The weight of a 1st lower 48 dark-sided flycatcher leaving

Yes it was. #birds

It’s a Wilson’s warbler kinda weekend Holy migration season everyone! Good luck birding next week! 📷🌿🪶

Just because I can't get enough of these Long-billed curlews and I'm hoping you feel the same! #birds #originalcontent #photography 📷 Bolivar Flats, September 2025

I love my Pepperoni 📷🐈🍕

Since coming home from Colombia in March I’ve netted another 10 life birds in California (8 in county) Let’s goooooooo

I like to earn my twitches. I’m lucky to live in a county with expert birders I’ve earned early notice by helping others spot birds past seasons and was alerted a yellow-green vireo had been spotted On arrival ~20 people were searching and after about 15 min this guy refound it! Woohoo lifer! 📷🌿🪶

Please go forth and tell some artists, photographers, writers and other creative people that you love what they do! #birds #SciArt 🌿

Yellow-green Vireo — lifer 🪶

Cracking views of one of the fledglings this morning. #kingfisher #kingfishers #nature #wildlife #riverlea #hackney #hackneymarshes #ukbirds #birds

Herons are known for their long dangly necks Don’t forget those huge breast muscles have to power flight Swole Great Blue Heron 📷💪🌿🪶

Surprise surprise, another red-shouldered hawk! 🪶🌿 Live Oak Park, Fallbrook, CA.

Over 170 eBird reports of this darksided flycatcher yesterday 50 more from yesterday! Popular bird! There already are some east coast arrivals based on ground reports

Barely Speckled Hummingbird 🪶

Red-billed tropicbird at Great Bird Island near Antigua for #Flyday #birds #photography

I was lucky enough to encounter this Little Blue Heron preening on a fence. September 3, 2025 #BolsaChicaEcologicalReserve #Birds #FeatheredFriday #Photography #Nature

Many-coloured Rush Tyrant. #Chile Fun Fact: this tiny and vibrant bird weighs around 6.5 to 8 grams #birds #birdphotography #wildlife #nature #photography #birding

My pishing tone and consistency in a rounder “SH” sound has improved considerably Still practicing, but the tip that it’s not the volume of pishing, but the longevity that you continue to pish helped so much for success rate Just pished out a Wilson’s warbler into the open 🪶

A sea of gulls

To continue on the theme of capturing feather barbules… I found a photo of a lesser violetear in flight that was extremely sharp right at the face. A wing beat in between, but you can see the overlapping iridescent teal gorgets over the cobalt cheek patch Simply mesmerizing 📷🌿🪶

Black capped chickadee. #birds #nature #🪶

🚨DEVELOPING STORY🚨 🪶 Dark-sided Flycatcher to be reviewed, but it looks really good to go in as the first ever record in the lower 48 states!! So east-coasters… when are you booking your flights? Source: www.instagram.com/p/DOvKjU3ldD...

California just got a first state record of a dark-sided flycatcher A Eurasian species and as rare as it gets for the ABA. A map of its usual range for comparison 🤯 Anyone attempting a big year? 😂🪶

So for Rob’s @robcrank68.bsky.social #BirdOfTheDay he’s looking for birds with some black or white colouring. Here’s mine. A Grey Heron in the rain. #birds #photography #EastCoastKin

This was just a goldfinch at our front yard feeder. But I had just brought home my new telescopic lens and was playing around with the settings. Prior to this I didn’t know birds had eyelashes.

I’m addicted to seeing feather detail on small birds. The crisscrossing of the barbs and barbules trip me the fuck out Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher macro portrait 📷🌿🪶

I’ve been fortunate to have been to a few Michelin star restaurants. One in OC (Taco Maria) was my favorite before they couldn’t renew their lease That being said, I’m surprised Vaca doesn’t have a Michelin star. I’ve been a patron for a decade. Not a disappointing dish or drink EVER

Going to our fave restaurant in Orange County for our 6th anniversary! Vaca! Glad I get to marry this woman next year 😍 @angelaglasses.bsky.social

Never get tired of seeing white-browed coucals. They’re a kind of cuckoo with a long claw on a hind toe. These are some seriously handsome, big birds. Serengeti NP, Aug 2025. #birds #wildlifephotography #nature #serengeti #africa #teaching #tanzania

I have a complex patient that reports she feels “worse” each time she moves or has a visit with me. Even if I don’t touch her Functionally, she’s able to do everything I believe all of my patients, but this is a case where her brain has centrally sensitized some poor behavioral avoidance patterns

I would like the bird gods to bless me this migration season with one of these please 🙏

One of the first birds that really blew my eye sockets To me, the iridescent rusty bronze that the White-faced Ibis displays in the sun creates a sheen that is reminiscent of a soap bubble seen in the light A brilliant display of colors 📷🌿🪶

#birds Trumpeter swan is molting I assume. Central Mn.

Coo? 🪶

Great Egret x Great Blue Heron (hybrid) - Leighton, AL 🪶

There are prettier things to look at today than your phone Go outside 📷🌿

Wait... Wait... Wait... Zoooooooooooop!💦 Fish.

Who needs tweety Warblers when you've got prehistory playing out in front of you. 🐉🦖

I was looking for some migrant warblers, then… Zoop! In a single elongated strike, a dragonfly for dinner Green Heron 🪶 Green Darner 🪲 📷🌿

If birds aren't your thing, consider butterflies, bees, skippers and the like

Here's my shots for #BirdOfTheDay which is #BirdButts but sadly I just had to throw something different in there too 🤣 The 4th shot is the '3 Wise Monkeys' aka 'Last of the Summer Wine' trio 🤣🤣 Get your shots ready it's #Gulls tomorrow #birds #photography #EastCoastKin #birdphotography #ukbirding

How about a black tern?

Let’s see what everyone has come up with. Show me your #birdbutt for #BirdOfTheDay No other butts will be accepted for obvious reasons. 😂 Extra points for anyone who has a Gull or Kingfisher #butt #birds #Photography #EastCoastKin

A Common Grackle at the birdbath. #birds

This is how I feel waking up on Saturday after all the shit that went down this week

Good morning! 🪶

Keel-billed toucan calling at Burbayar Nature Reserve in Panama #birds #photography

It’s the weekend, if you see this post, put your phone down and go outside and see a warbler What ever online hellscape you leave will be there when you come back, I promise you’ll have more time to doom scroll after seeing the aforementioned warbler Orange-crowned Warbler 📷🌿🪶

Have only seen leaves like this once in Costa Rica Nature’s lace 🌿

Green Heron on Green Darner violence 😦