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Ali

@allthingsorca.bsky.social

550 followers 210 following 310 posts

Marine life lover. Amateur photographer still learning how to use a camera after 30 years of trying. Whales, dolphins, seals, seabirds, especially puffins.

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Ali @allthingsorca.bsky.social · 17h

Looney Tunes

#ukwildlife #photography
#mammals

European brown hare (not bugs bunny) having a bad hare day 😂 Taken through long grass hence the weird effects.

Northumberland 2025.

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Ali @allthingsorca.bsky.social · 2d

The circus is in town

#seabirds #ukwildlife
#photography

A collection of puffins is known as a circus 🎪 though they don’t juggle or ride unicycles 🤓

Farne Islands 2025

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Ali @allthingsorca.bsky.social · 4d

Team meeting

#seabirds #ukwildlife
#photography
#SuperSeabirdSunday
@steelyseabirder.bsky.social

Guillemots appear to be in a conversation on a cliff edge. RSPB Bempton Cliffs, 2017.

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Ali @allthingsorca.bsky.social · 7d

Fill’er up please

#seabirds #ukwildlife
#photography

Puffins stack sandeels from back to front. Catching them individually, and holding them in place with spiny tongues.

Farne Islands 2017

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Ali @allthingsorca.bsky.social · 9d

Waterworld

#seabirds #ukwildlife
#photography

Puffin in a sea of reflections from the cliffs and sky.

Northumberland 2021.

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Ali @allthingsorca.bsky.social · 13d

Stage whisper

#seabirds #ukwildlife
#photography

Puffin with wing across beak appears to be concealing words.

Northumberland 2022.

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Ali @allthingsorca.bsky.social · 15d

Easy breezy

#seabirds #ukwildlife
#photography

Puffin feathers ruffle in the breeze. Farne Islands, Northumberland 2018.

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Ali @allthingsorca.bsky.social · 17d

Skua Sunday

#seabirds #ukwildlife
#photography
#SuperSeabirdSunday
@steelyseabirder.bsky.social

Great Skua flying over Noss, Shetland. 2019.

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Ali @allthingsorca.bsky.social · 18d

Polar opposites

#marinemammals
#photography
#wildlife

Polar bear mum and cub at sunset. Churchill Wildlife Management Area. Canada 2014.

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Ali @allthingsorca.bsky.social · 21d

You put your left foot in…

#seabirds #ukwildlife
#photography

Puffin either about to do the hokey pokey, or scratch 😊

Farnes, Northumberland 2019

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Ali @allthingsorca.bsky.social · 22d

Only someone without a sole would not enjoy this

Ali @allthingsorca.bsky.social · 23d

Stage door

#seabirds #ukwildlife
#photography

Puffins exit their burrow on the Isle of May, Scotland 2020.

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Ali @allthingsorca.bsky.social · 29d

Grab & Go

#marinemammals #wildlife #seaotters #photography

California sea otter enjoying a clam on the half shell. Monterey Bay, 2013

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Ali @allthingsorca.bsky.social · Sep 7

Puffin Express driver late again 😆

#isleofmay
#seabirds #ukwildlife
#photography
#SuperSeabirdSunday
@steelyseabirder.bsky.social

Puffins in a line on the rocky outcrop. Isle of May 2020

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Ali @allthingsorca.bsky.social · Sep 5

Wow! That’s an incredible painting 🤩

Ali @allthingsorca.bsky.social · Sep 5

Step up

#seabirds #ukwildlife
#photography

Puffin with one foot casually resting on a small stone.

Scotland, 2020

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Ali @allthingsorca.bsky.social · Sep 3

Frozen

#UKwildlife #photography
#marinemammals #seal

Grey seal surfaces with a beard formed of sea water appearing frozen like an ice sculpture.

Northumberland 2025.

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Ali @allthingsorca.bsky.social · Sep 1

An Isle of May landing trip from North Berwick includes a Bass Rock viewing. But you can also take a Bass Rock sail around or landing.

Ali @allthingsorca.bsky.social · Aug 31

Have you been on a Bass Rock trip? The number of gannets is mind blowing 🤯 not the intimacy of Bempton Cliffs, but another off the charts wildlife spectacle.