Happy #FerruginousFriday !🪶

To kick off the weekend, a stunning Scarlet Tanager putting his heart and soul into his song. #BirdOfTheDay #singing #EastCoastKin 🪶

Today may be the day for me to play the lotto! In 4.5 years I've *seen* two Pacific Wrens in the yard (maybe heard a few more) Today TWO Pacific Wrens just runnin' all around the place - like right out in the open! And posing for photos... Wren 1 #birds #becurious

Snap, Grackle, Pop! Just a grackle glowing in the sunlight. #birds #grackle #photography #Louisiana #biglake

😁❄️ We got snow up in the pines...anyone fancy a hike? 🌿 #Treehuggers #GetOutThere #GreenTherapy #ThickTrunkThursday #Photography #Hiking

"Oh hai!” Surprised to see this hairy woodpecker peek up over the edge of the bird bath 😂 #birds

A Hermit Thrush for @robcrank68.bsky.social's #BirdOfTheDay. They are so sweet. 🪶

This #wader is an ‘auku’u, black-crowned night heron, from Maui. #birdoftheday #photography #nature #birds

One of our most common #thrushes, bluebirds are vibrant, lively little birds who brighten the landscape year round. #BirdOfTheDay #EastCoastKin 🪶

#Wisdom is back! The world’s oldest known living banded bird, Mōlī (Laysan albatross) queen, has returned to Kuailhelani (Midway Atoll). #Birds

The pokeweed berries have also been late here in WI this year, providing food for some of our latest migrating birds. Here's a Yellow-rumped Warbler enjoying a few of the (toxic to people!) berries on a recent dreary fall day. 🪶 #NaturePhotography

It’s #WoodpeckerWednesday Cache your zygodactyl images here

November woods are bare and still; November days are clear and bright; Each noon burns up the morning's chill; The morning's snow is gone by night. ~Helen Hunt Jackson 🕉️ Have a sweet #WildlifeWednesday! 🦌🦌🌿 🤘😶‍🌫️ #Mammals #Photography #EastCoastKin #FeelingFall #AutumnVibes #Autumn

For the #BirdOfTheDay, this American Coot wants you to know that water birds can be #round too! #NaturePhotography #EastCoastKin 🪶

When it's 60 degrees and sunny in Wisconsin in November, you take advantage of the weather to go down to the lake and take the most exuberant bath possible. #NaturePhotography #EastCoastKin 🪶

🫠 TFW...a beautiful Gambel's Quail hen gives you the ol' 'get-my-good-side' head turn...while backlit. Both ways. 🌿 Have a double-sweet #TopknotTuesday peeps!! 🤘😶‍🌫️ 📸 Callipepla gambelii 🪶🪶🌞 #BirdPhotography #LookingAtYou #BirdLovers #Photography

🎶Defying Gravity🎶 Brown Creeper just hanging around while finding a little snack. #BirdOfTheDay #mottled #EastCoastKin 🪶

It's hard to see a Purple Martin without being absolutely mesmerized by its color. It's rare, though, to have one stare back with as much curiosity as this guy displayed. #BirdOfTheDay #StareDown #EastCoastKin #NaturePhotography 🪶

Local grackle convention at the creek. They sounded like a gaggle of squeaky metal gates. #birds 🌿

Good morning! ✨ Backlit...and bokeh balls. 🫧 Best I could do with her... today's #birding! 🌿🐦🌄 Clouds are already rolling in...🌥️ #WeekendVibes 📸 Calypte anna 🪶 #TheLittleThings #Hummingbirds #BirdLovers #Photography #FeatheredFriday

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I'm going with the alternative #BirdOfTheDay theme today of #posts - a magnificent Turkey Vulture perched on a fence post. His wing span was more than 6 feet! I always think of them as being black but the sun really shows off the color variations in his feathers. #birds #photography #EastCoastKin

Smile! It's Friday! #birds #NaturePhotography #EastCoastKin 🪶

Trumpeter #swan showing off that massive wingspan, coming in for a splashy landing. #BirdOfTheDay #EastCoastKin

In a forest of a thousand whispers, listen to the aspens sing. 🕉️ #ThickTrunkThursday vibes... 🤘😶‍🌫️ #Autumn 🍁 #AutumnVibes 🍂 #FeelingFall 🌿 #ForestFriday 🌲 #TreeScape 🍃 #Treehuggers 🫂 #EastCoastKin 💞 #GreenTherapy 💚 #Photography 📸 #FallFoliage 🔥 #Seasons ⏳ #Scape 🖼️

Tennessee Warbler, looking impossibly cute. #NaturePhotography #birds #EastCoastKin

Today's #BirdofTheDay #DucksOutOfWater #birds Mr. Tufted Duck - a duck not so often out of the water

This Blue-winged Teal was showing off his fabulous namesake wing patches in flight. #BirdoftheDay #DucksOutOfWater #EastCoastKin

This stunning Sora was unusually cooperative, weaving in and out of the reeds in the shallow water next to the boardwalk. #BirdOfTheDay #paddling #EastCoastKin 🪶

Sometimes you just want to hit your head on a branch and scream... (Blackpoll Warbler, probably not as angry as he looks) #NaturePhotography #EastCoastKin #birds

The #BirdoftheDay today is birds on the #ground, and we often get large mixed flocks of sparrows foraging on the ground during fall migration. This handsome guy is a juvenile White-crowned Sparrow, looking very sharp in the grass. 🪶

I'm late to #BirdOftheDay today, but the theme is #least, as in the bird you have the fewest photos of. I'm not sure which bird is the absolute least for me, but I'm choosing the Golden-winged Warbler, because it is both difficult to find and to photograph. I found this lovely lady last spring. 🪶

Snowy Egret in Monterey Cypress tree this afternoon. Emeryville, California. #birds #nature #eastcoastkin

Flashback to summer, when I observed these two juvenile Tree Swallows #fighting and chasing each other in circles. No idea what they were fighting over, but the victor spent awhile smugly preening atop this dead tree. #BirdOfTheDay 🪶

Me, sneaking into the weekend a little early... Happy Friday everyone! #NaturePhotography #EastCoastKin 🪶

A grackle has things to do and places to be. No time for photos. Got any entries for #PhotoFailFriday? #birds 🌿

Rude! lol I can’t remember whose very symmetrical butt this is but it feels very intentional. #birds #BirdButts 🌿

For @alan678.bsky.social's #BirdOfTheDay #lunchtime theme, may I present this early bird getting the worm? It also works for @robcrank68.bsky.social 's #HolidayRobin theme. #birds

Another #BirdoftheDay eating at #lunchtime This one is the Prothonotary Warbler or what I call, a lemon with wings! #EastCoastKin #🪶 #birds #birdwatching #nature #wildlife #bird #birding #wildlifephotography #birdsofbluesky #naturephotography #birdphotography #warblers #prothonotarywarbler

Keep your eye on the prize! #BirdOfTheDay #Lunchtime 🪶

I found this Ruby Meadowhawk sunning itself next to the beach. It certainly earns the "ruby" part of its name with that color! #invert #NaturePhotography

Another incredible stop on the Birds of the Great Lakes book tour! 📚 Huge thanks to everyone who came out to the Appleton Public Library last night. The local bookseller sold out—let’s gooo! 🙌🏾💚 Grateful for all the love and support, Appleton. #WiscoBirder 🪶

That's right. It's #WoodpeckerWednesday... 🤘😶‍🌫️ ...and #BirdOfTheDay is #closeups... ...so you get my favorite Acorn. 😛 He might also be announcing Dick Cheney croaked. 🪶🌿 #Woodpeckers #BirdLovers #Photography #EastCoastKin

Chestnut-Sided Warbler showing off a #Closeup view of his neon yellow cap and some magnificent floof for #BirdOfTheDay. 🪶

Today's #birdoftheday set by @alan678.bsky.social is #rock or alternatively #longbeak. My late submission: a pair of black-tailed godwits. On a rock 👍 and with long beaks 👍. #RockinTuesday #TwosDay #AlphabetChallenge #WeekSforShadows #EastCoastKin #birds #birdphotography

Your outer journey may contain a million steps; your inner journey only has one: the step you are taking right now. ~Eckhart Tolle 🕉️ Have a sweet #TwosDay AND #WildlifeWednesday!! 🌿🦌🦌🌿 #TinyTuesday #TheLittleThings #Mammals #Photography #EastCoastKin

It was perfectly silent in the BWCA when a pair of Common Loons surfaced just offshore. They fished and dove, unbothered by the enthralled humans sitting nearby. #birds #NaturePhotography #EastCoastKin

A gorgeous Killdeer on the #rocks of Lake Superior for the #BirdOfTheDay today.

Mondays are hard sometimes. (Eastern Wood-Pewee, with a not too graceful crash landing.) #NaturePhotography #birds #EastCoastKin

I should really just hang it up once the sun sets. You'd think I'd learn that by now.😑 I don't think you can blame me for trying though, after all my kestrel-manifesting, when a new little one paid a visit last night. #badpic 🪶 Definitely not PtRK, though. IYKYK. 🦅 #BirdsOfPrey #Raptors #Birding