Reposted by @gallc.bsky.socialFraggs Photography 📸🦊🦉🦋🦔 🏴 @fraggenstein.bsky.social · 11/10/2026One for #Stunday and can now finally reveal that my photo of a Tawny Owlet at Cosmeston Lakes - South Wales this year will be June's photo in the Countryfile 2027 calendar 🤩🏆🪶🦉 #birdingwales #ukbirding #ECK 3027835
gallc.bsky.social @gallc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Saturday was a glorious autumn day here in Ceredigion #BirdingWales (shame it didn't last) , the farmer cut the field behind our house which brought out the local buzzards and Red kites #BirdOfTheDay #Blueskies #Birds 1190
gallc.bsky.social @gallc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BestOfTheMonth mine is the local Chiffchaff well camouflaged in our unhappy conifer #BirdingWales 0120
gallc.bsky.social @gallc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme #scruffy this robin, taken in the garden, looking slightly disgruntled at its lack of elegance #BirdingWales #Birds 1202
gallc.bsky.social @gallc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026One of my favourite garden birds, the unassuming, but very beautiful dunnock. In keeping with today's #BirdOfTheDay theme it has a #mouthful of something's legs #BirdingWales 1171
Reposted by @gallc.bsky.socialWelsh Ornithological Society @birdsinwales.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Welsh Ornithological Society Annual Conference 2026 📅 31 October 2026 📍 Aberystwyth University ⏰ 10am–5pm 🎯 Theme: ‘Bound for Wales’ | ‘Ar y ffordd i Gymru’ 🎟️ Book your place now - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/welsh-orni... 0137
gallc.bsky.social @gallc.bsky.social · 05/09/2026The Long-tailed tits provided a lovely distraction from gardening this afternoon #BirdingWales #Birds 070
gallc.bsky.social @gallc.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Well, the teasel I planted last year has been a great success. In flower the pollinators loved it and today the goldfinch arrived for the seeds #BirdingWales #Birds 0120
Reposted by @gallc.bsky.socialJulian Hughes @penrhynbirder.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Finally remembered to book this event. Nice to have an option to pay an extra tenner for your ticket to support the attendance of a young person. #BirdingWales 063
gallc.bsky.social @gallc.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Lovely to catch the nuthatch in the garden this morning #BirdingWales #Birds 0130
gallc.bsky.social @gallc.bsky.social · 13/08/2026One of the local buzzards circling over the house the other day #BirdingWales #Birds #BirdOfTheDay #Raptors 0230
gallc.bsky.social @gallc.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Well I'm quite pleased with these - even managing to see the Goldcrests is lovely but actually getting a recognisable photo very much a bonus. Also meets today's #BirdOfTheDay alt theme of #ASplashOfColour - taken this morning in my garden #BirdingWales #Birds 0150
gallc.bsky.social @gallc.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #YourChoice this appears to be my last photo (taken last week) of the local Swifts for this year, as there's been a distinct lack of them over the last few days - I miss their screaming already and look forward to their return next year #BirdingWales #Birds 0160
gallc.bsky.social @gallc.bsky.social · 25/07/2026This young robin (or possibly robins) has been bobbing round the garden this last week #BirdOfTheDay #ForJanet #BirdingWales #Birds 0172
gallc.bsky.social @gallc.bsky.social · 21/07/2026The local herring gulls have taken to using the telegraph pole in the corner of our garden to survey the neighbourhood #BirdOfTheDay #Gulls #BirdingWales #Birds 0151
gallc.bsky.social @gallc.bsky.social · 20/07/2026For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme #SummerLovin can't think of anything more appropriate than the local swifts, which I have become slightly obsessed with photographing, usually badly. Watching them scream and wheel across the sky is an absolute joy. #BirdingWales #Birds 0160
gallc.bsky.social @gallc.bsky.social · 11/07/2026One of the local sparrows thinking about a drink in this hot weather #BirdingWales #Birds 0130
gallc.bsky.social @gallc.bsky.social · 27/06/2026The wren continues to serenade me while I garden #BirdingWales #Birds 0150
gallc.bsky.social @gallc.bsky.social · 23/06/2026With my camera (and more importantly my photographic skill, or lack of it) quite pleased to actually capture the local swifts. I have plenty of empty blue sky photos as well 😅 #BirdingWales #Birds 0160
gallc.bsky.social @gallc.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Lovely morning, sat having coffee with the local swifts screaming overhead #BirdingWales #birds 060
gallc.bsky.social @gallc.bsky.social · 18/06/2026The local rookery is now quiet again as the fledglings have left the nests, as have the chimney pot jackdaws, but that just means flocks of corvids wheeling and chattering overhead, which fits the #BirdOfTheDay theme #black #BirdingWales #Birds 0100
gallc.bsky.social @gallc.bsky.social · 14/06/2026More fledglings, blue tits this time, in safer perches and getting fed #BirdingWales #Birds 0130
gallc.bsky.social @gallc.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Always a joy to see fledglings in the garden, but they do cause me some angst. Witness this little Robin, resting in the doghouse (we have no dogs, the previous owners left it behind, but there are plenty of neighbourhood felines) and then on the low wall. #BirdingWales #Birds 0130
gallc.bsky.social @gallc.bsky.social · 03/06/2026One of this year's House Sparrow fledglings, making lots of 'feed-me' cheeps, without notable success it has to be said #BirdingWales #Birds 050
gallc.bsky.social @gallc.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Today's #BirdOfTheDay Theme is #FoodInBeaks - taken last autumn as a Brambling feasted on the garden sunflowers #BirdingWales #Birds 0140
gallc.bsky.social @gallc.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #WingsWideOpen and these loved-up woodpigeons in the garden appear to fit the bill #BirdingWales #Birds 090
gallc.bsky.social @gallc.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Today we had newt tug of war in the pond #newts ##amphibians #ponds #ukwildlife 000
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gallc.bsky.social @gallc.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Always a joy to watch the newts in our pond #newts #amphibians #ponds 000
gallc.bsky.social @gallc.bsky.social · 15/05/2026I love the sheer range of calls the local rooks seem to have, but at this time of year, what's known in our house as unhappy rook (official definitions are available) is a sure sign that one of the local kites has entered the no-fly zone near the rookery and is duly chased off #BirdingWales #Birds 020
gallc.bsky.social @gallc.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Always enjoy the wrens singing in the garden, but difficult to photo (well for me at any rate). So I was delighted when this one decided that the top of the conifer was a good place to announce its presence. #BirdingWales #Birds 080
gallc.bsky.social @gallc.bsky.social · 08/05/2026The Mountain Ash is still a favourite singing post for the Robin, just harder to see now it's in full leaf #BirdingWales #Birds Also meets the #BirdOfTheDay theme of #photogenic birds 090
gallc.bsky.social @gallc.bsky.social · 07/05/2026While Gardening yesterday heard quite a loud tapping noise, to discover the nuthatch after insects in the oak tree. Also, the village swifts are back screaming and flying overhead 😊. #BirdingWales #Birds 060
gallc.bsky.social @gallc.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Peek-a-Boo one of the local House Sparrows popping out from the garden conifer #BirdingWales #Birds 050
gallc.bsky.social @gallc.bsky.social · 03/05/2026The seed feeder did get emptied very quickly after the local Rooks came to help - residue of a mouthful rather than an actual mouthful for the alt theme for #BirdOfTheDay #Mouthful #BirdingWales #Birds 0150
gallc.bsky.social @gallc.bsky.social · 01/05/2026When it's gone it's gone - Last Hurrah at the seed feeder. In line with the new advice when it's empty, any minute now with this queue, it'll be coming down for the summer. #BirdingWales #Birds 020
gallc.bsky.social @gallc.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Multi-tasking Blackbird - mouth full of food, but stopped on the wire above the house to have a sing #BirdOfTheDay #BirdOnAWire #BirdingWales #Birds 0110
gallc.bsky.social @gallc.bsky.social · 22/04/2026I surprised the siskin this afternoon, but amazingly it didn't fly off just perched for its photograph #BirdingWales #Birds #BirdOfTheDay #Green 0100
gallc.bsky.social @gallc.bsky.social · 19/04/2026On the basis that it's not a brilliant flier and has absolutely no sense of caution/danger (hence the close ups) I'm guessing this is an early Chaffinch fledgling #BirdingWales #Birds #BirdOftheDay #ABCD 080
gallc.bsky.social @gallc.bsky.social · 19/04/2026The Song Thrush has been in glorious song since February, but mostly from a neighbour's tree. Yesterday singing in my garden #BirdingWales #Birds 040
gallc.bsky.social @gallc.bsky.social · 17/04/2026The robin continues to enjoy last year's 'do it yourself feeder' prize from the Village Fair #BirdingWales #Birds #BirdOfTheDay #FeederFriends 081
gallc.bsky.social @gallc.bsky.social · 16/04/2026More swallows over the house today, if not the best photos #BirdingWales #Birds 050
gallc.bsky.social @gallc.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Yay! Just seen the first swallow over the house. #BirdingWales #Birds 050
gallc.bsky.social @gallc.bsky.social · 13/04/2026For once, photos of the Great Spotted Woodpecker, not on my feeder, but on the pole in the field behind the house. #BirdingWales #Birds 150
gallc.bsky.social @gallc.bsky.social · 11/04/2026The local rooks and jackdaws have already helped themselves to twigs from my trees to build their nests, yesterday I was slightly surprised to find it was the crows' turn, as they rarely venture into the garden #BirdingWales #Birds 0172
gallc.bsky.social @gallc.bsky.social · 09/04/2026This is a truly terrible photo of an Eider (probably) - in my defence I was actually photographing the waves - Portsoy, Scotland over the Easter weekend - to my shame it was only when I downloaded the photos that I noticed them at all 😂 #Birds #seascape #landscape 010
gallc.bsky.social @gallc.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Mr and Mrs Siskin turned up at the feeder - which was brilliant #BirdingWales #Birds 090
