Based in 🇳🇱🇪🇺. I love cats (big and small), nature and wildlife, books (fiction and non-fiction), politics, history, photography (Nikon P950). Favourite series: Vera, The West Wing. All pictures are mine, unless I state otherwise.
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Nice to hear some much-needed rain falling. Possibly not as nice to be out in it. #birds #ukbirds #nature #wildlife
#ムチムチの鳥をミチミチに収める This hashtag fits the Long-tailed Tit perfectly 😊 This one was taken in April. (meaning “snugly fitting chubby birds into the frame”)🪶 ベタですが😅 #nature #photography #animals #wildlife #Long-tailedTit #シマエナガ #birds #野鳥
Even if true, he means “The US has now taken in $8 trillion in tariff revenue so far from its citizens”.
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They are!
Keep looking! Usually their call will give them away.
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Sweet!
🪶 #EuropeanGoldfinch #distelvink
Long-tailed tit bringing breakfast. 🪶 #LongTailedTit #staartmees
Close up of a Sedge warbler. 🪶 #SedgeWarbler #rietzanger
Tern gone fishing. 🪶 #tern #visdief
Come back, spring! 🪶 #bluethroat #blauwborst
A love token between terns. 🪶 #tern #visdief
A beautiful young fallow deer buck. #mammals #fallowdeer #damhert #damadama
Oh sole mioooo 🎶 🪶 #hawfinch #appelvink
Dear sparrowhawk. Fancy some wood pigeon pie? I have five which I would like to put forward as volunteers. The small birds would be ever so grateful to you if they could eat their meals in peace. Sparrowhawk outside our window from a while back. 🪶 #sparrowhawk #sperwer
The sun was shining bright on this redstart that morning. 🪶 #redstart #gekraagderoodstaart
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Thank you Rob
Grey wolf
It’s 9.30 PM. I can hear tawny owls close by, across the street. First they were calling, now one is hooting. Bliss! 🪶 TawnyOwl #bosuil
I just think of it as a bigly blood clot that’s coming, going straight to his lungs. Very painful and scary.
The photo was from Trump’s own account and the article is only to show what kind of pieces of 💩 he loves to hang out with.
The draft dodger once compared his 🐈⬛-grabbing ways with a combat zone, avoiding STD’s. It was, as he called it, his “personal Vietnam”. I guess the syphilis grabbed him by the 🤏🏼🍄🟫 anyway.
Dit was echt zo’n mooie plek voor de uilen. En voor ons. Niemand kon dichtbij komen en ze storen.
They did. But it was scary.
The gull did a good job and so did you. It’s a beauty.
Indeed!
Daphne the Dipper. Photographed today. #birds #ukbirds #nature #wildlife
Good morning! 🪶
There was a guy who had some 25 of these long-eared owls roosting in 5 trees in his garden. During 3 back-to-back severe storms all the trees were toppled. The birds have since been roosting in a wider area and are much harder to locate. 🪶 #LongEaredOwl #ransuil
A male bearded reedling, also in winter. It was a wonderful sunny cold day, no snow, no wind. And I could take pictures to my heart’s delight. 🪶 #BeardedReedling #baardmannetje
It is!
Ballet dancing nuthatch. I think it’s called a plié. 🪶 #nuthatch #boomklever
The Great Grey Shrikes we see here during winter are mostly guests from Scandinavia. 🪶 #GreatGreyShrike #klapekster
There’s a bit more chance of seeing bearded reedlings climbing higher in the reeds in winter. They are dependent on it for food. This is a female. 🪶 #BeardedReedling #baardmannetje
Robin in mid-december. I always thought it would make a nice Christmas card, but I don’t do cards anymore. 🪶 #EuropeanRobin #roodborstje
Two great egrets and a little egret coming in for landing. 🪶 #GreatEgret #LittleEgret #GroteZilverreiger #KleineZilverreiger
#WhiteStork #ooievaar 🪶
Second attempt. Almost there. But not quite. 🪶 #BeardedReedling #baardmannetje
When I finally get a bearded reedling in its signature stance, it shows me its backside. 🪶 #beardedreedling #baardmannetje
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Thank you Rob
Time for a set of Atlantic Puffin #Portraits from the Farne Islands before i vanish for a while. It's time to make some food and watch some of Stage 7 of Vuelta a 'Espana which looks like it's going to be a tough day for the riders. #birds #photography #EastCoastKin #Puffins #ukbirding #BirdLife
Tiny spark of green in a frame of red — summer’s balance. #birds #hummingbird #wildlife #nature #birdwatching #birdphotography #birdlovers #bestbirdshots #feather_perfection #naturephotography
Wat een lieve foto. En fuutje 😍
If I could do voodoo Believe me, I would do.
I wish! Their moult is over, so they aren’t so vulnerable anymore. And they let it be known they’re back in town.
Wonderful pictures Rob!
Yes, I’ve seen pictures of the chickadees and they are like long distance cousins of the coal tit.
@robcrank68.bsky.social ‘s #BirdOfTheDay is the nuthatch. Since we have two visiting daily, I knew I had pics in my archive. This pic shows one moulting, but I ‘m happy to say they both now have new feathers and are perfectly streamlined again. 🪶 #nuthatch #boomklever Thanks Rob!
Nice catches Rob!
Republicans want Americans to be either dumb or dead.
Rut season of the red deer is almost here. This is one of my “murals” from last year. In this case mural means picture taken from a very long distance, but I like them anyway. #mammals #reddeer #stag #bronst #geweidrager
Our local robins are singing again. In the very early morning, before sunrise, they are the only bird I hear these days. The real early bird. 🪶 #europeanrobin #roodborstje
The Coal Tit. There’s only one place where I found them in my neighbourhood. 🪶 #coaltit #zwartemees
The tiny Marsh Tit. 🪶 #marshtit #glanskop
The older black-tailed godwits will have left by now. I read the newbees stay here for winter in coastal provinces and will have their first trek next year. The numbers of our national bird are still in decline. 🪶 #blacktailedgodwit #grutto
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Thanks Rob
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Thank you Rob
Oh I envy you!
Great! Still hoping we will get a few drops. It passed us by completely yesterday and so far today as well.
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I didn’t see them today, but I heard their call as they few fly by behind the reeds. I guess the kids have left the nest. 🪶 #kingfisher #ijsvogel
A banded demoiselle. #invertebrates #insects #bandeddemoiselle #weidebeekjuffer
When it still looked kind of friendly. Kind of … 🪶 #littleowl #steenuil
🪶 #kestrel #torenvalk
I heard the call of the raven and there they were, heading back to the forest. 🪶 #raven #raaf
Between the lines. 🪶 #buzzard #buizerd
The buzzards were flying and hunting too. 🪶#buzzard #buizerd
I saw some 20 white storks gathering in a field, waiting. And I was like “No, don’t go just yet”. I get all melancholy when they leave. I didn’t wait to find out, but there were four flying over me and I saw them later, foraging. 🪶 #whitestork #ooievaar
Five kestrels today, all part of the same family. 🪶 #kestrel #torenvalk
I was happy to see you again little owl, even if you gave me two stink-eyes. It’s been a while. 🪶 #littleowl #steenuil
🤣🤣🤣🤣 I have a bird butt somewhere, but I will try find a new one. 😂 Thank you, Alan!
Pyewacket, PeeWee, Whiskey, Punky, Kermit, Mikesh, Yoeri, Jonas, Mimi, Joris, Stan & Ollie, Annie. I’ve had and known many and they are all missed.
Dunmore Head, Dingle Peninsula #Ireland #Dingle #CountyKerry www.damianshields.com
Thank you, Sabine!
Great shots!
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Thank you Alan!
Thanks Rob
Hope so too!
A bird standing on one leg, @alan678.bsky.social says for #BirdOfTheDay. Fortunately this purple heron juvenile came to the rescue, albeit with an itch. But it does have long legs and big feet. Have a good time, Alan!
Good morning Alan. Wishing you a wonderful time, we’re going to miss you! Now I have to look for a one-legged feathered friend. Safe travels!
Before I left we had four still visiting. Yesterday I saw only one hawfinch, but a lot of bullying wood pigeons. I presume the old pigeon that guarded our balcony has flown to the 🌈 bridge. I will try to restore order because dynamics have changed for the worse. 🪶 #hawfinch #appelvink
I don’t hear them anymore 🙁, Savi’s warbler. 🪶 #SavisWarbler #snor
A family of spoonbills. 🪶 #EurasianSpoonbill #lepelaar
I spy with my cute brown eye .. a roedeer fawn. #mammals #roedeer #fawn #reeën
Didn’t feel like walking this morning. Sky was gloomy. Will try to check up on the kingfishers tomorrow. Just might be that the little ones have flown. 🪶 #kingfisher #ijsvogel
Thanks Alan. They are extremely cute.
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I don’t do prayers, do I get a discount?
Grey heron up a willow tree. 🪶 #greyheron #blauwereiger
#buzzard #buizerd
