What a beautiful bird!

A Crow for #BirdOfTheDay theme #Black, birds with mainly black plumage, with second image for Alt theme, #Moments, a capture you consider to be an interesting moment, where it ignores the request. I think these were at Slimbridge WWT.

For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme #LongLegs, bird with long legs, a White Stork at the Knepp estate last summer. An incredible, massive bird to see in England. (Mobile phone picture taken at distance, so apologies, not the clearest image.)

This fits today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme #InFlight, birds in flight and the alt, #BlurBirds, blurry bird shots. A large flock of Black Headed Gulls in winter, capturing their movement en mass, if not their detail.

A juvenile white-tailed kite for the #YourChoice theme of #BirdOfTheDay picked by @alan678.bsky.social #birds #nature #raptor #ECK

For #BirdOfTheDay theme #YourChoice, a fairly poor pic (oldAndroid phone at distance) of an exciting sighting of a Dipper, this weekend on the river in Stroud Town center. We saw the pair; this one had a beakful of winged Insect it was trying to thrash to death and take to nest hidden in the bank.

#ColorADay #PinkMon #Bloomscrolling. Barell cactus flowers, improbable, incredible and fleeting, as barely last 24 hours, but what a sight!

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For #StunDay, #ColourADay #OrangeSun and the #AlphabetChallenge #WeekWForWater, sunset over our local lake last summer.

Today's #BirdOfTheDay alt Theme is #Swans Black swan 🦢 @alan678.bsky.social #Birds #Birdphotography #Nature #ECK

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #SilentPresence The alt is #Swans. Here's a swan tucked up, keeping quiet and warm during winter, so meeting both themes.

For tday's #BirdOfTheDay Alt Theme, #Black&White, birds with Black & White in their plumage, a Magpie fits the bill.

#AlphabetChallenge, #WeekWforWater, #ColorADay, #GreenSat. Local lake last Sat when the sky was full of moisture, that was keeping everything green. Sun's out now though!

Oh yeah, can't miss another chance to post these #stripes. #BirdOfTheDay #FlyDay 📷🌿🪶

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Stripes, any bird with stripes in their plumage set by @alan678.bsky.social ~ hmm stripes 🤔, definite stripes in the plumage of the amazing Hoopoe ~ Photo taken in Swansea🪶🦉 #birdingWales #ukbirding #birdphotography #ECK #ukwildlife #naturephotography #naturetherapy

@alan678.bsky.social #BirdOfTheDay #Stripes #Birds Whinchat

#AlphabetChallege #WeekWforwater, #scapes looking out from Gronant Sand dunes in North Wales, when tide is out.

A Teal at Teifi Marshes for today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme of #Stripes 📷 30.11.24 #BirdPhotography

Forests produce massive amounts of oxygen. No wonder they're called the lungs of the Earth. Every second breath you take? Thank a tree. 🌬️🌲 #BreatheClean

For today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme, #Stripes, any bird with stripes in their plumage, an opportunity to show this very fine goose. A hybrid Canada/Greylag, it was raised by the Canadas last year, white feathered and orange feet/beaked in a nest of Canadian chicks and has grown into this beautiful bird

#BirdOfTheDay theme is #Nesting material More #greatcrestedgrebe in my 30-second-video: www.petersprinciple.nl/dance #grebe #Podicepscristatus #Haubentaucher #reflection #PhotographersOfBluesky #WildlifePhotography #NaturePhotography #BirdLife #ECK @robcrank68.bsky.social @alan678.bsky.social

Today's #BirdOfTheDay Theme is #Nesting, birds carrying nesting material, the Alt Theme is #Paridae, any of the species. Big nests need big branches. This grey heron knows this well. 🪶 #birds #birding #BirdsSeenIn2026 #Germany #wildlife #photography #nature #thelittlethings #ECK #Scape

#WeekWForWater, #YellowThurs, frozen lake creating a mirror for the bare yellow willow, this winter

For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme, #Nesting, a Coot's creative floating, water edge nest from a couple of months back. Hopefully, it's raised some chicks by now. Today's Alt. is #Paridae

Redshanks waiting for the tide to turn. #BirdOfTheDay #TheGathering #Birds

An older shot of a great blue egret against a majestic sky. For the #birdoftheday theme of #livinglandscape #birds #heron #greatblueheron #protectnature #EastCoastKin

#AlphabetChallenge, #WeekWforWater, our small pond, full of frogs, doing their froggy thing, a couple of months back. #Nature #frogs

For today’s #BirdOfTheDay alt theme #LivingLandscapes, a single bird as part of a wider natural scene. A solitary Canada goose up having a quite moment alone, on its way back to overnight safety of the lake's island, at sunset last summer.

Today's #BirdOfTheDay Theme is #Geese, any breed of Geese: Canadian Geese and Greylags run the parkland around our town lake. Have had a great breeding season, this year and last.

#ColorADay #BlueTues, #AlphabetChallenge #WeekWforWater, ripples on lake.

For #PinkMon, bee on a bramble flower. A Bramblebee? We are surrounded by thickets of blackberry bushes here and most are pink flowered.

For #WorldOceanDay and #AlphabetChallenge, #WeekWforWater, a very strong on-shore wind met the falling tide (I think it was that way round) to create this dramatic effect at Rhosilli Bay last summer.

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is celebrating #WorldOceansDay so any sea or river bird. A couple of Herring Gulls, at Lyme Regis,Dorset. Probably scouting on chip patrol.

An Egret attempting to #BranchingOut on a branch that is a bit too small to support him. #BirdOfTheDay #egret #birds #nature #photography #birdphotography

🪶 Another contribution to Alan's theme for today’s #BirdOfTheDay, #BorrowedPlaces, birds using human-made or unexpected structures, fence posts, signs, boats, rooftops, machinery, and other places to perch. This one is from the Petrified Forest. #birds #photography

A Tree Swallow pops its head out of its home to take a look around. #BirdOfTheDay #BorrowedPlaces #Birds #Birding #Wildlife #Nature #Photography #Animals #Video #ECK

#BirdOfTheDay #BorrowedPlaces 🪶😎

For today's #BirdOfTheDay Theme is #BranchingOut, any bird standing/sitting on a branch, the Alt Theme is #Gulls, any Gull will do: a Buzzard, perched on a branch against a rainbow sky and then closer up. A Seagull flying across Lyme Bay, Dorset.

On the street sign is written: common-redshank-path 🇳🇱 So the #crow has an identitycrisis 🤣 #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BorrowedPlaces perching on human-made structures It is a beauty, but is #carrioncrow a #FemaleBeauty? #corvus #corvuscorone #Corvidae #ECK @alan678.bsky.social @robcrank68.bsky.social

#BirdOfTheDay theme is #BorrowedPlaces. This black-crowned night heron was hanging out on this metal pole at sunset. #birds #photography #birdsofbluesky

One and a half hit with #BirdOfTheDay theme 1️⃣#LookingAtYou, staring at you 2️⃣Alt #NewLife, any newly hatched chick ▶️ OK, this #avocet is little bit older 😉 #sunset #CuteAnimals #babybird #babybirds #juvenile #chick #RecurvirostraAvosetta #reflection #ECK @alan678.bsky.social @robcrank68.bsky.social

For #GreenSat, a thistle flower, just starting to bloom. May regret leaving this at edge of lawn as part of #NoMowMay, but will be great for insects.

Rob's #birdoftheday today is #NewLife. Pied flycatcher chicks. 16 of the 47 nest boxes we have put up in mid-wales sessile oak woodland have provided the best start to new families of pied flycatchers. Taken last Saturday whilst surveying the boxes (mobile phone). #birds #ECK #birdphotography

For #BirdOfTheDay, #BorrowedPlaces, Birds using human-made or unexpected structures, fence posts, signs, boats, rooftops, machinery, and other places to perch. A crow, yesterday stretching its wings, on the edge of an industrial unit. Taken by phone at distance, but casting a cool shadow #Monochrome

#BirdOfTheDay Alt Theme is #NewLife, any newly hatched chick. Family of recently hatched Greylag goslings, enjoying evening forage with their adults and then being escorted, by their whole clan, back to safety of the island on our town lake overnight.

Good morning. Today’s #BirdOfTheDay alt theme of #LMNOP - A full set - a ( #BadFeatherDay) red-wattled Lapwing, white-throated Munia, european Nightjar, eurasian scops Owl and spot-billed Pelican #Bird #wildlifephotography #birdwatching #birdphotography #photography #nature #EastCoastKind

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Good morning. Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BadFeatherDay, wind blown birds, rain soaked etc. The alt is #LMNOP any bird with any of these letters at the beginning of any part of their name. Rain Soaked Robin #birds #photography #ECK #ForJanet

For today’s #BirdOfTheDay alt, #LMNOP, any bird with any of these letters at the beginning of any part of their name. A group of Pigeons bathing in the lake then drying off in the morning sun, last Autumn. I know they like bathing but not seen them do so en mass at the lake before.

For today's #BirdoftheDay theme #FoodInBeaks, footage of a Red Kite feeding in nearby Ash tree. Out of shot, there was a Magpie below, taking advantage of dropped scraps and it flew up to this perch when the Kite had gone, to clean up. Filmed through the window, at distance. Is video cheating?