Barney Cooper ☕️ 🦤🏳️🐦‍⬛

“Shoot there goes my goldmine” probably royalty-free. 😊

Lana Del Rey’s expecting royalties.

A glossy Lapwing standing upon its own reflection in the margins of a shallow pool adjacent to lush vegetation on the bank,

#WaderWednesday An early summer Lapwing at Upton Warren.🪶

All the President's Bollocks.

Small brown, buff plumaged wading bird striding purposely along the sand towards the camera. A Dunlin.

#BirdOfTheDay A purposefully striding Dunlin, moving towards me with camera, about to ask me what I’m doing. 🪶

Glossy jet-black Carrion Crow flying low through woodland with feathers illuminated by low autumnal evening sun.

#Corvids Evening Crow.

Noble head.. magnificent.

Long-billed timy wader. Varying shades of brown, buff and white mottled upper body that is cryptically camouflaged. Pale under parts all supported on lengthy dark legs. It’s having a paddle along the tide line.

Beautiful Dunlin.

Beats a ‘FullHouse’. An incredible hand.

It’s OK, I just got a Coonhound pup.

Thank you, the relief is palpable. Now knowing what makes that noise means I can resume camping in the woods again.

I followed a Pipit along a beach on southern tip of Llyn Peninsular today. It was always 1 sand groyne ahead of me (50 metres). Consequently, I only had a rear view. Initially I thought Rock Pipit, but looking at the supercilium on my sharpest photo, is it? Any ID opinion much appreciated.

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Well I thought that, but also that you might be on holiday. 🤔

The fact that until I saw its obscured head, I thought you’d got a Kakapo, says much about my own ID skills!

Possibly an “Inter-Steller's eider.

Red Kite, grey head, yellow eye, yellow upper bill with fiercely hooked graphite grey lower bill and rufous body with brown dabbled wing markings, It has landed on a dead branch and is framed by a cloudless blue sky.

Morning dog-walk sighting before the clouds rolled in. I frequently see Red Kites nowadays, usually soaring. This bird was off upwards as soon as I stopped and unbagged my camera.

Nine little black crescent silhouettes spread across a sky blue background. They are Swifts in a screaming party travelling from left to right.

Elation and melancholy: They’ll be off soon and I wonder if any will come back next year. 🪶

Groucho Marx with big black moustache and cigar in the corner of his mouth. Next to a Springer Spaniel with big black moustache (made of mud) with orange rubber ball in the corner of his mouth.

The the unintended result of feeding my dog Duck Soup.

Soil.

👌 Nice one Tom.

@lesserspotnet.bsky.social

Thanks Jason. One of my local trio on the daily dog walk.

Fascinatingly descriptive, but yes, more than a tad depressing. “On the top of an elm a Wryneck was sitting”, hard to visualise such a sight now.

Northern Wheatear perched on a barbed wire fence post. Grey, pink, cream tones brown-backed with a jet black bandit mask. Posing against a blue sky background.

Northern Wheatear in grass. Loads of subtle brown and cream tones.

Hard to credit, but I didn’t get a Wheatear in 2024. So, a drive out to the coast remedied that for 2025. So, sleek and alert and absolutely beautifully marked. And seemingly common as muck along the Anglesey coastal path.

Glossy black feathered Raven perched on green conifer branch against bright blue sky.

Raven perched atop a conifer against an incongruously blue sky (incongruous for England anyway). #InternationalCrowAndRavenAppreciationDay! #birds #crow #Corvid #cawmunity

Photograph taken through a tiny gap in hedge foliage at dusk of a Barn Owl perched on a wire fence post. Hazy pale bird, but no mistaking what it is.

Shockingly poor record photo of a Barn Owl at dusk near Droitwich. A brief glimpse of it through a hedge as it landed had me poking my bridge camera into the foliage and the autofocus was jumping like crazy. When I got to the field gate it had departed. #worcsbirds 🪶

That’s got to be a 10.

a man in a camouflage suit is laying in a grassy field with the letters m-i-s on the bottom right Alt: a man in a camouflage suit is laying down in a grassy field.

How I arrived on Bluesky.