Morning #bird A Vermillion Flycatcher warming up at Greenfield Park in Mesa Arizona. #birdphotography #photography #birding #birds #wildlifephotography #botd #birdoftheday #Black&Red

The #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Black&Red. I chose this lovely Cherrie's tanager (or scarlet-rumped tanager) bathing in the rain using the drops on the leaves. #birds #photography #birdsofbluesky

My entry for the #Black&Red #BirdOfTheDay theme is this Lewis’s Woodpecker. (I have a half bar of cell reception if I stand in the right spot, so hopefully this post goes through.)

Male red-bellied woodpecker (Melanerpes carolinus) on sand pine trunk 3-31-26 in Bonita Springs, FL Alan & Rob’s #BirdOfTheDay theme for Sunday: #Feathers, showcasing beauty & intricacies of feathers. Alt: #BirdInABush, birds in bushes. #birds #photography #Stunday #blueSkyMonday #ECK #birding

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Black&Red. A Painted Redstart looking dapper. #birds 🪶 #Nature #wildlife #BirdPhotography #photography #nikon #EastCoastKin

Charles the Chaffinch. Photographed today. #BirdOfTheDay #Black&Red #birds #birding #photography #ECK

#Black&Red is the #BirdoftheDay theme today, and for me it had to be the Black Oystercatcher - and plenty to choose from in my collection as I so enjoy watching and photographing them. Coming in to land - don't chip those nails! #Birds 🪶 #ECK

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Feathers showcasing the beauty and intricacies of feathers. So hard to think of a bird with feathers 😜 How about an American Golden-Plover chick sprouting its first set of golden feathers. #Alaska 🪶

#BirdOfTheDay theme set by @robcrank68.bsky.social #Black&Red birds with both Black & Red colours on them Bearded Barbet #birds #naturephotography #BirdWatching #ECK

A beautiful Pin-tailed Sandgrouse only 12 miles from our B&B in Pinoso Spain. Absolutely stunning plumage and perfectly adapted to their environment. #birds #birding #birdphotography #birdoftheday #birdsseenin2026 #naturephotography

For today's #BirdOfTheDay what's #Black&Red and clowny all over? Mr. and Ms. Acorn Woodpecker! #birds #becurious🪶

A pileated woodpecker for today's #BirdOfTheDay prompt from Rob which was #Black&Red #Photography #Birds #Woodpeckers

Sharing this for today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme #Feathers. Take a moment to enjoy not just the feather detail, but also a glimpse of that impressive tongue 😎🪶 おそらく先週のゲラブラックと同じ個体🤔 #5ゲラ集結☆ゲラレンジャー!! #nature #photography #animals #wildlife #BlackWoodpecker #クマゲラ #birds #野鳥

Red-headed Woodpecker #BirdOfTheDay #Black&Red #BlueSkyMonday #birds #nature #wildlife #photography

Crimson-collared tanager in Sarapiqui, Costa Rica #BirdOfTheDay #Black&Red #birds

Not a very good shot (taken through the window), but yesterday morning I finally caught the male downy woodpecker (Dryobates pubescens) who's been visiting our feeder! #BirdOfTheDay #Black&Red #Birds #Photography #EastCoastKin

A Southern Ground-hornbill looking snazzy 🪩 at the Tracy Aviary, Salt Lake City, Utah #Birds #BirdOfTheDay #Black&Red #Red #FeatheredFriends @tracyaviary.bsky.social #Eyelashes #Photography

Here's a #chicken showing me its #Feathers for today's #Birdoftheday theme. #Birds #Birding #Photography

Here are some more doors for you to enjoy! Hope you get to see them IRL

A painted redstart, a lifer on my recent birding adventure in Arizona USA, for today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Black&Red, birds with both black and red colors. #Birds #Warblers #BirdsSeenIn2026 #Photography #Nature #WildlifePhotography

A quartet of ducks for #MallardMonday: ruddy duck, ring-necked duck, Northern shoveler, and American wigeon. Arizona USA. #Ducks #Birds #BirdsSeenIn2026 #Photography #Nature #WildlifePhotography

A Magellanic Penguin shaking off the water after a swim 🐧 #birds #penguins #Chile

Trying to catch up on my giant mountain of work & I just see this staring at me the whole time 😂 #Cat #Cats #CatsOfBluesky #CatLovers

Helsinki has an art nouveau district with some stunning doors #blueskyartshow #openings

Good morning , and thank you to Vicky Outen ( @vickyoutenphoto.bsky.social ) for today's #FoxOfTheDay - top work !

A Bee getting thrown out of a Hibiscus flower for drinking too much nectar.😂🤣 #Nature #WorldBeeDay #Bees #Flowers #Garden #Hibiscus #NaturalArt #art #GardeningFeed #PreciousPollinators #OldVideo

Are you ready for some moth myth busting?

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekMforMovies Footloose 1984

#Brazil #Pantanal Male Jacamar enjoying a little snack. One of many stunning birds there, the iridescence of the feathers is beautiful #BirdOfTheDay #Snacks #Birds #EastCoastKin #ECK #ArtYear #SensoryArt #Alone

Whitby twilight. A mixture of remaining natural light, coupled with artificial illumination on the Abbey. Image taken over a decade ago during a great road-trip across the UK. #photography #landscapephotography

My friend's husband is dying. She started text messaging me the other day, as they don't live close by. What to say? I go to what I always do, I tell the truth, the truth of my experience. After this morning's exchange, these words came to me ... they may be of help to others. #Poem #Dying #Grief

"What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make. The greatest danger to our future is apathy." Remembering Dr. Jane Goodall on her birthday 💐💐💐🙌🏼

Not by the earthquake daunted Nor by new fears made tame, Painting her face and laughing Plays she a new-found game. Here on her half-cool cinders ’Frisco abides in mirth, Planning the wildest splendor Ever upon the earth. —Vachel Lindsay, “The City That Will Not Repent” #NationalPoetryMonth #2

"The Lion in Winter" 😁 Cheeky entry for #WeekMforMovies of the #AlphabetChallenge. #Photography #AnimalPhotography #EastCoastKin #Cats #CatsOfBlueSky

“Violet Fire” #FlowerPhotography #FlowerLovers #NaturePhotography #bsky #BlueSkyArt #ArtOnBluesky #PhotographyCommunity #VisualArt

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Black&Red, birds with both Black & Red colours on them. #birds #photography #ECK #ukbirding #naturephotography #Canon7Dmkii #birdphotography #BirdLife @rspb.bsky.social #naturetherapy

I earned the “2.50 Million Acts of #Science” badge for participating in citizen science projects during Citizen Science Month (April 2026). Visit scistarter.org if you'd like to get involved.

Chocolate bilbies are sold in Australia as an alternative to the Easter bunny. The bilby is an Oz native & much friendlier to our fragile environment than the rabbit.

Feathers. Hellmayr's Pipit, Cipo Mountain, Brazil. #birdoftheday #birding #birds #brazil

Today’s #birdoftheday #theme set by @alan678.bsky.social is #Feathers #ECK #Canon #birds

Chinese Pond-Herons (Ardeola bacchus) Most attained breeding plumage (3rd image). Two (1st & 2nd) are changing from non-breeding to breeding plumage but I think both Chinese Pond-Herons from reddish colour in head, neck & breast. #BirdsSeenIn2026 #Ipoh #Perak #Malaysia @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social

New book on ponds and wetlands by @patrlynch1.bsky.social looks both beautiful and informative! 💙📚 #Books #Booksky #Nature

Tree Swallow (Tachycineta bicolor) in flight. From my book A Field Guide to the Connecticut River. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... 🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #ctriver #swallows #Connecticut

Rose-breasted Grosbeaks (Pheucticus ludovicianus, male, detail). 🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #birds #songbirds #birdart

People often ask about my digital work as an illustrator, vs. the "conventional" media I've used for 50+ years. It's all the same technique, but each medium has its strengths. See ALT text for more. 🧪🌿🌎🐡 #wildlife #scicomm #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm

An Anna’s Hummingbird feeds her tiny chicks nestled among the cherry blossoms. #birds #hummingbird #nature #wildlife

Thanks to the NYT Strands game, I discovered a new animal today: the Easter Bilby! The greater bilby (Macrotis lagotis) is a long-eared, rabbit-like, nocturnal burrowing marsupial found in Australia. (I hope it's late enough that I haven't spoiled today's game for anyone.) #Wildlife #Nature

Lots of #openings in the remains of Whitby Abbey. Dating from the 7th century and overlooking the North Sea, it was abandoned in the 9th century following Danish raids though re-established in 1078. It was finally "suppressed" by Henry VIII in 1539. #BlueSkyArtShow #ECK #History

For the #Tricolour (birds with 3 or more colors) theme, here is a Superb Starling posing on the ground for me in Serengeti many years ago. I broke my foot on the first safari day, so I was happy he landed nearby. #BirdOfTheDay #EastCoastKin #birds