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Former foreign correspondent retired to the mountains of France, where I’ve (mostly) hung up my pen and picked up a camera. Veteran traveller, now focused on birds, dragon- butterflies and beetles with the odd landscape or urban grit thrown in.

Tony Allen-Mills

I nearly forgot! It's #WheeliebinWednesday, when a small group of very strange people indeed celebrate the beauty of mobile rubbish disposal units. Here's a beauty from my recent visit to London. #aofoto

Tony Allen-Mills

I've got an entry for #LivingLandscape, today's #BirdoftheDay theme by @alan678.bsky.social. Here's a Grey heron living its best life in the marshy ponds common to our area. #photography #birds #France

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Tony Allen-Mills

Stratford, East London, May 2026. #WindowsonWednesday Appreciate the ordinary! #aofoto

Monster from the deep? Or angel arising? Either way, this Black-headed gull on a fishing expedition by the Rhone river is my pick for today's #BirdoftheDay theme of #WorldOceansDay by @alan678.bsky.social #photography #birds

"Excuse me, have you seen my gander?" An unexpected encounter with a lost-looking Bar-headed goose for today's #BirdoftheDay theme of #geese by @robcrank68.bsky.social #photography #birds

Summer is arriving in south-eastern France, and it's not only the humans who like to spend their weekends sunbathing by the water... #photography #stunday #snake #swimming

You need to get up early at Miami Beach to bag the best spots for sunbathing. These Terns and Skimmers are old hands at rising with the early light. For #TheGathering theme of #BirdoftheDay by @alan678.bsky.social #photography #birds

I recently missed my first ever cuckoo shot - it was too far away. So on Friday I rented a 2x extender for a trial run - 500mm lens becomes 1,000mm. Bingo. My very first European Bee-eater #BranchingOut just in time for today's #BirdoftheDay by @robcrank68.bsky.social #photography #birds

Like most butterfly fanciers, I tend to aim for side or overhead views that show off their glorious wings to best advantage. But some of them look quite handsome full-frontal too. Here's a Marbled white for #MacroMonday #lepidoptera #insect

I was driving across the high plateau yesterday when I crested a hill and this is what I saw. No birds, I'm afraid (though there's probably one hiding in there somewhere). That's the Grand Colombier mountain range top left, with the Rhone river valley beyond) #France #landscape #scape #home

Tony Allen-Mills