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Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #natural; a bird in its natural habitat.

A stonechat in the heathland of La Mielle de Morville on Jersey. Such a gorgeous little bird in one of my favourite places.

#birds #birding #jersey #wildlifephotography #stonechat
A white, russet, and black bird sitting on a twig against a green background.
January 11, 2026 at 12:31 PM
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You need to come see just how big they are now!
A woman carrying a large calico Maine coon cat…
January 10, 2026 at 8:58 PM
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Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #MoodyFaces.

There is nothing that says "mood" quite like the tufted duck, which is clearly a ball of feathered incandescent rage. It will shiv you with its beak, so help me...

#birds #birding #wandle #wildlifephotography #ducks
A male tufted duck swims in the murky water of the Wandle. It has angry yellow eyes and a blue beak.
January 10, 2026 at 8:42 PM
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Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is a focus on #Feathers&Form.

I think this image of a black-headed gull flying low over the ice of a frozen Wimbledon Park lake fits the bill, with its wings wide and tail feathers spread.

#birds #birding #wildlifephotography #gulls #wimbledonpark
A white gull with red legs and beak flying over an out-of-focus frozen lake with bokeh ice chunks.
January 9, 2026 at 12:33 PM
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Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #shortbeaks.

And so a long-tailed tit in one of the trees at the posh end of the street. It wasn't moving for once!

#birds #birding #wildlifephotography #longtailedtit #london
A long-tailed tit perches on a bare branch.
January 8, 2026 at 4:57 PM
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Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #FoodFinds. And that takes me back to a summer day on the Wandle delta and a grey heron losing its food.

#birds #birding #wandle #wandsworth #herons #wildlifephotography
A heron drops a shell into clear river water. The bird is grey with a white head and black strips. Its beak is yellow.
January 7, 2026 at 11:43 AM
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You do have to love the headline subs at the FT...
A headline on the FT Alphaville blog: "Who's who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter."
January 6, 2026 at 5:35 PM
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Picked up a Tamron 18-300mm Z mount lens for our Interrailing trip; I figured a single travel lens would be the best option.

18mm to 300mm without moving from my desk...
A view through an office window to a brick wall covered in a decorative ivy. A zoom into the ivy covered wall...
January 6, 2026 at 3:46 PM
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Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Blackandwhite. So it's back into the archives and a tui peeping out of the bush in Abel Tasman National Park.

#birds #birding #newzealand #abeltasman #wildlifephotography #tui
A black bird with a tuft of white feathers on its chest and a russet cap sat in a flax bush.
January 6, 2026 at 2:41 PM
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Snow day food…
A big mug of porridge, topped with chopped dried apricots.
January 6, 2026 at 2:38 PM
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The Sentinel.

Classic BBC Micro strategy game with an air of cosmic horror. 1986 at its finest.
The titular sentinel in a 3D landscape.
January 5, 2026 at 10:20 PM
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A black-headed gull reflected on the ice. Unusually for January it is still in its breeding plumage.

#birds #birding #wimbledonpark #gulls
Unusual breeding plumage on a black-headed gull in the middle of winter, on a frozen lake with ice shards around it. It is standing on one red leg. The gull's head is still black, not the usual winter white.
January 5, 2026 at 8:04 PM
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More gulls at a frozen Wimbledon Park lake, fighting over scraps of bread.

#wimbledonpark #birds #birding #gulls #wildlifephotography
A black-headed gull flies away from the camera. A black-headed gull striking a pose as it dives for bread. A flock of black-headed gull noisily waiting for food. Circling black-headed gulls over a frozen lake.
January 5, 2026 at 6:59 PM
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Seagulls and ice.

Wimbledon Park Lake this morning, bright and cold. People were feeding the gulls down by the boatshed.

#wimbledonpark #birds #birding #gulls #wildlifephotography
A black-headed gull over a frozen lake, bokeh broken ice chunks in the background. A black-headed gulls and a frozen lake, in the foreground one is flying low, its grey wings wide, in the background another is walking on the ice, with visible red legs. A flock of black-headed gulls over a frozen lake, bokeh broken ice chunks in the background. A flock of black-headed gulls over a frozen lake, bokeh broken ice chunks in the background.
January 5, 2026 at 6:53 PM
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With a #BirdOfTheDay theme of #Speckles&Spots it's back to the archives for this picture of a juvenile eurasian starling mid-molt to its adult plumage showing just how colourful they really are.

#birds #birding #wildlifephotography #starlings
A juvenile eurasian starling mid-molt to its adult plumage; iridescent green and purple speckled with white spots, wing feathers outlined in orange.
January 5, 2026 at 4:30 PM
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Black-headed gull over the frozen Wimbledon Park lake.

#birds #birding #wimbledonpark #wildlifephotogrphy #gulls
A white bird with black and grey markings, red feet and beak, low over an out-of-focus frozen lake.
January 5, 2026 at 4:16 PM
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It's icy in London as the city wakes up from its annual seasonal hibernation.

I took a little trip two stops down the District Line to Wimbledon Park, where the lake would be covered in ice, giving me a photographic opportunity.

I was not disappointed.

#london #wimbledonpark #winter #photography
Blocks of ice on top of a frozen lake, shining in the sunlight. Blocks of ice on top of a frozen lake, shining in the sunlight.
January 5, 2026 at 3:07 PM
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Bins. It’s bins.
January 5, 2026 at 12:44 AM
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January 4, 2026 at 1:24 PM
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Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #snowy, and so from a trip up Mount Rainier here's a Steller's Jay. The blue eye markings indicate it's the northern variant - southern birds have white markings.

#birds #birding #wildlifephotography #stellersjay
A blue and black bird standing on a snowy bank on a mountain side.
January 4, 2026 at 12:47 PM
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A feral ring-necked parakeet walks up a tree in Wandsworth Park. This park with its many mature trees is fast becoming a major roost site for the invasive birds.

#birds #birding #wandsworthpark #wandsworth #parakeet #londonparrots #wildlifephotography
A green bird with a long tail and a red beak standing on a thick licjen-covered branch.
January 3, 2026 at 3:20 PM
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A post-holiday robin singing his territorial song from a pollarded tree at the top of the street where I live.

#birds #birding #wandsworth #robin #wildlifephotography
A small grey and brown bird with a red breast is sitting on a thin branch with a gnarled tree trunk behind it.
January 3, 2026 at 3:15 PM
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The wind on the Thames was blowing the feathers on this green-winged teal's head into a punky little mohican.

#birds #birding #thames #wandsworth #wildlifephotography #ducks
A small duck with a russet head and a green stripe over its eye, a black and white moiré pattern body, brown wings and a splash of yellow under his tail.
January 3, 2026 at 3:12 PM
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From this morning's chilly Wandle wander, a gadwall in the calm waters of the delta at high tide.

#birds #birding #wandsworth #wandle #wildlifephotography #gadwall
A brown duck floating in still water that is reflecting a yellow background.
January 3, 2026 at 3:06 PM
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Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #CaughtInMotion.

So, from a recent wander down to the Wandle delta, a pair of common gulls on the Thames at Point Pleasant.

#birds #birding #wandle #wandsworth #thames #commongull #wildlifephotography
A pair of juvenile common gulls, both mottled gray and white with pale beaks and legs and slightly pink feet, flying over choppy blue river water.
January 3, 2026 at 3:01 PM