A high-speed action photograph of a male Eurasian Siskin (Spinus spinus) in mid-flight with wings fully extended. The bird features a black crown, bright yellow face, and olive-streaked plumage. Sunlight highlights the translucent yellow wing bars against a blurred background of dark, wintry branches with soft, natural bokeh.

The #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #WideOpenWings birds with wings wide open.

I think this #Siskin photo taken this past weekend fits the bill.

#EastCoastKin #birdphotography #ukwildife

Safe Journey My Love - Puffin(Fratercula arctica) Once the breeding season is over and the years Puffling(yeah a baby Puffin is called this...cute or what!!) has flown the nest, it's time for the adults to head back out to spend winter at sea. Not a ...

A story of true love and dedication, played out over land and sea...

#Birds #ukwildife #Puffin #Nature

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Winter mornings in the churchyard across the paddock.

Winter mornings in the churchyard across the paddock.

Winter mornings in the churchyard across the paddock.

Winter mornings in the churchyard across the paddock.

Winter mornings in the churchyard by the paddock.

#ukwildife #nature #owls #wildlifephotography #birds #lavenham #suffolk

A screen grab from the merlin bird ID app showing it has heard a great spotted woodpecker, jay, great tit, Robin, long-tailed tit, rewing, blue tit, red poll and a tawny owl

Just got my my Merlin app out to try to work out if the incredible cacophony was jays, crows and magpies or just lots of jays.
Ijust at that exact moment a tawny owl called, then 2 redpolls flew into the owl's tree.
#Birds loving the sunshine!
#UKWildife

Feeding Black-tailed Godwit from late summer #ukwildife #birds #birdwatching #WildlifeFilmmaking

The bellow #ukwildife #wildlife #reddeer

Blue Shieldbugs, Zicrona caerulea, on a dock leaf.

Blue Shieldbugs, Zicrona caerulea, on a dock leaf.

Blue Shieldbugs, Zicrona caerulea.

@vannabartlett.bsky.social and I saw several in waterside vegetation at West Acre, Norfolk, today.

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#Shieldbugs #UKWildife

A couple of the rutting reds- the guy on the right won this battle. #ukwildife

Juvenile Cuckoo on Roydon Common this evening #UKBirding #norfolkbirding #ukwildife #birds

One of my favourite insects, the Hornet Robberfly sucking the insides out of another fly from last weekend!
Taken at the only reliable colony in the Essex that's not been built on or under direct threat from development :(
#bugsky #ukwildife #nature #wildlife #insect

Common Darter Dragonfly #ukwildife

Exciting recent water vole footage from one of our trail cams! Thanks to volunteer Tony for this fantastic video.

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#nature #wildife #naturerecovery #nationalparks #watervole #ukwildife #yorkshire

Black Headed Gull @birdguides.bsky.social #ukbirds #ukwildife #wetlands

Water voles along the river bank down by the sewerage works. Wildlife just happens, and more often than not in the most unexpected places.

Water voles along the river bank down by the sewerage works. Wildlife just happens, and more often than not in the most unexpected places.

#ukwildife #nature #wildlifephotography #lavenham #suffolk

A yellow dragonfly with black stripes down the length of its abdomen sits on a reed stem, preparing to roost for the night.

Time for some #dragonfly action. I saw a couple of mature male Black-tailed Skimmers last weekend but they refused to pose for a phot so this immature one without the blue colour will have to do. #invertebrates #ukwildife @britishdragonflies.bsky.social

A male mallard duck coming into land on the water. His orange feet are down and the wings are spread on either side giving him an angelic look.

Angels come in all shapes and sizes, but they’re always there for you 🥰
#UKwildife #UKbirds #Nature #Wildife #Birds #Ducks

In my garden today #ukwildife #ukbirds #photography

One of the animals which everyone looks out for when rockpooling are crabs and prawns.Most people will have found a Green crab/Shore crab or a Common or Rockpool prawn. But there are over 75 different species in our costal waters.
#UKWildife , #UKNature, #MarineLife , #TidePool
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A Rabbit in my garden this morning - once so common here - now the opposite.
There have been no kits born here for 4 years. A very worrying development - such an integral part of the food chain, suddenly disappeared.
#mammals #ukwildife

This Long-clawed porcelain crab , Pisidia longicornis, looks quite big so close, but it is only tiny. They typically have a carapace length of 1 cm.
#UKWildife , #UKNature , #MarineLife , #TidePool

#UKWildife , #UKNature , #Fishes , #MarineLife , #Tidepools

Even a flatfish was in one of the rockpools: Topknot , Zeugopterus punctatus
#UKWildife , #UKNature , #Fishes , #MarineLife , #Tidepools

#UKWildife , #UKNature , #Fishes , #MarineLife , #Tidepools

We found some more interesting fish while rockpooling in Porlock. This colourful one is a Corkwing wrasse , Symphodus melops.
#UKWildife , #UKNature , #Fishes , #MarineLife , #Tidepools

Goldeneye, Little Egret, Shoveler and Wigeon @rspbframptonmarsh.bsky.social #ukbirding #uknature #ukWildife

🧵1/3 Raptors in the urban environment.
I'm over in Shaftesbury today, where there's a derelict workshop at the back of a High St shop. It hasn't yet been turned into an AirBnB studio.
This location is home to feral pigeons, House Sparrows, Jackdaws, Wrens, Robins, small rodents.
#raptors #ukwildife

A stretching Hare
#mammals #ukwildife #nature #hares

A grey squirrel standing alert in the nook of a tree - the squirrel faces right, with the limb of the tree angled diagonally across the image to the upper right.

A Thursday throwback to a couple of years ago, and one of my first outings to some local woods in search of Grey Squirrels #ukwildife

#winterwatch A few from today in the #StormEowyn

#birds #ukwildife

Blue Tit
male Ring Necked Parakeet
Jay
Dunnock

I'm always amazed by the resilience of the animals around us, trying to tap into that while these dark times ebb and flow. Need to get out and about this week and unplug from it all.

#ukwildlifephotography #ukbirds #ukwildife #birds #gulls #nature