Benjamin V ḍ A 🦉🦋🦎

Photo of a highly contrasted butterfly on a large green leaf. Butterfly displays large patches of glossy dark green and white, and smaller patches of glossy blue and bright red. Taken on Java Island.

Looks like I spotted a new butterfly species - love the contrast and colours. 🦋🌿
Green Baron - Euthalia adonia
#phonephotography #invertebrates #indonesia

SHOW ME SOMETHING BRANCHING OUT!

Theme: Trees
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#ShowMeSomething #BlueskyArtShow #Alternating #Jakarta

Pedestrian overpass and high rise building

#BlueSkyArtshow #Alternating #Jakarta

When the post office becomes a coffee shop... #artdeco #Hanoi ##urbanscape

Sunset on mosque, viewed from under a road bridge. Masjid Darul Jannah, Kantor Walikota, Jakarta

Final rays of the day on the mosque. #Jakarta

Beating traffic in #jakarta #urbanscape #scape

Hanoi centre #urbanscape

Overwhelmed by the beautiful landscapes in Northern Vietnam 🇻🇳 mountains, so of course I'm doing vertical shots 😅

Hold on, who came up with the idea of hiding their eyes? Was the goofy bill not enough already ?

Love at first sight ! 😅

Freshwater shorebird, though. Is that pulling the boundaries 🤔 😅

Hamerkop standing on the verge of a pond, head in shoulders, with dense bushy vegetation in the background. Limpopo, South Africa, 2023

My favourite utensil bird is definitely the Hamerkop. Rusty brown, straight out of an old toolbox 🪶

Barbet perched on a birdhole on a palm-tree trunk, bill is open, ready for action. Location : Bogor, Indonesia

'Stop staring at me!' Javan Red-faced Coppersmith Barbet interrupted in action #BirdsSeenIn2025 #birdsfromfaraway #birding #BlueskyNatureCommunity #Indonesia 🪶

Thanks for putting Eels back in my playlist. Works for my Saturday as well, finally chilling. Wishing you well

This one will always be one of my favorites. My first spotted 'Martin-chasseur' (in French, as opposed to Martin pêcheur) and the one that has accompanied me for most of my birding life.

Worth the wait... what a beautiful shot!

Massive painted gong in a Buddhist temple along Mekong River near Vientiane, Lao

Stone carving details in Tham Phra Temple along Mekong River near Vientiane, Lao.

#travelphotography #lao #vientiane

Same stilt, in feeding action, probably looking for snails or slugs in the grass.

Those legs !

Black-winged Stilt walking on the side of a drain with a grass patch in the background. Blurred photo taken through binoculars and airport windows.

Asian Openbill feeding in a waterdrain with a grass patch in the foreground, next to taxiway. Blurred photo taken through binoculars and airport windows.

Birding from airports waiting for flights... Asian Openbill and Black-winged Stilt.

#Bangkok #BKK #birdsfromfaraway #BirdsSeenIn2025 #Thailand #digiscopy #birding

#BirdsSeenIn2025 Singapore
I have solid evidence for the Common Flameback 😅

Nothing much to see here, but a wooden path across a rainforest. Oh and I also ran on this path, while listening to the loud Mynas, about 9km in total

We need a #birdingrun hashtag like there is one for #birdingbybike !
Anyway, 2 new Lifer for me, as I discovered Singapore UNESCO Botanical Garden
✅️Common Flameback
✅️Common Hill Myna
Now on #521 Global

#running #blueskyrun #blueskyrunning #Singapore #birding 🪶 #blueskyNaturePhotography

Ah c'est un tout petit peu plus simple si c'est 'at home'... alors je tente et je dirais saule blanc, prunellier, érable sycomore, chêne (pédonculé?) + beaucoup d'autres spp en strate arbustive

Love the photo, Bernard!
A country or region would help for the guessing game 😅

Good Day from Jakarta. For this week's #BlueskyArtShow theme of #Lines, here's a classic mix of telecom and building lines.

Photo of me seen from the back looking through binoculars over a lake, lush green vegetation surrounding me in a soft yellowish morning light. I'm wearing a formal white shirt and blue pants.

Tough morning at work :-)
Asian Openbill in sight
#AlwaysBringYourBins

#KualaLumpur #casualbirding #birding #Wetlands

A massive velvety hawkmoth with a paintlike camo pattern in green and pale pink, perched on green leaves.

#BlueskyArtShow #Green

Oleander Hawkmoth,
Daphnis nerii, 2020
#Ghana

Cinque Terre, of course

Morning run to start the week on a good foot
#running #strava #parkrun

Beautiful pic, Mike!
Of all families, I'm always amazed at still photos of #hummingbirds, I find them so restless and impossible to capture on camera. What's your trick, do you speak to them :-) ?

Spiny Flower Mantis perched on a Jathropa leave, seen here from behind with a distinct pink spiral pattern in the middle of its green wings. The wings look like a surf board work on its back. Western Region, Ghana, 2020

Lovely photo and an absolutely amazing genus!
I've chosen to call this one the Surfer Mantis.