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Martine Fenn @martinefenn.bsky.social · 9h

A Wheatear who appears to be examining the rock it’s standing on for #SmallBirdSaturday #Birds 🪶

Martine Fenn @martinefenn.bsky.social · 9h

A Curlew showing off his/her beak very nicely for today’s #BirdOfTheDay alt theme #LongBeaks by @alan678.bsky.social #ECK #Birds 🪶

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Martine Fenn @martinefenn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

For today’s #BirdOfTheDay main theme #BestBeaks by @helenbennett.bsky.social I’ve chosen the Oystercatcher. They always look to me as though they’re carrying a carrot 🤣 but they are amazingly strong, efficient beaks used as either hammer or chisel for opening shellfish #ECK 🪶

An Oystercatcher, a large black-and-white wader with a long, strong, bright orange beak. This one is standing in a grassy field.

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Martine Fenn @martinefenn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A Raven flying past on a cloudy day for today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme #Black&White by @atlanticbirding.bsky.social #ECK #Birds 🪶

Taken in Cornwall earlier in the year - a Raven flying overhead with an overcast sky above

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Martine Fenn @martinefenn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We found this gorgeous little Beetle on one of our coast path walks in Northumberland. It looks like it’s got an emerald on its head! Sermylassa halensis (if I’ve got ID right - happy to be corrected) 🪲💚 #InsectThursday #Beetles #Coleoptera

A very small shiny bright green and brown Beetle on a frond of Bracken or Fern

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Martine Fenn @martinefenn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s been very hard to choose for the #BestOfTheMonth theme for today’s #BirdOfTheDay as our trip to Northumberland gave us such great views of waders, so I’ve chosen these two as it is also #WaderWednesday Another Sanderling (left) and a Dunlin (right) @robcrank68.bsky.social 🪶

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Martine Fenn @martinefenn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Goosander on the River Coquet in Northumberland for @robcrank68.bsky.social ’s #BirdOfTheDay main theme #EFG (birds with names beginning with any of these letters) #ECK #Birds 🪶

A female Goosander on dark water of the River Coquet in Northumberland from our recent trip.

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Martine Fenn @martinefenn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay alt theme by @helenbennett.bsky.social is #AwkwardAvian This is a Pied Wagtail doing something that looks very awkward! #ECK #Birds 🪶

A Pied Wagtail on a rooftop, just about to take off, or just making an awkward landing, or just being silly!

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Martine Fenn @martinefenn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Our first sighting of Whooper Swans this Autumn - a flotilla of 16 of them quite well out to sea off the coast at Warkworth, Northumberland on 16th September #SwanDay #Birds 🪶

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Martine Fenn @martinefenn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A Guillemot quite close in off the Northumberland coast #BirdOfTheDay #SeaBirds #SuperSeabirdSunday 🪶

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Martine Fenn @martinefenn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Today’s themes for #BirdOfTheDay by @atlanticbirding.bsky.social are #Seabirds and #Airborne Here’s a Twofer! - a Sandwich Tern heading back to its chicks with a fish. Pic taken in June.

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Martine Fenn @martinefenn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“Come on over Sid there’s a spare seat here for you” #SparrowSunday

A row of House Sparrows sat on a garden fence with a thick green hedge behind them

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Martine Fenn @martinefenn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Today’s alt theme for #BirdOfTheDay by @robcrank68.bsky.social is #Green - (a bird against a green background) here’s a Pied Wagtail posing on a gate with green vegetation in the background. #ECK #Birds 🪶

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Martine Fenn @martinefenn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It was great to see skeins of Pink-footed Geese flying South along the Northumberland coast last week. They don’t often find their way down to us in Gloucestershire! #FlyDay #Birds 🪶

A cropped photo of part of a big flock of Geese (Pink-footed) with light cloud and blue sky. They were flying South along the Northumberland coast last week.

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Martine Fenn @martinefenn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“Dammit! I should’ve been facing into the wind!” Curlew for #BirdOfTheDay themes #Borbs and #Brown A twofer I reckon! @robcrank68.bsky.social #ECK 🪶

A Curlew in the sea with seaweed floating around. Its feathers are ruffled - it had actually just been preening and was shaking itself out.

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Martine Fenn @martinefenn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Todays #BirdOfTheDay alt theme #BirdStare gives me the chance to post another pic of my favourite little wader - Sanderling. This one was staring straight at the camera! @helenbennett.bsky.social #ECK 🪶

Sanderling (Calidris alba) - a small wader, black and white in winter plumage, along the shoreline with worm casts in front of it. Taken along Boulmer beach, Northumberland last week.

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Martine Fenn @martinefenn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Sanderling - one of my favourite waders. It was great to see so many of these gorgeous little waders all along the tideline on the beach at Boulmer, Northumberland last week. #WaderWednesday #Birds 🪶

Sanderling (Calidris alba) along the shore line with little worm casts in the sand in front of it.

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Martine Fenn @martinefenn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Here’s a nice little Knot for #WaderWednesday seen at Boulmer on the Northumberland coast last week #Birds 🪶

A (Red) Knot, Calidris canutus, probably a juvenile, standing in a tidal pool surrounded by rocks and seaweed.

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Martine Fenn @martinefenn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I believe this is a Reeve (female Ruff) or maybe a juvenile (?) with a fitting Autumn tone to her plumage. Seen at Boulmer on the Northumberland coast last week. #WaderWednesday #BirdsSeenin2026 #Birds 🪶

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Martine Fenn @martinefenn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We saw our first Small Tortoiseshell Butterflies of the year in Northumberland last week. I can remember when they seemed to be on every Buddleia bush. #Butterflies @savebutterflies.bsky.social

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Martine Fenn @martinefenn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A female Pied Flycatcher (taken on Dartmoor in May) for today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme #LightAndShadow by @alan678.bsky.social #Birds #ECK 🪶

A female Pied Flycatcher on a small branch with a patch of sunlight on her. Taken in the Dart Valley woods, Dartmoor, in May.

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Martine Fenn @martinefenn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Just back from a week in Northumberland. It was great to see Eider (we don’t get to see them back home in Gloucestershire!). As far as I can tell this one is a juvenile. On the River Aln at Alnmouth. #MallardMonday #Birds 🪶

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Martine Fenn @martinefenn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

From the archive: a female Chaffinch with spring blossom #BirdOfTheDay alt theme #Finches by @atlanticbirding.bsky.social

A female Chaffinch perched on a branch in a flowering Cherry Plum tree. Pic taken in Spring this year.

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Martine Fenn @martinefenn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

You’ll have to take my word for it that these are male and female Cranes (perhaps the baby Crane is a giveaway?!) Taken at WWT Slimbridge earlier in the year. #BirdOfTheDay #Mamas&Papas theme. By @robcrank68.bsky.social

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Martine Fenn @martinefenn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A couple of Mallards sat by our pond for @robcrank68.bsky.social ’s #BirdOfTheDay theme #Mamas&Papas also doubles up for #MallardMonday 🪶

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Martine Fenn @martinefenn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Today’s main theme for #BirdOfTheDay is #ABCD (any bird whose name begins with these letters) Here’s a Chough taken on one of our visits to Cornwall @alan678.bsky.social 🪶

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Trek Central @trekcentral.net · 08/09/2026

For 60 years #StarTrek has been a source of entertainment, inspiration, & hope for a better tomorrow. May it Live Long and Prosper for many more decades to come! From all of us here at the Trek Central Team - A Very Happy Star Trek Day! 🖖

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Martine Fenn @martinefenn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

An Oak Hook-tip attracted near to the moth trap a couple of night’s ago #TeamMoth #MothsMatter

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Martine Fenn @martinefenn.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The Ducks are back! 🎉 Including Mr Broken-beak who has survived the summer and the moult and is looking in fine form (apart from his beak, obviously). Here he is this morning still in eclipse plumage. ❤️🦆❤️ #MallardMonday 🪶

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Martine Fenn @martinefenn.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Now that we’ve at last had some rain it looks like the Fungi season has started and we were very pleased to find these Green Elf Cups in our local woodland. A good start! #MushroomMonday #FungiFriends #Fungi

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Martine Fenn @martinefenn.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

It’s such a shame the words Slime Mould conjure up an unpleasant image - some of them are really attractive, like this bright pink Wolf’s Milk seen on our walk in local woods on Friday #SlimeMouldSunday

Some bright pink blobs (technical term!) of Slime Mould. I think it’s Wolf’s Milk but happy to be corrected! On a very dark piece of rotting wood.

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Martine Fenn @martinefenn.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

It always makes me smile when we drive past this local field. There’s something about Sunflowers that lifts the spirits! 😁🌻💛 #SundayYellow

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Martine Fenn @martinefenn.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Oops sorry! Today’s theme was by @robcrank68.bsky.social 🤦‍♀️

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Martine Fenn @martinefenn.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The Woodpigeons in our garden love doing this! They plonk themselves down in a drinking bowl and call it a bath! 🙄 Anyway it’s just about qualifies as a twofer for today’s #BirdOfTheDay themes #Pigeons and #SittingOnWater by @atlanticbirding.bsky.social 🪶

A Woodpigeon sitting in a shallow drinking bowl on our dried-out lawn during the drought and heatwave.

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Martine Fenn @martinefenn.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Our garden Blackbird sunning himself (during one of the heatwaves too! 🙄) for today’s alt #BirdOfTheDay theme #Grounded by @alan678.bsky.social 🪶

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Martine Fenn @martinefenn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Shoveler keeping an eye open just in case … #BirdOfTheDay main theme #BirdNaps by @helenbennett.bsky.social 🪶

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Martine Fenn @martinefenn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Here’s the Hoverfly with the funny little snout! Rhingia rostrata seen on a recent walk. It managed to find one of the last remaining flowers. Happy Friday folks and Happy #Flyday too! #Insects #Syrphidae

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Martine Fenn @martinefenn.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

We only spotted the very weird Tortoise Beetle because we first noticed this Hairy Shieldbug who was obviously investigating it!! From a recent walk in our local woodland. #InsectThursday

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Martine Fenn @martinefenn.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

A Goldenrod Crab Spider, Misumena vatia, this one’s a male and very small. On Goldenrod in the garden, ready to grab unwary flies!

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Martine Fenn @martinefenn.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Bumblebee sharing the last flower on this Thistle. The Bumblebee wanted it all to itself but the Butterfly, a female Common Blue, refused to leave. #WildWebsWednesday

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Martine Fenn @martinefenn.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

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Martine Fenn @martinefenn.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is a really weird looking Beetle! 😳🪲 I think it is a Thistle Tortoise Beetle, but I’ve never seen a two-tone one like this before. Could it be some sort of aberration? Comments appreciated! 🙏 @nottscoleoptera.bsky.social @coleopsoc.bsky.social #Beetles

A Thistle Tortoise Beetle, Cassida rubiginosa (I think) on a Thistle leaf. The beetle has one brown elytra, one green elytra and a green head. Definitely not normal!!

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Martine Fenn @martinefenn.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay main theme chosen by @helenbennett.bsky.social is #BirdsUpClose We had a very close encounter with this Great Tit the last time we went to RSPB Ham Wall 🪶

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Martine Fenn @martinefenn.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

A pair of Black-headed Gulls with three fledglings on their nesting platform at RSPB Ham Wall back in June. They look nice and calm here but were defending their young ferociously whenever there was a threat. #BirdOfTheDay #Parenting @atlanticbirding.bsky.social

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Martine Fenn @martinefenn.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Today’s main theme for #BirdOfTheDay is #Parenting This Great Crested Grebe seems to go in for laid-back parenting! 🤣 @atlanticbirding.bsky.social Taken at RSPB Ham Wall back in June.

An adult Great Crested Grebe in the process of bathing with a well-grown stripey-headed youngster in front.

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Martine Fenn @martinefenn.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Not hard to choose a bird for @robcrank68.bsky.social ’s theme #BestOfTheMonth - it has to be the stunning (and by now famous!) Long-tailed Shrike at Eastleach, Gloucestershire. We are so lucky to have this bird in our area! #BirdOfTheDay 🪶

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Martine Fenn @martinefenn.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Todays alt theme for #BirdOfTheDay chosen by @alan678.bsky.social is #Rocky This is a Lapwing on his own little collection of rocks, taken at Slimbridge a while back now. 🪶

A Lapwing next to a rock, with some shiny pebbles in front of him. Taken at WWT Slimbridge, from the Rushy hide, some time ago (archive pic).

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