (must be the semaphore lessons I had just before the radioiodine treatment this morning 😉). Goodnight all, and have the best weekend possible.

With Storm Claudia in full force with rain and strong gusts all day, I couldn't help but think back to sunnier times on the Isles of Scilly when I was there earlier in the autumn! 🪶🐬🦋😀 #islesofscilly

THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS

Ep. 1 of @hallierubenhold.bsky.social’s #IntimateHistories podcast really resonates. “History is the story of people, & people’s lives are meaningful & profoundly messy.” Social history, she says, is the counterweight to ‘great man’ history — I think family, local & house historians would all agree.

One more #Swan 🦢 (OK, I admit he or she doesn't exactly fill the frame). On Horse Pond, at Fawsley, my local #OnePlaceStudy parish, in April 2024. Because it has been a while since I have used the #SwanPlaceStudy hashtag. 😄 #BirdOfTheDay #Scape #EastCoastKin #NaturePhotography

An early influence on my sense of humour was a book from Mum’s childhood – her Mickey Mouse Annual, published in 1946! Today, for some reason, I have been thinking about this one. 🌧️🌧️🌧️

#swans for #BirdOfTheDay #photography #ukwildlife #birds #EastCoastKin

The foot of Grasmoor #LakeDistrict

#Swans are the subject for #BirdOfTheDay today so here is a male Mute Swan in full-on ‘Angel of Death’ mode, heading at full speed towards a couple of Swans who were trespassing on *his* family’s part of the lake. Brandon Marsh, May 2025. #Birds #BirdPhotography #UKWildlife #EastCoastKin 🌿

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This reminds of the time* when I was in a health food shop and saw a poster saying ‘Mock Duck.’ I went straight to the nearest pond, pointed at one of its feathery, web-footed, big-billed residents and exclaimed “Hah! Call that a beak?!?” 👉🏻🦆😂 *Events related may be fictional 😉

Fed up with the John Lewis's website talking to me as if I'm a naughty dog.

Author copies might be arriving just before Christmas, woohoo!! Publication date: mid-January

Whow! #GetGreensElected - #VoteGreen in very effective action. Want to be part of a campaign like this where you live? join.greenparty.org.uk

This is a favorite spread from the book because it’s a self contained story from one morning. It moves from that calm, still, reflective moment to the explosion of the action shot. It's why sticking around is worth the time. #mallard #ducks #birds #wildlife

Dear Michelle, Thank you for entering the Wildflower Photographer of the Year competition. Congratulations, your photograph was picked as one of the National Wildflower Centre team’s favourites its been included as part of an exhibition for the competition! The exhibition is on at the Eden Project.

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It's #scape day. This is a long exposure of three minutes made of my favorite old snag on my favorite beach. I got to this spot at 5:30am and left 2 hours later. The sunrise was incredible. I had the beach all to myself. #photography #landscape #EastCoastKin #clouds #longexposure

Thyroid update: In the process of being nuked. ☢️ You have to wait two hours after taking the radioidine capsule before eating or drinking. For me, that time is up in a few minutes. Gasping for a cup of coffee and some chocolate... ☕🍫

Alan’s theme for #BirdOfTheDay is #swans, so I thought I’d post this happy little #cygnet once more. 🪶

This week we started Season 10, and welcomed Dr. Wanda Wyporska (formerly of Society of Genealogists, now at Black Cultural Archives), and heard about researching witchcraft in Poland, her sea-faring ancestor, and went looking for a couple in Barbados. familyhistoriespodcast.com/2025/11/11/s...

It was a very wet walk this morning so spent a few minutes going back over some photos I haven't posted before. Ruby Red Tor. Taken in October 2024 when the aurora visited Glastonbury Tor.