Lizzie Wallis

🪶📷 Helen has chosen #OnOneLeg as today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme; birds seen balancing on one leg. Alt Is #SpottySpeckled. A very lost lesser yellowlegs (Tringa flavipes) that graced Cley Marshes, Norfolk, in Nov 2020. Better at yoga than navigating!. #ECK #birds #birdphotography #BirdsofBlueSky

🪶📷 @robcrank68.bsky.social's #BirdOfTheDay today is #LMNO, any bird whose name starts with one of those letters. Long-tailed duck in icy waters. I like the colour on the water from a boat's reflection. Taken lying on the edge of a snow-covered jetty. #ECK #birds #birdphotography #BirdsofBlueSky

🪶📷 @atlanticbirding.bsky.social's #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #LookingDown; any bird looking down/head lowered. Purple sandpiper finding microscopic morsels to eat on the coastal rocks. It's a joy to see a handful return to our shores each Autumn. #ECK #birds #birdphotography #BirdsofBlueSky

🪶📷 Rob says @alan678.bsky.social's #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #Ducks&GeeseInFlight. Wigeon against the blue sky, taken at Cley. #Stunday #ECK #birds #birdphotography

🪶📷 @robcrank68.bsky.social's #birdoftheday Alt theme today is #Eating: birds with food in their beaks. Red-necked phalarope plucking a small fly off the surface of the water. 🇳🇴 #ECK #birds #birdphotography

🪶📷 Absent (& missed) Alan's #birdoftheday theme today is #BlueWater, birds surrounded by Blue Water. Puffins on the sea. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #ECK #birds #birdphotography

🪶📷 Rob's #birdoftheday theme today is #WingsOpenNotFlying, birds with their wings open when not flying. The Alt theme is #Blue, any bird with blue in its plumage. Male mallard. #Twofer #Stunday #ECK #birds #birdphotography

🪶📷 Helen's #birdoftheday theme today is #BestBeaks: striking colours, bold profiles, or an interesting shape. Alt: #YellowElements. Indian (oriental) darter, Anhinga melanogaster, (aka Snake Bird) doing what it does best. Keoladeo NP, Bharatpur 🇮🇳. #Twofer #ECK #birds #birdphotography

🪶📷 @atlanticbirding.bsky.social's #birdoftheday is #Black&White. Black and white guillemots. Taken on Hornøya, Varanger 🇳🇴 #ECK #birds #birdphotography

🪶📷 Helen's #birdoftheday Alt. is #AwkwardAvian; any bird captured in a silly, clumsy or strange position. European shag (Gulosus aristotelis) having a scratch. Taken on Hornøya, Varanger 🇳🇴 #ECK #birds #birdphotography

@alan678.bsky.social's #birdoftheday is #LightAndShadow. So, especially for him, here is a kingfisher! You're welcome 😁. #ECK #birds #birdphotography #BlueSkyMonday

@helenbennett.bsky.social's #birdoftheday is #CaptionThatBird. "For the 100th time, Everyone look this way! now...CHEESE!" #ECK #birds #birdphotography #Stunday

@atlanticbirding.bsky.social's #birdoftheday Alt. is #Scruffy. We call this magpie "Scraggy Head". It and its partner/parent/ sibling, spend every day in and around our garden. I love its iridescent tail. It's the boss of the pair and spends lots of time bathing. Taken yesterday. #ECK #birds

"King of the Castle" @atlanticbirding.bsky.social's #birdoftheday today is #Silhouette. Taken at dawn, guillemots vie for top spot atop a #knifepoint of a rock which is atop Stack Rock, off the coast of Pembrokeshire 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #ECK #birds #RockinTuesday #AlphabetChallenge #WeekKforKn

"Twizzle" @helenbennett.bsky.social's #birdoftheday today #BirdsInAbstract: Tap into your creative side. A male siskin shaking off the rain. One of the first images I took, using Paul's camera. I learned to 📷 to the conditions. 1/30 sec. 2013. #ECK #BlueSkyArtShow #Undulating #birds

@atlanticbirding.bsky.social's #birdoftheday theme today is #Mouthful: any bird with anything in its beak. Pied wagtail with feathers in its beak. Taken in the Outer Hebrides 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Not enough #black in plumage for a #Twofer, sadly. Have a great Friday, everyone, off for a 🏊‍♀️ #Flyday #ECK #birds

Alan's #birdoftheday theme today is #InFlight. Kittiwake - taken at 1/30sec shutterspeed. I love SSS (Slow ShutterSpeed) images. Only a very few are worth saving, and the ones that work are entirely subjective. #BlueSkyArtShow #minimal #ECK #birds #birdphotography #SuperSeabirdSunday

Rob's Alt #birdoftheday theme today is #RedHeads: birds with any shade of red head. Wigeon, taken at Salthouse, near Cley, Norfolk. I like the feather detail in the wing and the look in its eye. #ColorADay #RedWed #ECK #birds #birdphotography

@alan678.bsky.social's #birdoftheday theme today is #FlowerPower: any bird capture with a flower in view. 🌸 not just in view, but in beak: Puffin with thrift. Also taken on the Saltee Islands 🇮🇪 on our grand Celtic campervan adventure in 2023. Must go back. #ECK #birds #birdphotography

@helenbennett.bsky.social's #birdoftheday theme today is #BirdsUpClose: Any bird at close range, allowing you to see their lovely fine details! A Hoopoe having a dust bath right by me. I love its crest. Taken at Keoladeo National Park, Bharatpur 🇮🇳 #ECK #birds #birdphotography

@atlanticbirding.bsky.social's #birdoftheday theme today is #Parenting, of any form: nesting feeding etc. With the alt #Blue. A gannet collecting seaweed for its nest. Saltee Islands (South Coast 🇨🇮). I chose this image in honour of my 🇨🇮 friends🙏 #Twofer #SuperSeabirdSunday #Stunday #ECK #birds

Bonus #birdoftheday theme from @robcrank68.bsky.social: #BestofTheMonth. Swallow flying over a small pond along the coast in N Norfolk. I'm in Pembs 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿, at the moment and swallows are gathering to return south after the #summer. #BlueSkyArtShow #ECK #birds #ColorADay #GreenSat

#BlueSkyArtShow #summer After my dad & eldest brother (front L & R) died in 4 months, I've been 🤔 life & death. And also the fate of photos. I scanned this slide found in dad's 🏠. I don't remember seeing it before. That's me in the middle. I 😍 it. No one will go through my catalogue. Must do photo📚

@alan678.bsky.social's alt #birdoftheday theme today is: #Coastal&River any coastal or river birds. Alt: #Rocky any bird capture with a rock in view. A #Twofer with a young dipper, taken in mid-wales. #ECK #birds #birdphotography

@helenbennett.bsky.social's alt #birdoftheday theme today is: KingfisherQuest. A common Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis) thrashing a stickleback. That is what I currently feel like doing to this thing called Life. #ECK #birds #birdphotography

@atlanticbirding.bsky.social's #birdoftheday theme today is: #Simple; any bird against a simple background. Red-necked phalarope swimming. I love these small, fast birds who zip around the water like whirlygig beetles. Taken in Varanger, 🇳🇴 #Stunday #birds #ECK #birds #birdphotography

@robcrank68.bsky.social's #birdoftheday theme today is: #ColourfulCharacters. Parakeets causing #chaos on my sister's feeder in winter, and as an invasive species. Rare in N Norfolk - I had to file a rare bird report when I saw one locally a few years ago! #BlueSkyArtShow #birds #ECK #birds

@helenbennett.bsky.social's #birdoftheday today is: #AwesomeOwls. Alt: #BirdNameG any bird starting with the letter G. Great Grey Owl. I love how the birds colours match the snowy forest. A #Twofer, and such a magnificent bird definitely counts for #AlphabetChallenge #WeekGForGrand #birds #ECK

@atlanticbirding.bsky.social's Alt #birdoftheday is #FlyingHigh, any bird flying high in the sky. Gannet at sunset. I like the graphic look of this image, the banking flight showing profile of pointy wings, beak and tail. I don't even mind the split horizon. #birds #ECK #birds #birdphotography

Alan's #birdoftheday is #StrikeAPose — Birds caught in a particularly photogenic pose. Magnificent Indian (oriental) darter, Anhinga melanogaster, sorting out feathers on its impressive wingspan. 📷 at Keoladeo National park, Bharatpur 🇮🇳. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekGForGrand #birds #ECK #birds

Rob's #birdoftheday is #Warblers. A young willow warbler, on a log next to our garden pond. I like the feather detail and the bokeh. #birds #ECK #birds #birdphotography

@alan678.bsky.social's #birdoftheday is #AtOneWithNature Celebrating birds in their natural environment. A sanderling doing what sanderlings do best. I like the sprinkling of golden summer plumage on its back and the way the beak disappears into the bubbles in the spume. #birds #ECK

@helenbennett.bsky.social's #birdoftheday is #NoBranchWood; any bird on wood that isn’t a branch. Short-eared owl, taken on N. Uist, Outer Hebrides 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. I like that the rusty colours on the barbed wire fence, and the heather background, match the plumage. And it's rather bored gaze. #birds #ECK

@atlanticbirding.bsky.social 's #birdoftheday is #PeekABoo; birds peeking out at the camera. Hearing a noise on the roof of the hide, I went outside to find this puffin peering down at me. Skokholm island 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #birds #ECK

Sitting in the garden, reflecting on life (and death), my thoughts were disturbed by this common field grasshopper rubbing the pegs on its back legs against its forewings, as if to say "come on, get up, live life". So I did. #MacroMonday #ECK #insects

@robcrank68.bsky.social's #birdoftheday is #RunningFromTheLaw, any bird that is moving fast on land or water. Shelduck (tadorna tadorna) sprinting across the pond to chase away a rival. #ECK #birds #birdphotography

Trigger alert: grief Alan's Alt #birdoftheday is #ASplashOfColour My brother died yesterday. This morning, I immersed myself in the fool's task of 📷 sand martins scooping up water and briefly forgot. Summer, like life, is ephemeral. #Stunday #AlphabetChallenge #WeekEforEphemeral #birds #ECK

@helenbennett.bsky.social's #birdoftheday is #DownyFeathers. This young hawk owl had plenty of attitude! I flew >3500km back to our campervan in Varanger after attending mum's funeral in UK (2019), and this was the first shot after stepping off the (tiny) plane at Vadsø. See Alt. #birds #ECK

@helenbennett.bsky.social's 1st #birdoftheday is #FabulousWaders, with Alt #Speckled. Bar-tailed Godwit (Limosa lapponica). I love 📷 waders (taken @rspb.bsky.social Titchwell). I lie down and wait for the birds to wander by. Yes, I get dripping wet. A #Twofer Tues #birds #ECK #ColorADay #BlueTue

@atlanticbirding.bsky.social's 1st Alt #birdoftheday is #Robin. Sitting in my garden with my 📷, I was drawn to the interaction between this pair of Robins. She had briefly left the nest and wanted feeding. He complies, strengthening their bond and encouraging her to return to 🪺. #birds #ECK

@atlanticbirding.bsky.social's 1st #birdoftheday is aptly #Firsts. Sunset briefly illuminates a Herring gull. Taken on our first 3 month campervan trip to N. Scandinavia in 2013. The start of my 📷 & adventuring journey. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekEforEphemeral #birds #ECK #ColorADay #PinkMon

@alan678.bsky.social's #birdoftheday today is #YourChoice. After breeding in high Arctic regions, it's amazing turnstones spend winter in our busy coastal towns. I lay with a wide-angle lens to show the environment Winter is coming. They will return #birds #UrbanGaze #ECK #ColorADay #YellowThu

@robcrank68.bsky.social's #birdoftheday is #MultiColour, #Alt of #DucksOutOfWater. Long-tailed duck sitting on snow. It's been hot, sweaty, & emotional clearing @ dad's house. Mon, I went thru 700 slides & 11 albums, & 4 laptops 😥. Now, I shall make like a duck. Cool & serene. #birds #ECK

@alan678.bsky.social's #birdoftheday Alt today is #ArtOfMotion, birds moving but not in flight. Thought I'd post a 2nd shot today, as it's early. Black grouse lek. When there's no light, I go slow shutterspeed. 1/8 sec. Art or a blurry image?🤷‍♂️ Depends on the eye of the beholder. #birds #ECK