"What lures bird-watchers to Lake Apopka is the same thing that brings hunters there. But one group shoots pictures, while the other shoots ducks." Read Stephen Hudak @tampabaytimes.bsky.social: www.tampabay.com/news/environ... #BirdWatching #BirdSpotting #DuckHunters #FloridaBirding

Sometimes life throws you a curve ball, some times it hits you in the head with a 100 mph fastball (baseball analogy). Can't tell you how much #birding and #nature help you get through the tough times, slows you down and focuses the mind. #gratitude

Continuing with the American birds theme, one bird I really like to paint is the cardinal. This is the 3rd cardinal painting I've done and my favourite of the three. #watercolours #birdart 🪶

Bald Eagles can have a concerned expression when looking straight on.

#sandhillcrane #milford, #MI #birds #photography #birdphotography #BirdWatching #birdsofbluesky #nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography

For #TravelThursday, we offer up "A TEXAN’S GUIDE TO BIRDING" from @texashighways.bsky.social. Texas is one of the best places in the world for #BirdWatching. Its diverse landscapes house a vast number of species. texashighways.com/travel/a-tex... #BirdSpotting #TexasBirding #BirdingDestinations

Had a good day with the camera yesterday. Osprey on the hunt.

A Bald Eagle couple hanging out at the Great Blue Heron rookery. The Great Blue Herons should be arriving back at the nests in about a month.

Lifer pie! My first snowy owl! 🪶

Up to about 50 years ago, arctic #SnowGeese wintered mainly on salt marshes along the coast as far south as North Carolina. Now, you can see them in New Jersey thru April. Read Karl Anderson of Gloucester County Nature Club in NJ.com: www.nj.com/gloucester-c... #BirdWatching #BirdSpotting

The alt #BirdOfTheDay theme is #openwings birds with wings out - set by @alan678.bsky.social ~ Here's a female Kestrel struggling to hold on to her perch in strong winds along the River Severn, Gloucestershire 🪶🦉 #ukbirding #birdphotography #birdsofbluesky #EastCoastKin #naturetherapy #BirdsOfPrey

With most Hawaiian honeycreeper species lost to habitat destruction, nonnative predators, & disease, the rest face an invasive mosquito-borne disease thanks to climate change. Rita Beamish explores the fight to save them in @parkstraveler.bsky.social: www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2026/01/are-...

Some good news before we head into the weekend: Fish & Wildlife announced today that Wilson’s phalaropes — migratory shorebirds that rely on saline lakes in the American West — will advance to the next stage of review to determine whether they warrant protection under the #ESA. bit.ly/3NB8sHw

A great blue heron walks on the ice as it attempts to fish in St. Vrain Creek in Longmont, Colorado. #BirdOfTheDay #walking #FlyDay #bird #birds #birdphotography #heron #photography #photograph #photographs #photo #photos #nature #creek #creeks #riparian #herons #greatblueheron #greatblueherons

Snow ❄️ is coming to NYC & much of the nation … but so are the plovers! In less than two months, the first Piping Plovers will appear on our NYC beaches. While we love the ❄️, many of us are already busy planning & getting ready for the VIPs’ arrivals!

"If you care about birds, you probably already know that they’re in trouble. The threats they face, just at the federal level, are staggering." Read @abcbirds.bsky.social's "Keeping an Eagle Eye on #BirdConservation Policy": abcbirds.org/news/bird-co... #EndangeredSpeciesAct #ChirpUpForTheBIrds

"Deforestation, largely fueled by illegal cattle ranching, has already wiped out millions of acres..Selva Maya & the Moskitia are the most significant forests...the most threatened, shrinking by 25% in only 15 years." Read rachelreports.bsky.social in @audubon.org: www.audubon.org/magazine/hug...

"If you’re reading this, then you probably want more birds outside your window. @cornellbirds.bsky.social wants this for you too!" Read more about Cornell's Garden for Birds program from @amygrisak.bsky.social in birdsandblooms.bsky.social: www.birdsandblooms.com/birding/attr... #BackyardBirding

Portrait of a young Cooper Hawk #bird #birdoftheday #photography #blueskybirds #birdsofbluesky #canonphotography #birdart #wildlife #nature #birdportrait #birdofprey

Male Northern Cardinal atop a Giant Saguaro 🪶

I love these 2 pics of a local graylag goose hanging with the canadas that is evidently an escapee and not countable. My camera is not the best so when I get a clear, detailed shot I need to celebrate them! #birding #birdphotography

“A plover without habitat cannot exist. A plover doesn’t just go to another beach…” – @allieri.bsky.social, Executive Director, @nycploverproject.bsky.social Read @jillmwebb.bsky.social @therevelator.org: therevelator.org/piping-plove... #HabitatLoss #EndangeredSpeciesAct #PipingPlover #Shorebirds

Good afternoon, BlueSky! One of the benefits of living in the bayou city is that we have numerous places like this that are always filled with birds. This picture was taken about a mile from my house in a residential neighborhood. #Canon R5 EF 100-400 II w 1.4TC #Birds #Photography #EastCoastKin

Osprey hunting in #solitude on this #TalonTuesday #BirdOfTheDay #bird #wildlife #nature #photography #osprey Regimen fascisticum delenda est!

A hard look into the tree for today's #BirdOfTheDay #solitude Song Thrush peering out #birds #photography

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme as set by Alan @alan678.bsky.social is #Solitude #ColorADay #BlueTue #JanuArty2026 #sky #EastCoastkin #WestCoastKin #Oregon #PNW #Nature #Photography

"I’ve learned a few things in my time as a monitor... while pesticides may be an effective tool for humans, insects are a crucial source of protein for baby birds. Fewer insects can mean fewer birds." Read Stacy Shuda on #bluebirds @uspostal.bsky.social: news.usps.com/2026/01/08/b... #BirdWatching

Attention, Bird Lovers: If you like seeing birds inside your house, too, then you're in for a treat. Check out this "Trend Alert: For the Birds" from Annie Quigley over at Remodelista: www.remodelista.com/posts/bird-m... #BirdLovers #BirdArt #BirdArtists #InteriorDecorating #ChirpUpForTheBirds

A Mallard giving me a standing... errr.. make that a flying ovation. Bravo! You got my picture! I'm leaving! 😄 #BirdingHungary #mallards #ducks #waterfowl

"Earlier in this decade, I started something I call the Little Year...I keep count of all the species I see in NY State each year...My only goal is to check off the birds I see in my regular travels..." Bob Confer in The Wellsville Sun: wellsvillesun.com/blog/2026/01... #Nature365 #BirdWatching

"New research suggests birds migrating through Concord may adapting to climate change, which has warmed New England 2.5 degrees Celsius since Thoreau's lifetime." Read @vivianla.bsky.social @wbur.org: www.wbur.org/news/2025/12... #ClimateChange #SpringMigration #BirdWatching #ChirpUpForTheBirds

Damn that is some good pelican action. Living their best pelican life. #birds

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #MostRecent. A Northern Flicker in the backyard. #birds 🪶 #BirdPhotography #photography #EastCoastKin

This isn't going FULL pelican, but it is at least a half. maybe 3/7th? #birds

Steely eyed murder bird atop the neighbor’s feeder #mostrecent #birdoftheday #birds

this was taken about an hour ago #pelican #birds #surfcitync #nature #photography #BirdOfTheDay #MostRecent

The #ChristmasBirdCount is one of the world’s oldest & longest-running citizen science efforts. Today, there are thousands of bird circles, in 50 states & 20 foreign countries, with tens of thousands of participants tallying millions of birds. Find out more: www.fws.gov/story/tis-se... #BirdWatching

“ #GreaterSageGrouse are teetering on the brink of extinction, and their fate is inextricably linked to hundreds of other animals who rely on the sagebrush sea,” said Randi Spivak, public lands policy director @biologicaldiversity.org.” biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press... #EndangeredSpecies

Female Northern Harrier Hawk giving me the eye. 🪶

Distinguished Turkey Vulture perched atop a tree #birds #wildlife #photography #naturephotography

A Northern Flicker in flight from yesterday. Note the little bit of snow on its back. #Birds #Birding #Wildlife #Nature #Photography #Animals #PhotographersUnited #Photo #EastCoastKin

"In birds, #microplastics have been found to accumulate in the lungs of herons, block the intestinal tracts of Ospreys, and scar the stomachs of shearwaters..." Read @alicesunreports.bsky.social in @audubon.org: www.audubon.org/magazine/sci... #Pollution #Herons #Ospreys #Shearwaters

“ #HabitatLoss due to agricultural intensification and urbanization is arguably the biggest threat to birds, along with #ClimateChange,” says @spokenbird.bsky.social," a professor at @virginiatech.bsky.social. emagazine.com/declining-u-... #Pollution #ChirpUpForTheBirds #EndangeredSpecies

"Wisconsin’s winter birds transform cold, quiet days into something far richer." Drew Wood offers a list that can help you know what to expect and what kind of feeder/seed to use to attract them: a-z-animals.com/articles/whi... #BirdWatching #BirdSpotting #BackyardBirding #Wisconsin #WinterBirds

“BIPOC Birders are a flock of humans connected to a flock of birds through the earth they share and the desire to survive and thrive together." Read more in this article by Jasmine Barnes in the @chicagoreader.com: chicagoreader.com/city-life/ch... #BirdWatching #BirdLovers #BIPOCBirders #Birdsky

“Climate change ‘turns up the temperature’ on all the other threats that birds face. It’s the Great Multiplier…” Read more from @rheisman.bsky.social in @therevelator.org: therevelator.org/climate-chan... #ClimateChange #HabitatLoss #ChirpUpForTheBirds #BiodiversityCrisis #EndangeredSpecies

For the #BirdOfTheDay theme of #Stripes, Northern flickers, which offer the bonus of "polka dots" in other views. 😊 #Birds #Photography #EastCoastKin #Nature #WildlifePhotography #Birder

A diptych of Cooper's Hawk photos, showing off the banded tail. #BirdOfTheDay #stripes #PNW #BirdSky #nature #wildlife #photography #birds

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Top 10 Best Places in the U.S. for #BirdWatching? @jillglee.bsky.social picks: 1) Acadia National Park, ME 2) Bosque del Apache NWF, NM 3) Cape May, NJ 4) Cave Creek Canyon, AZ 5) Central Park, NY 6) Everglades NP, FL 7) Magee Marsh WA, OH 9) Point Reyes NS, CA Details: www.msn.com/en-us/travel...