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A close up photo of a gray and white bird hanging upside down. Its beak is open and tongue slightly sticking out.

NUTHATCH TONGUE!!!

I don’t know why bird tongues surprise and intrigue me so much but they do

#birds 🌿

Hawk with rusty-red barring on breast and reddish shoulders perched on the very top of a small pine tree.

There's a new predator in the 'hood. Red-shouldered Hawk hanging around near my backyard. 🪶

Two burrowing owls standing together, watching a yellow butterfly go by.

Good morning! 🪶

A large bird of prey perched on a horizontal bare branch against a blue sky.

Big beautiful birb on the lookout for a meal

(Red-tailed Hawk) #birds 🌿

A Cooper’s hawk on a fence in the rain is looking off to our left with its dark red eyes.

Gary is giving us a good look at the Cooper’s Cap and dark red eyes 👀
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A common goldeneye drake: A white duck with a black head and white cheek patch and golden yellow eye, with narrow black bands through the white on its wings and a black back.

A barrow's goldeneye drake and hen. The drakw has a black head with a more forward facing cheek patch that extends further up to his golden yellow eye. It has a white breast, with white bars on black wings and a black back. The hen has a red head, light grey breast and dark grey back.

Got to see Common and Barrow's Goldeneye! fun to see both at the same time.

Wow. To the nature feed. 🌿

A Costas hummingbird flies about another as the bottom one looks up. All is calm.

I don't have a snappy caption but it's a cool shot. 🪶

MERLIN returns!! 🧙‍♂️...no, the tiny falcon 🦅...

...same pole, different light. Today's #birding! 🌿🪵🐦

📸 Falco columbarius, might just be a regular...🪶

#Raptors
#BirdsOfPrey
#TalonTuesday
#Photography
#BirdLovers

Handsome sparrow time!

A White-throated Sparrow looking dapper as always

#birds 🌿

Maybe she will release a new cookbook then. We can hope, anyway.

Her recipes are so good! She has an amazing banana pudding recipe that I love.

Black-crowned Night Heron
ゴイ

#birds #photography
#ゴイサギ

Long-billed Curlew for the #longlegsandneck theme of #birdoftheday picked by @robcrank68.bsky.social.

#birds #nature #montereybay #photography

How a blue-headed corvid called a Woodhouse's Scrub-jay greets you on a cold winter morning when you're taking too long getting the peanuts out...looks just like this imperious sweetheart with its chest puffed up on my deck railing with my snowy Emory Oak as a background.

"Hope” is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all -
~Emily Dickinson

💙 Have a sweet #ThursJay! 💙

📸 Woodhouse's Scrub-jay, Bluebird of Happiness 🪶🌿

#Corvids
#Bluebirds
#BirdLovers
#Photography
#ImageAndVerse
#EastCoastKin

Heron standing on a branch with its back to the camera and its head to the side, against a blurred green and tan background. It has a reddish purple head and neck and a grayish blue body. Its eye is yellow, and its legs are greenish yellow. Its beak is gray at the base and black at the end.

Little blue heron on St John in the US Virgin Islands
#BirdOfTheDay #LongLegsAndNeck #birds

black-necked stilt - black bird with white front - sitting in a dry riverbed

black-necked stilt - black bird with white front - walking in a river

black-necked stilt - black bird with white front - sitting in a riverbed with chicks nearby

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #LongLegsAndNeck

black-necked stilts certainly fit the bill - their legs almost look longer when they're sitting down! #EastCoastKin

#birds #birding #birdnerd #birdwatching #stilt #photography #nature #wildlife #photographersofbluesky

A very large white bird with long legs and a long neck stands on green grass in front of brownish, slightly rippled water. The egret is looking to one side and its long feathers are gently blowing in the wind.

A Great Egret, looking resplendent for the #BirdOfTheDay.
#LongLegsAndNeck
#EastCoastKin #NaturePhotography 🪶

If you see this, post your bird art 🐦

Ok, that last one wasn't a factor in the review, but it was my main takeaway...so I'm celebrating with this floofy Cactus Wren up on the wire in golden hour light.

Year-end review zoom this morning! 😬

The highlights:

*I was not 'down-sized'
*They gave me the same bonus for x-mas
*They gave me a raise!
*I still work remotely and there are no plans to RTO
*I still get to shit-post on Bluesky between emails

Happy #Wrensday! 🤘😶‍🌫️

📸 Cactus Wren 🪶🌿

#Photography

Three cormorants perched comfortably on wooden pilings sticking up from a lightly-rippled lake. Two additional cormorants are fighting over the last remaining piling, their beaks open wide and wings open, one bird atop the piling and the other one trying to fly up from the surface of the lake.

Musical chairs? Five cormorants, four weathered pilings.

#birds #photography #BirdOfTheDay #Groups #nature #wildlife #BirdSky #PNW #cormorant #BirdPhotography

Per Rob, today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Groups, groups of 4 or more birds (can be different species).
The Alternative theme is #Pigeons

A Pectoral Sandpiper in the middle of a group of Long-billed Dowitchers--safety in numbers! Also works for #WaderWednesday! #birds #photography #EastCoastKin

And watching them land is astonishing. They’re like flying bowling balls that still somehow manage to be graceful.

Three gargantuan white water birds with enormous orange beaks float on gray-blue water. All three are bending down with their beaks in the water and open as they feed.

Today's #BirdOfTheDay is #groups, and I can think of few birds that are more impressive in a group than pelicans. Even more so when they show off while feeding!
#EastCoastKin #NaturePhotography 🪶

They are goofy in the best way.

Five extremely large white birds with black beaks land in slightly choppy gray water. They are all splashing water as they land.

For #BirdOfTheDay, Trumpeter Swans make rather impressive #splashes when they land.
#EastCoastKin #naturephotography 🪶

The white 'eyebrow', chin, and 'necklace' on a blue-headed corvid called a Woodhouse's Scrub-jay kinda make it look like he was hit in the face by a snowball on a winter visit to my deck railing with a snowy background in bokeh for composition. Artsy.

It’s not what you look at that matters,
it’s what you see.
~ Henry David Thoreau

🕉️ May you see the wonders of Nature on #ThursJay! 🤘😶‍🌫️

📷 Woodhouse's Scrub-jay 🪶🌿❄️

#Corvids
#Bluebirds
#Winterbirds
#Photography
#EastCoastKin
#BirdLovers

Close-up of black, grey, and white chicken-sized waterbird with red forehead and beak. Its beak has a yellow tip. It is standing in shallow water.

ʻAlae ʻula (Hawaiian Moorhen) last November on Kauaʻi for #BirdOfTheDay #Coots&Moorhens. 💚 #Birds #NaturePhotos

One of my oldest photographs of birds and always one of my favourites for todays #BirdOfTheDay theme #CootsandMoorhens. Hope you like it too.

#Austria #WillTravel4Birds #birds

A row of medium-sized black water birds with enormous yellow feet and red eyes stand on a partially submerged log in the water. One of the birds is facing the camera with its neck stretched upwards.

How can you not love coots? Those ridiculous feet, those striking red eyes. Just cool birds all around.

#BirdOfTheDay #CootsandMoorhens #EastCoastKin 🪶