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#Fact the RNLI are a brilliant body of public-funded, public-spirited volunteers, who demonstrate TRUE #BritishValues at the risk of their actual lives. THANK YOU RNLI!

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Check the gate, it's VIDEO TIME! Just a squirrel, stuffing his face with berries... #wildlife #nature #photography #squirrel

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Take 2, it's VIDEO TIME! Just a shoveller, having a pre-nap scratch and drink... at 11 in the MORNING! #bird #UKBirding #BirdsSeenIn2026 #wildlife #nature #shoveller

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Lights, cameras, action, it's VIDEO TIME! Just greenshanks, being photobombed by dragonflies... #bird #UKBirding #BirdsSeenIn2026 #wildlife #nature #greenshank #dragonfly

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Roll cameras, it's VIDEO TIME! Just a pheasant, harassing a hen who is NOT interested... #bird #UKBirding #BirdsSeenIn2026 #wildlife #nature #pheasant

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Wanna see some DUCKS? (And a heron, a young blackbird and a squirrel?) I went to RSPB Leighton Moss on the Bank Holiday, and am having happy memories of time in God's Great Countryside! #bird #photography @rspbengland.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social

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#Fact the RNLI are a brilliant body of public-funded, public-spirited volunteers, who demonstrate TRUE #BritishValues at the risk of their actual lives. THANK YOU RNLI!

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Check the gate, it's VIDEO TIME! Just a squirrel, stuffing his face with berries... #wildlife #nature #photography #squirrel

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Take 2, it's VIDEO TIME! Just a shoveller, having a pre-nap scratch and drink... at 11 in the MORNING! #bird #UKBirding #BirdsSeenIn2026 #wildlife #nature #shoveller

Lights, cameras, action, it's VIDEO TIME! Just greenshanks, being photobombed by dragonflies... #bird #UKBirding #BirdsSeenIn2026 #wildlife #nature #greenshank #dragonfly

Roll cameras, it's VIDEO TIME! Just a pheasant, harassing a hen who is NOT interested... #bird #UKBirding #BirdsSeenIn2026 #wildlife #nature #pheasant

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Last-minute entry for today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme of #Herons&Egrets - from the bank holiday weekend, down the RSPB place at Leighton Moss... assessing his life-choices and trying to decide on next moves...

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Most of the REALLY COOL astro-stuff (planets parading, moon going red etc) happens when Manchester is cloudy... but we *did* get a break in the clouds the night *after* the #SturgeonMoon #LunarEclipse! Which zoom do you prefer, 20x optical or <80x digital? #astrophotography #stormhour #photohour

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I see @atlanticbirding.bsky.social has set the #BirdOfTheDay theme as #Parenting (nesting feeding etc.) ... how about a short GIF of a great crested grebe, trying to taxi her chicks away from a navy of coots?

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Dave Piper @davepiperdj.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

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200 extra police drafted to Teeside, as the investigation into last weekend's fatal crash on the A66 continues. Council leader Alec Brown has requested even more support. Earlier I asked the Christian Police Association's Deborah Akinlawon for her response to the situation. youtu.be/HxwUVm84ook?...

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12 arrested after fatal A66 Middlesbrough crash: Deborah Akinlawon urges prayer for police

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Dave Piper @davepiperdj.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

You can always tell when the landlords have taken the dogs away on holiday - the local wildlife gets rambunctious in their garden. "Squirrels, grab your nuts!" #wildlife #nature #squirrel

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SEALS, SEALS, SEALS! Ever been on a hike, and thought the rest of Creation is just gently mocking us, by playing while we bust a gut? #wildlife #nature #coast #seals #photography #Yorkshire

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Just a migrant having a good ol' scratch before heading south for the winter... #swallow #bird #ukbirding #photography #birdphotography #migrants

Dave Piper @davepiperdj.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

You can always tell when the landlords have taken the dogs away on holiday - the local wildlife gets rambunctious in their garden. "Squirrels, grab your nuts!" #wildlife #nature #squirrel

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Just a migrant having a good ol' scratch before heading south for the winter... #swallow #bird #ukbirding #photography #birdphotography #migrants

SEALS, SEALS, SEALS! Ever been on a hike, and thought the rest of Creation is just gently mocking us, by playing while we bust a gut? #wildlife #nature #coast #seals #photography #Yorkshire

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Dave Piper @davepiperdj.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Joining in AB @atlanticbirding.bsky.social's #BirdOfTheDay theme and it's a twofer! #Woodland; any bird in a forest setting or #Yellow; on the bird or in the scene (copying @alan678.bsky.social who ALSO posted a buzzard, but this was before #parkrun and it hadn't had coffee yet!)

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'Oo SEZ et's 'Grim Oop North'? Wi' 'oney bees on t'flars, an' swallers scratchin' on t'phone wires, ah beg to differ! #birds #birdphotography #photography #wldlife #nature #Yorkshire #swallow #bee

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Dave Piper @davepiperdj.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Is a telephone wire a thin-enough perch for @helenbennett.bsky.social's #ThinPerches #BirdOfTheDay theme? Here's a swallow, lining up to scratch before flying south! #birds #birdphotography #photography #swallow

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Dave Piper @davepiperdj.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I see @atlanticbirding.bsky.social’s Alt #BirdOfTheDay theme is #FlyingHigh; any bird flying high in the sky! My favourite shot of a gannet, at Bempton Cliffs back in April... #BirdsSeenIn2026 #ukbirds #ukwildlife #birds #Wildlife #Nature #BirdPhotography

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Dave Piper @davepiperdj.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The UK's Summer Festival Season coincides yet again with water shortages! Should responsible festivals permanently relocate to regions with more water capacity & a sparser population? Or does laying on extra water for tens of thousands of campers, in a drought, really not make much difference?

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Dave Piper @davepiperdj.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Look away if you're a vole... female kestrel ravenously stuffing her face, as hunger gets the better of manners! #bird #birdphotogrpahy #ukbirds #nature #wildlife #UK #raptor #kestrel

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Dave Piper @davepiperdj.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Just a female kestrel eating her lunch, al fresco with picky bits, up a tree... NSFV (not safe for voles)! #bird #birdphotogrpahy #ukbirds #nature #wildlife #UK #raptor #kestrel

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FORMBY NEWS - I visited at the weekend to see red squirrels. Didn't see any, but I DID spend 10 mins watching this glorious kestrel eating her lunch up a tree near Devil's Hole! I have videos too @helloformby.com @nationaltrust.org.uk @rspbengland.bsky.social? But they're NSFV (not safe for voles!)

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Also, today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #StrikeAPose - can I have ALL of these??!!

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Also, today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #StrikeAPose - can I have ALL of these??!!

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