Thank you Alan

Thank you Andrea

Thank you Tony

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #LeafAndLight with this wonderful Goldcrest.
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FourFinchFriday
Female Siskin, male Goldfinch, male Greenfinch and female Brambling.
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Thank you Alan

Thank you 🙏

A male Sparrowhawk is perched on a stump in centre of picture. His brown/orange looking front, neck and cheeks, and his grey/blue back and cap is surrounded by Camillia to the left and Daffodils to the right.

A male Sparrowhawk backed by Camillia and Daffodils. #birds #ukwildlife #photography #ECK #BirdOfTheDay

It’s Four Finch Friday and featured today is male Chaffinch, female Siskin, female Goldfinch and male Greenfinch.
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Photo of a Grey Heron (Ardea cinerea) standing in some shallow, weedy water, and holding a Newt in his or her beak. The Grey Heron is a bird with a long beak, neck, body and legs. As the name of the species suggests, the plumage is mostly grey, darker in some places, paler in others. The head is white, with a broad black stripe on each side running from the base of the beak, above the eye (which is is yellow with a black pupil and rim) to the back of the back of the head, from where long, slim, black feathers or plumes protrude. The long, pointed, heavyset beak is an orangey-yellow colour below; in this image backlighting from the sun highlights that colour. The long legs, only the top parts of which can be seen here, are pinkish.

A highlight from yesterday at @warwickshirewt.bsky.social Brandon Marsh.* I love Newts, but not in the same way that Herons do. I guess they make a very newtritious meal...

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Probably the start of a Brandon thread.🧵

*Not a highlight for Newts eaten by the Herons.

Photo of a Dark-edged Bee-fly (Bombylius major) in flight above a Primrose (Primula vulgaris). The Bee-fly, facing away from us and towards the left, is near the top right corner of the image, with parts of some the Primrose leaves below, and parts of two pale yellow Primrose flowers in the bottom left corner. The Bee-fly has a compact, rounded body with a dense hairy covering which is mostly brown, with some black. The wings are blackish along the leading edges and clear elsewhere. The dark legs are long, thin and gangly-looking. The long, black, pointed proboscis, which is a little over half of the Bee-fly's body length, is pointing downward.

Continuing my #BrandonMarsh thread with this Dark-edged Bee-fly, captured in flight above the #flower from which he had been sipping nectar with his long, rigid, needle-like proboscis. A bank of Primroses hosted around a dozen of these incredible #insects.

#Beefly #UKWildlife #NaturePhotography 🌿

#BirdOfTheDay theme is #SteppingOut which is exactly what this young Sparrowhawk is doing, but there again it might be practicing the Hokey Cokey 😀
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#BirdOfTheDay theme is #BestOfTheMonth so here’s a few of my favourites. Male Sparrowhawk, female Great Spotted Woodpecker, male Chaffinch and Blue Tit.
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#BranchBirds is today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme
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#BirdOfTheDay alternative theme is Robins 😀
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#BirdOfTheDay theme is #CollectingFood I feature Fieldfare, Nuthatch, Kingfisher and Robin.
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My nature photography journey. Today, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Blue Tit, Buzzard and Nuthatch from 2023. #birds #EastCoastKin #ukwildlife #photography

#BirdOfTheDay theme is #reflections
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Thank you Vicky 😀🙏

Thank you Alan, all part of some fabulous moments at the start of January

A Red Kite with #OpenBeak
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#EyeContact is today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme.
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Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #swans
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Thank you Lorraine, happy to give your Friday an extra boost 😀

Thank you Alison

#walking is one of the #BirdOfTheDay themes. Here we have Egyptian Goose, Puffin, Avocet and Grey Wagtail doing just that.
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Wonderful capture

Cheers Rob