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Janet Roch
@cumberlandjc.bsky.social
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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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@robcrank68.bsky.social your #BirdOfTheDay is just naughty 😵 ...... but sorry @alan678.bsky.social I just couldn't resist it 😂
Porter Brook #Sheffield Jan 2025
Canon R5 500mm f7.1 1/200s ISO 1000
#AlansNemesis #Birds #UKbirding #EastCoastKin #ArtAdventCalendar #ArtYear #Sheffield #colouraday #RedWed
Photograph of a kingfisher sitting on a thin twig which is green with pink early spring buds. The kingfisher, taken in the Uk is a beautiful bird with a bright orange front and stunning turquoise crown, wings and back. a long dagger like beak extends from a face which below the crown is orange and blue with a white bib and white tufts towards the neck, the black eyes always look alert and focused. the thin twig shows off the bright red feet of the bird.
December 10, 2025 at 8:21 PM
cumberlandjc.bsky.social
"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
cumberlandjc.bsky.social
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
cumberlandjc.bsky.social
#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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#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
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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
cumberlandjc.bsky.social
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Cefin Sidan Beach #Wales Nov 22nd 2025

As the mist rose off the Cold Sea
The Sands of Time claimed back their own.

Canon R5 40mm f/10 1:500 ISO1000

#StunDay #Scape #Sea #whales #certacea #EastCoastKin #ArtYear #smArtist #ImageAndVerse
Photo taken on Cefin Sidan Beach South Wales. In the foreground is the skull of a Fin whale stranded earlier this year. It is already nearly stripped of flesh and lies slightly buried in the sand. The beach stretches behind it and in the background the hills of Worms Head Peninsula can be seen across the bay. Mist is rising from the sea in front of the land where the sea is warmer than the cold air which despite the sunshine is only just above freezing. The sky has clouds of white and grey with patches of blue.
November 23, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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#RSPB Bempton 2025
"Hello Darling. If you could just budge up a bit I'd have room to land"
Canon R5 343mm f/7.1 1:2500 ISO250 -1.0EV
#BirdOfTheDay #Mr&Mrs #StunDay #Birds #UKBirding #Nature #EastCoastKin #wildlife
Photograph of a pair of Gannets on the cliffs of Bempton UK. One was sitting on the nest and has turned to their partner who has just landed and still has their wings open pushing into another couple on their own nest just below them in the foreground. The gannets are bright white birds with black wing ends, an orange buff head and back of neck, bright blue eye rings and a sharp dagger like beak grey edged with black. The birds are touching beaks - they do this repeatedly every time they meet as a way of strengthening their life time bond.
November 23, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Thanks for this, it's brilliant. 🧡 Coatis. This #small one was peeping out of the foliage in the #Brazil #Pantanal

#mammals #BlueSkyArtShow #EastCoastKin #Nature #Wildlife #travel #ArtYear #smArtist
head shot of a Coati peeping out from under some foliage. A beautiful cute small mammal witha long dark brown snout a pale buff lower mandible and pale patches around the eyes. the tail - not seen here is striped and held aloft when they walk. They live in social family groups.
November 22, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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#Morocco 2025
We did a fair bit of herping after dark with the added bonus of coming across other animals like this beautiful little Jeboa who wasn't at all bothered by me 🥰
Canon R5 500mm f13 1/250s flash
#BlueSkyArtShow #Small #mammals #EastCoastKin #travel #nature #wildlife
Photograph of a Jeboa taken in the desert in southern Morocco at night. It is a tiny rodent with sandy coloured back and top of head / middle face with a white belly limbs and round the eyes. Its eyes are huge. Its holding a seed in its front paws which it later took into the little Jeboa size cave behind it under a rock.
November 22, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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#RSPB Ham Wall 2025 Marsh Harrier
We humans weren't the only ones waiting for the starlings and looking cold 😂😂
Canon R5 500mm F/8 1:160s ISO1600 heavily cropped 🙄
#Birds #Raptor #UKBirding #Raptors #EastCoastKin #UKBirds #Nature
Photograph across the lake at the first large viewpoint at Ham Wall. In the foreground are the reeds bright in the sun and in the background trees the tops of which are still lit by the low rays still with some leaves in gold and bronze autumn colours waiting to fall. Mid photo to the left is a bush which on further inspection contains a Marsh Harrier hunched up against the cold close up of the Marsh Harrier taken as a tight crop from the 1st photo. Its sitting on the top of a bush looking over its left shoulder.
November 22, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Seal Island N. Atlantic 2025
Ha! for the 1st time I can give you the same bird on 2 consecutive days for different themes, & a chance to show that my beautiful Gaelic Meadow Pipit really did have only 1 leg. Check out that back toe!
#BirdOfTheDay #BirdOnAWire #Birds #UKBrding #EastCoastKin #ArtYear
Photo of a Meadow Pipit sitting on a wire fence. In sideways view you can see its brown head , its top feathers pushed up into a tiny crown by the wind, the white above its eye, its streaked face, chest and back, pale on its chest and dark brown on its wing. It is balanced on its 1 (only orange leg with its characteristic very long back toe curling round the wire. The blurred green background is the out of focus rough grass of the island
November 22, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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#RSPB Ham Wall 2025
We waited shivering in temperatures of 1 degrees and finally, as the sun went down, the starlings came streaming in like a black river in the sky. Definitely enough birds for #FlyDay and I think this must count as a #BirdScape as well
#Scape #birds #UKbirding #EastCoastKin
Photograph showing a huge flock of Starlings flying over a reed bed prior to them settling into the reeds to roost overnight. This was but a fraction of the total number of birds that came over, its estimated that there are about 90,000 Starlings roosting at Ham wall at the moment. Canon R5 100mm f/8 1:400s ISO 2000
November 21, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Seal Island N. Atlantic 2025
My one legged Meadow pipit serenaded me from its lookout post
Canon R5 500mm f/7.1 1/1600s ISO800

#BirdOfTheDay #singing #birds #UKbirding #Scotland #EastCoastKin #ArtYear
Photograph of a meadow pipit with its brown head and beautiful buff chest streaked with dark brown / black feathers. It has one orange leg and was definitely one legged as it flew and landed in several places with only a left leg. In this photo its beak is open as it sings and its tongue can just be seen
November 21, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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Hassop Staion #Derbyshire
The second of the 5 #Thrush in 1 day. Who knew Redwings had such a long tongue 😊.

#BirdOfTheDay #Birds #UKBirding #nature #PeakDistrict #EastCoastKIn #ArtYear #smArtist
Photograph of a Redwing sitting, bathed in sunshine, in a leafless Hawthorn bush. A beautiful thrush with a brown crown, dark brown eye stripe with white above it, buff chest and belly streaked with brown, brown wings and a bright orange red patch on the side extending under the wing when sitting. The hawthorn is covered in red berries and the bird has just picked one off and is mid swallow causing its yellow tongue to be sticking out of its open mouth
November 20, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Hassop station #Derbyshire gave us 5 of the 6 common UK #thrush in one day. This Fieldfare was just resplendent in the dappled sunshine 😊

#BirdOfTheDay #Birds #UKbirding #sheffield #PeakDistrict #EastCoastKin #ArtYear #smArtist
Photograph of a Fieldfare standing on the ground amongst winer grass of green and brown stems and leaves. A beautiful bird with a grey head and strikingly streaked golden brown chest lit up by the sunshine
November 20, 2025 at 9:52 AM