Peter Orr

A mating pair of Avocets at WWT Slimbridge yesterday.
#bird #avocet #wwtslimbridge

A Eurasian Spoonbill at WWT Slimbridge
#bird #spoonbill #wwtslimbridge

A Northern Shoveller flypast.
#bird #shoveller #flypast

A perch for a jackdaw at Stonehenge on a bleak and drizzly winter’s day. A single image shot using ICM.
#bird 🪶 #jackdaw #stonehenge #wiltshire #uk #icm

A Great White Pelican in breeding colours in Namibia.
🪶#bird #greatwhitepelican #namibia

A Bradfield’s Swift photographed in Sesriem Canyon, Namibia.
🪶#bird #bradfieldsswift #swift #sesriemcanyon #namibia

After his recent BBC triumph, they should put Alan Carr in charge.
At least he would clear out the right wingnut faithfuls.

A Red Kite on the Marlborough Downs in Wiltshire, UK.
🪶#bird #redkite #kite #marlboroughdowns #wiltshire #uk

The beech trees offering all shades from green to brown in Savernake Forest, Wiltshire.
#autumn #savernakeforest #wiltshire

A sea trout jumping a waterfall on the upper Wear in County Durham, UK.
🐟 #fish #seatrout #riverwear #countydurham #fishjumping #weardale #northpennines #jump #waterfall

African Fish Eagle
🪶 #bird #africanfisheagle #flyingbird

Trump thinks there’s a Nobel War Prize.

A Sacred Ibis preparing to land.
🪶 #bird #sacredibis #ibis #flyingbird

Thank you Ryanair and goodnight, I’ll go elsewhere if your despise those who pay your salary that much.

🪶 A Little Owl
#littleowl #raptor #england

@cat1988.bsky.social I’ve got plenty more owl photos if you need them
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Tawny owl in woodland
🪶 #bird #tawnyowl #raptor #uk

Sclater’s Crowned Pigeon
🪶 #bird #sclaterscrow edpigeon

This brown hare was as surprised as I was when I stumbled across it while trying to photograph swallows. We stared at each other just long enough for me to change settings and record the encounter.
Immediately after, its ears pricked up and it shot into the undergrowth.
#hare #brownhare #wiltshire

A male common darter dragonfly.
#dragonfly #uk

A kestrel flying low through woodland.
🪶 #bird #kestrel #woodland

An Egyptian Vulture soaring.
🪶 #bird #egyptianvulture

A Great Grey Owl approaching.
🪶 #bird #greatgreyowl #owl #raptor

A young barn owl about to take off.
🪶 #bird #barnowl #takeoff

Starling murmuration at Ham Wall, Somerset.
🪶 #bird #starling #murmuration #hamwall #somerset #RSPB

Short-eared owls in a scrap in the Cotswolds last February.
🪶 #bird #shortearedowl #thecotswolds #terratorialdispute #raptor #owl

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A barn swallow catching a fly.
🪶 #bird #barnswallow #flyingbirds

A swift with a food pouch rammed full with hundreds of flies for its brood as it approaches its nest.
It is Swift Awareness Week in UK, where their numbers are dropping due to suitable nest sites being blocked up in houses to improve insulation.
🪶 #bird #swift #uk

A red kite managing to deal with a mobbing crow that was trying to steal the carrion in the kite’s talons.
🪶 #bird #redkite #crow #mobbing