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As High as a Kite

Which wasn't actually very high on this occasion

Milvus milvus
Red Kite

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A photo of a Red Kite, a large bird of prey, circling over the photographer against a blue sky background

A very floofy and sleepy bird I saw today on my way back to the workshop after lunch.

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A tit (great tit or maybe coal tit) on a branch. It's feathers are all floofed out and it's just woken up

Quit Yer Grousing

Lagopus scotica ssp. scotica
Red Grouse

Grateful that the only shooting that day was by a bloke with a camera

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a plump reddish brown game bird struts across snow covered moorland in the late afternoon sunshine

Big Bully

A not so little Little Egret chasing off a little Little Ringed Plover

Egretta garzetta
Little Egret

Thinornis dubius
Little Ringed Plover

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a large white bird with a long neck and long legs chasing a small brown bird off the mud flats, it takes flight to escape, wings outstretched and short legs dangling

Once Bittern, Twice Shy...

Botaurus stellaris
Eurasian Bittern

The Bittern is a secretive bird, seldom seen in the open as it prefers to skulk in reed beds and thick vegetation near water bodies.

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a brown heron like bird stands with outstretched beak pointing skywards on the edge of dense vegetation

a brown heron like bird stands shaking its feathers on the edge of dense vegetation

Fly By Shooting

Statistically speaking, it's more likely to be a Cormorant, but it could also be a Shag, cast your vote now....

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a large shiny black bird flies over a frothy white sea as the photographer stands on a rocky cliff looking down on the top of it

Ah, Grasshopper!

Anthus pratensis
Meadow Pipit

Fascinating to watch it dashing around the sun-scorched grasslands gathering up crickets and/or grasshoppers (not sure which) for a few moments. It managed to fit 3 in its beak before flying off, presumably to a nearby nest to feed young.

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a smallish brown bird casts a sideways glance at the photographer as it dashes around the sun-scorched grassland catching it's dinner. In it's beak is a cricket or grasshopper, not sure which, but it managed to grab three before flying off.

Quit Your Choughing Nagging, Woman.... Of course I remembered to put the bins out...

Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax
Red-billed Chough

Not particularly rare yet, just restricted to a few coastal sites as it's habitat is destroyed by modern farming practises. Choughs pair up for life and return to the same nesting sites each year.

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