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It's @helenbennett.bsky.social #BirdOfTheDay today and her theme is #Green, any birds or backgrounds that have Green in them. The Alt theme is #Geese, and Goose/Geese will do. A great tit against greenery #birds #ECK #ukbirding #photography #BirdLife #NatureTherapy #SmallBirdSaturday #GreenSaturday

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#SaturdayMotivation Really happy to be seeing #butterflies still in #Lancashire, mainly red admiral with comma and speckled wood in lower numbers. I spend summers admiring the many, now the few seem all the more precious. Hopefully there will be more! 🤞🙏🦋 @savebutterflies.bsky.social

Comma (mainly orange) speckled wood (mainly brown) and red admiral (black with red stripes) all seen last couple of days

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#SaturdayMotivation "Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” — Albert Camus. So many lovely colours coming through right now, these leaves looked amazing backlit by sunshine yesterday. What will you find this weekend? #Autumn #foliage

Autumn leaves turning red from the outside in.

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@s4r4h-l @s4r4h-l.bsky.social · 20h

#SaturdayMorning #BlackAndWhiteMacro Raindrops on achillea leaves yesterday, lit up by sunshine. Have a great weekend @bnwmacro.bsky.social @macrohour.bsky.social

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#JoinMeOnMyWalk Yesterday's cold start was replaced by heavy rain overnight that didn't clear til mid-morning. Imagine my delight on my lunch walk at finding red admirals and comma on the asters! Plus a new area of fly agaric sadly mostly damaged by mowing. @thephotohour.bsky.social #Lancashire

Clockwise from top left; Comma, red admiral both on aster, a fallen fly agaric, rain on ladies mantle leaves, and fabulous changing leaves

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@s4r4h-l @s4r4h-l.bsky.social · 21h

It's a #butterfly day! 😍🤩🎉🦋 It poured and poured overnight until mid-morning, so I didn't expect to find any. Imagine my excitement at my 1st comma in over a week plus at least 7 red admiral enjoying a sunny interval. Delighted! #Lancashire @savebutterflies.bsky.social

A perfect comma feeding on those lovely asters this lunchtime

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Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is: #Waders; any wading bird Alt. is #GardenBirds; any bird that you might see in your garden - An oystercatcher grabbing his lunch. #ECK #birdphotography #birdsofbluesky #naturephotography #Seascape @atlanticbirding.bsky.social #NorthWales

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#FungiFriday Oh I love finding #FlyAgaric #fungi. Their red is unmistakable. Sadly only one of two I found on Wednesday survived the night! Will it still be there today? 🙏 #mushrooms #Lancashire #vitaminN

A pretty fly agaric emerging to enjoy sunshine.

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#FlowersOnFriday Oh I'm loving Celebrity Traitors, and this fabulous monkshood reminds me of it totally 🤣 #bloomscrolling #DailyFlowers #Lancashire

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#FlutterbyFriday One of yesterday's 6 red admiral enjoying the asters. I'm very lucky to be able to enjoy the gardens at work that attract #butterflies late into the season with the wonderful planting. #Lancashire @savebutterflies.bsky.social

Red admiral enjoying autumn asters yesterday

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#JoinMeOnMyWalk Lucky to have a bright lunch walk today, with #fungi & #butterflies & pretty flowers before the rain swept in. Think we may have a wet couple of days, but that's why I love taking photos, to keep for the grey days. #Lancashire #vitaminN @thephotohour.bsky.social

Clockwise from top left; Snapdragons, roses, red admiral on aster, just ohe fly agaric left, helenium, monks hood, cherries, inkcap, a big tree, red admiral and speckled wood, changing trees and fruit.

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It's a #butterfly day! 😍🤩🎉🦋 Speckled wood and red admiral out at lunchtime today, on a bright lunch walk but after a very cold start in #Lancashire. These two both seemed to be trying to find paper things to land on that had absorbed some heat. @savebutterflies.bsky.social #butterflies

A speckled wood on a carved wooden sculpture

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Royal Entomological Society @royentsoc.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #crooners, birds singing. The Alt theme is #Eating, birds with food in their beaks. A singing robin in the woods by Lakeside, Windermere, such a beautiful song 😍 #birds #ECK #ForJanet #ukbirding #birdphotography #NatureTherapy #naturephotography #BirdLife #wildlife

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#ThrowbackThursday to 10th October 2023 and a wonderful visit to #StAnnes finding pretty pink shells, seaside flowers, a small copper, hoverfly and fantastic earth stars that look out of this world to me! @thephotohour.bsky.social #Lancashire

Clockwise from top left; bright flowers, shells on the beach, small copper butterfly, beach huts, pink shells, the sand dunes, earth star mushrooms, hoverfly and seaside daisies

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#InsectThursday from yesterday lunchtime, with red admiral, speckled wood and a drone fly enjoying #autumn asters. #pollinators #Lancashire #vitaminN

In the background a red admiral with a drone fly talking to a speckled wood

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#InsectThursday with a honey #bee having a well deserved rest after collecting a huge haul! Taken on my lunch break yesterday #Pollinators #Lancashire #vitaminN

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#JoinMeOnMyWalk A stunning #autumn day with better than forecast weather & new fly agaric in a patch I 1st saw them in 2020-then absent til today! Speckled wood & red admiral on the wing plus luscious autumn shades coming in the trees. Same tomorrow please! 🙏🦋 @thephotohour.bsky.social #Lancashire

Clockwise from top left; pollinators on daisies, red oak leaves, golden sycamore, yellowing ginko, bright berries, fly agaric mushrooms, speckled wood, red admiral, roses, silver birch, light through the leaves, speckled wood

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It's a #butterfly day! 😍🤩🎉🦋 Very happy to have a sunny lunch walk with 7 red admiral flitting round, along with 3 or 4 speckled wood. No sign of the comma from last week, hopefully they will be playing out tomorrow! @savebutterflies.bsky.social #Lancashire

A beautiful red admiral feeding on asters in today's sunshine in Lancashire

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It's time for @alan678.bsky.social #BirdOfTheDay and the theme is #BlueWater, birds surrounded by Blue Water. The Alt theme is #Perched, birds standing on anything except branches. A cormorant outside our bedroom window each morning in North Wales this summer! #birds #photography #ECK #ukbirding

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Wishing you a blooming lovely #RoseWednesday with peachy pink #roses against a blue sky last Saturday #bloomscrolling #DailyFlowers #vitaminN #Lancashire

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Wishing you a blooming lovely #RoseWednesday with one of my neighbours stunning #roses covered in diamonds. #bloomscrolling #DailyFlowers #vitaminN #Lancashire

A rain covered beautiful rose in my neighbour's garden

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#WildWebsWednesday October #butterflies so far. A wet spell in #Lancashire will these be the last I see this year? Hoping not! Comma and Red Admiral last Thursday on aster, and top left a red admiral on a late buddleia from Saturday. @savebutterflies.bsky.social

Red admiral and comma, all enjoying purple flowers

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Wishing you a blooming lovely #RoseWednesday with pretty pale pink #roses in the gardens at #RSPBLeightonMoss at the weekend #bloomscrolling #DailyFlowers #vitaminN #Lancashire

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#JoinMeOnMyWalk oh what a wet and miserable day in Lancashire, wetting drizzle, so let's nip back to that day in late June when I met the pretty silver studded blues I posted this morning. Beautiful #NorthWales with pretty sunrises & packed with wildlife. @thephotohour.bsky.social #vitaminN

Clockwise from top left; South Stack lighthouse, silver studded blues, mating ringlet, a superb wild carrot globe, sea thrift, devils bit scabious, razorbill, sea holly, mountain views, bog pimpernel and orchids

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🪶 Helen’s chosen #BirdSupermodel as #BirdOfTheDay theme; any bird captured looking like it’s posing for a magazine cover shoot Alt. is #UnsungBirds, any underrated bird bird that needs the spotlight -Over the shoulder shot from Puffin! #birdphotography #ECK @steelyseabirder.bsky.social

Perfect pose and poise from an Isle of May puffin this May

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#TitliTuesday & #TuesdayBlue combined with a precious moment sheltering a tiny #SilverStudded blue #butterfly from strong winds on #Anglesey. And these are the larger cousins of the caernesis SSB's on the Great Orme. Magical #nature. @savebutterflies.bsky.social #butterflies #vitaminN

A tiny silver studded blues butterfly sheltering on a clover protected from the wind by my fingers! So tiny and perfect!

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#ThickTrunkTuesday with a very free spirited old oak tree in Conway Drive woods in #Preston at the weekend. #trees #vitaminN #Lancashire

A beautiful old dancing tree at the weekend.

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#TuesdayBlue with a selection of fabulous #blue flowers seen on my travels, from abundant hydrangea, to cornflowers, speedwell and forget-me-nots to that incredibly coloured Himalayan blue poppy. #Bloomscrolling #DailyFlowers #vitaminN

Top: hydrangea,
Middle; Himalayan blue popp and hydrangea
Bottom; speedwell, cornflower and forget-me-nots

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@s4r4h-l @s4r4h-l.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#ThickTrunkTuesday from Conway Drive woods last Saturday. So beautiful in the sunshine, so many shades of green. #trees #vitaminN #Preston #Lancashire

A huge tree bathed in shades of green last Saturday

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#JoinMeOnMyWalk from yesterday and a visit to #LeightonMoss , in the hopes of seeing bearded tits, sadly none spotted but a lovely visit all the same with lots of #bird life to admire, and the song was lovely, so many voices! Details in ALT @thephotohour.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social #UKBirds

Top left then clockwise; marsh harrier, water views, the sky tower, teal, reflections, robin, shoveler, egret, woolly milkcaps, view from the sky tower, goldcrest, cormorant, heron, asters, ivy bee, water forget-me-not

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@s4r4h-l @s4r4h-l.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#Autumn treasure from October. Gorgeous rich colours coming through the leaves as a last hurrah before they fall. From rich oranges to flame reds, I love taking photos of them. #Leaves #vitaminN #Lancashire

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@s4r4h-l @s4r4h-l.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#MushroomMonday with stages of #FlyAgaric seen last week in #Lancashire. They start as a white 'lump' and as the red fruiting body swells and pushes through the white membrane splits giving the iconic white spots. And that red once seen is never forgotten! #mushrooms #fungi #vitaminN

Developing fly agarics starting top left in order before becoming the gorgeous example at the bottom

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#Wildflowerhour from #Lancashire, I think water forget-me-not at Leighton Moss, spindle fruit Preston on Thursday, and ivy bee on ivy flowers again Leighton Moss today. @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Top water forget-me-not
Middle spindle fruit
Bottom ivy bee on ivy flowers

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#Wildflowerhour from #Preston yesterday; snowberry & flowers at the same time, a wild carrot seedhead, cow parsley, vetch, bramble, honeysuckle, knapweed, creeping thistle, herb Robert, meadowsweet & red bistort. @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social #Lancashire

All left to right;
Top: snowberry & flowers at the same time, a wild carrot seedhead,
2nd row; cow parsley, vetch, bramble,
3rd row; honeysuckle, knapweed,
Bottome; creeping thistle, herb Robert, meadowsweet & red bistort.

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#WildflowerHour from #Preston yesterday, #SundayYellow edit with evening primrose, common sowthistle, ragwort, nipplewort, hawkbit, buttercups and dandelions. @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social #Lancashire

Top row left to right; evening primrose, common sowthistle, ragwort,
Middle: nipplewort,
Bottom: hawkbit, buttercups and dandelions

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Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #WingsOpenNotFlying, birds with their wings open when not flying. The Alt theme is #Blue, any bird with Blue in its plumage. As it's also #SuperSeabirdSunday I'll go with my #puffin again! #birds #ECK #birdphotography #naturephotography @steelyseabirder.bsky.social

A puffin bragging about it's biggest sand eel catch!

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#SundayYellow Autumn style with sunlight flooding through #Autumn leaves turning gold. A beautiful contrast against blue skies #vitaminN #Lancashire

Golden leaves against blue skies seen this week

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#SundayYellow with a dinner plate sized dahlia at #RHSHarlowCarr last Sunday. Always amazed how big these get, maybe not as sweet as my little ones as they never seem to get as munched! #Bloomscrolling #DailyFlowers #vitaminN

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#JoinMeOnMyWalk Gorgeous day in #Preston today, lovely warm sunshine & good company after good coffee with a friend! #Blueskies & majestic #trees putting on a flash of #autumn colour, plus wildflowers & #butterflies too. Perfect! @thephotohour.bsky.social #Lancashire

Clockwise from top left; red admiral, red leaves, light through the railway tunnel, gold leaves, roses, red hawthorn leaf, huge trees, red admiral, a traffic light leaf, meadowsweet, more trees changing, a gate view and light through a bramble leaf

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For @alan678.bsky.social turn to host today's #BirdOfTheDay, and his theme is #Black&Red, any bird with Black & Red in its plumage. A red and yellow barbet at #Birdland, Bourton on the Water Alt theme is #LongBeak, birds with long beaks. #birds #ECK #photography #ukbirding #NatureTherapy #BirdLife

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It's a #butterfly day! 😍🤩🎉🦋 Just 3 seen on a 10km walk, all red admiral, thankfully this one sat still in a local garden and I had my camera to hand so could zoom! #Preston #Lancashire @savebutterflies.bsky.social

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