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Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦‍⬛

@barneycooper.bsky.social
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Bromsgrove based tea drinker & cornucopia half-full type of person. A Springer Spaniel’s ‘assistance human’ (I take care of business), and I’m fond of birds too.

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Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦‍⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
To be honest, I was equally if not more impressed by the Griffon Vultures riding the thermals in the Picos de Europa earlier today.
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Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦‍⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
🪶 Chough in amongst the Daisies.
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Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦‍⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
🪶 One Flew Over The Heligoland Trap.
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Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦‍⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Big thanks for tipping the wink to everyone (but especially me) on this. I’ve just got back, bloody magical. 😊
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Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦‍⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
🪶 A smart Northern Wheatear alert amongst the daisies.
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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. 😐
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Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦‍⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Kestrel in the canopy. 🪶
A bird partially hidden in green tree foliage lit in bright sunlight. The mottled brown and cream breast feathers and cream head with bold neck band, black eye-stripes and large bright eye are highly visible.
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Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦‍⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Al 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
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Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦‍⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Maybe ‘I taste as unappealing as I look’.
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Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦‍⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Greenfinch.
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Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦‍⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Bonus!! 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).
Rear view of the brown/black buff coloured, cryptically camouflaged Curlew-like Whimbrel in a green rough pasture. Profile view of brown long-billed Curlew-like Whimbrel in vivid green rough pasture.Camouflaged cryptically in browns/tans and black markings, rear view of Whimbrel showing the distinctive black crown markings that reliably distinguish from a Curlew when seen from this angle.Silver van and thunder box in a green field next to the Dyfi Estuary
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Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦‍⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Starlings are great vocal mimics, but can’t quite pull off the lookee-likee act. Nice try though.
Glossy iridescent Starling perched on a metal bar against a cloudless blue sky.
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Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦‍⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Springtime 🎶 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.
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Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦‍⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
My money’s on the crow. #corvids 🪶
Ariel confrontation between a Red Kite and jet black Carrion Crow set against a cloudless blue sky.
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Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦‍⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Probably why I’ve not seen any cats between Wombourne and Codsall for a few years now.
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Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦‍⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
A diet if suet & eggs clearly works wonders for feather condition (I wonder if that’s Claudia Winkleman’s secret also?).
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Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦‍⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
I saw it featured fairly recently with Hannah Stitfall on a BBC Wildlife series highlighting animal behavioural adaptations in built environments.
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Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦‍⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Beautiful! Validating a point about singing during inclement weather. ‘Stormcock’ - well named. 👌
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Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦‍⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Wonderful Tom… you fortunate, lucky beggar. 😊
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Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦‍⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Treecreeper 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).
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Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦‍⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
My 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.
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Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦‍⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
There 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.
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Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦‍⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Snap! 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
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Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦‍⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
"To the person who has faith, no explanation is necessary".
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Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦‍⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Salah’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.
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Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦‍⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Fabulous 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. 🤔🤷‍♂️
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Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦‍⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Despite 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.
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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. 🪶
A blush pink bird with a crossed bill feeding on pine cone seeds on the top of green conifer foliage. It’s a male Crossbill. Pink plumaged bird with black edged wings and crossed bill mandibles, perched atop conifer foliage. It’s a male Crossbill.
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Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦‍⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Galaxy Quest must surely be in there at number 8!
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Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦‍⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Rescuing seabirds is becoming a bit of a habit for you. Good man. 👌😊
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Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦‍⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
“I remember when I could see my feet”.
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Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦‍⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
“Shoot there goes my goldmine” probably royalty-free. 😊
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Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦‍⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Lana Del Rey’s expecting royalties.
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Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦‍⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
#WaderWednesday An early summer Lapwing at Upton Warren.🪶
A glossy Lapwing standing upon its own reflection in the margins of a shallow pool adjacent to lush vegetation on the bank,
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Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦‍⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
All the President's Bollocks.
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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. 🪶
Small brown, buff plumaged wading bird striding purposely along the sand towards the camera. A Dunlin.
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Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦‍⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
#Corvids Evening Crow.
Glossy jet-black Carrion Crow flying low through woodland with feathers illuminated by low autumnal evening sun.
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Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦‍⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Noble head.. magnificent.
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Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦‍⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Beautiful Dunlin.
Long-billed timy wader. Varying shades of brown, buff and white mottled upper body that is cryptically camouflaged. Pale under parts all supported on lengthy dark legs. It’s having a paddle along the tide line.
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Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦‍⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Beats a ‘FullHouse’. An incredible hand.
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Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦‍⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
It’s OK, I just got a Coonhound pup.
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Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦‍⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Thank you, the relief is palpable. Now knowing what makes that noise means I can resume camping in the woods again.
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Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦‍⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
I 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.
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Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦‍⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
🤣
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Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦‍⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Well I thought that, but also that you might be on holiday. 🤔
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Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦‍⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
The fact that until I saw its obscured head, I thought you’d got a Kakapo, says much about my own ID skills!
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Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦‍⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Possibly an “Inter-Steller's eider.
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Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦‍⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Morning 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.
Red Kite, grey head, yellow eye, yellow upper bill with fiercely hooked graphite grey lower bill and rufous body with brown dabbled wing markings, It has landed on a dead branch and is framed by a cloudless blue sky.
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Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦‍⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Elation and melancholy: They’ll be off soon and I wonder if any will come back next year. 🪶
Nine little black crescent silhouettes spread across a sky blue background. They are Swifts in a screaming party travelling from left to right.
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Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦‍⬛ @barneycooper.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
The the unintended result of feeding my dog Duck Soup.
Groucho Marx with big black moustache and cigar in the corner of his mouth. Next to a Springer Spaniel with big black moustache (made of mud) with orange rubber ball in the corner of his mouth.
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