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07/09/2026

🐦 Hawfinch (Coccothraustes coccothraustes)

🌍 Spain

📷 Nikon Z9 and Nikkor Z100-400mm

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06/09/2026

🌲 Marten Month is the first dedicated citizen science survey for pine martens in Britain and runs throughout September. It aims to gather records and public attitudes towards pine martens and raise awareness of Britain's rarest mustelid and you can share your sightings, views and thoughts.

🖥️ More info: https://www.vwt.org.uk/projects/marten-month

🌍 Scotland

📷 Nikon Z9 and Nikkor Z180-600mm

👀 Best viewed full screen.

04/09/2026

🐀 The Water Vole (Arvicola amphibius) often incorrectly called a "water rat" is the largest British vole. They're water-loving creatures, preferring slow-moving or still water bodies like rivers, streams, ditches, ponds, and canals, with soft, steep banks for digging burrows.

🌾 They like dense bankside vegetation, such as reeds and grasses, and eat a variety of plant life, including over 200 different grasses and waterside vegetation. In the winter, they eat roots, bark, berries and other foods that they store in underground caches. They can eat about 80% of their body weight each day!

🪵Like mini beavers, voles manage the waterways by foraging and burrowing to increase biodiversity. Their work benefits many species of insect, birds of prey, and bats. Waterways with higher numbers of water voles have richer vegetation and plant life.

🦦They can have three to six litters of five young a year and the first litter can be born as early as March or April. Baby water voles are blind and hairless but grow very quickly, leaving the nest after only three weeks and able to breed after 15 weeks. Voles do not live long, most not surviving more than one winter.

❗️ Although nearly all of our UK wildlife is in decline, water vole numbers have seen a catastrophic reduction in numbers and range over the last few decades, due to habitat loss and predation by American mink. They have also suffered losses this year due to low water levels exposing the entrance to their burrows. Once common, they are now classified as Endangered on the GB Red List and are legally protected.

🌍 Nottinghamshire, UK.

📷 Nikon Z9 and Nikkor Z180-600mm

👀 Best viewed full screen.

02/09/2026

🐹 When you’ve bitten off more than you can chew! European Hamster.

🌍 Vienna

📷 Nikon Z9 and Nikkor Z180-600mm

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01/09/2026

🍁 Today is the first day of Meteorological Autumn. Distinct from astronomical autumn it always runs from September 1 to November 30, the dates always remain the same, making it easier to compare seasonal weather records.

🌍 Exmoor, UK

📷 Nikon D850

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31/08/2026

🦅 Imperial eagle (Aquila heliaca).

🌍 Spain

📷 Nikon Z9 and Nikkor Z180-600mm

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28/08/2026

🐦 One of my favourite UK birds, the collared dove (Streptopelia decaocto), is an elegant gentle bird with a distinctive “wing whistle” when they fly. They are a delicate pale, pinky-brown-grey colour, with a distinctive black neck collar and deep red eyes. Their three-note "koo-KOO-kook" song will be a familiar sound to many of you that they will sing for hours from high, exposed perches like roofs or lampposts.

🪺 Only arriving in the UK in the 50’s, they have spread rapidly due to the fact that they have between three and six broods per year and there are now over 800,000 pairs breeding in the UK. They mate for life and partners stay together year-round and remain faithful across multiple breeding seasons.

🌰 Although you'll often see them on their own or in pairs, flocks may form where there is a lot of food available; their preferred food being seeds and grain, which they generally eat on the ground.

🌍 Scotland

📷 Nikon Z9 and Nikkor Z180-600mm

🖥️ More photos on the website: https://iandouglas.photo/woodland-birds

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26/08/2026

🐻 Missed! This brown bear cub attempting to catch a wasp that was bothering him!

🌍 Finland

📷 Nikon Z9 and Nikkor Z180-600mm

👀 Best viewed full screen - you can see the escaping 🐝

🎥 For more bear cub antics - https://youtu.be/88MjDZd1pXc?is=ByAsJgEQAOMre84W

24/08/2026

🦎 Nile monitor (Varanus niloticus) (I think!)

🌍 Luangwa, Zambia

📷 Nikon Z9 and Nikkor Z180-600mm

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