Swallows & House Martins above the Magic Tree - which has a dozen species in it, including a different Willow Warbler!
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Swallows & House Martins above the Magic Tree - which has a dozen species in it, including a different Willow Warbler!
Great Tit
'Mushroom Medley´ by artist/photographer Jill Bliss who explores the coastal forests of the Pacific Northwest, creating nature-inspired work #WomensArt #September
Lovely titfer you're sporting there, Adder. Who wouldn't want a Ladybird hat? 🐞📷 Bob Eade
Hobby Update: ad m. feeding the young on dragonflies. Better views of the juvs show there is a m. & f. V poor photo of ad & juv m. together. Also: Clouded Yellow! #birds #birding #RazorInTheWind #@spurnbirdobs.bsky.social
A Willow Warbler in the Magic Tree.
Possibly a Robin, before the 195 Little Egrets!
Hobby Update: couldn't find them at 1st, then, high up & 1-2kms away, both juvs & the ad. m., catching insects & playing. Juvs appear to be f. (larger than their father). No sign of the f. - has she gone already?) Later one of the juvs had a bird, though I didn't see the food pass. #RazorInTheWind
A line from Columbo today from a male actor: "I don't have a willy"
Sign of the times: 203 Little Egrets going to roost past my house, & I suspect I missed the start of the movement. #birds #birding @spurnbirdobs.bsky.social
Rooks - a tumbling twosome with falsetto cries.
Hobby Update: Having been away for 8 weeks it was great to catch up with my Hobby family. Almost non stop action as both adults brought food to two youngsters; aerial squabbles for items proffered from dangling talons. Migrant Hawkers made up much of the prey. #birds #birding #RazorInTheWind
Goldfinches
Thank you, yes, it was the trip!
Back with you all on UK soil. Carrion Crows, Manchester Airport
Oz Darter, high in the sky, very distinctive.
This. So much this! 🎯
Well, its goodbye to all that: soon to fly back to Blighty. Sydney in the distance already.
Chips. They're called chips.
Sulphur-crested Cockatoos. There's no ignoring them!
Not seen a TV in 8 weeks, but I'm going to try to find this when I get home.
Silver Gull close up. Rather splendid.
Guess where I am! No, not Tyneside!
Northern. Working class. Genius. There's quite a few of us!
Opened my hotel room blind to see some Welcome Swallows on the wire.
Not a wasp, with those antenna. Possibly a moth which is a wasp imitator. (Are you in the US?) I'm unfamiliar with your insects.
It's been a Lyrebird to Lyrebird trip. Almost 8 weeks ago in Oz, I saw Albert's Lyrebird. And, after 5 other countries, back in Oz, SUPERB LYREBIRD is on my list, on my penultimate full day of birding! Royal National Park.
Amazingly, I met a man in Capertee National Park, who I met in New Zealand a month ago!!
Eastern Rosellas
Oz, archetypal, Oz. The beautiful Wollemi National Park. Wombats, Wallaroos, Kangaroos. And, of course, Kookaburras. Plus here's a Turquoise Parrot, for your delectation.
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Oz Raven here. Very distinctive calls.
White-winged Choughs.
It rained almost all day, but despite that & the ominous car hire company name, I managed quite a few, though the no.1 target of Regent Honeyeater remains still to be had. #birds #birding
For those of you who like a Cockatoo
The latter
Ah, but which?
Australian Raven, sitting on a concrete wall, by the motorway, with a Galah next to it!
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Pacific Imperial Pigeon.
Cook Islands Fruit Dove!!
The hustle & bustle of Aitutaki town. And a Pacific Golden Plover on the airfield.
Three courting Pacific White Terns, then a lovely Black Noddy on the lagoon.
Mark: thank you SO much!! Done!
I must go down to the sea again To the lonely sea and the sky. I left my shoes and socks there. I wonder if they're dry?
Is there a way I can prevent any post with the word Tr♤mp from appearing in my feed???
Stop calling him that. The USA is a TINY part of the Free World. The rest of us have other leaders.
Rarotonga Monarch
Swimming with Giant Trevallies!
The band were singing "My boney lies over the ocean..."! I had to tell them why I was laughing.
Aitutaki: out to One Foot Island. Even had my passport stamped!
Yes, I've forgotten what I knew of the man - but he was certainly intelligent enough to narrate from another perspective.
Twenty paces to the Lagoon: Black Noddies flying low.
Disturbing in many ways, but a brilliant, brilliant novel. Perhaps if I reread it now (I was in my 20s) I might come to different conclusions today.
No, but they could be in Peebles!
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Took the 30 paces to the beach, looked out on the vast Pacific, still slaty before sunrise. A Great Frigate - head into the wind.
I used one exactly like that, in Rangiroa the other day! (It took me a while to figure it out!)
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Chestnut-breasted Munia
I've missed an I out on the last line! Damn!
Now THAT'S a photograph!!
2 Brown Boobies diving for their breakfast, as i ate mine. Fish jumping out as they arrowed in.
Mosquitos on my mosquito net. Inside or outside? #senryu
Laurie Lee
There's a mosquito on the inside of my mosquito net.
The photos don't do it justice. Just paradise!
Rangiroa - the Blue Lagoon excursion. The atoll is so big, once you're in the middle, you can barely see land! Two endemics to get: I got one of them (Blue Lorikeet) But bonus Bristle-thighed Curlews there! Baby shark - come on, sing along! White Tern obligatory atoll photo.
Atoll dawn the sky is pink the clouds are powder blue #senryu
Blue-grey Noddies at dawn.
Rangiroa: Le Fare Bleu guest house between the ocean & the second largest lagoon in the world!
Arrived at Rangiroa. A mix of seabirds all at once: Sooty Terns, Great Frigate, Blue-grey Noddies, Black Noddies, Brown Boobies!
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Difficult to ignore the Zebra Doves, here in Tahiti. They occupy every habitat - even the airport cafes.
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Fingers crossed this abomination could be turned into a wildlife haven
No, but I've been through it. Up there looking for fritillaries.
I've cycled home from the pub like that & had to stop for a Perseid meteor shower myself! I think it's these modern saddles.
That's Paul trapped in the washer, ain't it? Have you seen him recently?
In suburbia, so Red-vented Bulbuls.
Ah, yes, a lovely spot. Went to the theatre there last year (Brassed Off.) Went up Cat Bells a year or so before that.
The tilt of a Wren’s head, the shadowed curve of a hare in long grass. The weight of an owl's gaze... Moments live again in art. 🎨 Are you an artist inspired by our natural world? The SWLA's Annual Exhibition returns in October. Submit by 22 Aug: www.mallgalleries.org.uk/open-calls/s...
When did you do the full moon? Oh, right, gotcha! 😁
I refer you to my last post!
Oxtail soup, yum!
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I remember it fondly
You can do that with your tennis shoes untied!
Back on Tahiti for a day or two. Went up the big valley, in the vain hope of Tahiti Reed Warbler! Nature taking over from the machines.
Probably the best kind! 😆
Silvereyes.
Depends. Do you want to be bored witless? Or entertained? James for the former. Dickens the latter. There.
To the tune of That's Amore.... When you're in the sea And an eel bites your knee That's a Moray A Moray! I thank you.
