I was lucky to escape in one piece after being confronted by this beast on an isolated woodland trail. Species: golden-crowned kinglet #🪶 #birdsofbluesky #birding #nature #animals

Northern pintail: world’s most elegant duck. #🪶 #birds #birdsofbluesky #nature #wildlife

Wood ducks really look like this. #🪶 #birding #nature #birdlovers #animals

Here’s the blue-headed vireo, which is of course the second highest ranking vireo. #🪶 #birding #birdoftheday #birdlovers #nature

This is my favourite phone shot from yesterday's close encounter with a wood pigeon. More of a blorb, than a borb though? 😅 #CommonWoodPigeon #WoodPigeon #ColumbaPalumbus | #birdsoftheworld #birds | #Kent #England

Blackpoll warbler in its dull, non-breeding plumage. #🪶 #birding #birdsofbluesky #birdsoftheworld #nature #wildlife

Prairie warbler #🪶 #birding #birdphotography #nature #birds

Shoutout to yellow rumps for giving me something to look at during migration when I can’t find other birds. #🪶 #birding #nature #animals #wildlifephotography #birds

Autumn vibes with the eastern bluebird #🪶 #birds #birding #nature #fall

Here’s one more look at a very interesting wood duck. #🪶 #birding #nature #wildlifephotography #animals

A leucistic wood duck showed up at the local lake. #🪶 #birding #nature #wildlife

Black-throated blue warbler #🪶 #birding #nature #wildlife

Hermit thrushes have arrived in pretty large numbers. #🪶 #birding #nature #naturephotography #birds

The butterbutts are taking over now. #🪶 #birds #nature #birding

Savannah sparrow #🪶

Deep in the woods with the Swainson’s thrush #🪶 #nature #birding #wildlifephotography

Lincoln’s sparrow #🪶

I’m a big fan of the chestnut-sided warbler’s fall plumage. #🪶 #nature

You gotta love ovenbirds. #🪶 #nature #birding

Eastern wood peewee #birds

Tennessee warbler #🪶 #birding #nature #animals #birdphotography

Respect, Hudsonian godwit. Respect. #birds #🪶 #nature #animals #birding

There’s the boy. #birds #birding #nature #animals #🪶

Ran into a really accommodating pectoral sandpiper. Bear with me. #birds #nature #animals #migration

Here’s a pectoral sandpiper passing through Queens on its way to southern South America. #birds #nature #birding #wildlife #🪶

A sora briefly emerges from the reeds! #🪶 #birding #nature #wildlife #birds

Sharp-shinned hawk #birds #wildlife #birdsofprey #nature #wildlife

Least flycatcher, I think. But if you can identify empids consistently, you really ought to be awarded some kind of certification. #birds #fallmigration #birding #nature

Buff-breasted sandpiper: a bird that does exist after all. #🪶 #birds #shorebirds #nature #wildlife

First days out of the nest for these two green herons. #🪶 #birds #nature #wildlife

Great crested flycatchers are the only species I see helping with the spotted lanternfly problem. Shoutout to these guys. #🪶 #birding #birdphotography #nature #wildlife

Here’s the lone snowy owl I saw last year. This was January, so it’s gone now, lest anyone tries to look for it. #🪶 #birding #nature #wildlifephotography #owls

Lesser yellowlegs: another orange alert tipping point species in the 2025 state of birds. #birds #🪶 #birding #shorebirds #nature #wildlife

You notice how they get you to buy new gadgets by intentionally making your stuff stop working now? Like there is nothing wrong with my TV. The apps are just going to stop working on September 1.

Saw two northern waterthrushes yesterday. Migration is now. #🪶 #birding #fallmigration #nature

If you see an American oystercatcher anywhere but the beach, it’s pretty safe to assume that the bird wants you as far away as possible. #🪶 #birds #birding #naturephotagraphy #wildlifephotography

Prairie warbler #🪶 #nature #birds #birding #naturephotagraphy

Per allaboutbirds.org, the pectoral sandpiper’s conservation status is on orange alert. #🪶 #birding #nature #wildlifephotography

You have to sniff a lot of bird doodoo to get semipalmated sandpiper photos like this. #🪶 #birding #shorebirds #naturephotography

Ruby-throated hummingbirds and jewel weed forever. #🪶 #birding #nature

Least sandpiper: world’s smallest shorebird. #🪶 #birding #nature

A northern waterthrush forages in a sewer drain. #birding #wildlife #🪶 #nature

A scene from common tern courtship #🪶 #birding #nature

Tree swallow #🪶 #birding #nature

Haven’t seen many common yellowthroats this season. #🪶 #birding

Black-throated green warbler #🪶 #birds #birding #nature

Nashville warbler foraging for insects on tree bark #birding #warbler #nature #birds #🪶

I think this little blue heron shot benefited from my inability to get close. A lot of bird photos are like that. #🪶 #birding #nature #naturephotography #birds #outdoors

Broad-winged skipper on purple loosestrife #nature #butterfly #macro

Ruddy turnstones might be the only shorebirds that I don’t habitually misidentify. #🪶 #birds #birding #nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography