Tom Collier
@tomcdevon
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Back in Blighty, cycling, ornithology, horology, cars, natural history. Know what you don't know.
Devon, England
Joined July 2010
So I couldn't wait! Phone edit for now. A brilliant day at Budleigh. Snow buntings are the cutest. #olympus #om1 #wildlifephotographer #devonphotographer #devon #devonbirds #omsolutions #birdphotography
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Love these birds. Great encounter Steph
Short-eared Owl seen on a coast path walk at an undisclosed location. I literally held my breath!
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About time for some of my 8J2 action! A week ago when a hangover curing walk lead to a few ace shots. Another failed dive for the youngsta. Uncropped on the fantastic @OMSYSTEMcameras OM1 @TweedOspreys #osprey #lorp @ClintonDevon
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Time to start going over some shots from the summer, I've such a backlog! This reed warbler from a day testing the very capable @NikonEurope Z50ii Living up to it's name too, always in the reeds! #photography #birdphotography #devonphotographer #reedwarbler
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209! Well it was a Slav grebe! Thanks to Exmouth legend Matt Knot for letting me have a peak through his scope as I took two energetic boys home after swimming and couldn't resist another one for the Devon list, been a great run of birds recently! What's next? #birding
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Awesome to see the juv Baird's sandpiper at LORP today, and amazing find by Steve Windle. Lifers roll on, 208 species for Devon, what's next. Great to see everyone enjoying this gorgeous wee wader. @BirdGuides @DevonBirds #bairdssandpiper #birding #lorp #rarebird
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Today on the #inglorious12th months of hard work by organised criminals wiping our natural heritage comes to fruition. And all so they can kill yet more animals for fun and profit.
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Try doing this in Singapore, Tokyo, Zürich, or any other city which still has a sense of civic decency. Living like this is a choice. We’ve chosen as a society to let people crap all over our public spaces. Proper penalties, proper enforcement, it’s not hard.
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No hole deep enough to throw these cnts down. Stop killing our wildlife you mindless pricks
Two male Hen Harriers have vanished from their nests at Geltsdale RSPB, Cumbria, and are feared to have been illegally killed:
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Darwall is a see you next Tuesday.
A pilgrimage following in the footsteps of my ancestor With the ancient right to camp on Dartmoor hanging in the balance due to legal action by a selfish wealthy landowner, I went on a pilgrimage, retracing the journey taken by my ancestor James Powlesland in around 1800. He
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An incredibly peaceful early morning encounter with this buck. He almost came too close, then nibbled some shoots, and moved on. Always amazes me how many flies and bugs hang around wild animals. #roedeer #wildlifephotographer #devonphotographer #eastdevon #nikon600mmf4
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Blue hour beach snacks. Video experiments with @nikoneurope Z50ii and the insane 600mm F4 on one of my favourite local spots. The sun had set as this busy oystercatcher busily fed into blue hour. #devonphotographer #nikon #oystercatcher #devon #exmouth #eastdevon @RSPBExeEstuary
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I'm starting a worm off with @StephMurphy66 hahaha. Up high trying to get swallows when this new Dad rocks up on the hunt for soily spaghetti! #beakfull #blackbird @BBCSpringwatch
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Duck! Pretty spectacular the shellduck. British wildlife does get a fair bit of a hard time for being dull. Yet look at this magnificent creature! #shellduck #lorp #devonbirds @BBCSpringwatch
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Humans are so sh1t.
New streetlights installed in a Cape Verdean town have caused hundreds of seabird deaths in a matter of days, according to reports:
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Got my copy of "Oceanic Birds of the World"-Howell & Zufelt,2019 this week. Stunning book, makes me want to get to the Southern Oceans asap! Pelagic birds are just phenomenal @KirkZufelt
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Back in January I had some amazing evening light with a variety of wading birds on the Norfolk coast - Redshank, Sanderling, Oystercatcher and Turnstone
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Best laid plans went massively t1ts up today, still when life gives lemons, make lemonade. Gorgeous birds the little egret #om1 #mzuiko300mmf4 #photography #photoshoot #devon #devonphotographer #exmouth #birdphotography #littleegret
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