Vic Brown

The main theme for #BirdOfTheDay is #Birds&Bugs and the alternative theme is #EverydayBirds

These Common Blackbirds (Turdus merula) taking food back to the nest in my S. Cambridgeshire garden fit both themes.

#WaterBirds is today's theme for #BirdOfTheDay

Here's four from the past week in South Island, New Zealand.

Male and female Paradise Shelducks.
New Zealand Scaup.
Australian Coot.

A Royal Spoonbill and a Little Pied Cormorant, Queensland 2023.

#BirdOfTheDay #OddCouples

Blue-faced Honeyeater

Nankeen Kestrel

Red-capped Plover

Today's theme for #BirdOfTheDay is #StareDown

Here's four keeping an eye on me, from my trip to Queensland on October 2023.

Grey Butcherbird
Blue-faced Honeyeater
Nankeen Kestrel
Red-capped Plover

Today's theme for the #BirdOfTheDay is #Posted

Here's a Willie Wagtail (Rhipidura leucophrys).
Brisbane, Queensland 2023.

#Serenity is the theme for #BirdOfTheDay.

Here's a Sooty Shearwater over the Pacific on a very calm day.

Kaikoura, S. Island, New Zealand 7/2/2926.

Kelp Gull (Larus dominicanus).

Australian Pied Cormorant (Phalacrocorax varius).

The alternative theme for #BirdOfTheDay is #Black&White.
Here's a couple from this afternoon at Akaroa, S. Island, New Zealand.

Kelp Gull (Larus dominicanus) and Australian pied cormorant (Phalacrocorax varius).

Given that the alternative theme for the #BirdOfTheDay is #OpenWings , here are a few more photos of Australasian Gannets from this afternoon's visit to the breeding colony at Maukatia Bay, New Zealand.

Thanks, given that we were wine tasting at two vineyards beforehand, I'm amazed they are in focus!

#OpenBeaks is the theme for #BirdOfTheDay
Australasian Gannets (Morus serrator) photographed this afternoon.
Maukatia Bay, North Island, New Zealand. 2nd February 2026.

Australian Wood Duck (Chenonetta jubata).

Pacific Black Ducks (Anas superciliosa).

Wandering Whistling Ducks (Dendrocygna arcuata).

#Ducks is the theme for today's #BirdOfTheDay

Here's three from my trip to Queensland, October 2023.

Australian Wood Duck
Pacific Black Ducks
Wandering Whistling Ducks

Stolen from FB

#EyeContact is today's theme for the #BirdOfTheDay

A European Herring Gull (Larus argentatus) menacingly demanding some of my Cornish Pasty.

Straw-necked Ibis (Threskiornis spinicollis).

Today's theme for #BirdOfTheDay is #Iridescent

Here's a group of Straw-necked Ibis (Threskiornis spinicollis).

Queensland, 2023.

Cynik

Today's theme for #BirdOfTheDay is #BrownIsBeautiful

Costa Ricans obviously think so, the Clay-coloured Thrush is their national bird, despite an abundance of more colourful birds.

Thanks

#Paddling is the theme for today's #BirdOfTheDay
Here's three birds with their feet in the water:
Pied Stilt, Queensland 2023.
Common Gull, Orkney 2025.
Female Great-tailed Grackle, Costa Rica 2025.

A male Flame-coloured Tanager for today's #BirdOfTheDay on the theme of #Poise

Costa Rica February 2028.

Today's theme for #BirdOfTheDay is #Swans

Here's one of my earliest encounters with Mute Swans. Stratford-upon-Avon in 1958.

Like a Harris Hawk in a medieval drama or a hooting Tawny Owl in an Irish drama?

The word is Smug, because you know that it isn't right and that most people watching don't.

#Walking is today's #BirdOfTheDay theme.
This Buff-banded Rail (Gallirallus philippensis) gave me quite a suprise when it came strolling into the hide I was in. Just a phone shot, it's walking between the legs of my tripod, which has my camera attached.
Bribie Island, Queensland October 2023.

#TailsUp is the theme for today's #BirdOfTheDay

Here's a Superb Fairywren (Malurus cyaneus) on a suburban garden fence in Brisbane, Queensland, October 2023.

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A Rufous-collared Sparrow (Zonotrichia capensis) at dawn for today's #BirdOfTheDay theme #Singing

A common american passerine, ranging from southern Mexico in the north to Tierra del Fuego in the south.

Costa Rica, February 2025

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#FeedingTime is the theme for today's #BirdOfTheDay

Here's a hungry Redwing (Turdus iliacus) feasting on my next-door neighbour's Cotoneaster berries.
S. Cambridgeshire, UK.

Male Common Blackbird (Turdus merula).

European Robin (Erithacus rubecula).

House Sparrow (Passer domesticus).

Dunnock (Prunella modularis)

I've gone with the alternative theme for today's #BirdOfTheDay and chosen four common resident passerines, all of which nest in my S.Cambridgeshire garden and keep me company throughout the year #BirdYouLove
Common Blackbird, European Robin, House Sparrow and Dunnock.

Thanks

Wandering Whistling Ducks (Dendrocygna arcuata).

Pacific Black Ducks (Anas superciliosa).

Black Swans (Cygnus atratus).

Green Pygmy Geese (Nettapus pulchellus).

#BirdOfTheDay theme is #TwoOfAKind

Here's four pairs of wildfowl from my trip to N. Queensland, October 23.

Wandering Whistling Ducks
Pacific Black Ducks
Black Swans
Green Pygmy Geese