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Birding Ralph 🐦🦆🦉🦋🐞📸
@birderbro.bsky.social
Hobby bird photographer based in Bonn 🇩🇪 (previously CA 🇺🇸)
Irl I work for an African health NGO 🌍
My feed features feathered friends & nature 📸s from California, Africa & Germany
All 📸s my own unless RP 🔁
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Hello Bsky friends👋 here's a brief intro to myself: my name's Ralph. I live in 🇩🇪 (previously in CA) & work for an African health NGO. In my spare time, I like to take 📸s, especially of #birds. Being out in #nature is therapy for my soul. I'm also a dad of 2😀. #funfact: I used to be in a ska band 🎺🕺.
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February 1, 2026 at 9:22 AM
Smews are small and smart.

Just back in from watching a total of four on my local lake. This one is one of them ⬇️😍

And my latest entey for #BirdsSeenIn2026 🇩🇪.

#birds #nature #EastCoastKin #naturephotography #photography #birdwatching #birdphotography #birding
February 5, 2026 at 3:40 PM
#GullsInWater for today's #BirdOfTheDay:

This is a Western Gull standing in the shallow water of a Southern #California beach a couple of summer's back, where it had found a tasty morsel to eat...

#birds #gulls #SoCal #EastCoastKin #nature #photography #naturephotography #photographer #birdphoto
February 1, 2026 at 10:18 AM
February 1, 2026 at 9:22 AM
Ferruginous Duck for #BirdsSeenIn2026 🇩🇪 and a day late for
@robcrank68.bsky.social's #BirdOfTheDay theme of #Ducks (though I did take these pics yesterday - didn't get to posting until just now... 😬).

#birds #photography #EastCoastKin #nature #birdphotography #waterfowl #naturephotography
February 1, 2026 at 9:17 AM
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"No matter how hairy you are, I am Harrier" 🙈😆

Male Hen Harrier (maybe called Harry?) near my home yesterday afternoon

Such graceful fliers...

Happy #FlyDay y'all 🧚👼

#birds #nature #photography #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #EastCoastKin #photographer #Friday #TGIF #raptor #Raptors
January 23, 2026 at 10:38 AM
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@robcrank68.bsky.social set the theme for today's #BirdOfTheDay and the theme is #FeedingTime, any #birds eating.

This is a pescatarian Pied Kingfisher enjoying a meal just outside Dakar, Senegal ⬇️

#EastCoastKin #photography #animals #nature #fish #naturephotography #photographer #wildlifephoto
January 20, 2026 at 7:33 AM
Another one from my close encounter with a male Hen Harrier a couple of days ago near my home 📸

It's not that any bird isn't beautiful or graceful, but this one is particularly so - wouldn't you agree? 😍🥰

#birds #raptor #Raptors #EastCoastKin #naturephotography #photography #birdphotography
January 24, 2026 at 9:42 AM
According to @robcrank68.bsky.social, today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Swans, any Swan will do.

My contribution is a Black #Swan - easily told from the more common Mute Swan by its sightly smaller size... 😜😆🦢

#birds #photography #EastCoastKin #nature #birdphotography #naturephotography
January 24, 2026 at 9:38 AM
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So beautiful .. it must be amazing to watch them fly!
And what capture!

None down here in Brighton & Hove .. yet 🙄 but I've been practicing the impossible art of capturing our local Fulmar as they wheel around the chalk cliffs.

Clearly a project in progress 🙃
Happy #Flyday
January 23, 2026 at 10:52 AM
"No matter how hairy you are, I am Harrier" 🙈😆

Male Hen Harrier (maybe called Harry?) near my home yesterday afternoon

Such graceful fliers...

Happy #FlyDay y'all 🧚👼

#birds #nature #photography #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #EastCoastKin #photographer #Friday #TGIF #raptor #Raptors
January 23, 2026 at 10:38 AM
@robcrank68.bsky.social set the theme for today's #BirdOfTheDay and the theme is #FeedingTime, any #birds eating.

This is a pescatarian Pied Kingfisher enjoying a meal just outside Dakar, Senegal ⬇️

#EastCoastKin #photography #animals #nature #fish #naturephotography #photographer #wildlifephoto
January 20, 2026 at 7:33 AM
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Harriette the Hen Harrier soars by for today's #BirdOfTheDay theme #Raptor.

Such graceful #birds 🥰

I'm stoked I was able to capture this adrenaline-rich fly-by, which lasted but a couple of seconds, for eternity 📸

#photography #raptors #nature #EastCoastKin #naturephotography #photographer
January 15, 2026 at 5:26 AM
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #TwoOfAKind: pairs of the same bird.

I’m going with two #birds I saw in Senegal & which I ID'd as Red-billed Quelea in non-breeding plumage (let me know if I got it wrong!). 💕

Have a great #Sunday 🙌

#photography #EastCoastKin #Stunday #TwosDay
January 18, 2026 at 10:44 AM
GM 👋 @alan678.bsky.social set the alt theme for today's #BirdOfTheDay, and it is #waterwings: #birds standing in the water.

Seems like this wonderful Willet fits the bill (or the beak...😜)

#photo #EastCoastKin #nature #naturephotography #birding #birdwatching
January 17, 2026 at 10:33 AM
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One fun aspect of #birding in the #winter are the #geese 😍
This one's a Greater White-fronted
And look 🧐: it's got a short #beak - perfect for today's #BirdOfTheDay theme 😀

#birds #photography #EastCoastKin #naturephotography #nature #birdphotography #birdwatching #BirdsSeenIn2026 🇩🇪 #shortbeaks
January 8, 2026 at 12:19 PM
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The alt theme for today's #BirdOfTheDay is #most; the #bird you think you have the most #photos of

Right now, for me, that's the Red-necked Grebe ⬇️

I literally have 1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣s of shots of this particular individual that's wintering on a local lake 🪶

#EastCoastKin #naturephotography #nature #birding
January 5, 2026 at 12:32 PM
Whooper Swan (Cygnus cygnus) in my local patch in 🇩🇪 for #BirdsSeenIn2026 and just ahead of #FlyDay

🦢😍

#birds #nature #bif #birdsinflight #photography #photographer #birdphotography #nature #naturephotography #EastCoastKin #Swan
January 15, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Harriette the Hen Harrier soars by for today's #BirdOfTheDay theme #Raptor.

Such graceful #birds 🥰

I'm stoked I was able to capture this adrenaline-rich fly-by, which lasted but a couple of seconds, for eternity 📸

#photography #raptors #nature #EastCoastKin #naturephotography #photographer
January 15, 2026 at 5:26 AM
One fun aspect of #birding in the #winter are the #geese 😍
This one's a Greater White-fronted
And look 🧐: it's got a short #beak - perfect for today's #BirdOfTheDay theme 😀

#birds #photography #EastCoastKin #naturephotography #nature #birdphotography #birdwatching #BirdsSeenIn2026 🇩🇪 #shortbeaks
January 8, 2026 at 12:19 PM
The alt theme for today's #BirdOfTheDay is #most; the #bird you think you have the most #photos of

Right now, for me, that's the Red-necked Grebe ⬇️

I literally have 1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣s of shots of this particular individual that's wintering on a local lake 🪶

#EastCoastKin #naturephotography #nature #birding
January 5, 2026 at 12:32 PM
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Red-necked Grebe at "my" local lake 😍
What a pretty bird 🥰
I hope it'll stick around and that we'll get to see it molt into its even more vibrant breeding plumage... 🤞

#birds #BirdsSeenIn2025 #nature #photography #EastCoastKin #naturephotography #waterbirds #wildlife #wildlifephotography #birdphoto
December 28, 2025 at 8:36 PM
✋Hands up if you've seen the 2011 movie adaptation of Mark Obmascik's The Big Year, starring Steve Martin, Jack Black and Owen Wilson 🤣
Do you remember the Pink-footed Goose?
Well, I finally saw one myself - lifer💗🥳
Here it is ⬇️😍

#birds #nature #naturephotography #photography #birding #birdwatching
January 3, 2026 at 10:53 AM
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I just LOVE #BirdOfTheDay. Thx @alan678.bsky.social & @robcrank68.bsky.social for hosting 🙌
Today's theme: #QuietObservers - single #birds observing their surroundings.
Well, here's Winnie the Whinchat doing just that in a field of #yellow mustard and sunflowers 🌻

#EastCoastKin #nature #photography
December 18, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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😧 I'm late for #BirdOfTheDay. What's the theme you ask? Well, Rob says it's #LongLegsAndNeck - any #birds with both items listed
How'bout a Grey Crowned Crane?
This elegant bird graced my hood for a few days a couple of years ago, surely an escape but w/o a ring 🤷

#EastCoastKin #nature #photography
December 19, 2025 at 4:19 PM