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A brown duck with an open black bill mid-water landing, splashing water up all around it.

Gadwall coming in for quite a landing
#BirdOfTheDay #WaterDroplets

Tern returning to nest with fresh catch in New Zealand #flyday #wingsoverwater #birdoftheday #wildlife #newzealand #tern

A turkey vulture is captured mid-flight in the upper portion of the picture. Its wings are angled upwards in a characteristic V-shape as it appears to be gliding. The sky is a bright blue with scattered white, puffy cumulus clouds. The lower half of the image features a dynamic ocean with white-capped waves crashing around several dark, rugged rock formations that jut out of the water.

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme as set by Alan @alan678.bsky.social
is #WingsOverWater. Here is a Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura) soaring over the ocean.
#Scape #FlyDay
#EastCoastKin
#WestCoastKin
#Oregon #PNW
#Birds #TurkeyVulture
#Nature #Photography

A light purple bonnet mushroom growing from the mossy forest floor with a very tiny grey mushroom inconspicuously growing to the right of it.

Happy #FungiFriday! Here's a purple beauty with a tiny little friend growing next to it from December.
#FungiFriends

Absolutely the cutest!

A photo of the fantastic northern flicker (Colaptes auratus), a sleek taupe-colored woodpecker with a gray head and tan face, dark eyes, a long dark gray beak, bright red cheek patches, a large black chevron across its chest, black barring across its back and wings, black polka dots all over its belly, a red spot on the back of its head, and red-orange tail feathers outlined and tipped in black underneath. It is a male perched on the top of a wooden trellis facing toward the left of frame with its beak open mid-call, and it has a little bit of reddish dirt on its beak from pecking in the ground where it likes to hunt for ants. The background is blurred greenery and pale cloudy sky.

It's Flicker Friday and he's my favorite and the cutest. And I used my one good bird flying over water photo two days ago, so. #BirdOfTheDay #cute #FlickerFriday.

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Turns out I have just the thing for the alternate theme of #cute for Alan's #BirdoftheDay today! They don't get much cuter than this absolute borb of a Spotted Towhee. #Nature #Photography #Birds #PNWBirding #Oregon

Portrait of a fat pigeon

Handsome Herman, the loveliest of pigeons, is my pick for today's alt theme #cute 🩶🩷

#BirdOfTheDay #NLBirds #EastCoastKin

The general plumage of the Tawny Frogmouth is silver-grey, slightly paler below, streaked and mottled with black and rufous. A second plumage phase also occurs, with birds being russet-red. The eye is yellow in both forms, and the wide, heavy bill is olive-grey to blackish. With their nocturnal habit and owl-like appearance, Tawny Frogmouths are often confused with owls, but are actually more closely related to the nightjars. Their feet are weak however, and lack the curved talons of owls. The leading edges of the first primary (wing) feathers of the Tawny Frogmouth are fringed to allow for silent flight. This fella sits on a greenish tree stump.

Beauty, like cuteness, is in the eye of the beholder. I just love our Tawny Frogmouths.

#BirdOfTheDay by @alan678.bsky.social is #WingsOverWater any bird flying over water & the alt theme is #cute birds you find cute, even if others don’t.

#EastCoastKin #Birds #Cute

An adult Bald Eagle flies a few feet over a green lake with a grassy shoreline in the background.

One of my favorite Bald Eagle shots for #BirdOfTheDay #WingsOverWater - any bird flying over water.

Here's a gorgeous Cooper's Hawk for #BirdOfTheDay #BranchBirds - any bird on a branch.

A Dark-eyed Junco in profile. He is the Oregon color variant. His beak is open holding a sunflower seed fragment. His little pink tongue is visible and is the same shade as his pink beak.

Rob's choice for today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #CollectingFood, birds with food in their beaks, the Alt theme is #Grey.

A Dark-eyed Junco perched in a rose bush enjoying a sunflower seed. #birds

For #WinterSurvivors I have the well-loved Oregon ssp. Dark-eyed junco taken a week or so ago in #Seattle.

#BirdOfTheDay #birding #birds #photography 🌿

A small chickadee with a dark brown head, sides, and back, sits on a spray of cedar needles.

Chestnut-backed Chickadee - Always at least X (present) on our backyard checklists in the winter
#WinterSurvivors #BirdOfTheDay #GBBC #ebird

For today's #birdoftheday theme of #portrait I have my favorite photo of a #bird couple with a pair of #crows in a tree in #Seattle in December. I also included a very portrait-ey shot of my office #crow being a very good model for me last year. (def. reposts, lmao)

#birds #photography 🪶

A small, brown bird with a piece of food in its beak

I think Song Sparrows need more love! Here's one from our front yard blending in with our winter plants.
#SmallBirdSaturday #GBBC

Close up of a Steller's Jay, a blue and black bird with a crested head

For #BirdOfTheDay theme: #Portrait of a Steller's Jay caught stuffing its crop absolutely full of seeds

A black bird with a long curly neck sits among some thin leafless branches. A turquoise patch surrounds its red eye which looks towards the camera.

An anhinga for today's #BirdOfTheDay theme set by Rob.

#DivingForFood #photography #birds #anhinga

A common tern hovering and looking down in search for food ready to dive.

A common tern for #BirdOfTheDay #DivingForFood #birds #EastCoastKin #photography #ukbirds

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #DivingForFood (birds that dive under water for food). My bird nemesis is the Kingfisher (I hear their alarm call as, "Good luck, haha, photographer!") as I continue to try to get a GOOD dive shot. This one will have to do, for now :) #birds #birdphotography #wildlife

A Red-breasted Merganser appears to stand up in blue, sunny water, wings outstretched in a T-pose, neck long. Its chest and the underside of its wings are bright white. The merganser has red eyes, a brown crested head, and a long thin beak.

Here's a Red-breasted #Merganser shaking off water after a dip. April 2025 in #PortTownsend.
#DivingForFood #BirdOfTheDay

A male Bushtit perched on a shady branch, small green larvae in its tiny beak. Male Bushtits are small, round birds with dark eyes and greyish light-brown feathers.

Bushtit showing off its larvae lunch
#BirdOfTheDay #Birds&Bugs

A #sunrise silhouette of a Brown Pelican off the coast of #NorthCarolina #Waterbirds
#BirdoftheDay #birdphotography #nature #naturephotography #EastCoastKin #bird

An Osprey perchs on a tree limb with a fish in its grasp.

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #WaterBirds. I think this Osprey with a fish in its grasp should suffice.

#Birds #Birding #Wildlife #Nature #Photography #Animals #PhotographersUnited #Photo #EastCoastKin

For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme of #waterbirds I have a cormorant doing its best pose on a buoy on Lake Washington in #Seattle last month.

#birds #birding #photography 🪶

A male Wood duck swimming in murky green water. Male Wood ducks are medium-sized and have red eyes, multicolored iridescent feathers, crested heads, and white markings around the throat.

A handsome Wood Duck for #BirdOfTheDay theme #Waterbirds

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Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #OddCouples , two different birds in one capture, the alt is #Urban.
Here's a Short Toed Snake Eagle getting the unwelcome attention of a Hooded Crow.
Picture by Mike Childs, Rethymno area, December 2023.

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #OddCouples, two different birds in one capture.

This Turkey Vulture and Juvenile Bald Eagle were giving me the side eye. 🪶

A crow dive bombs a Bald Eagle perched at the top of a tree, who is looking in the opposite direction and doesn't seem to notice. The birds and tree are silhouetted against a yellowing sky at sunset.

An American #Crow doing its best to chase away a stubborn #BaldEagle

#BirdOfTheDay #OddCouples

A little egret with ruffled feathers stands in shallow water, surrounded by tall, brown reeds. Its neck is slightly twisted, and it stares directly at the camera. The dim lighting casts a dramatic and moody atmosphere over the scene.

#BirdOfTheDay theme for today is #StareDown.

So here's a Little Egret staring into my soul...

#birdphotography #ukwildlife