In Miami, Great egrets are often found hunting in backyards for lizards, snakes, and small birds. This one caught a brown anole and a stick and is trying to figure out how to swallow one without the other. For the #HeadShots theme of #BirdOfTheDay #EastCoastKin #birds Happy Thanksgiving!

This roseate spoonbill is #OnTheEdge of a waterway at Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, Central Florida. #BirdOfTheDay #EastCoastKin #birds

A Mitred Parakeets just #HangingAround eating fruit from a gumbo limbo tree in Miami. Native to the Andes in South America, these parakeets were introduced to South Florida decades ago as escaped pets. They now fly around here in small noisy flocks. #BirdOfTheDay #EastCoastKin #birds

The #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #warblers. This is a male yellow warbler striking a cute pose while searching for insects and caterpillars in Miami. They are always on the move, and tiny, making them difficult to photograph. #EastCoastKin #birds

This ostrich pair is definitely #Mr&Mrs, at least for this season. I saw them in De Hoop Nature Reserve, South Africa. Sorry Rob and Alan, I couldn’t resist posting this for today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme. #EastCoastKin #birds

Hummingbirds are the smallest birds in the world. Some species migrate thousands of miles. This Ruby-throated hummingbird is dining on flower nectar in Miami. #BlueSkyArtShow #small #birds

Leave me alone! For the #BirdOnAWire theme for #BirdOfTheDay - this osprey is defending her fish breakfast from a hungry fish crow sitting on a wire. The crow harassed her so much that she took her meal elsewhere. Ft Myers, Florida. #EastCoastKin #birds

A gull pretending to be a flag pole ornament above a skinny Dannebrog, the oldest continuously used national flag, in Denmark. For the #GroundedGulls (gulls not in flight) theme of #BirdOfTheDay #EastCoastKin #birds

Song thrush singing from the top of a very tall evergreen tree in Denmark, for today’s #thrush theme for #BirdOfTheDay #EastCoastKin #birds

This cute long-tailed tit is the epitome of roundness, with its fluffy feathers, short neck, and tiny beak. North Zealand, Denmark. #BirdOfTheDay #round #birds #EastCoastKin

Juvenile Cooper’s Hawk with pretty blue eyes, for today’s #mottled theme of #BirdOfTheDay #EastCoastKin #birds

#StareDown is the theme for #BirdOfTheDay today. This roseate spoonbill gazed at me like this after I rudely interrupted her from a nap. #EastCoastKin #birds #Florida

Mockingbird on a mission showing off its #ShadesOfGray for #BirdOfTheDay #EastCoastKin #birds

I usually post bird and landscape photos, but for today’s #BlueSkyArtShow theme #Bright, I’m going with the incredible light show silhouetting the #BritFloyd drummer. #EastCoastKin

Adult moorhen and chick, in the never-disappointing Wakodahatchee Wetlands, Florida, for today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme, #CootsAndMoorhens #EastCoastKin #birds

Swan School for the #BirdOfTheDay theme, #Swans. They were raised in one of the moats surrounding Kronborg Castle (a/k/a Hamlet’s Castle) in Denmark. #EastCoastKin #Birds

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #DucksOutOfWater This handsome Muscovy Duck is displaying his iridescent feathers in the morning sun while standing on a bridge in Miami. #EastCoastKin #birds

#BirdOfTheDay theme today is #paddling birds standing or walking in shallow water. These are black-bellied whistling ducks getting their feet wet at Wakodahatchee Wetlands, Florida. #EastCoastKin #birds

A rocky beach at Cape Agulhas, South Africa, the southernmost point of Africa, where the Indian Ocean meets the Atlantic Ocean, for #RockinTuesday. #EastCoastKin

The theme today for #BirdOfTheDay is #BirdsOnTheGround. This Eurasian Jay was “anting” in my backyard in Denmark - allowing ants to crawl on him as a method of pest control. #EastCoastKin #birds #anting

This is the only Least Bittern I have photographed in my life. This is the smallest member of the heron family, and its conservation status is of Least Concern. Bosque del Apache, New Mexico. For the #least theme of #BirdOfTheDay #EastCoastKin #birds

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #StandingOnThings except the Floor. This cutie is a brown-hooded kingfisher standing on a snag on the bank of the Chobe River, in Botswana. #EastCoastKin #Stunday #birds

#Evening in Simon’s Town, South Africa, looking east over False Bay. #BlueSkyArtShow

#TakeOffs is today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme. This cute yellow-rumped warbler is showing off his yellow rump while taking off from a branch in Cloudcroft, New Mexico. #EastCoastKin #birds

#FightingBirds is today’s theme for #BirdOfTheDay. A mockingbird is having a territorial dispute with a red-bellied woodpecker, who stood his ground. When raising young, mockingbirds will attack anything deemed a threat, making them interesting to photograph. #EastCoastKin #birds

I watched for 15 minutes to see if this anhinga could swallow this huge fish but had to leave before the conclusion. Circle B Bar Reserve, central Florida. For today’s #LunchTime theme for #BirdOfTheDay #EastCoastKin #birds

This cheeky dark-eyed junco posed for the perfect portrait. After this photo, a dog rescued him from a cat and I rescued him from the dog and he survived with missing feathers. I made my friend remove his poorly located bird feeder. #BirdOfTheDay #CloseUp #EastCoastKin #birds

The #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #rock, as in birds on a rock. These crowned cormorants built their nests on guano-covered rocks offshore in Betty’s Bay, South Africa. #EastCoastKin #birds

I think the speckled #pigeons in South Africa are very attractive. #BirdOfTheDay #EastCoastKin #birds

Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona for #StunDay

Muscovy Ducks are not only #underrated, they are deemed to be invasive pests in the US. They defecate everywhere and multiply rapidly. But they have such sweet personalities and they wag their cute tails. This one was my friend and he loved walnuts. #BirdOfTheDay #EastCoastKin #birds

Mirror Lake in Yosemite National Park in November 2021. For today’s #BlueSkyArtShow theme #autumn

Juvenile Great Crested Grebe showered with droplets shaken off by its parent in North Zealand, Denmark. For today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme #grebes. #EastCoastKin #birds

Happy Halloween and Samhain caws the fish crow. #birds #Halloween

For the #BirdOfTheDay themes #hiding and #Halloween, this is a male anhinga I found hiding in a thicket of mangrove branches at Wakodahatchee Wetlands, Florida. He looks like the Count Dracula of #birds. #EastCoastKin

Luxembourg Palace and gardens, Paris. #PalacesAndGardens #EastCoastKin

An American Purple Gallinule stretches into an #OddAngle to grab a seed at Circle B Bar Reserve in Central Florida. #BirdOfTheDay #EastCoastKin #birds #Florida

I lack the ability to correctly identify #gulls. Juveniles look different than adults, and adults change their appearance in mating season. My best guess is this is a laughing gull, snatching something to eat out of a small harbor in the Florida Keys. #BirdOfTheDay #EastCoastKin #birds

For today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme “Pairs of the same birds,” here are two white-fronted bee eaters clinging to the bank of the Chobe River, on the Namibia side. We watched dozens of these flying jewels from a small safari boat. It was heavenly. #DailyDouble #TwosDay #EastCoastKin #birds

This is a Goliath Heron on the bank of the Chobe River in Botswana in July. The Chobe River is teeming with wildlife, especially birds. My guide identified over 75 species in two days. Most of them were lifers for me, like this #Heron for today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme. #EastCoastKin #birds

For #SundayYellow and #Stunday here is the Colorado River at the overly but deservingly famous Horseshoe Bend in Glen Canyon, Page Arizona. #EastCoastKin

This Great Egret took a break from incubating her two blue eggs to preen and show off her pretty mating plumage, in my magical place - Wakodahatchee Wetlands, Florida. #BirdOfTheDay #egrets #EastCoastKin #birds

Jellyfish stalactites deep #inside Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico. #BlueSkyArtShow #EastCoastKin #caves

#sunlit from behind, this great heron in breeding plumage had just risen from her nest in Wakodahatchee Wetlands. #BirdOfTheDay #EastCoastKin #birds

An adult male prairie warbler is #thinking about where to obtain his next meal on his autumn migration through Miami. Warblers are tiny and rarely stay still for a second, so I was lucky to find him in a state of contemplation for long enough to get a clear shot. #BirdOfTheDay #EastCoastKin #birds

This neighborhood juvenile Cooper’s Hawk catalyzed my love for bird photography during the pandemic. He prompted me to buy new gear and learn about all the birds in South Florida. His blue eyes are rare and captivating. #BirdOfTheDay #raptors #EastCoastKin #birds ❤️

Here is a Mitred Parakeet savoring a small fruit for today’s #green theme for #BirdOfTheDay. Mitred Parakeets are native to South America but have established a substantial and raucous population in South Florida, from escaped pets. You hear them long before you see them. #EastCoastKin #birds

For #BlueSkyMonday, a calving glacier in a fjord on the western coast of Greenland. #EastCoastKin #glacier

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #singing. This European starling is a highly invasive species in North America. They have a nasty habit of stealing the cavity nests of red-bellied woodpeckers here in Miami. But they sure are pretty in the right light. #EastCoastKin #birds

Dawn breaking over Miami Beach for #Stunday #EastCoastKin