The Water Is Wide @thewateriswide.net · 30/11/2025I walked over there today and took the blue bag and a load of other litter. Went back later and it had been replaced with a white one 😤 000 0
The Water Is Wide @thewateriswide.net · 24/11/2025My friend thought we saw an eagle at Walthamstow Wetlands yesterday… 🦅 020 2
The Water Is Wide @thewateriswide.net · 19/10/2025These are absolutely brilliant! Do you mind me asking what your setup is? I’ve become obsessed with trying to get a good kingfisher photo 😂 I even hired a longer lens. But I still didn’t manage to get detail like you’ve got! I need to get closer, or even longer lens! This is my best effort so far… 220 2
The Water Is Wide @thewateriswide.net · 17/10/2025This photograph is absolutely brilliant! I think the photographer should enter it into next year’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition 🐀 ⚽️ 📷 Charlotte Wilson/Offside/Getty Images www.theguardian.com/football/202... 1295 29
The Water Is Wide @thewateriswide.net · 16/10/2025Absolutely beautiful!!!! I got some more photos the other day. Couldn’t get close so had to crop in so much I lost all the detail 🙈 need a longer lens. 110 1
The Water Is Wide @thewateriswide.net · 28/09/2025Saw a seal swimming in the Thames on the way to @rspb.bsky.social Rainham Marshes 🦭 They have a scope set up in the visitor centre and you can see seals basking on the opposite shore. There was a pup splashing about at the water’s edge 🌊 0101 10
The Water Is Wide @thewateriswide.net · 28/09/2025Rare bird spotted on the way to @rspb.bsky.social Rainham Marshes 🐦 080 8
The Water Is Wide @thewateriswide.net · 26/09/2025This is the outfall I mean. I often see them fly in and out of there or perched nearby. Well perched until I try and take a photo then they fly 😂 110 1
The Water Is Wide @thewateriswide.net · 26/09/2025It was by the outfall under Spitalfields carpark. I’ve seen them fishing there a few times. Here are some even worse photos I took at the same spot last week 🤪 maps.app.goo.gl/4g8q1t8UeJZa... 110 1
The Water Is Wide @thewateriswide.net · 26/09/2025Kingfisher last night by the River Lea. Still not managed to get a decent photo of one! @londonkingfishers.bsky.social 260 6
The Water Is Wide @thewateriswide.net · 07/09/2025Sent this photo to my mate this morning and he replied, “This reminds me of so many pics I get sent on Grindr.” 😳😆 1110 11
The Water Is Wide @thewateriswide.net · 24/08/2025I saw this beautiful and unusual brown and white female mallard. Do you think it’s a leucistic mallard? Or maybe a hybrid with a domestic duck such as a Pekin? #birds #ducks #birdID 271 7
The Water Is Wide @thewateriswide.net · 23/08/2025Testing out my new lens in the garden, on its widest aperture (2.8). 120 2
The Water Is Wide @thewateriswide.net · 23/08/2025I was standing on the bridge watching a heron fishing in the Lea, when it suddenly took off. I’m always awestruck by the size of their wingspan and unexpected grace in flight. 270 7
The Water Is Wide @thewateriswide.net · 23/08/2025I spy a long-tailed tit hidden in the hawthorne. 151 5
The Water Is Wide @thewateriswide.net · 23/08/2025Little egret and what looks like the remains of some prey? 170 7
The Water Is Wide @thewateriswide.net · 23/08/2025It seemed to be preening itself, stretching out its feathers and scratching with its talons. 080 8
The Water Is Wide @thewateriswide.net · 23/08/2025I saw a kestrel perched on a lamppost, and as I walked over a magpie chased it away. But luckily the kestrel landed on another post nearby and I managed to get some photos before it flew off. #birds #birdphotography #londonbirds #nature #wildlife 190 9
The Water Is Wide @thewateriswide.net · 22/08/2025A cormeront flying above the river at magic hour. Love how the sun is glinting on its beak. ✨ 070 7
The Water Is Wide @thewateriswide.net · 22/08/2025To put this in context of how far away it was and how tiny kingfishers are, this is my original photo shot at the full focal length of my lens – 350mm (525mm full frame equivalent). I cropped it, denoised in Lightroom, and brightened it up a bit. 140 4
The Water Is Wide @thewateriswide.net · 21/08/2025I finally managed to get a photo of a kingfisher!!! I know it’s not the sharpest - it was far away on the opposite river bank, and low light. Definitely not up to @londonkingfishers.bsky.social high standard! But I’m absolutely over the moon!!! 5281 28
The Water Is Wide @thewateriswide.net · 19/08/2025The council has also started leaving the area in Hackney Marshes along the River Lea to be wild too (that joins to the Olympic Park). And it’s amazing how much wildlife has come back. Now there are voles, and other shall mammals again, I regularly see kestrels there! 020 2
The Water Is Wide @thewateriswide.net · 19/08/2025The view across the Thames to St Paul’s from the Tate Modern at sunset with the alpenglow always reminds me of the Grand Canyon. I wrote this about it once (as part of an interview I did about for a magazine in Arizona). 110 1
The Water Is Wide @thewateriswide.net · 19/08/2025This was the original photo so I didn’t realise at first till I zoomed in 👀 010 1
The Water Is Wide @thewateriswide.net · 18/08/2025Managed to capture an egret pooping mid-flight 🙈 230 3
The Water Is Wide @thewateriswide.net · 18/08/2025Heron sitting on a branch over the River Lea. #heron #birds 0102 10
The Water Is Wide @thewateriswide.net · 18/08/2025Cormorant on a rocky island in the Old River Lea. #LondonBirds 070 7
The Water Is Wide @thewateriswide.net · 18/08/2025I noticed it’s holding something, I think maybe a bat? 🦇 110 1
The Water Is Wide @thewateriswide.net · 17/08/2025When I was taking photos of the parakeets this beautiful heron flew overhead. #LondonBirds 0171 17
The Water Is Wide @thewateriswide.net · 17/08/2025Also saw a ton of parakeets - every day hundreds of them fly in to the trees by the river just before sunset. #LondonBirds 0100 10
The Water Is Wide @thewateriswide.net · 17/08/2025Went for a walk after work by the river, and saw a kestrel. It was far away and the light was fading so couldn’t get a good photo. But I think it looks like a young one? #LondonBirds 1250 25
The Water Is Wide @thewateriswide.net · 17/08/2025Ready for The Grateful Dead Movie yesterday at BFI IMAX 💀 🌹 💃 🍿 It’s a documentary of the 1974 Winterland shows, and some band and fan interviews. I absolutely loved it ❤️ The parts with the shows felt like you were actually there! 150 5
The Water Is Wide @thewateriswide.net · 16/08/2025Little fluff-ball watching me from the Hawthorn Tree 🥰 #LondonBirds #LongTailedTit 0221 22
The Water Is Wide @thewateriswide.net · 16/08/2025The mailbox at Timberline Lodge on Mt. Hood, Oregon (The Overlook Hotel from The Shining). Happy #postboxsaturday! 📮 0215 21
The Water Is Wide @thewateriswide.net · 16/08/2025I downloaded the rest of the photos and saw that the gull then tried to get away by flying off, but the crayfish was still hanging on! 🦞 030 3
The Water Is Wide @thewateriswide.net · 15/08/2025Another one of the robin as it’s such a cutie 🥰 ❤️ 010 1
The Water Is Wide @thewateriswide.net · 15/08/2025Robin at #WalthamstowWetlands @ldnwildlifetrust.bsky.social 140 4
The Water Is Wide @thewateriswide.net · 15/08/2025Little Egret taking off from the Lea today. 🪽 040 4
The Water Is Wide @thewateriswide.net · 15/08/2025Saw a seagull valiantly attempt to eat a signal crayfish in the Old River Lea today – but the crayfish fought back. The seagull dropped it in the water and then it pinched the gull! 🙀 🦞 1101 10
The Water Is Wide @thewateriswide.net · 15/08/2025Tufted duck at #WalthamstowWetlands @ldnwildlifetrust.bsky.social 🦆 💦 Saw a kingfisher again but was too fast for me! Magical to see though 🧚♀️ 050 5
The Water Is Wide @thewateriswide.net · 15/08/2025Fingerpost outside Timberline Lodge (the hotel from The Shining) on Mt. Hood in Oregon. Pointing the way for the Pacific Crest Trail, Timberline Trail, Paradise Park, and White River. Happy #FingerpostFriday! 🪧 190 9
The Water Is Wide @thewateriswide.net · 15/08/2025Where are your favourite ❤️ places to go bird watching in London? 🐦 Thanks!! 472 7
The Water Is Wide @thewateriswide.net · 12/08/2025Fell in love with the brown pelicans at Cannon Beach 🌊 1121 12
The Water Is Wide @thewateriswide.net · 11/08/2025“Eat your greens, so you’ll grow up big and strong.” 🌱 020 2
