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Lorraine 🦆🦋🐝🦔🦊🌿

@lotaylor23.bsky.social

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Bird and nature photographer (very amateur). Gardener for wildlife. Hate shooting & hunting. Norwich City. Confirmed member of the bat & newt fraternity.

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Lizzie Wallis DPAGB, EFIAP, BPE3* @lizziewallis.bsky.social · 9h

"Crested Tit"
Today's #birdoftheday theme set by @robcrank68.bsky.social. is the "Family Paridae of birds" which constitutes 'Tits, Chickadees and Titmice'.
#EastCoastKin
#Stunday
#birds
#birdphotography
#Birdlife

A lichen covered twig stretches across the bottom of the frame. Perched, facing right, is a small brown tit, with a distinctive black and white crest sticking up above a predominantly white face with black chin and black stripe running from eye round cheek. The background is mottled grey and brown of a pine forest in winter.

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Lorraine 🦆🦋🐝🦔🦊🌿 @lotaylor23.bsky.social · 4h

Thanks for sharing these lovely photos, Rob.

Lorraine 🦆🦋🐝🦔🦊🌿 @lotaylor23.bsky.social · 5h

Been looking forward to this ever since I saw a trailer for it.

Lorraine 🦆🦋🐝🦔🦊🌿 @lotaylor23.bsky.social · 5h

Thank you Alan. That means a lot.

Lorraine 🦆🦋🐝🦔🦊🌿 @lotaylor23.bsky.social · 5h

Thanks Alan, I really appreciate your always lovely comments.

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Alan H @alan678.bsky.social · 15h

Good morning. My co host Rob @robcrank68.bsky.social has announced today's #BirdOfTheDay is the 'Family Paridae of Birds' which constitute 'Tits, Chickadees & Titmice'

Fortuitous for me as I saw this little Coal Tit in my garden yesterday. #birds #Stunday #photography #EastCoastKin

A small coal tit perches delicately on a cluster of fading pink hydrangea blooms. The bird’s black cap and bib contrast with its pale cheeks and buff-toned breast, while its tiny claws grip the petals for balance. The background is softly blurred in dark green, highlighting the vivid texture and colour of the flowers

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Tony Beales @tonybeales.bsky.social · 11h

Here's a Great Tit portrait for Rob's #BirdOfTheDay
📍Cumbria, UK
#UKwildlife #birds

A great tit perched on a post, head slightly cocked towards the camera

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Rob Crank Photography @robcrank68.bsky.social · 15h

Today's #BirdOfTheDay is the 'Family Paridae of Birds' which constitute 'Tits, Chickadees & Titmice'

My visit to RSPB Leighton Moss to capture the 'Bearded Tits' inspired today's theme

My choices are Blue Tit, Marsh Tit & Mr & Mrs Bearded Tits

#birds #photography #EastCoastKin #ukbirding

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Lorraine 🦆🦋🐝🦔🦊🌿 @lotaylor23.bsky.social · 13h

Rob's chosen Tits as his #BirdOfTheDay
I have gone with a photo of a Bearded Tit (or Reedling).
#Birds🪶
#BirdPhotography

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Lorraine 🦆🦋🐝🦔🦊🌿 @lotaylor23.bsky.social · 13h

Excellent theme, Rob. Lovely photos

Lorraine 🦆🦋🐝🦔🦊🌿 @lotaylor23.bsky.social · 1d

For #WorldMigratoryBirdDay I have put together a college of some of my favourite birds that visit the UK.
#Birds #BirdPhotography

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Lorraine 🦆🦋🐝🦔🦊🌿 @lotaylor23.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks Rob

Lorraine 🦆🦋🐝🦔🦊🌿 @lotaylor23.bsky.social · 1d

Gorgeous.

Lorraine 🦆🦋🐝🦔🦊🌿 @lotaylor23.bsky.social · 1d

Really is

Lorraine 🦆🦋🐝🦔🦊🌿 @lotaylor23.bsky.social · 1d

Me either, I woke up this morning and thought I had overslept for work 🤦

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Lorraine 🦆🦋🐝🦔🦊🌿 @lotaylor23.bsky.social · 1d

☺️🙏

Lorraine 🦆🦋🐝🦔🦊🌿 @lotaylor23.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you Alan. It was the first time I had really seen one out in the open rather than hiding in the reeds.

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Lizzie Wallis DPAGB, EFIAP, BPE3* @lizziewallis.bsky.social · 1d

"... Interruptus"
A willow warbler interrupting mating damselflies on the dipping pond at Ballycroy NP, Co. Mayo, 🇮🇪
Today's #birdoftheday set by @alan678.bsky.social is #beakful
It occurred to me that if the male let go of the female, she'd have a chance of escape.
#EastCoastKin
#birdphotography

A small brown bird with white eye stripe stands on a wooden rail facing left. In its beak is a pair of mating damselflies, the male gripping the female behind the head.

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Lorraine 🦆🦋🐝🦔🦊🌿 @lotaylor23.bsky.social · 1d

Alan's #BirdOfTheDay theme is a perfect opportunity to break out this picture of a Reed Warbler with a #beakfull
#Birds
#BirdPhotography

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Atlantic Birding @atlanticbirding.bsky.social · 1d

Alan has chosen #beakful for today’s #BirdOfTheDay (alternative #wading)
I love a wren at any time but one with a beak full of moss for nesting is all the better.

#birds #birdphotography #irishbirding #wren #eastcoastkin #nature #naturephotography

A wren perched on a thin Oak branch, tail upright and alert, glancing in the direction of the camera with a beak full of moss.

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JJ @javajanegallery.co.uk · 1d

Alan’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Beakfull
A starling with a tasty treat #birds

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Lorraine 🦆🦋🐝🦔🦊🌿 @lotaylor23.bsky.social · 1d

Gorgeous photo of one of my favourite birds, Alan.

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Dr Andrew Boswell #ClimateLitigation @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 2d

🚨 Legal win 🚨

Ministers can’t duck environmental duties after this win

Our legal challenge exposed failure to assess environmental impacts of Carbon Capture & Storage - a dirty distraction, locking us into gas

#ClimateJustice Read my op Ed scrapcc.org/IS-EDP-OPED

Press Release: scrapcc.org/PR-IS

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Glen G @gleng.bsky.social · 2d

Morning #bird

Baby ducks bobbing for breakfast at the Gilbert Riparian area in Gilbert AZ.

#birdphotography #photography #birding #birds #wildlifephotography #botd #birdoftheday

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Linda @linda2.bsky.social · 3d

I thought I was invisible until spotted by this cygnet which stared into my lens. A face-off commenced. Great symmetry in a bird.

#BirdOfTheDay #Spotted #UKWildlife #cygnet #Birds #Photography

An image of a cygnet which happened to look into my lens at a key moment. This head shot is the result. The symmetry of facial features most evident.

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