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**Dave** @Dave2022@mastodonapp.uk · 1d

Dave @Dave2022@mastodonapp.uk

Put It On My Bill

Platalea leucorodia
Eurasian Spoonbill

a backlit spoonbill flies past the photographer, wings outstretched. it is a large white bird against a background of dark green trees

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**Dave** @Dave2022@mastodonapp.uk · 3d

Dave @Dave2022@mastodonapp.uk

Steppin' Out

a small white and grey gull with orange beak and legs is walking across tarmac with one foot raised off the ground

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**Dave** @Dave2022@mastodonapp.uk · 6d

Dave @Dave2022@mastodonapp.uk

Don't Look Up... Don't Look Up... Don't Look Up...

Ardea ibis
Western Cattle-Egret

a large white bird is flying towards a large ginger highland cow with it's head down grazing in the long grass with a view to landing on its back

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**Dave** @Dave2022@mastodonapp.uk · May 14

May 14

Dave @Dave2022@mastodonapp.uk

Z is for Z'ats All Folks

My A to Z of Birds is over.

Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible.

Thanks for those that hung around.

a flock of white birds with black wing tips fly off into an ominously dark sky

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**Dave** @Dave2022@mastodonapp.uk · May 13

May 13

Dave @Dave2022@mastodonapp.uk

Y is for Yellow

Emberiza citrinella
Yellowhammer

a small yellow and brown bird stands in the bottom of a hedgerow, their favourite habitat, which has sadly been destroyed by farmers over the years resulting in a decline in a lot of our native wildlife

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**Dave** @Dave2022@mastodonapp.uk · May 12 *

May 12 *

Dave @Dave2022@mastodonapp.uk

X is for X-Rated

Cygnus olor
Mute Swan

Two swans a s****ing....

a male and female white swan out on the water making cygnets

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**Dave** @Dave2022@mastodonapp.uk · May 11

May 11

Dave @Dave2022@mastodonapp.uk

W is for Warbler Warbling

Acrocephalus schoenobaenus Sedge Warbler

It would almost be possible to do an A to Z of the different types of warbler.... maybe next year...

a small greenish beige bird is perched on a bent reed singing it's heart out

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**Dave** @Dave2022@mastodonapp.uk · May 9

May 9

Dave @Dave2022@mastodonapp.uk

V is for Vanellus

Vanellus vanellus
Northern Lapwing

a mainly black and white wider with relatively short legs, an upright plum on it's head and an iridescent green sheen to it's back stands on a small patch of green vegetation in a flooded field

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**Dave** @Dave2022@mastodonapp.uk · May 8

May 8

Dave @Dave2022@mastodonapp.uk

U is for Uria

Uria aalge
Common Guillemot

Guillemots make no nest, a single egg is incubated between the adult's feet on a bare rock ledge on a cliff face.

a pair of medium sized sea birds with black bas and heads and white fronts perch precariously on a crumbling cliff face, somewhere they will call home for 30 days whilst incubating a single egg

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**Dave** @Dave2022@mastodonapp.uk · May 7

May 7

Dave @Dave2022@mastodonapp.uk

T is for Tit

Parus major
Great Tit

a small yellow bird with a black head and white cheeks is perched on a branch giving the photographer a sideways glance

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**Dave** @Dave2022@mastodonapp.uk · May 6

May 6

Dave @Dave2022@mastodonapp.uk

T is for Tit

Aegithalos caudatus
Long-tailed Tit

a small bird is perched on a tree branch plucking even smaller insects from the white spring blossom

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**Dave** @Dave2022@mastodonapp.uk · May 5

May 5

Dave @Dave2022@mastodonapp.uk

S is for Secretive Swan

Last of the remainers on a local lake, they are normally found in larger groups having come to the UK from Iceland for a Winter holiday

Cygnus cygnus
Whooper Swan

a large white bird with a hefty black and yellow beak swims quite near to the photographer whilst maintaining an air of secretiveness by constantly hiding behind the reeds and thwarting my efforts to get a clear shot of it.

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**Dave** @Dave2022@mastodonapp.uk · May 4

May 4

Dave @Dave2022@mastodonapp.uk

S is for Smooching Swans

Cygnus olor
Mute Swan

Almost making the perfect classic heart shape after they had been doing something else beginning with S...

A male and female pair of swans out on the water intimately facing each other and almost making the perfect classic heart shape after they had been doing something else beginning with S...

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**Dave** @Dave2022@mastodonapp.uk · May 4

May 4

Dave @Dave2022@mastodonapp.uk

S is for Singing Sedge Warbler

Acrocephalus schoenobaenus
Sedge Warbler

a small beige brown green warbler sits on a small green shoot of a rose singing its sweet song

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**Dave** @Dave2022@mastodonapp.uk · May 4

May 4

Dave @Dave2022@mastodonapp.uk

S is for Shimmering Shoveler

Spatula clypeata
Northern Shoveler

I rarely get to pick the times I can go out to take photos and often end up out in the harsh light during the middle of the day. This last couple of weeks has been uncharacteristically hot and sunny by UK standards so a lot of the images I've taken have been of crispy ducks shimmering over an open water bath.