A white-throated sparrow, its feathers fluffed up, perches on a thin branch in a snowy background. It is facing the camera with its head turned right.

This photo of a white-throated sparrow ticks both boxes of #migration and #floofball for today’s #BirdOfTheDay
#EastCoastKin

On high alert. 🪶 #kingfisher #ijsvogel

Robin having a bath. 🛁 🪶 #EuropeanRobin #roodborstje

About to leave! Bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus). Photo © Enrique Shore
#eagle #birdphotography #beauty #nature #bird #birding #wildlife #feathers #majestic

Only deceased individuals? Well we can hope the burgers will finally do their job. That hand of his though. I think he gets an embalming fluid IV every now and then so we can’t tell the difference when they prop him up after he kicks the bucket.

Juvenile Anna’s hummingbird approaching grevillea flowers with a feeding honeybee on them

Hummingbitd and bee completely ignoring each other. Usually hummers are afraid of bees and bees may even attack even attack hummers. But not in this case 🤷‍♂️

#birds #photography #birdphotography #nature #birding

Jane Goodall said she would launch Trump and Musk on one-way trip into space Primatologist said in interview released after her death she would also put Putin, Xi and Netanyahu on that spaceship

We have the same wish list.

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

They really do.

Ah thank you!

October 2022, we had frost. Every October after it was just too warm. Even today it’s 17°C.
🪶 #GreenWoodpecker #GroeneSpecht

Mandarin duck couple. 🪶

#Gadwall showing off the big belly. 🪶 #krakeend

#cormorant cosplaying as the count 🧛🏻‍♂️ 🪶 #aalscholver

It was deadly quiet in the forest. Not a deer in sight or a roar in hearing distance. Nothing, zilch, nada, niks. I saw the boar family, but a bit too far off. And it’s too warm, srsly. So archive again it is. One of the rare occassions I found a bearded reedling eating grit. 🪶 #beardedreedling

Thank you 🙂.

Thank you Alan 🙂

Ah, maybe it was another tale then. If I remember it well, mine was about a sister who had to knit garments of stinging nettles for her brothers who had been turned into swans by some spell. She had to do it in limited time and she didn’t quite get to finish the last sleeve. Hence the wing.

For @alan678.bsky.social ‘s #BirdOfTheDay theme #Migration, I have chosen the purple heron, the white stork, the cuckoo and the bluethroat. The cuckoo having the shortest stay since they don’t have to raise their kids. 🪶

I read it a long time ago. Was that with the one sibling who kept one wing instead of an arm in the end? You just made me want to bring out my massive fairy tale book.

Wonderful photo, Alan. And I love the theme.

Me neither. But because it’s a bird sanctuary it reminded me of Saint Francis (patron saint of animals) and Saint Clare was one of his followers.

Megalomaniacs.

I know they did. The lunacy is in sending those letters.

Saint Clare of Assisi?

China is buying from Argentina after Argentina scrapped grain export taxes . And Trump is giving Argentina 20 billion to help bailing out its economy. And his pal Milei. And some of Trump’s cronies. Very lucrative indeed. For Argentina.

Or those letters to make other countries stop their DEI efforts. Trump prefers DUI’s, like Hegshit, MusKKK and “Measles” RFK jr.

The blue states could save a whole lot of money. Even could fund universal healthcare for blue staters, FEMA, etc. Help the blue dots in red states move, build a wall around the red states, put a lid on it and check back in 4 years time. I’m sure RFK’s measles, etc. will do the job.

Great pic! Tell the falcon I have a job for him here.

They sure are. Thank you, Alan.

I’ve been thinking about that for a while now. A president and a Republican majority ruled congress that doesn’t live by the Constitution or any law, should be the ticket to secession. I wish they would.