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Sally Johnson 📷🦊🐸🦅🐝🦆🐦‍⬛🪲🐛🦋🐞🐌🍄🌸 🕷️🦫🐿️🏔️and the occasional 🏍️ All images ©️Mark & Sally Johnson

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Mark @msj99.bsky.social · 10h ago

King Eider @alan678.bsky.social #BirdOfTheDay #RedOrDead

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Pintail Pictures @pintailpictures.bsky.social · 10h ago

Reed Warbler in the garden. #SummerVisitor for Alan’s #BirdOfTheDay It was the first time I have photographed this species in the garden, taken on Sunday. #birds #photography #GardenWildlife

Eurasian Reed Warbler stood on lichen covered Berberis branch in the morning sunlight. The bird is posing with a side view looking slightly upwards. The background is more branches and a few leaves with a backdrop of green, the out of focus tree leaves behind.

Pintail Pictures @pintailpictures.bsky.social · yesterday

Willow Emerald Damselfy (one of two seen) in the garden at lunchtime today. @britishdragonflies.bsky.social @lincswildlife.bsky.social #damselfly #GardenWildlife #nature #insect

A Willow Emerald damselfly resting on a seedhead of sedge grass in a garden. The insect is side onto the camera with a blurred background of greens and yellows from the grass and bushes behind.

Mark @msj99.bsky.social · yesterday

Black-winged Stilt @helenbennett.bsky.social #BirdOfTheDay #FabulousWaders #Birds

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Pintail Pictures @pintailpictures.bsky.social · 3d ago

A majestic Linnet for Rob’s #BirdOfTheDay theme #BestOfJuly #birds #photography #GardenBirds #Lincolnshire

A Common Linnet in a rather majestic pose, a top of concrete gate post. The bird is side onto the camera but showing its front with a head tilt upwards. The background is completely dark.

Pintail Pictures @pintailpictures.bsky.social · 4d ago

“Look, no wings”, Linnet coming straight at you for #SmallBirdSaturday @janesgallery.bsky.social #birds #photography

A Linnet flying straight towards the camera, with both wings against his body. The bird is lit by sunlight from the right, the background is a dark brown colour making the bird stand out.

Pintail Pictures @pintailpictures.bsky.social · 4d ago

Chiffchaff for Alan’s #BirdOfTheDay #OverTheRainbow & #HegdingYourBets #Twofer #birds #photography #GardenBirds #Lincolnshire

A Common Chiffchaff looking skywards, in search of breakfast, sat in a Berberis bush in the garden.

Pintail Pictures @pintailpictures.bsky.social · last wk.

A resting Mallard for Rob’s #BirdOfTheDay #MultiColour, back when the grass was green. #Twofer #birds #ducks #photography #Lincolnshire

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Pintail Pictures @pintailpictures.bsky.social · last wk.

An unusual visitor to our wee garden this morning when this juvenile Goldcrest hopped onto the hedge. @lincsbirding.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social @lincswildlife.bsky.social #GardenWildlife #Lincolnshire #LincsBirding

Juvenile Goldcrest on a Berberis branch.

Juvenile Goldcrest sat on a Berberis branch.

Pintail Pictures @pintailpictures.bsky.social · last wk.

Blue Tit against an #EmeraldBackdrop for Alan’s #BirdOfTheDay #GardenWildlife #birds #photography

Blu Tit stood on a dead stem of purple loosestrife, looking down towards the pond. A background of green from the garden hedge.

Mark @msj99.bsky.social · last wk.

Greenfinch for @alan678.bsky.social #BirdOfTheDay #EmeraldBackdrop #Birds #Nature

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Pintail Pictures @pintailpictures.bsky.social · last wk.

A Wall on a Wall. How lovely is the underwing pattern on the Wall butterfly? @savebutterflies.bsky.social @lincswildlife.bsky.social #butterfly #GardenWildlife #MacroMonday

Wall butterfly resting on a pebble-dashed painted wall showing off the wonderfully patterned underwing.

Pintail Pictures @pintailpictures.bsky.social · last wk.

Nice to see several Corn Buntings on the journey to work this morning. @lincsbirding.bsky.social #LincsBirding @lincswildlife.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social

A Corn Bunting on a hogweed stem in the morning sunshine.

A Corn Bunting on a Hogweed stem in the morning sunshine.

Pintail Pictures @pintailpictures.bsky.social · 2w ago

A fluffed up Dunnock in our garden for @janesgallery.bsky.social’s #SmallBirdSaturday #birds #photography #GardenWildlife #Lincolnshire

A Dunnock with fluffed up feathers sat on a Berberis branch, with smaller branches in the background. A regular visitor to our little garden.

Pintail Pictures @pintailpictures.bsky.social · 2w ago

A #Robin #ForJanet @robcrank68.bsky.social’s Alt Theme for #BirdOfTheDay #birds #photography #SmallBirdSaturday #Lincolnshire

A worn out Robin parent a top a gate with a beak full of insects heading back to the nest.

Mark @msj99.bsky.social · 2w ago

Morning all My selection for #BirdOfTheDay chosen by @robcrank68.bsky.social #OneTwoThreeFour #Birds #nature #Photography

1 Common Swift

2 Kingfishers

3 Griffon Vultures

4 Black-necked Grebes

Pintail Pictures @pintailpictures.bsky.social · 2w ago

Red Kite for @alan678.bsky.social’s #EyeOfTheWild #BirdOfTheDay #birds #photography #nature #wildlife

A close up shot of the head of a Red Kite, with its right wing in the shot.

Mark @msj99.bsky.social · 2w ago

Pacific Golden Plover at Donna Nook this morning @lincsbirding.bsky.social @lincswildlife.bsky.social @rarebirder.bsky.social @birdguides.bsky.social #Lincsbirding

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Mark @msj99.bsky.social · 2w ago

Griffon Vulture for @alan678.bsky.social #EyeOfTheWild #BirdOfTheDay #Nature #Photography #Spain #Extremadura

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Pintail Pictures @pintailpictures.bsky.social · 2w ago

Young Blue Tit hanging about in the shade for Rob’s #Paridae alt themed #BirdOfTheDay #birds #GardenBirds #wildlife #photography #Lincolnshire

A side of view of a juvenile Blue Tit perched and slightly hanging from the branch of a Horse Chestnut tree surrounded by a Hawthorn hedge.

PacBirds @pacbirds.bsky.social · 2w ago

A long-billed dowitcher from last Friday, for the #Summerlovin theme of #BirdOfTheDay picked by @alan678.bsky.social The bird had just returned from its Alaskan breeding grounds within the last few weeks. #birds #nature #photography #stunday #ECK

Dowitcher in flight seen from below in the early morning light, showing intricate patterning of the wings and spread out tail, and warm orange head and body.

Pintail Pictures @pintailpictures.bsky.social · 2w ago

Skylark from a few weeks ago, just before the grass turned straw like. A Skylark singing definitely one of the sounds of summer for me 😊 #SummerLovin #BirdOfTheDay #birds #photography #Lincolnshire

Eurasian Skylark stood on the edge of a stony, grassy track with its back to the camera and facing to the right of the image. There is gravel/stone and some grass in the foreground and green grass in the background which has just started to die off in the dry summer.

Pintail Pictures @pintailpictures.bsky.social · 2w ago

St. John’s Wort, Common Yarrow, Field Scabious and Common Restharrow #StillFlowering under the paddock fence for #wildflowerhour

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Pintail Pictures @pintailpictures.bsky.social · 2w ago

The ever resilient Common Ragwort #StillFlowering for #wildflowerhour

The ever resilient Common Ragwort flowering on a trackside verge, even the flail could not remove it. These images are of the same clump of Ragwort, the one on the left before the flail and the one the right after it.

A striking stem of Common Ragwort stood out amongst the dying grasses in a paddock.

Common Ragwort standing tall amongst the fading grasses that surround it.

Pintail Pictures @pintailpictures.bsky.social · 2w ago

Three Hooded Crows for @robcrank68.bsky.social’s #Triplets theme for today’s #BirdOfTheDay, and they’re joined by three White-tailed Eagles. #birds #photography #corvids #eagles

Three White-tailed Eagles together with three Hooded Crows on snowy covered ground. One eagle is coming into land whilst the second (on the ground) is gesturing upwards towards it, wings slightly open, with the third stood looking down to the ground on the left-hand side of the image. The three Hooded Crows are also on the ground.

Pintail Pictures @pintailpictures.bsky.social · 3w ago

Green-veined White, Small Skipper, Brimstone and Gatekeeper for #ButterflyWeek @savebutterflies.bsky.social @lincswildlife.bsky.social #butterfly #photography #Lincolnshire #GardenWildlife

A Green–veined White butterfly drinking from a log in a garden pond.

A Small Skipper butterfly nectaring on Yarrow.

A Brimstone butterfly nectaring on Purple Loosestrife.

A Gatekeeper butterfly resting on the leaf of a bog bean in a garden pond.

Pintail Pictures @pintailpictures.bsky.social · 3w ago

Grey Dagger resting on a potato leaf in the garden last evening. @savebutterflies.bsky.social #MothsMatter @lincswildlife.bsky.social #GardenWildlife

A Grey Dagger moth resting on the leaf of a potato plant, in the garden during an evening.

Pintail Pictures @pintailpictures.bsky.social · 3w ago

Blackbird #SingersAndWingers #BirdOfTheDay #birds #photography #GardenWildlife

A Blackbird, with its wings partially open, balancing in a garden shrub while searching for berries

HLK @hlkfotos.com · 3w ago

Birdie looking over her shoulder. #BirdOfTheDay #PerfectPoise 📷🌿🪶

A photo of a female red-winged blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus), a very streaky brown and beige songbird with dark eyes and just-visible red shoulder stains, perched on the fluffy tip of a typha or cattail with its head turned over its shoulder toward the right of frame. The background is soft blurred greenery.

Pintail Pictures @pintailpictures.bsky.social · 3w ago

Chiffchaff just prior to take off after spotting the insect flying above it. #PerfectPoise #BirdOfTheDay #birds #photography #GardenWildlife #Lincolnshire

A Chiffchaff stood on a Berberis branch, with its eye on the prize. The bird is looking directly upwards at an insect above and about to takeoff towards it. Surrounding the bird or other branches covered in leaves and the background is a diffused darker green.