We saw some beautiful butterflies at Great Comp Garden in Kent yesterday. Here’s a gatekeeper with the sun shining through. #ButterflyWeek #GreatComp #Kent

The theme of today’s #BirdoftheDay is #NewLife and here’s a guillemot parent and baby together high up on the rocks at Staple Island in the Farnes recently. #Birds #Northumberland #SerenityFarne

#ButterflyWeek This Red Admiral loves the flowers in our garden and we love butterflies! The Big Butterfly Coumt starts soon! #SaveButterflies #Butterflies

For today’s #BirdoftheDay theme, I think these two swans are showing #PerfectPoise, as a pair #Birds #Swans #Thames

#BirdoftheDay #ButtShots. More posing puffins! #Birds #Northumberland

Deliveroo! Here’s a puffin delivering sand eels to the burrow and inadvertently displaying its behind for today’s #BirdiftheDay theme of #ButtShots

#Ripples ! I think of chocolate bars when I say that… A late entry for today’s #BirdoftheDay #Birds #Waders #ShoreLife

I was so busy trying to photograph this dragonfly (damselfly?) and now I’m pleased to see how the shape is mirroring the tv aerial in the background! #insects #dragonflies #photography #accidentalphoto

For today’s #BirdoftheDay theme of #UpandDown I picked this gannet, looking down at the sea below, hoping for some scran #birds #wildlife #SuperSeabirdSaturday

Beautiful sunset light reflecting on the water as this young jumpling guillemot goes for its first swim with a parent after coming down from the cliff #smallbirdsaturday #superseabirdsaturday #serenityfarne #birds #northumberland #sunset

Here’s our #Rocky #BirdoftheDay. This puffin looks like it’s dancing! #Birds #Puffins #Northumberland #FarneIslands

This Swan was definitely enjoying a splashy washy #BathTime! I find it very cooling just looking at this image! #BirdoftheDay #birds #HeverCastle #Kent

For #BirdoftheDay #Lifer I picked this Sandmartin that we saw recently on Bamburgh dunes. They were flying so fast in and out of their holes on the sand bank, it was hard to capture anything! So this shot, cropped from a zoom, was pleasing! #Birds #Bamburgh #Northumberland

#ColoraDay #BlueTue The wonderful delphinium beds at Alnwick garden.

Here are some lovely #reflections of birds taking off from the water The colour of the surface is a bit #orange, but that’s probably pushing this too far! #BirdoftheDay #Birds

We were thrilled to see this guillemot baby ‘jumpling’ on its way down from the cliff. It’s about 2-3 weeks old and that’s it, a life in the sea for a while now. I love that you can see it’s shadow on the cliff. #cutie #BirdoftheDay #SerenityFarne

#PinkMon #ColoraDay from the Alnwick rose garden, which has 3,000 different varieties and a David Austin specialism.

I had a go at some flower design… #OrangeSun #Stunday #Bloomscrolling #ECK

For #BirdoftheDay #Ebony&Ivory I’ve gone with many of you and picked this splendido black backed gull! We soon realised he is waiting for opportunity to snatch vulnerable chick or unprotected egg from the guillemots on the rocks nearby… But that’s the food chain I guess #Birds #Northumberland

Here is my pick for today’s #Birdoftheday theme of #WildMotion. The gull seems unimpressed by the jackdaw though!

It’s #BirdoftheDay theme #Quackers so here are these visitors to Alnwick garden cafe hoping for some snacks

The last chance for a Bamburgh beach sunset walk for this trip. It’s been very windy and still sunny today. It’s amazing to me how different the beach can look each evening. #Sunset #Northumberland #Bamburgh

Here’s an arctic tern doing some #QuietReflection on Inner Farne island yesterday. #BirdoftheDay

#redbeakfeeteyes #birdoftheday Here’s an Arctic Tern on Inner Farne island. Zoom shot, we weren’t in its face #Northumberland #Birds

This evening’s Bamburgh beach walk. Ten to nine. The tide was nearly out, so lots more sand was visible. It was calm, with hardly any wind. The castle reflected nicely in the wet smooth surface of the beach. #Bamburgh #Northumberland #NotmuchSunset

#TheArtofSurvival today at Alnwick Garden cafe. Yes, we fed them sweetcorn and not bread #BirdoftheDay #Birds #Alnwick #Northumberland

Flowers called pinks…. Or little carnations? For #PinkMonday #Bloomscrolling

Bamburgh beach sunset walk. Hardly anyone else around, still quite warm. Just lovely. #Northumberland #Bamburgh #Sunset

I‘ve been watching this lovely red admiral #Butterfly enjoying the sunshine #Northumberland

This is a robin in Pitlochry, Scotland for today’s #Rotund theme of #BirdoftheDay #Birds #ECK #Scotland