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Peter Barnes @infinite8horizon.com · 15h

@atlanticbirding.bsky.social's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BlueSkies Golden hour lorikeets #photography #birds #lorikeet #ECK

A flock of lorikeets in flight lit by the just-risen sun

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Peter Barnes @infinite8horizon.com · 15h

@atlanticbirding.bsky.social's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BlueSkies Welcome swallow and crescent moon #photography #birds #swallow #moon #ECK

A welcome swallow makes a second crescent in the sky near the crescent moon

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Peter Barnes @infinite8horizon.com · 03/10/2026

@alan678.bsky.social's #BirdOfTheDay is #Black&Red Red-tailed black cockatoo taking off with a seed in its beak A repost, but perfect for the theme #photography #birds #Litchfield #NT #ECK

Red-tailed black cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus banksii) taking off with a seed in its beak. Litchfield National Park, Northern Territory.

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Peter Barnes @infinite8horizon.com · 03/10/2026

@alan678.bsky.social's #BirdOfTheDay is #Black&Red, Alt theme is #LongBeak A twofer, Australian white ibis landing #photography #birds #ibis #SandyCamp #gift #ECK

An Australian white ibis about to land, beak open as it calls. Purists may quibble about the red being skin not feathers, but I think the long bill is safe, and the black wingtips and wispy back feathers.

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Peter Barnes @infinite8horizon.com · 16/09/2026

@helenbennett.bsky.social's #BirdOfTheDay is #BirdsWithBerries Botanists, look away, berries / fruit / achenes... Figbird succumbing to nominative determinism #photography #birds #nature #wildlife #ECK

Female Australasian fig bird with a fig in their beak, Fogg Dam, Darwin

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Peter Barnes @infinite8horizon.com · 15/09/2026

@atlanticbirding.bsky.social's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Silhouette Too many... #3 miscellany honeyeater, miner, wagtails, ibis, pelicans, magpie geese, crows, pigeon post #ClassicMono #photography #birds #nature #wildlife #gift #ECK

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Peter Barnes @infinite8horizon.com · 15/09/2026

@atlanticbirding.bsky.social 's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Silhouette I have too many... #2 Other sunrise and sunset shots Australasian darter, ducks, white-bellied sea eagle, ibis #photography #birds #sunrise #nature #wildlife #gift #ECK

An australasian darter perched on a dead tree, silhouetted by the setting sun

A flight of ducks caught against apricot clouds at dawn

A white-bellied sea eagle soaring over an indigo sea at sunset

A lone ibis flying home to roost, silhouetted against the sunset sky

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Peter Barnes @infinite8horizon.com · 15/09/2026

@atlanticbirding.bsky.social's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Silhouette I have rather too many of these... #1 Bald Knob series Crow, kookaburra, cockatoo, lorikeet, lorikeet, king parrot, flycatcher, flycatcher #ClassicMono #photography #birds #nature #wildlife #BaldKnob #gift #ECK

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Peter Barnes @infinite8horizon.com · 15/09/2026

Good evening... Bald Knob blue moon Have a peaceful evening... #photography #landscape #moon #BaldKnob #gift #ECK

A full moon rides partly obscured in a cloudy, misty blue-hour sky, the wooded plains below still visible but monochrome in the moonlight, the dull gleam of a lake reflecting the soft blue of the sky. The scene is framed left and right by the silhouettes of two large trees.

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Peter Barnes @infinite8horizon.com · 15/09/2026

Good Morning! Bald Knob sunrise, with kookaburras @atlanticbirding.bsky.social's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Silhouette #photography #birds #sunrise #nature #wildlife #BaldKnob #gift #ECK

A sky ablaze with pink and apricot as an almost completely cloud-blanketed sky is lit up from the horizon by the newly-risen sun, itself still obscured behind a low bank on the distant ocean horizon. In the foreground a large gum tree frames the picture, with two kookaburras perched in silhouette against the dawn.

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Peter Barnes @infinite8horizon.com · 14/09/2026

Rob's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Mamas&Papas Australian wood ducks, Scaly-breasted lorikeets, Rainbow lorikeets, Welcome swallows Awwww..... #photography #birds #wildlife #nature #gift #ECK

A pair of Australian wood ducks perched on a branch, facing in opposite directions for safety

A pair of scaly-breasted lorikeets, allopreening

A pair of rainbow lorikeets, allopreening

A nesting pair of welcome swallows, nest building

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Peter Barnes @infinite8horizon.com · 14/09/2026

Moreton Bay chestnut seed pod #MacroMonday #photography #plants #seeds #Castanospermum-australe #ECK

The very large seed pod of the Moreton Bay chestnut, Castanospermum australe

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Peter Barnes @infinite8horizon.com · 11/09/2026

@atlanticbirding.bsky.social's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Mouthful Sacred kingfisher with breakfast #photography #birds #nature #wildlife #kingfisher #ECK

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Peter Barnes @infinite8horizon.com · 11/09/2026

Less purple, true, but much shinier...

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Peter Barnes @infinite8horizon.com · 10/09/2026

Rob's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Iridescence, Alt. is #Black&White I have a secret weapon... Torresian crow showing its iridescent black (and white) plumage #photography #birds #nature #wildlife #crow #ECK

Torresian crow with its distinctive blue eye and showing some exposed white at the base of its neck feathers

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Peter Barnes @infinite8horizon.com · 10/09/2026

Alan's #BirdOfTheDay Alt theme is #RSTU RS, RS, ST, U Royal Spoonbill, Radjah Shelduck, Scrub Turkey, UNIDENTIFIED 👅 #photography #birds #nature #wildlife #ECK

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Peter Barnes @infinite8horizon.com · 10/09/2026

Alan's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #ABCD AB, AC, AD, AK Australian Boobook, Australian Coot, Australasian Darter, Azure Kingfisher #photography #birds #nature #wildlife #ECK

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Peter Barnes @infinite8horizon.com · 08/09/2026

Helen's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BirdBuddies I think there are at least five in the first photo (see Alt), then kite and ducks—a persiflage partnership, pelican and cormorants, and egrets and cormorants #photography #birds #nature #wildlife #cohabitation #ECK

A busy billabong. Magpie geese, radjah shelducks, egrets, royal spoonbill, Australasian darter.

Whistling kite eyeing two plumed whistling ducks. Persiflage partners?

Australian pelican joining a fishing flock of cormorants

Egrets and cormorants roosting together in a fig tree

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Peter Barnes @infinite8horizon.com · 08/09/2026

AtlanticBirding's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Herons&Egrets Pied heron, McMinn's Lagoon #photography #birds #nature #wildlife #heron #ECK

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Peter Barnes @infinite8horizon.com · 08/09/2026

AtlanticBirding's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Herons&Egrets Eastern Great Egret with Eastern Tiny Fish #photography #birds #nature #wildlife #egret #ECK

Eastern great egret with small fish in its bill

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Peter Barnes @infinite8horizon.com · 06/09/2026

Rob's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Pigeons Wampoo fruit dove, White headed pigeon, Emerald dove and Bar-shouldered dove #photography #birds #nature #wildlife #Columbidae #ECK

Bar-shouldered dove surveying the landscape

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Peter Barnes @infinite8horizon.com · 02/09/2026

Alan's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #FlowerPower Haven't posted any friarbirds for a while... In case there weren't enough flowers in the previous shots 3/3 Little friarbird in flowering eucalypt #photography #birds #friarbird #nature #wildlife #gift #ECK

A little friarbird partially obscured by the flowers and foliage of a white flowering gum

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Peter Barnes @infinite8horizon.com · 02/09/2026

Alan's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #FlowerPower Haven't posted any friarbirds for a while... 2/3 Helmeted friarbird feeding on red-flowering kurrajong #photography #birds #friarbird #nature #wildlife #gift #ECK

A helmeted friarbird feeding on a kurrajong flower

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Peter Barnes @infinite8horizon.com · 02/09/2026

Alan's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #FlowerPower Haven't posted any friarbirds for a while... 1/3 Helmeted friarbird on red-flowering kurrajong #photography #birds #friarbird #nature #wildlife #gift #ECK

A helmeted friarbird perched next to a kurrajong flower

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Peter Barnes @infinite8horizon.com · 01/09/2026

Good Morning! Dawn seashells, Golden Beach She sells seashells by the sea shore... I know this won't appeal to everyone 🤷 #TidesOutTuesday #photography #sunrise #beach #shells #art #gift #ECK

A sandy beach almost completely covered with washed-up seashells, water lapping gently at the shoreline, all lit by almost horizontal early-morning dawn light.

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Peter Barnes @infinite8horizon.com · 30/08/2026

#MinimalMonday Fiona Hall, 'Paradisus Terrestris" series, Sri Lankan set, "Rice" Queensland Art Gallery #art #ECK

Aluminium and tin sculpture made from a partially opened sardine tin and beaten metal. A clump of rice appears to grow from the top of the tin, while the partially exposed interior shows the outline of a vulva. Fiona Hall, 'Paradisus Terrestris' series, 1999

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Peter Barnes @infinite8horizon.com · 30/08/2026

AtlanticBirding's #BirdoftheDay theme is #Parenting Swan parents with cygnets in deep grass I hope your chicks are safe also #photography #birds #nature #wildlife #swans #gift #ECK

Two swans foraging in thick grass by the water's edge with two cygnets half submerged in the grass.

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Peter Barnes @infinite8horizon.com · 30/08/2026

AtlanticBirding's #BirdoftheDay theme is #Parenting Brown honeyeater leaving the nest (left) in the mangroves #photography #birds #nature #wildlife #honeyeater #ECK

A brown honeyeater is caught flying off to the right, leaving the nest hidden in the mangroves on the left.

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Peter Barnes @infinite8horizon.com · 29/08/2026

Rob's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BestOfTheMonth August 2nd, Dowse Lagoon, hard to beat Sacred kingfisher, reposts #photography #birds #nature #wildlife #repost #kingfisher #ECK

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Peter Barnes @infinite8horizon.com · 28/08/2026

Alan’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Coastal&River Mangrove gerygone, Nightcliff Bay #photography #birds #nature #wildlife #gerygone #ECK

A mangrove gerygone perched momentarily in the light on a mangrove branch

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Peter Barnes @infinite8horizon.com · 28/08/2026

Alan’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Coastal&River Two pelicans soaring, Golden Beach #photography #birds #nature #wildlife #pelicans #ECK

Two pelicans soaring, wings spread, almost directly overhead

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Peter Barnes @infinite8horizon.com · 28/08/2026

Alan’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Coastal&River Royal spoonbill landing, Tinchi Tamba wetlands #photography #birds #nature #wildlife #spoonbill #ECK

A royal spoonbill landing on a coastal mudflat

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Peter Barnes @infinite8horizon.com · 27/08/2026

I didn't know that (mind you, what I do know about native birds would fit on that archaic object, a postage stamp)... Here's a nicer portrait...

Chestnut breasted mannikin peering at us

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