Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 12/08/2026To be honest, I was equally if not more impressed by the Griffon Vultures riding the thermals in the Picos de Europa earlier today. 020
Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 02/08/2026🪶 One Flew Over The Heligoland Trap. 020
Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Big thanks for tipping the wink to everyone (but especially me) on this. I’ve just got back, bloody magical. 😊 000
Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 01/08/2026🪶 A smart Northern Wheatear alert amongst the daisies. 092
Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 30/07/2026🪶 “Hay Moon” over Skokholm Observatory at 11:00pm Wednesday. Manxies took an extra battering last night. Walked the island this morning, it’s been carnage. 😐 050
Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Al fresco dining on holiday in Madeira, for both me and the female kestrel who had a wall lizard for breakfast whilst I had a cup of tea and a croissant. #birds 050
Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Maybe ‘I taste as unappealing as I look’. 120
Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 26/04/2026Bonus!! Whimbrel right next to my van in a field at Ysynlas, next to the Dyfi whilst sitting waiting for the return of an Osprey & Hen Harrier. (Heavily cropped images). 150
Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Starlings are great vocal mimics, but can’t quite pull off the lookee-likee act. Nice try though. 040
Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 09/04/2026Springtime 🎶 I smile when I first hear the Song Thrush and Blackcap at the same time. Oh and the Greensleeves jingle of the ice cream van. 020
Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Probably why I’ve not seen any cats between Wombourne and Codsall for a few years now. 100
Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 30/03/2026A diet if suet & eggs clearly works wonders for feather condition (I wonder if that’s Claudia Winkleman’s secret also?). 110
Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 14/02/2026I saw it featured fairly recently with Hannah Stitfall on a BBC Wildlife series highlighting animal behavioural adaptations in built environments. 110
Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 09/02/2026Beautiful! Validating a point about singing during inclement weather. ‘Stormcock’ - well named. 👌 000
Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 05/02/2026Wonderful Tom… you fortunate, lucky beggar. 😊 110
Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 01/01/2026Treecreeper eluded me for the last 9 months of 2025 (since March), then one feeding on a tree in my garden this morning, followed by a bright salmon pink cock Bullfinch. An auspicious start to the year list (I hope). 110
Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 14/12/2025My thoughts are that the intruders are birds without a territory. Probably young adults on a speculative journey to establish one if their own. It’s the time if year when young raven’s fancy turns to such things. 130
Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 14/12/2025There were 2 interlopers as it turns out, constantly airborne above the local pair who were in the canopy (the general area where I think they nest) vocalising then making sorties as the intruders approached. The whole action lasted 10 minutes, or so, before the bandits flew off S.W. 130
Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 14/12/2025Snap! Yesterday’s dog walk on my patch I heard a right racket from the local pair including some raven vocalisation I hadn’t heard before. They were clearly agitated, but initially I couldn’t see them in the canopy. It turned out to be an interloper. (Sound on). #ravens 240
Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 10/12/2025"To the person who has faith, no explanation is necessary". 010
Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 08/12/2025Salah’s outburst occurred 1 day after online sports news “gossip” broke, ‘that Al-Hilal of the Saudi Pro League were still interested’. Football agents looking for a January bonus payday. Salah’s as good as gone. 000
Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 06/12/2025Fabulous stuff my favourite bird. “My” local pair show almost daily on my dog walk. Circa 10 years now & I am still uncertain on gender ID characteristics, but if pushed I would call your Gravy as the male. A video from a different aspect would probably have me calling it differently. 🤔🤷♂️ 110
Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 05/12/2025Despite his own moral turpitude, even Sepp Blatter didn’t have the gall to propose then award a “FIFA Peace Award” for 2018 FIFA World Cup. 010
Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 05/12/2025#worcsbirds Midday Lickey Hills daily dog walk delivered a result today. Finally after 4 sightings since October, I captured a record shot of a cock Crossbill, one of a feeding flock of 8 birds. 🪶 0230
Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 24/11/2025Galaxy Quest must surely be in there at number 8! 110
Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 16/10/2025Rescuing seabirds is becoming a bit of a habit for you. Good man. 👌😊 110
Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 16/10/2025“I remember when I could see my feet”. 120
Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 11/10/2025“Shoot there goes my goldmine” probably royalty-free. 😊 010
Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 11/10/2025Lana Del Rey’s expecting royalties. 110
Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 08/10/2025#WaderWednesday An early summer Lapwing at Upton Warren.🪶 0131
Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 05/10/2025#BirdOfTheDay A purposefully striding Dunlin, moving towards me with camera, about to ask me what I’m doing. 🪶 2261
Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 25/09/2025Beats a ‘FullHouse’. An incredible hand. 000
Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 24/09/2025It’s OK, I just got a Coonhound pup. 010
Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 24/09/2025Thank you, the relief is palpable. Now knowing what makes that noise means I can resume camping in the woods again. 130
Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 24/09/2025I followed a Pipit along a beach on southern tip of Llyn Peninsular today. It was always 1 sand groyne ahead of me (50 metres). Consequently, I only had a rear view. Initially I thought Rock Pipit, but looking at the supercilium on my sharpest photo, is it? Any ID opinion much appreciated. 060
Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 03/09/2025Well I thought that, but also that you might be on holiday. 🤔 120
Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 03/09/2025The fact that until I saw its obscured head, I thought you’d got a Kakapo, says much about my own ID skills! 220
Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 30/08/2025Possibly an “Inter-Steller's eider. 120
Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 28/08/2025Morning dog-walk sighting before the clouds rolled in. I frequently see Red Kites nowadays, usually soaring. This bird was off upwards as soon as I stopped and unbagged my camera. 040
Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 17/07/2025Elation and melancholy: They’ll be off soon and I wonder if any will come back next year. 🪶 0110
Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 10/07/2025The the unintended result of feeding my dog Duck Soup. 000