It's #TwosDay: doves at dawn, last week #birds

For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme, #BirdsOnTheGround, let's get down in the dirt with a male red-shafted Northern flicker. #birds #woodpecker #flicker

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #least, the bird of which you have the - ahem - fewest photos. This is my one and only photo of a Northern yellow warbler, and I took it only two months ago. #birds #warblers

At Cottontail Acres: a couple of recent Anna's hummingbird portraits to start the week. #birds #hummingbirds

Despite their enviable ability to fly, #birds spend a lot of time #standingonthings, which is perhaps why that's the #birdoftheday theme. A Western wood-peewee on a cactus, from 2018.

The #BirdOfTheDay theme is #takeoffs That time a Cooper's hawk launched itself straight at me. It flew about three feet over my head. #birds #hawk #raptor

At Cottontail Acres: I only had to wait about 15 minutes at dawn yesterday for our resident mockingbird to land in this tree so I could frame it against the setting full moon. #birds #mockingbird

The #BirdOfTheDay theme is #fighting Goose v. goose #birds

The #BirdOfTheDay theme is #LunchTime A Cooper's hawk snacks on a tiny bird. #birds

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #CloseUps I had the pleasure of hanging out with two of our resident ravens' young ones at sunset a couple of years ago. I managed to get some nice portraits. #birds #ravens

At Cottontail Acres: that time a bunch o' mice took up residence in some of our bushes. They were big fans of bird seed. #mouse #rodent #wildlife #wildlifephotography

At Cottontail Acres: we had an unusual visitor early this morning, a male red-naped sapsucker. They're generally fairly common, but I've seen them only a few times here at the house over the years. This one has some extra red feathers on his head. #birds #sapsucker

The #BirdOfTheDay theme is #underrated. We have over two dozen sparrow varieties in California, and they would be my pick: song sparrow, chipping sparrow, lark sparrow, white-throated sparrow. #birds #sparrows

Today's #BirdOfTheDay alt theme is #worst. The only thing I got right here was the framing. Kinda looks like a black ink painting. #birds #raven

Alt #BirdOfTheDay is #Finches This shot of a Lawrence's goldfinch was accepted into competition at the annual juried art exhibition at our local Museum of Art and History last year. Which was nice. #birds #goldfinch

It's #Scape day and #Halloween, so let's set the wayback machine to Times Square in 2017 #humansofbluesky #streetphotography #nyc #cityscape #urbangaze

The #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Halloween. Here's a spooky looking Cooper's hawk. #birds #raptors #hawks

Since the Nuttall's woodpeckers continue to visit almost daily, let's make this a #woodpeckerwednesday #birds #woodpecker

Hoppy (on the left, with the bent right foot) getting groomed by Not-Hoppy (we never did think of a better name for him). They spend a lot of time on our property. #BirdOfTheDay #dailydouble #twosday #ravens #birds

The #BirdOfTheDay theme is #heron I managed to get pretty close to this great blue #birds

Time for #BirdOfTheDay All together now: #egrets, I've seen a few. But then again, too few to mention... That first great egret flew over the house just after sunset last month. The second landed way over on the far side of our property back in 2021. #birds

At Cottontail Acres: There was a red-tailed hawk in a tree behind the house when I got up this morning. That's life in the Mojave desert for you. #birds #raptors #hawk

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #sunlit A white-crowned sparrow at sunset #birds #sparrow

At Cottontail Acres: you know winter is coming when the mountain bluebirds start to arrive. And this is my first sighting of the season, just before sunrise this morning. #birds #bluebirds

It's #scape day, so let's travel to nighttime Nottingham (2017) #cityscape #urbangaze #humansofbluesky

Is today's #BirdOfTheDay, a ruby-crowned kinglet, #thinking or #cute? Perhaps it just thinks that it's cute? #birds

At Cottontail Acres: a female Nuttall's woodpecker dropped by to hammer on one of trees at sunset last night #birds #woodpecker

The #BirdOfTheDay theme is #raptors Here's a Cooper's hawk taking a bath just outside my home office window #birds #hawk

Before I forget - it's #twosday! A Eurasian collared dove and another Eurasian collared dove #birds #dove

The #BirdOfTheDay theme is #green Green bird, green background Anna's hummingbird hovering above dewy grass #birds #hummingbird

At Cottontail Acres: sometimes I think I should only take photos at dawn. #birds #mockingbird

Today's #BirdOfTheDay is #colourful so here's a Western tanager in our locust tree (RIP; it split in a wind storm a few months ago and had to be hauled away). #birds #tanager

At Cottontail Acres: a white-crowned sparrow looking regal #birds #sparrow #NoKings

It's #scape day You're either on the bus or off the bus Antelope Valley, California (2025) #landscape #Mojave #desert

If you want a #BirdOfTheDay with #character look no further than the raven. #birds #raven

Nottingham Council House, Nottingham, UK (2017) #humansofbluesky #urbangaze #streetphotography #blackandwhite

Today's #BirdOfTheDay is #SkinnyLegs, so here's Montague the mockingbird. "Don't all birds have skinny legs, though?" Monty asks. #birds #mockingbird

At Cottontail Acres: I followed a Cooper's hawk around the yard for * checks EXIF data * almost 40 minutes early this morning. It was so focused on finding something to eat that it didn't seem to mind me getting quite close at times. #birds #hawk #raptor

At Cottontail Acres: The sky was black with rain clouds when I got up but the sunrise had broken through. Then it started raining, so I went looking for a bird to silhouette against the rainbow. Et voila! #birds #rainbow

Alamy just licensed one of my dairy farm photos for use in an "educational book" (they typically provide few details). So that's nice. New Scientist magazine also licensed this same shot a few months ago for an article on bird flu. #alamy #cows #birdflu #dairyfarm

The #BirdOfTheDay is #wings That was the moment when Bob realized he'd forgotten his under-wing deodorant... #birds #phoebe

At Cottontail Acres: this yellow-breasted chat was not very chatty. They seem to really like hanging out in the darkest corner of the yard. #birds #chat

The #BirdOfTheDay challenge is #beakful so here's a nest-building Say's phoebe. #birds #phoebe #botd

For today's #scape theme, a little Brutalism. Victoria Centre, Nottingham, UK (2019) #cityscape #urbangaze #architecture #brutalist #b&w #blackandwhite

At Cottontail Acres: no idea what the quail find to eat in our yard, but they're here every day. Half a dozen stopped by for breakfast this morning. #birds #quail

The #birdoftheday is #spotted, you say? I got yer spots right here: ladder-backed woodpecker #birds #woodpecker #botd

I see the #BirdOfTheDay is the #kestrel This one hunted from this post at the back of our property for a few days this summer. #birds #raptors

It's #twosday Rock doves in formation last week #birds #doves #pigeons

At Cottontail Acres: we've had quail on the property every day since April 29 - more than five months! They arrive in the morning, hang out all day, then wander off somewhere around sunset. This has never happened in previous years. #birds #quail

At Cottontail Acres: randomness from the week - turkey vulture catching the sunrise, Anna's hummingbird on a stick, immature white-crowned sparrow, Eurasian starling claiming its territory. #birds #vultures #hummingbirds #sparrows #starlings