Today’s alt theme for #BirdOfTheDay is #SummerVisitors so I thought I’d share this little one - already thinking of the long journey ahead perhaps? #IsleOfMan 🇮🇲
Brian Christian
@bcriverside28.bsky.social
Proud Manxman 🇮🇲 now happily retired in the Yorkshire Dales after several years living and working overseas 🇯🇵🇸🇬🇨🇳 Avid reader 📚 Keen conservationist 🌱 RSPB volunteer fieldworker 🪺
Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #RedOrDead Any bird with either something red in the background or lifeless winter branches. I like the contrast between this Song Thrush so full of life and the bare February treetop he’s singing from. #YorkshireDales
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First experiment with a new camera - Sony RX10 m4 - takes me back to wintry weather in January 2025 and lots of Siskins on the garden feeders. #BirdOfTheDay #Firsts
Slo-mo of a Hummingbird Hawk Moths in our #YorkshireDales garden this afternoon. One of several investigating the pink Phlox. @savebutterflies.bsky.social #lepidoptera #nature
Maybe not the sharpest photo - but a great reminder of a stroll along the beach at the Ayres National Nature Reserve… #BirdOfTheDay #BestOfJuly #IsleOfMan 🇮🇲
Great to see so many ‘fresh’ Painted Ladies (and 5 other #butterfly species) in our #YorkshireDales garden this afternoon. @savebutterflies.bsky.social
With a sky like that there’s unlikely to be a rainbow about, but this sparkling Starling is certainly looking up! #BirdOfTheDay #OverTheRainbow
I think this silhouette of a noisy Chough fits the theme for Saturday’s #BirdOfTheDay It’s ’birds looking up’ #OverTheRainbow
Friday’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #EgretsAndHerons I don’t think I’ve posted any of these before but it’s quite possible! Great birds to photograph.
Today’s theme for #BirdOfTheDay is #YourChoice so I’m sharing an image from a trip over to the #isleOfMan earlier this month. The Ayres National Nature Reserve is an amazing place.. @manxwildlifetrust.bsky.social @visitisleofman.bsky.social #biosphereIOM
The alt theme for Wednesday’s #BirdOfTheDay is #DuckOutOfWater - I think this Common Shelduck fits the bill… #IsleOfMan 🇮🇲
A common enough bird whose spectacular #Multicolour plumage is often under-appreciated. The aptly named STARling is today’s #BirdOfTheDay
#EmeraldGreen is today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme - an image with a predominately green background. How about this female Eider Duck in Ramsey Harbour? #IsleOfMan 🇮🇲
Monday’s theme for #BirdOfTheDay is #Grey so I thought I’d share this Cuckoo, spotted in the Bowland hills in late May.
#OneTwoThreeFour Four different Gull species from four different countries… #BirdOfTheDay 🇯🇵🇬🇷🇦🇺🇮🇲 #Nature #Gulls
Flying jewels… lots of these Emerald and Common Blue damselflies enjoying yesterday’s warm weather. #YorkshireDales @britishdragonflies.bsky.social @britishnatureguide.bsky.social
A Silver Gull #SittingDownOnTheJob and letting everyone know that she’s not welcoming any visitors! #BirdOfTheDay #Australia 🇦🇺
‘Now you see me, now you don’t!’ #BirdOfTheDay alt. theme. #ArtOfMotion Birds moving but not in flight… #IsleOfMan 🇮🇲
As the #BirdOfTheDay alt. theme is #ArtOfMotion I thought you might like a very dapper Oystercatcher enjoying a paddle on the shore. #ManxBirdlife 🇮🇲
Wednesday’s theme for #BirdOfTheDay is #TantalisingTextures Soft feathers set against a hard background. I think this shy little one fits the bill… #IsleOfMan 🇮🇲 #ManxBirdlife 🇮🇲 @manxwildlifetrust.bsky.social
Playing in the breeze and skimming the waves… a young gull practising its aerobatics. #BirdOfTheDay #Gulls #IsleOfMan 🇮🇲
