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Janet Roch
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Photography and nature keeping me sane. Retired paediatric EM now trying to do my bit to leave this beautiful planet for the next generation.
All photo's my own unless re-posts / credited
#EastCoastKin Arts Collective Member
Sheffield UK
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Janet Roch @cumberlandjc.bsky.social · 5d
Ebbor Gorge #Somerset

Came across this beautiful tree with an almost geometrical pattern on its bark - lit up by the sun it looked like a church window.
Canon R5 100mm F7.1 1:400s ISO4000
#ArtAdventCalendar #ThickTrunkTuesday #trees #AlphabetChallenge #WeekWforWindows #nature
Photo of a section of an Ash tree trunk. In this area of the trunk the bark has developed into a pattern of diamonds this small area is lit by a ray of sunshine filtering through the surrounding wood lighting it up and emphasising the way it resembles a leaded window, round the side of the tree away from the strongest sunlight the tree is covered in moss and slightly higher up there are some small fungi growing on the bark
Reposted by Janet Roch
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Oddvent Day 8.

On the eighth day of Christmas my true love ga…WHAAAT? Oh this is embarrassing. I thought we’d sorted this out yesterday…who stuck my notes together..? I’m so confused…

#ArtAdventCalendar #Illustrator #Advent #Art #Oddvent
Eight maids in a swimming pool.
December 8, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Reposted by Janet Roch
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A Bald Eagle diving towards the Columbia River looking to snag some smelt. For today’s #birdoftheday theme of #movement.

#wildlifephotography #birds #eagle #naturephotography #wildlife #pnw
A bald eagle in steep dive straight down with its wing spread out to the side and it's head and talons pointing downward towards the water.
December 6, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Reposted by Janet Roch
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Oddvent Day 7.

On the seventh day of Christmas my true lo…hang on…no…this isn’t right…

#ArtAdventCalendar #Illustrator #Advent #Art #Oddvent
A man chasing after seven swans with a milk bottle in his hand.
December 7, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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"Well, nice chatting to you sister, but I'm off.

A family of swallows practicing their taking off and landing skills while waiting for their parents to drop by with food.

#BirdOfTheDay #Movement #Birds #UKbirding #wales #EastCoastKin #ArtAdventCalendar #ArtYear
Photo of 2 juvenile swallows on the branch of a bramble. The right hand one is perched nearly face on and is looking to the side at its sibling. The left hand one is in mid takeoff wings raised one foot in the air off its perch looking intently straight ahead. The swallows are nearly adult but have a less bright red face and bib and less dark head and neck collar than a full adult plumage. They were part of a family of 5 juveniles sitting on the bramble bush in the sunshine flying from branch to branch and gaping noisily every time an adult flew in to feed them.
December 6, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Oddvent Day 6.

On the sixth day of Christmas my next door neighbour was having some work done on his house and I’m guessing this lot’s quote was the lowest…

#ArtAdventCalendar #Oddvent #Advent #Art
Six Geese Bricklaying
December 6, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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Hassop Station 2024 - the third of the 5 thrushes in one day 😊

#BirdOfTheDay prompts are #Borbs and #Black but what about a blackborb?

#Birds #UKbirding #EastCoastKin #ArtAdventCalendar #ArtYear #Derbyshire #Peakdistrict #smArtist
Photo of a very fluffed up round blackbird on a cold sunny January day. Its foraging on the ground in the long dead grass stems and approaching a red apple left there for the purpose of feeding the birds
December 5, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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#Brazil #Pantanal 2019

"What we gonna do?" "I don't know what d'you wanna do?" "I asked first, what we gonna do?"

Canon 5Dmk4 360mm f/9 1:400s ISO10,000

#TheJungleBook #BirdOfTheDay #Black #Birds #Disney #Travel #TheBeatles
Photo of 3 Black vultures, with their black plumage and naked black heads, all sitting on the same branch. They remind me of the scene in the Disney animation "The Jungle book" where 4 vultures, drawn and voiced to have a resemblance to the Liverpool band The Beatles, bored from doing nothing, argue over what they might do before spotting and singing to Mowgli
December 5, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Oddvent Day 5.

On the fifth day of Christmas a waiter brought to me…

#ArtAdventCalendar #Oddvent #Advent #Art
Five Onion Rings
December 5, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Reposted by Janet Roch
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What’s a girl to do when when the subject suddenly becomes the photographer?
🤷‍♀️
🪶Black-capped Chickadee
#BirdOfTheDay #Borbs
#VermontBirds
December 5, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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#Puffin Sule Skerry 2025
With the winter's day ending as it began in dreary rain what better cheer than to hark back to a couple of summer #seabirds
Canon R5 500mm f7.1 1/1000s ISO400
#SensoryArt #Seasons #BirdOfTheDay #Birds #UKbirding #Scotland #EastCoastKin #ArtAdventCalendar #ArtYear
Photo of 2 Puffins standing on a rock in a sea of green foliage. One has its black back to the camera, its face and bright red beack just seen as it turns its head slightly. The other, with its wings outstretched, is showing a full frontal of its gleaming white chest and belly contrasting with its black neck. The head is slightly turned showing its white clown face red eye ring and red beak. Sule Skerry, a small island in the north Atlantic consists of a light house....and hundreds of puffin nests dug in the soft earth and hidden by the thick covering of green plants. No straying off the path for humans!
December 4, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Serenaded by 4 separate Robins yesterday on my way to the shops, territorial fights temporarily suspended for winter, so be rude not to include one for #BirdOfTheDay #Songbirds

#HolidayRobin #FestiveDailyRobin #ArtAdventCalendar #EastCoastKin #birds #UKbirding #ArtYear
Photo of a robin taken at Ham Wall Nov 2025. It's standing on the dead stem of a Cow Parsley flower head, the sparse remains of which can be seen to the left including the umbrelliform stalks and a few seeds. Blurred green foliage is the background to the lovely, red-fronted ,bird lit by winter sun.
December 4, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Reposted by Janet Roch
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Oddvent Day 4.

On the fourth day of Christmas I received several blows to the head from above and spent the evening in A&E…

#ArtAdventCalendar #Oddvent #Advent #Art
December 4, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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Buffy Fish Owl #SriLanka

"Excuse me! You are disturbing my sleep"

Canon R5 500mm f7.1 1:640s ISO800 +0.7EV

#BirdOfTheDay #LookingAtYou #Birds #Raptors #EastCoastKin #ArtYear
Photo of a Buffy Fish Owl - a native owl of Sri Lanka, It's a large owl with prominent ear tufts a dark tawny striped back and wings and a streaky brown face . In this picture it is sideways on but has turned its head through 90 degrees to look directly at the camera with its striking orange eyes, its left ear tuft is blown up by a slight breeze. It's sitting on a thick branch of a tree with foliage to the left of it and out of focus tree plus dull grey sky behind it.
December 3, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Ebbor Gorge #Somerset

Even though the sun was shining, in the wooded valleys Jack Frost would not release those whom he had captured in the night.
Canon R5 176mm f9 1:640 ISO800

#ArtAdventCalendar #EastCoastKin #winter #frost #ArtYear #smArtist #SensoryArt #seasons
Close up photograph of ivy leaves on the ground covered with long spicules of frost The dappled sun is shining on the leaves, but here, in a valley in the woods we were walking in, the ground temperature was too cold for the sun to melt the ice.
December 3, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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If you fancy a Christmas sing along these folk are brilliant , and also include some local Sheffield Christmas carols. They're also on BBC Breakfast tomorrow around 8ish.
@helpsheffield.co.uk #SheffEvents
Flyer for the Sheffield. Loxley Solver Band giving dates and locations
December 3, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Reposted by Janet Roch
mrchriswhite.bsky.social
On the third day of Christmas my taxi driver who picked me up from the station introduced to me…

#ArtAdventCalendar #Oddvent #Advent #Art
Three French Kens
December 3, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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Ok, enhanced the knocks so you can let the dog back in from the cold before someone calls Animals Cops.
December 2, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Sule Skerry 2025
While the background may be coloured the regal Razorbill is definitely #mono and with the #stripes on its face and beak ticks both #BirdOfTheDay prompts ☑️
Canon R5 270mm f7.1 1:2000s ISO400

#Birds #EastCoastKin #ArtAdventCalendar #Scotland #UKBirding #Wildlife
Side on photographic portrait of a majestic Razorbill against a blurred green background. This visually stunning bird with its bright white chest and black head and back can not be called cuddly looking, its dark eye merges with the dark head but has a thin white horizontal line extending from the front corner to the bill giving it a severe look, The bill is blunt, shiny and black with a single vertical line each side adding detail to the minimalist appearance. The lord of all it surveys 👑
December 2, 2025 at 7:32 PM
cumberlandjc.bsky.social
Ebbor Gorge #Somerset

Came across this beautiful tree with an almost geometrical pattern on its bark - lit up by the sun it looked like a church window.
Canon R5 100mm F7.1 1:400s ISO4000
#ArtAdventCalendar #ThickTrunkTuesday #trees #AlphabetChallenge #WeekWforWindows #nature
Photo of a section of an Ash tree trunk. In this area of the trunk the bark has developed into a pattern of diamonds this small area is lit by a ray of sunshine filtering through the surrounding wood lighting it up and emphasising the way it resembles a leaded window, round the side of the tree away from the strongest sunlight the tree is covered in moss and slightly higher up there are some small fungi growing on the bark
December 2, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Reposted by Janet Roch
mrchriswhite.bsky.social
On the second day of Christmas my friend Stu gave to me…

#ArtAdventCalendar #Oddvent #Advent #Art
December 2, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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#SriLanka 2023
It rained! Quite a lot 🙄 But that just made the #LongTailed Blue-tailed bee eaters even more vibrant 🥰
Canon R5 500mm f7.1 1:200s ISO5000

#BirdOfTheDay #Birds #EastCoastKin #ArtAdventCalendar #ArtYear #BlueSkyMonday #Travel
Photo of a blue-tailed Bee Eater taken in Sri Lanka. The bird is sitting on a bare branch in the rain against a blurred green background . Its a brightly coloured bird with an orange crown, black eyestripe through it's red eye, and a tiny bit of white just below the eye. Its yellow chin leads to a dark orange throat below which a yellow chest merges into a green belly. The start of the tail is turquoise blue while the longer feathers are more grey and finally the 2 longest feathers are dark. Its black beak is scimitar like curved slightly downwards.
December 1, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Reposted by Janet Roch
mrchriswhite.bsky.social
On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me…

#ArtAdventCalendar #Oddvent #Advent #Art
December 1, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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Toss and Catch....

2024 was a mast year & the hawthorns at Hassop Station #Derbyshire attracted record numbers of Waxwings

The crest, the black mask, the red & yellow details on the feathers, the tongue!

#BirdOfTheDay #Stunday #BerriesandBeaks #EastCoastKin #ArtYear #Birds #UKbirding #Sheffield
Photo portrait of a Waxwing. A winter visitor to the UK when it comes to feast on any available berries. Such a stunning bird with a buff / grey chest and belly, slightly darker back, black chin with dark orange either side and orange forehead leading to a fading buff brown bushy crest. A black line above it's beak stretches into a black eye stripe giving the bird a rather intense and almost malevolent look. the wing markings are more defined than its body with black and white stripes with a tiny detail of red tips to its secondaries. the black tail has a yellow tip and the whole look is finished off with an orange vent. This bird has just tossed a hawthorn berry to get its position right for swallowing Close up of the same bird as the previous photo. It has just caught the berry in its open beak and its tongue which expands into a flat plate at its tip, is also touching the berry to manoeuvre it.
November 30, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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July in the North Atlantic on MV Classina

It was either blowing a hooley or mind-blowingly beautiful

#Stunday #EastCoastKin #ArtYear #smArtist #Scape #Scotland #UK #sea
View from the deck of the ship while crossing the North Atlantic Sea. The sea is calm with lottie waves but no white horses The sky above us was blue with high white cirrus cloud but with dark cumulonimbus clouds in the distance warning of what was to come. The sun is reflected on the sea from the horizon to the boat twinkeling on the wave tops
November 30, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Bempton 2025 = unlimited #Gannets 💙

No shortage of nesting material to be had but delivery's a bit tricky when it's this crowded.

Canon R5 300mm f/6.3 1:4000s ISO320 -1EV

#BirdOfTheDay #Birds #UKBirding #EastCoastKin #ArtYear #smArtist #nature
Photo of a gannet flying with a beak full of grass. The bird is photographed against a blurred sea / sky horizon. It is angled so that its white underside and wings with their black ends are facing the camera but its head is twisted giving a side on view of its orange neck, white crown, blue eye and dagger like beak full of long grass Photo of a several gannets. The main subject is hovering over its mate which is on its nest at the top of a cliff. The hovering bird has a beak full of grass which its partner is reaching up for. The nesting site is crowded with 2 other birds on nests touching the one reaching up and other birds mostly off picture, making it difficult for the hovering bird to land
November 29, 2025 at 8:47 PM