Doug Shaw

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Several frogs peering out from a reedy pond

Let’s play spot the frog!! #nature #photography #frogs

I’m here for this 😀

My Dad had a crowbar - I wish I’d kept it after reading your post.

I guesstimate around 20 - probably low balling it.

A rare achievement - huzzah!

Great crested grebe rippling along on a grey lake

A kingfisher among a thicket

A heron sat on a fence near a picnic area

A pair of Shoveler ducks, male and female, drifting a long a grey lake.

Several #SideView photos for today's #BirdOfTheDay - all taken on a cold Feb 2026 visit to @wwtworldwide.bsky.social in Barnes. #photography #nature #birds

Thank you and apologies I forgot to add that info. I spotted these in Vigo October 2025 - the first and only time I’ve seen them.

I’m here for this 💚

Five Sanderlings whizzing by - perfect for today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme #FourOrMore 😀 #birds #photography #nature

How exciting! We spent a day in Santiago de Compostela last year - watching people finish their pilgrimages. I learned that these walkers are known as 'peregrinos' and as I sat in a square, I looked up in the sky to see a peregrine falcon for the first time in years.

🙏

Black and white portrait of a little egret standing in shallow water at night, its bright white plumage glowing against a deep black background. The bird faces left in profile, with its slender dark bill and pale eye sharply defined. Long, delicate breeding plumes cascade from its chest like fine threads, and faint reflections ripple beneath it in the still water, creating a dramatic, high-contrast composition.

My cohost Rob @robcrank68.bsky.social has said “ today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BestOfTheMonth, your bird captures you like best from February, the Alt theme is #Pigeons&Doves.”

Guardian Of The Dark Riverbank.

February 8th.

#classicmono #photography #birds #EastCoastKin

I love how they gently stir the river floor, disturbing what I guess are small invertebrates to eat.

A brown feral pigeon clinging to a tree trunk, turning to its left - eye facing the camera.

An almost totally white feral pigeon sitting on a tree branch

The alt theme for #BirdOfTheDay is #PigeonsAndDoves - I was in London this week - wandered through Spa Fields for the first time and spotted these. #photography #urbannature #birds

Nice!! I see them around my neighbourhood in Carshalton - but 99/100 they're swimming away so all I get is butt photos

That's lovely.

That ibis action shot is superb - I've yet to see one - great spot!

A wonderful ghostlike majesty about this one - egrets are fab!

An upside down Siskin near Beddington Farmlands. My first Siskin of 2026 so I'm choosing this as my #BirdOfTheDay #BestOfTheMonth #photography #nature #bird - off to admire some other choices now.

Superb winter visitor - loads around here just now 💚

Hoping this puffed up wren fits the #Borb brief for #BirdOfTheDay 😀 #photography #bird #nature

And they make a spectacular racket 💚

Heather is an excellent writer - but don’t take my word for it, read on.

Jeez 🙄 it’s very well written 💪🏼

The state of my desk?! 😬

Late to the #BirdOfTheDay party with this #RuffledFeathers kestrel taken at Beddington Farmlands recently. #photography #nature #bird

Wallop!! I have a promo copy - two excellent tracks.

Lovely I’ve yet to see one 💚

The Wandle Telegraph — Doug Shaw : Artist, Illustrator, Consultant Notes from a walk along a section of The Wandle Trail, from Carshalton, to Morden Hall Park.

The Wandle Telegraph - an attempt to turn a bird sighting list into something more akin to a story. Curious to know what you think? :) #photography #bird #wren #nature www.dougshawart.com/blog/the-wan...