For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme #AtOneWithNature with thanks to Alan - just to say, in a long shot of this, there is a cow. 😁 #birds #BirdOfTheDayTheme

For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme #NoBranchWood with thanks to Helen (and because I missed yesterday's #PeekABoo) a half blurred pic taken through my back window past the bench and under the fern!)🤪 #birds #ukwildlife

For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme #BestFootForward with thanks to Alan - this one is sneaking up on something - but hard to sneak with those feet! 😁 #birds #ukwildlife

For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme #LittleBrownBirds with thanks to AB @atlanticbirding.bsky.social ... on the roof next door.

For this week's #PoemsAbout #ThriftStore @thebrokenspine.co.uk

For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme #LongLegs with thanks to Rob - a distant shot...

For today's #BirdOfTheDay alt theme #SummerVisitors with thanks to Alan. 🌞 #birds #ukwildlife

For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme #FabulousWaders with thanks to Helen @helenbennett.bsky.social 🦩😍

For #OddChallenge from @zoomburst.substack.com a couple of rather different thoughts... I think the foreign language titles are well enough known. (And apols to Sting.)

For #BirdOfTheDay themes #Firsts and #Robins with thanks to new host @atlanticbirding.bsky.social - taken from the back window to my garden in 2017 with my first and only ever camera - oh for cooler/damper days!

For this week's #PoemsAbout #LastTrain @thebrokenspine.co.uk - so many possible responses...

For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme #YourChoice, this is the only time I've ever got a pic of Red-legged Partridge chicks. Terrible pic taken at speed through the back window when I spotted them on the garage roof last week! Love them. ☺️

For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme #Grey with thanks to Rob and everyone. #birds #ukwildlife

For #BirdOfTheDay theme #CHE with thanks as always to Alan, one from yesterday...

Another one for today's #BirdOfTheDay - this time for #EyeOfTheWild with thanks to Alan and everyone here. #birds #ukwildlife

For today's #BirdOfTheDay alt theme #LastBird with thanks to Alan as always - this is genuinely the latest pic I took... ☺️

For this week's #PoemsAbout #BadHabits @thebrokenspine.co.uk Could have gone light or short, but instead...

For today's #BirdOfTheDay alt theme #Yellow with thanks to Rob @robcrank68.bsky.social ☺️

For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme #TantalisingTextures with thanks to Alan. Been out of it for a few days but look forward to seeing everyone's pics today.

For #BirdOfTheDay alt theme #BestSideEye with thanks to Alan, not quite sure what this expression means...! 😁

For today's #BirdOfTheDay alt theme #Contortionist with thanks to Alan. Look, it's that swan again, but in a different pose...☺️

For this week's #PoemsAbout #PowerCut from @thebrokenspine.co.uk Can we have a heat cut please! 🫠

For today's #BirdofTheDay #BathTime with thanks to Rob @robcrank68.bsky.social from my garden...☺️

For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme #BirdsILove with thanks as always to Alan - one of my favourites☺️

For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme #Orange with thanks to Rob @robcrank68.bsky.social I thought I'd p-p-p-pick this one...☺️

For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme #Ebony&Ivory with thanks to Rob @robcrank68.bsky.social I like the goldeneye reflections 👁️☺️

Very late for today's #BirdOfTheDay. For the theme #WildMotion with thanks to Alan as always. With added poem. Will try to catch up with everyone soon. waders whirling round raised by raptor-reccying - swirls of living sky

This week's #PoemsAbout poem is for all poets currently dwelling in or on #CheapMotels ... @thebrokenspine.co.uk

For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme #QuietReflection with thanks to Alan, a quiet moment on the roof #birds #ukwildlife

For today's #BirdOfTheDay alt theme #LivingLandscapes with thanks to Alan. Or maybe it's #TheArtofSurvival? It's really birds living in the modern world.