Coot with chicks at the #belfast #windowonwildlife.

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A few #cinnabar #moths at #WindowOnWildlife this morning.

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My good deed for the day - rescuing a #treebumblebee from Hide 1 at @RSPB #WindowOnWildlife in #Belfast 🐝😎

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At least eight #Mediterranean #gulls (and a few #Sandwich #terns) among the #BlackHeadedGulls on the nesting raft at @RSPB #Belfast #WindowOnWildlife this morning.

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#melanistic or just #dirty?
This #Blackheadedgull was at @RSPB #Belfast #windowonwildlife at the weekend.

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The visiting #Avocet finally woke and had a stretch.
Don’t get me wrong - it’s great to see one in #Belfast - but it does seem to spend a lot of time asleep 😏🤷‍♂️

Shots are heavily cropped and processed.

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This lovely #male #sparrowhawk was at @RSPB #Belfast #windowonwildlife this morning.
Probably just there to see the #Avocet like I was 😏

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I always check the hides at RSPB Belfast Window On Wildlife and was rewarded this morning with a lovely Burnished Brass.
The iPhone flash really pops on the shiny wing scales! 😎

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Gull fight!
This pair of #blackheadedgulls were really going at it on the #lagoon at #RSPB #Belfast #windowonwildlife this morning.
Sorting out partners before breeding season perhaps? 🤔

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First #SmallHeath #butterfly of the season and an early #6SpotBurnet #moth basking on a rock on #D3 next to #RSPB #WindowOnWildlife this morning.

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A #GreatBlackBackedGull wandered too close to the colony at @RSPB #Belfast #WindowOnWildlife and got mobbed by the #BlackHeadedGulls and #LesserBlackBackedGulls.
A seriously impressive bird but the others weren’t impressed.

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One of two 14-spot #ladybirds on a leaf at @RSPB #Belfast #WindowOnWildlife this morning.

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A bit dull & cool this morning but the first #CommonBlue #butterfly was out on D3 near @RSPBNI #Belfast #WindowOnWildlife.

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A lovely wee #Redpoll on a #broom bush in D3, beside the @RSPB #Belfast #WindowOnWildlife this morning.

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On This Day in 2017…
#Avocets visit the #lagoon at @RSPB #WindowOnWildlife in #Belfast.
That a bird! 😎

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It’s a #pipit, it’s on a #rock, but is it a #RockPipit? 🤷‍♂️
Lots of display flights from these guys beside the #RSPB #Belfast #WindowOnWildlife yesterday.

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Three #wheatear along the #seawall near @RSPB #WindowOnWildlife this morning.
One male, one female and one that flew too fast.
#nature #NaturePhotography #wildlife #bird #birds #BirdPhotography #belfast #BelfastHarbour

When you really have to deal with that rival #Bluetit in the shiny car…

I watched this little guy expend a lot of energy trying to fight his own #reflection in a #car parked outside the @RSPB #WindowOnWildlife this morning.
Ironically, the driver was #birdwatching over the lagoon from #Hide1 nearby.

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Two #MediterraneanGulls among the #BlackHeadedGulls on the #TernIsland at #RSPB #Belfast #WindowOnWildlife this morning.

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