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Michael Sanders

@hummingbird-the.bsky.social
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I flit from hill to hill, eating my bodyweight in sugary nectar each hour, or I fall out of the sky. Oxted, England

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Michael Sanders @hummingbird-the.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
How small is too small? This tiny fish is surely more of a snack between meals, than a meal.... Female kingfisher at Warnham Local Nature Reserve yesterday. 👑🎣🐦 #birds #birdphotography
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Michael Sanders @hummingbird-the.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I got very lucky with the bearded reedlings at Oare Marshes this morning. Here's a complete set of family portraits, female & male adults & juveniles! @kentwildlife.bsky.social #birds #birdphotography
Bearded reedling (juvenile female)Bearded reedling (adult female)Bearded reedling (juvenile male)Bearded reedling (adult male)
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Stevie Kilner @1steviekilner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If anyone would like to see a short video of a deer fawn asking you to follow it to Narnia, this is your lucky day.
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Michael Sanders @hummingbird-the.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Here's a nuthatch, showing a typical disregard for gravity, at Warnham Local Nature Reserve this morning. 🐦🪶 #birds #birdphotography
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Michael Sanders @hummingbird-the.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Here's a juvenile blue tit, dangling from its lunch at Warnham Local Nature Reserve last weekend. 🐦🪶🙂 #birds #birdphotography
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Michael Sanders @hummingbird-the.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Here's a stunning juvenile greenfinch, from Warnham Local Nature Reserve this morning. There were two juveniles hopping around, along with Mr & Mrs. 🐦😍🪶 #birds #birdphotography
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Michael Sanders @hummingbird-the.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Hints of autumn already, or are these colours just an artefact of the long drought? Answers on a postcard.... 🐦🪶🙂 #birds #birdphotography #robin
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Michael Sanders @hummingbird-the.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Here's a young red kite, coming close to check me out at Watlington Hill a few days back. Watlington Hill is still one of the best places to get up close with these birds, they are curious about anyone on the hill in case there's food to be snatched... 🦅🙂 #birds #birdphotography
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Michael Sanders @hummingbird-the.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Here're a family pair of buzzards over Watlington Hill (Oxfordshire) today. I think the adult is the darker-coloured bird, the juvenile is the lighter (absence of sub-terminal tail band), but let me know your thoughts if you know better... 🦅🦅🪶😍 #birds #birdphotography
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Michael Sanders @hummingbird-the.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Here're a few more varied pics of Oxford's long-tailed shrike! What a stunning little bird, and it seems to be doing well in its chosen territory. 🐦😍🪶 #birds #birdphotography
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Michael Sanders @hummingbird-the.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Here's an exceptionally rare bird for the UK, a long-tailed shrike! Only three vagrants have ever been recorded here, and this is the latest one. It's taken up residence in Oxfordshire, so I made a detour on the way back from Bristol this morning. What a bird! 🐦😍 #birds #birdphotography
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Michael Sanders @hummingbird-the.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Here's a stunning and elegant female kingfisher, from Warnham Local Nature Reserve yesterday. She briefly alighted on a perch very close to the hide! 👑🎣🐦😍🪶 #birds #birdphotography
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Michael Sanders @hummingbird-the.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Here's a male kingfisher, from Warnham Local Nature Reserve yesterday. He was very successful from this perch, capturing three fish while I watched. 👑🎣🐦🪶😍 #birds #birdphotography
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Michael Sanders @hummingbird-the.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Here's Mr Kingfisher doing his thing at Warnham Local Nature Reserve (Horsham) this morning. 👑🎣🐦😍 #birds #birdphotography
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Michael Sanders @hummingbird-the.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
I went back to Warnham Local Nature Reserve again today, and this time I met Mrs Kingfisher! 👑🎣🐦🪶🙂 #birds #birdphotography
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Michael Sanders @hummingbird-the.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
First time out in 6 weeks (bike crash, broken ribs & collarbone on 4th July). Here's an action pic of a male kingfisher, as Warnham Local Nature Reserve this morning. 👑🎣🐦🪶🙂 #birds #birdphotography
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Michael Sanders @hummingbird-the.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Birds don't get much more #multicolor than the Kea, New Zealand's mischievous alpine parrot! #birdoftheday 🦜🐦🙂
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Michael Sanders @hummingbird-the.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Here's a statuesque male greenfinch perched on my garden fence yesterday evening. He stayed there for ten minutes, calling, maybe juveniles are around? In other news, I'm unable to get out at the moment due to a broken collarbone, normal service will resume in a few weeks. #birds #birdphotography
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Michael Sanders @hummingbird-the.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Here's a lovely juvenile blackbird, drying itself off after a bath at Warburg Nature Reserve yesterday. Such a different colour-scheme compared to either male or female adult bird! 🐦‍⬛🙂🪶 #birds #birdphotography
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Michael Sanders @hummingbird-the.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Here's a lovely little spotted flycatcher I met at Warburg Nature Reserve yesterday morning. It's been so hot and dry recently, everyone was coming down to visit the pond. 🙂🐦🪶 #birds #birdphotography
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Michael Sanders @hummingbird-the.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Keeping with my seasonal theme of fledglings, here's an absolutely stunning juvenile robin! 🐦😍. Warburg Nature Reserve (Oxfordshire) yesterday morning. #birds #birdphotography
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Michael Sanders @hummingbird-the.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
How adorable is this little fledgling bullfinch!!! 😍🐂🐦🪶. From my session at Warburg Nature Reserve (Oxfordshire) this morning. #birds #birdphotography
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Michael Sanders @hummingbird-the.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
... and here's one of the recently fledged kestrels in portrait, at South Norwood Country Park yesterday morning. 🦅🪶😍 #birds #birdphotography
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Michael Sanders @hummingbird-the.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Here's a fledgling kestrel, chasing a butterfly at South Norwood Country Park yesterday 🦅🦋😆🪶. The resident kestrel pair seem to have four fledgling this season! #birds #birdphotography
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Michael Sanders @hummingbird-the.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Here's one of the fledgling kestrels at South Norwood Country Park, dismantling an unfortunate house sparrow it'd been given by its father a minute previously. 🦅🐦💀🍽️😬 #birds #birdphotography
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Michael Sanders @hummingbird-the.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
The kestrel family in South Norwood Country Park is starting to fledge this week. They're raised at least four chicks this year (maybe more), and they're looking great for first flights any moment now. 🦅🦅🦅🦅🪶 #birds #birdphotography
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Michael Sanders @hummingbird-the.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Here're some close-ups of Mrs & Mr green-winged teal, at Thursley Common last weekend. 💚🪽🦆🪶 #birds #birdphotography
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Michael Sanders @hummingbird-the.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Here're Mr & Mrs green-winged teal, with this year's teal-lings, at Thursley Common last weekend. 🦆🐤🐤🐤🪶 #birds #birdphotography
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Michael Sanders @hummingbird-the.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Here's a female great-spotted woodpecker bringing back a beakful of food for her chicks at Thursley Common last weekend. 🪵🐦‍⬛🪶 #birds #birdphotography
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Michael Sanders @hummingbird-the.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
How beautiful is this treecreeper I met at Warburg Nature Reserve! These little birds are so well adapted to their environment, if they want to disappear all they have to do is stop moving 🥷🐦😍🪶 #birds #birdphotography
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Michael Sanders @hummingbird-the.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Here's a juvenile stonechat bothering its father for food, at Thursley Common on Saturday! 🐦🪶. There were several recent fledglings flitting around the common, great to see them doing well there. #birds #birdphotography
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Michael Sanders @hummingbird-the.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Here's a stunning little bird that's a new one for me: spotted flycatcher! I met this bird at Thursley Common this morning 🐦🪶 #birds #birdphotography
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Michael Sanders @hummingbird-the.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
I'm prety amazed by the OM-1's sensor, these pics were taken at 1/8000s with the electronic shutter, and froze the wings of this four-spotted chaser perfectly! 🐉🪰😮 #insects #insectphotography
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Michael Sanders @hummingbird-the.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
How gorgeous is this fledgling stonechat!! 😍🐦🪶. At Thursley Common yesterday. #birds #birdphotography
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Michael Sanders @hummingbird-the.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Here're a pair of blackcaps (male/female) in nearly the same pose on the same log prior to bathing, at Warburg Nature Reserve last weekend 🐦❤️🐦🪶 #birds #birdphotography
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Michael Sanders @hummingbird-the.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
There are a lot of young rabbits around at the moment, here's one I met at Unstead last weekend! 🐇🙂 #rabbits #wildlifephotography
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Michael Sanders @hummingbird-the.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Here're a pair of barn swallows collecting mud at Unstead last weekend. 🐦❤️🐦🪶 #birds #birdphotography
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Michael Sanders @hummingbird-the.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
The trials of parenthood. This blue tit at Warburg Nature Reserve is looking a bit scruffy because it's spending all day every day fetching food for the chicks, no time to preen! 🐦❤️ #birds #birdphotography
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Michael Sanders @hummingbird-the.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Here's a little muntjac deer, briefly paused mid-cleaning at Warburg Nature Reserve last week. This one seems to be resident, regularly appearing at the hide. 🦌❤️
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Michael Sanders @hummingbird-the.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Here's one of the resident curlew at Thursley Common last week. There're a pair setting up camp near Pudmore Pond. 🐦🪶🙂 #birds #birdphotography
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Michael Sanders @hummingbird-the.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
It's always lovely to see peregrine falcons soaring along the cliffs! (southern England, this morning). 🦅🪶😍 #birds #birdphotography
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Michael Sanders @hummingbird-the.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Splooshy birds 2 of 2. Here're a marsh tit, a male siskin, a female blackcap, and a chiffchaff bathing at Warburg Nature Reserve (Oxfordshire) yesterday. 🐦🐦🐦🐦🪶😀 #birds #birdphotography
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Michael Sanders @hummingbird-the.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Splooshy birds 1 of 2. Here're a coal tit, male blackcap, blue tit, and garden warbler, all bathing at Warburg Nature Reserve (Oxfordshire) yesterday. 🐦🐦🐦🐦😍🪶 #birds #birdphotography
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Michael Sanders @hummingbird-the.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Spring's red kite, along Upload Road, Woldingham this morning. 🦅🙂 #birds #birdphotography
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Michael Sanders @hummingbird-the.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Here's a stunning hobby, wheeling above me at Staines Moor this morning, as it hunted mayflies on the wing. I watched three hobbies take dozens of mayflies! 😍🦅🪶🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰💀 #birds #birdphotography
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Michael Sanders @hummingbird-the.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
You can almost see the "Huh?!?" speech-bubble above this common buzzard's head, as it suddenly realised it was being scolded by a sparrowhawk less than half its size, presumably for overflying the spawk's nest. 🦅 🥊🦅😍🪶 #birds #birdphotography
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Michael Sanders @hummingbird-the.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Here's a sweet little mallard ducking at Pudmore Pond, Thursley Common last weekend. Good luck little one, you're going to need it 😬. Everything likes to eat ducklings.... 🤞 🦆🪶 #birds #birdphotography
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Michael Sanders @hummingbird-the.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
I watched this great crested grebe catch a good-sized fish (plus salad) at Warnham Local Nature Reserve yesterday. 🎣🐦🥗🪶 #birds #birdphotography
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Michael Sanders @hummingbird-the.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Here's a skulky reed warbler, momentarily showing reasonably well at Warnham Local Nature Reserve (Horsham) this morning. 🌾🐦🪶 #birds #birdphotography
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Michael Sanders @hummingbird-the.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Here're a pair of linnets I met at Thursley Common last weekend. First time I've been close enough to get some decent pics of these beautiful little birds! 🐦😍🪶 #birds #birdphotography
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