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Steve Jackson @atcherleyons.bsky.social · 2h

A Blue Tit has hopped into your Bluesky feed to check that you are having a wonderful weekend! With #blue on both head and wings, he qualifies for the alt theme of #BirdOfTheDay today (as does the Kingfisher and the Barn Swallow, posted earlier in this #birds thread). #UKWildlife #Photography #ECK 🌿

Photo of a Blue Tit (Cyanistes caeruleus), seen from below, standing on some dead wood. The bird's head and body are facing towards us and slightly to our right, and he seems to be looking straight at us. His head is white with a blue crown, a black stripe running from the beak to, and beyond, the eye, and black running down from below the beak across the throat to the neck, where it then runs along each side of the neck to enclose a large white cheek. The chest and belly are yellow, with a short, thick, black stripe down the middle of the belly. What little we can see of the back, wings and tail have blue and green plumage. The beak, and the legs and feet, are dark grey. The background is mostly green.

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Steve Jackson @atcherleyons.bsky.social · 4h

#WingsOpenNotFlying is the main #BirdOfTheDay theme today, and it’s #SuperSeabirdSunday, so here is an almost-fledgling Gannet, white downy fluff almost all gone, trying out his or her wings at Bempton Cliffs last last month. Post #11 in this #Gannets thread. #Birds #Photography #UKWildlife #ECK 🌿

A photo of an almost-fledgling Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus) sat on a cliffside nest with wings held wide open. The bird is facing towards the rocky cliff and so has their back, and their left side, towards us. The left wing partly obscures the adult Gannet, snoozing on the edge of the nest platform. Gannets are large seabirds, the adults are mostly white in colour but have black wingtips, and yellowish-brown colouration on the tops of their heads which extends down the upper parts of the backs and sides of their necks. The chicks start off with a covering of white, fluffy down, but the one in this photo has little of that left - the head is well covered, as are the lower flanks, by the base of the tail, and there are few small patches on the wings. Elsewhere, the bird is covered with dark blackish-grey feathers, each with a small whitish spot or streak at its tip. The long, pointed beak, the eyes, the short legs and webbed feet, are all blackish in colour.

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Hel Jel @heljel.bsky.social · 7h

For Rob’s #BirdoftheDay theme #WingsOpenNotFlying and also for #SuperSeabirdSunday, here’s a puffin showing off its muscles and having a good stretch. #Birds #Northumberland #Farnes #Nature #Wildlife #ECK #Puffins

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Rob Jackson @robcamera.bsky.social · 4h

#WingsOpenNotFlying is today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme, stretching their wings are a Curlew, Glossy Ibis, Little Egret and Gannet. #birds #EastCoastKin #ukwildlife #photography

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Ian Sheppard @iansheppard.bsky.social · 4h

A Curlew yesterday at Point Lynas, Anglesey. #UKBirding

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 7h

Look to the coasts for Barnacle Geese winging their way into today’s Autumn Arrival Spotlight. 👀 Arriving from Greenland, Svalbard & Russia, spot them feeding in coastal marshes. Fun fact: Never seen nesting here, people once believed they hatched from Goose Barnacles at sea!

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David Steel @steelyseabirder.bsky.social · 8h

Welcome to Super Seabird Sunday where we ask you to share photos, videos & artwork of seabirds. Here is my contribution, some Puffins on the Isle of May #SuperSeabirdSunday

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Steve Jackson @atcherleyons.bsky.social · 17h

I think that one was doing a Ken Dodd impression. 😉

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SoCal Leslie @socalleslie.bsky.social · 22h

Otters 🦦 make me happy.

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Steve Jackson @atcherleyons.bsky.social · 22h

Two Terns twisting and turning (or should that be ‘terning’?) over the sea at Cemlyn Bay, Anglesey, back at the beginning of July, and qualifying for today’s #BirdOfTheDay themes #Black&Red and #LongBeak. Post #4 in this #birds thread. #BirdPhotography #ECK #UKWildlife #SuperSeabirdSunday 🌿

Photo of two Terns - Common Sterna hirundo or Arctic (Sterna paradisaea) - in flight above the sea. The one on the left side of the image has his or her upper side towards us, wings outstretched and tail fanned out, with head turned to look down towards the bottom right corner of the picture. In that corner is the second Tern, flying towards us and to our left, head turned to look across towards the left side of the image, with the upper sides of the wings facing us (one stretched right out and the other folded back a little), and tail angled downward and so almost entirely hidden from our view (but it appears that it is fanned out). Terns are like smaller, slimmer and more elegant versions of Gulls. These two are mostly white in colour, with grey on the upper sides of the wings, black tops to their heads. Their long, slim beaks are red; possibly with a black tip in the case of one of them, which would make the bird a Common Tern.

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Steve Jackson @atcherleyons.bsky.social · 22h

Does somebody need a hug? Actually, if you’re an insect, it’s best to avoid a hug from a Flower Crab Spider! The same #spider who appears in the post above – this time with alt text, which I somehow missed last time. #Arachtober #Invertebrates #UKWildlife 🌿

Photo of a Flower Crab Spider (Misumena vatia) lying in wait for prey near the top of an Orchid flower spike. We are looking at the flower spike from above, with the spider perched on the side of the spike and facing up towards us. The cephalothorax (the combined head and thorax), which is much smaller than the large ovoid abdomen behind it, is - along with the palps and legs which extend from it - a slightly yellowish white in colour, the yellow tint being stronger around the eyes and towards the tips of the palps and legs. The first two pairs are held open (the right legs pointing down towards the bottom of the picture and the left legs towards the top left), ready to spring forward and grab any insect landing on the flower spike in front of the spider. The third and fourth pairs of legs are holding on the flowers. The abdomen is white, with a hint of pale green on the upper surface. The Orchid flowers are a pale pink or purple in colour, with darker pink/purple spots and streaks.

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Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI) @bsbibotany.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We’ve been bowled over by the standard for this year's Botanical Photographer of the Year. It's now time for public shortlisting. Use the links below to view the entries into this year's competition and vote for all those you think are particularly impressive. Shortlisting will run until 31 Oct.

bsbi.org

Botanical Photographer of the Year

The BSBI is for everyone who cares about the wild plants of Britain and Ireland.

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Veronica in the Fens ~ My Heart in Nature @veronicainthefens.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Ely Cathedral at sunset with the Sun resting on the West tower 🧡

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 02/10/2026

Butterbutt. An older comic.

A four-panel comic titled "yellow-rumped warbler poem". In panel 1, a yellow-rumped warbler stands on a branch in a late autumn scene, and says "Fall is here." In panel 2, the warbler watches a brown leaf fall to the ground, and says "Winter's near." In panel 3, the warbler faces the viewer as brown leaves fall, and says "Need some cheer?" In panel 4, the warbler is showing its luminous yellow rump, and cheerfully says "See my rear."

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Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust @gloswildlife.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

October is here! Look out for all kinds of colourful wildlife this month and embrace the changing seasons 🍂🍄‍🟫.

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Steve Jackson @atcherleyons.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Of course, we all know which birds really have the #BestBeaks. They know it too! Thanks for all the Likes and Shares of my #BirdOfTheDay posts.

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Lyn Heideman @heidelyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

While the prairie dogs in the park don’t hibernate, food can be scarce in the winter, so they need to pack on the pounds. Below is the fattest prairie dog we have ever seen at Devils Tower National Monument. #prairiedog

The fattest prairie dog ever seen at Devils Tower National Monument.

(Photo courtesy of the National Park Service.)

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Steve Jackson @atcherleyons.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

For young birds, the #BestBeaks are parents’ beaks offering them food. I see (pale) #YellowElements here too! #BirdOfTheDay #EKC

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Dan Thomas @itsdanthomas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The most disappointing video you’ll see today.

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Katie Fuller @katiefullerart.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You can get 25% off A5 #risograph prints in my shop at the moment, including new hummingbird hawk-moth, kingfisher and blackbird prints, as well as old favourites woodpigeons, long-tailed tits and the woodpecker that came from a Yorkshire Tea box! katiefullerart.etsy.com

Selection of risograph prints depicting long-tailed tits, blackbird, woodpigeons, kingfisher and hummingbird hawkmoth

Risograph print of Green woodpecker, based on collage made from a Yorkshire Tea box

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Steve Jackson @atcherleyons.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

To many creatures, it absolutely is!

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Steve Jackson @atcherleyons.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#BestBeaks? Daggerstrike Murderbeak enters the #BirdOfTheDay chat... 😉

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Steve Jackson @atcherleyons.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Puffin heading this #birds thread definitely has one of the #BestBeaks (main #BirdOfTheDay theme today), but I'm ending the thread with a brilliantly beaked bird who also qualifies for the alt theme #YellowElements: a Great Cormorant. Photographed at Brandon Marsh on Saturday. #UKWildlife #ECK 🌿

Photo of the head and long neck of a Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo), swimming (towards the left side of the picture) in a lake. The Great Cormorant, with a long, grey beak tipped with a downward-pointing hook, looks almost prehistoric. At the base of the beak, especially the flower part, there is some yellow colouration, which in this image looks very bright with the sun on it. The bird's eye is a sea-green colour, with a small, black pupil and thin, black rim. Behind the eye and the base of the beak is a pale brown patch, with the rest of the bird's head and neck (and its body, only part of which is visible in this image) being covered with very dark brown, almost black, plumage.

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Steve Jackson @atcherleyons.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The first of my very limited contributions to #Arachtober, and I am easing you in gently with this Flower Crab Spider, perched near the top of an Orchid flower spike. Photographed at @wtsww.bsky.social Dowrog Common Nature Reserve in Pembrokeshire back in June. #Spiders #Invertebrates #UKWildlife 🌿

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Steve Jackson @atcherleyons.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I do have more info on Hubert and the accident now, thanks to additions to Shropshire newspapers at the BNA / Findmypast made since we last talked about this. He will definitely get a write-up at some point!

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Steve Jackson @atcherleyons.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The #Rothbury Estate appeal page on @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social’s website has been updated this morning and shows that donations + pledges now total £28,005,635! Keep those donations coming and help secure this 3,800 hectare estate in #Northumberland. #wildlife #nature #conservation #rewilding

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Claire Laila Dines @freedomtodoubt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The theme of the #BirdOfTheDay today is #BestBeaks so for me it's a the no-brainer Swiss-knife beak of the amazing Fulmar here a pair showing off their wonders on the cliff face east of Brighton Marina .. #ECK

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Rob Jackson @robcamera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The #BirdOfTheDay main theme is #BestBeaks I give my award to the Puffin. #birds #EastCoastKin #ukwildlife #photography

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Autumn arrival alert: the Yellow-browed Warbler has landed! 😍 Once rare, these tiny travellers from Siberia are becoming a more familiar sight as they pass through each autumn. Weighing just 6 grams, their sharp, distinctive call is usually the first clue they're around. Have you seen one?

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AltYellostoneNatPar @altyellonatpark.org · 01/10/2026

Mama bear playing with her cub ;-)

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Mr and Mrs Trellis @thenorfolkcoast.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Norfolk Wildlife Trust has launched a new project, funded by Natural England and working in partnership with the Norfolk Rivers Trust, to help water voles thrive once more throughout the Wensum and Yare rivers... www.norfolkwildlifetrust.org.uk/news/new-pro...

norfolkwildlifetrust.org.uk

New project gives Norfolk's water voles a lifeline | Norfolk Wildlife Trust

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Steve Jackson @atcherleyons.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#31DaysOfGraves Day 1: Flower. A floral decoration on the grave of Hubert Victor Woolley in the cemetery of Waters Upton, my main #OnePlaceStudy. Hubert served during WW1 (& afterwards as a Military Policeman in Cologne), then worked as a railway platelayer. He was was struck and killed by a train.

A grave featuring a black headstone with a yellowish inscription which reads:
Treasured Memories
of a Faithful Husband and Loving Father
Hubert Victor Woolley,
Accidentally Killed April 17.1945
Aged 46 Years.
A smiling face, A heart of gold.
“Until the day dawn.”
A small black urn bearing the word Dearest and containing (artificial?) flowers stands on white stones or gravel in front of the headstone.

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@macro_action @birdzandbees.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You little Bee-auty These little bees make honey bees look massive and bumblebees giants lol 😜 I’m changing systems again soon so watch this space as I think I’m going to be doing next level stuff soon. Nikon Z 105mm macro SS1/3200 F10 ISO2000 #bee #macro #entomology #photography📷 #sony

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Steve Jackson @atcherleyons.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Thanks Christina and yes, they absolutely do!

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Steve Jackson @atcherleyons.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The alt theme for #BirdOfTheDay today is #vivid, any bird with bright colours, so here are more Kingfisher pics! I took these at Brandon Marsh on Saturday, when I had many sightings but none of the Kingfishers came particularly close. #Birds #UKWildlife #EastCoastKin #NaturePhotography 🌿

A montage of four colour photos of a Eurasian Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis) perched on (and in one case taking off from) twigs or small branches of waterside trees. The KIngfisher's upper parts (including the top of the head) are a greenish blue, with a brighter blue on the back. The underparts are an orangey-red, and the small legs and feet are reddish-pink. On the side of the head, running from the base of the beak and below the eye, is an orange stripe which ends with a shorter white stripe, dividing the blue of the top of the head from more blue below. The beak is all black apart from a tiny white tip (features which show that this is a young male Kingfisher). Top left: The bird is sitting upright with his front towards us, and head turned to face the right of the image. Top right: The bird is taking off; his feet are still in contact with the twig but the wings are raised and the body is more horizontal than vertical. Bottom right and bottom left: The bird is upright and leaning slightly forward, body facing towards the left of the images but head turned towards us and slightly to our right; he is looking ahead at bottom right, and looking down at bottom left.

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Steve Jackson @atcherleyons.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I really missed these smart little guys during my visits to Bempton Cliffs last week, and with their parents gone too the cliffs were much quieter. I don’t take black and white photos, so have converted a colour pic for today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme, #black&white. #Birds #UKWildlife #ECK 🌿

Photo of a juvenile Black-legged Kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla) in flight, high above a grey sea. The Kittiwake is a small and rather dainty member of the Gull family. Adults are mostly white, with grey backs and upper wings, slim, yellow bills, dark eyes (each with a thin red rim) and black legs and feet. Youngsters like this one have black bills, and several several black markings on their wings and bodies - mostly on the upper sides, which we can't see in this picture as the bird is flying (from right to left) with underwings and underparts tilted to face towards us. There is however a small black patch behind the eye, a black collar around the back of the neck, black tips to some of the tail feathers, and some black markings can be seen on the edges of the wings. Originally a colour photo, this image has been converted to black and white.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You've seen fireworks that look like jellyfish, but what about a jellyfish that looks like fireworks? The E/V Nautilus filmed this rare Halitrephes maasi jellyfish glowing like a firework at a depth of 4,019 feet (1,225 meters) off the coast of Baja California, Mexico. (📷: Ocean Exploration Trust)

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Steve Jackson @atcherleyons.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The deadline for donations to the appeal to purchase the #Rothbury Estate in #Northumerland has been extended to the end of October - an extra month in which to raise the remaining £2.1m needed. #Rewilding #Nature #Wildlife #Conservation www.northumberlandgazette.co.uk/news/environ...

“We are committed to doing all we can to acquire this Estate in its entirety. We have a clear and ambitious vision for this historic landscape; a place where people and nature can thrive side by side. A place for nature and nation.

“We couldn’t let down all the thousands of people who have supported us by letting this opportunity pass by at the very end. To ensure we raise the funds required we will continue with our fundraising campaign to the end of October, which is our deadline to complete on the purchase.

"To support, our Trustees have agreed in principle to take out a low interest impact loan to cover any funding gap between what has been raised and the total needed. The more funds raised through our fundraising appeal, the smaller the loan will be.”

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I saw the first real signs of autumn in local trees today. All this colour is to come:

Autumnal leaves of many different colours being preserved in glycerin to keep them from drying and decaying

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Butterfly Conservation @savebutterflies.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In the last 120 years, we have lost over 50 species of native moths, and suspect many others are now at risk of extinction 🔴 This autumn, we're taking on a ‘moth-umental’ task to create the first-ever Red List for Britain’s macro-moths, and we need your help 👉 www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/moths-matter

A large orange-brown moth with leaf-shaped wings and a long snout, resting on a dead plant stem

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