Thank you.

Thank you.

Great shot!

A great kiskadee, a member of the flycatcher family, looks into the camera lens with a head tile. It has black head feathers set off by a white eyebrow strip sand yellow underparts.

This great kiskadee, a member of the #flycatcher family, wonders if its yellow underparts qualify for the #BirdOfTheDay theme #PrimaryColours (any bird with a primary color in their plumage). Texas USA. #Birds #Photography #Nature #Wildlife #BirdsSeenIn2026 #WildlifePhotography #BirdPhotography

I love these murals!!

Thank you, Rob. (This one made it easy.)

Thank you!

Thank you!

Many thanks.

Thank you, Michelle.

A male vermillion flycatcher sits on a thorny branch. Its bright scarlet-red head and underparts and blackish-brown back, wings, tail, and eye mask contrast against a plain taupe-gray background.

The #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BestOfTheMonth. Wrapping up a birding week with 37 lifers (and nothing unedited yet), here's a memorable bird found after a long, hot, mosquito-filled walk: vermillion flycatcher. Texas USA. #Birds #FlyDay #BirdsSeenIn2026 #Wildlife #Photography #Nature #FlyDay

Thank you!

Many thanks!

Thank you!

Thanks, Alan.

A great blue heron in flight approaches the nest with it wings spread. It carries a stick in its bill as its mate waits in the nest.

A great blue heron, with #WideOpenWings, delivers a stick to the nest. #BirdOfTheDay. #Birds #Florida #Photography #Nature #WildlifePhotography

A green jay gives a side profile look into the camera lens. Its green and pale yellow-green body feathers contrast with a blue crown, black throat and eyepatch, and yellow outer tail feathers.

A green jay, one of the #corvids native to the Rio Grande Valley in Texas USA, for #ThursJay. #Birds #Photography #BirdsSeenIn2026 #Nature #Texas #WildlifePhotography #Lifer

A female crimson-collared grosbeak - a range-restricted species endemic to the Atlantic slope of northeastern Mexico - was a rare find in Texas USA. The bird perched on a thin branch, is yellow-olive with a black face and throat.

Find of the day (month, year): A female crimson-collared grosbeak - a range-restricted species endemic to the Atlantic slope of northeastern Mexico - found in Texas USA. (Many more photos to come.) #Birds #Lifer #Photography #BirdsSeenIn2026 #WildlifePhotography #Nature #Texas

LOL. Carrying my 200-800 lens + 2 camera bodies on a birding trip fight now!

A pier I visit in Florida has similar frenzies - but more for the entertainment of the fishermen, I think. (There are rarely photographers.)

Great capture!!

Great set!

Great capture!

Thank you, Rob.

Thank you.

Thank you, Alan!

Thank you.

A side profile of a buff-bellied hummingbird sitting on a feeder. It is olive-green with a bright red bill with a black tip.

A close up headshot of a buff-bellied hummingbird.

This buff-bellied hummingbird has to be my favorite of the 20 lifers this past weekend in Texas USA - it certainly was the smallest. #Birds #Hummingbirds #BirdsSeenIn2026 #Nature #WildlifePhotography #Texas #Photography

A male wild turkey looking into the lens displays his dominance with its tail is fanned and body feathers are puffed

Per @robcrank68.bsky.social, the theme for #BirdOfTheDay is #RuffledFeathers with the alt being #Brown. Here's a wild turkey on the trail in Texas USA this past weekend.
#Birds #BirdsSeenIn2026 #WildlifePhotography #Nature #Photography #Texas

Thank you, Alan.