@Redfoot60

Birds, above all birds; but also planes, trains, photography are all interests. Self employed QS and drone pilot

 Mid Suffolk (the unfashionable
lapwingdronephotography.co.uk
Joined September 2011
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The Hudsonian Godwit at Cattawade near Manningtree. Lovely bird through the scope, photography somewhat challenging!
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Osprey and painted lady butterfly at Threave, Dumfries and Galloway today.
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Criffel and Ward Law from Caerlaverock NNR reserve today. Glorious sunshine in Dumfries and Galloway.
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📚🌿 Here is the 2026 Longlist for the #WainwrightPrize for Nature Writing. From ancient woodlands and hidden grasslands to rivers, rocks and the wildlife woven through our towns and countryside, these remarkable books invite us to see the natural world with fresh eyes.
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Sitting in the shade testing my reaction times by photographing swifts but - is it possible that this swift's right wingtip can produce a tiny vapour shock vortex like an aircraft manoeuvring at an airshow? @Birduder344 as a man of science any comment? Humidity rather high !
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Stone curlew in West Suffolk today. A 'local' wader and always a joy to see, a right pain to photograph though!
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A few birds from @SWTLackfordLake near Bury St Edmunds yesterday. I saw 42 species which was a good haul and it was great to be out in the sun.
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I'm glad so many of you are enjoying the skeins! These are pink-footed geese, flying towards their roost on the Solway Firth. They'll spend the winter around here in D&G. I wrote a book for @eandtbooks about geese that you might also like stephenrutt.com/wintering/

Wintering

Wintering: A Season with Geese. Selected in The Times’ list of best nature books of the year 2019. You can read an extract from Wintering here. “I am falling more deeply for geese on a daily …

stephenrutt.com
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I only went outside to check on the sunset. #Dumfries
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Was that a white admiral in the doubles at Wimbledon?
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Birds of the Flow Country Sutherland/Caithness last week. Osprey, Oystercatcher, Skylark, Wheatear.
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The @RSPBScotland Mersehead natterjack toad chorus. Plus the toad itself, tadpoles and spawn (the warden is a license holder)
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Last Saturday I went to @RSPBFrampton and saw 59 species, it was the best birding day I've had for a few years. Lesser yellowlegs, little gull, black tern, RB Goose. Just stunning. Big thanks to the chap from Caroline's driving school who pointed out the yellowlegs to me.
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Every feather on ring ouzels is a work of art. Thank you @ADSwithenbank
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My mum @ruthelisa is a brilliant textile artist. You can read about her work here textileartist.org/elisabeth-…

Elisabeth Rutt: Patterns of land & sky – TextileArtist

As artists we don’t have to look far for inspiration. Nature in all its resplendent glory – and never far from our door – offers us a wealth of inspiration.

textileartist.org
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American wigeon (asleep!), barnacles and pink feet and a pair of mute swans fleeing the incoming weather.
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all at Crook of Baldoon, Dumfries & Galloway on Sunday 17th March
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Wonderful & sold-out opening event of Kirkcudbright Book Week by Stephen Rutt talking abt nature, its fragility & the impact humans make on it including the tragic decline of insects. Stephen is the author of three fabulous books & working on one on water. HT @steverutt
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Great walk around the village this morning having heard Little Owl 5-6 times over the last 18 months finally saw one well today, lots of displaying Buzzard and Stock Dove, singing Redwing and Mistle Thrush and a Grey Wagtail feeding with 6 Pied @SuffolkBirdGrp
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Hawfinch at Lynford Arboretum on Saturday. A nice bird to see.
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