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Tony Beales@tonybeales.bsky.social |
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Wildlife photography, ecology, outdoor stuff, hills. Unsuccessfully trying to find the time to get back to Georgian naval history too.
Cumbria, UK 🇬🇧 📷 🦊
UK Wildlife Photos feed: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:yeq6jei6vki27ex6qpixoutx/feed/aaacvnx2q
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Is this a dark giant horsefly? Can anyone ID? Length 20-30mm, so maybe about lifesize if you're viewing on a phone! Afraid I didn't hang around for more precise measurements 🫣 Spotted in damp grassland in Cumbria, UK. Apologies for low quality phone snap.
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Thanks Mike! They are fabulous creatures, my favourite - and least cooperative - photo subject.
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Thanks Anna!
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She told him to go away, and he did
Brown hares
Cumbria, UK
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Furthest I've been (my shameful contribution to global warming) N: John O' Groats, Scotland E: North Island, NZ S: South Island, NZ W: Vancouver Island In my defence, I haven't flown for 8 years now. Since then: N: Kirk Yetholm, Scotland E: Farnham, Surrey S: ditto W: Castle Douglas, Scotland
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👏🤣
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Lift off - grey heron
Leighton Moss, UK
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Thank you Jill, much appreciated!
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Another pied flycatcher shot from a month ago
Cumbria, UK
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Best wishes - hope all goes well
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Post an image people can hear when they see it
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Patience well rewarded!
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Lovely shots Rhys, especially the first! 👏👏👏
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Great shot Steven! 👏👏👏
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Cuteness overload alert! You don't often see red squirrels sharing. These two youngsters must be siblings, probably born early this year, and with their mother, managed to evade the squirrel pox virus outbreak. We may have lost their father, but at least his genes survived.
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Red squirrels are never annoying! 🤣
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Thanks Dave! 🤣
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Thanks Ellie, you too!
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Up, down, round and about, but who goes back in?
#redsquirrels
Cumbria, UK
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Red squirrel
Cumbria, UK
#sundaysquirrel
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Grey heron
Leighton Moss, UK
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Of course!
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Thanks!
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Thank you!
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🤣🤣🤣
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This woodpecker has got its head on the right way round (unlike the last one!)
Cumbria, UK
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This woodpecker has got its head on the wrong way round.
#Don'tTryThisAtHome
#FridayFails
#WildlifeOuttakes
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Nuthatch striking a dramatic pose - as usual!
Cumbria, UK
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Mistle thrush
Cumbria, UK
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🤣
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Thanks Mike!
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This chaffinch fledgling looks very well fed!
Cumbria, UK
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Good luck!
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Thank you Dave!
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Thank you!
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Fast food delivery - pied flycatcher
Cumbria, UK
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Female pied flycatcher
Cumbria, UK
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I'm not sure why this #sundaysquirrel was so wet on a dry sunny morning! Perhaps it was the dew in the long grass, or perhaps she misjudged her jump across the beck!
Cumbria, UK
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Always a pleasure to meet a horsefly - on social media that is...
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Beautiful! 👏👏👏
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Male pheasant looking proud of himself!
Female pheasant worn ragged looking after the kids 🙄
(Actually, she's moulting and it's pouring with rain)
Cumbria, UK
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Wow!
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They are one of the most striking moths we have in Britain!
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Another shot of a cinnabar moth today
Cumbria, UK
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Cinnabar moth today, taking off from ragwort, food plant for its caterpillars
Cumbria, UK
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Thanks Vicky!
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Pied flycatcher bringing home lunch for the family yesterday. Amazing what a variety of insects they find!
Haweswater, Cumbria, UK
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The redstarts here have been singing from the tops of the tallest oak trees, but at last one was prepared to come down and make do with a hawthorn tree. But it still wouldn't let me come close.
Cumbria, UK
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Mummy red squirrel in a calmer moment
#sundaysquirrel
Cumbria, UK
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Lovely shot!
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