ICloud Photos shows different counts in different devices

Hi,
I am using iCloud Photos on the following devices:
1. iPhone 5
2. iPad
3. Apple TV
4. PC
The issue is I see 1 and 2 aboveshows a count of 587 while 3 and 4 shows a count of 283 onlly.
How are these counts being calculated and is it normal to be different across my devices?
My understanding was that since photos are in a, so-called "cloud", the counts should ideally be the same as all these four devices look up to the cloud to get the photos.
Can some please advise if I need to do any step to sync up the countd across all my devices?
Thanks in advance,
Ray

That's perfectly normal.
Photo stream on each device will only start adding photos from when photo stream is enabled, it will then only keep them in the cloud for 30 days. If you enable photo stream on a device later than on another any photos added to the first device that are over 30 days old won't be added to the second device.

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