Keeping with the #Black #BirdOfTheDay theme, I present to you one squawking black bird. 🪶 📸 American crow: Corvus brachyrhynchos

Keeping with the #Black #BirdOfTheDay theme, I present to you one squawking black bird. 🪶 📸 American crow: Corvus brachyrhynchos

Because bsky can use more #Herps... Oops! Forgot to dry off and wipe my feet. 💦

Because bsky can always use more #Herps... Keeping cool in the pool of duckweed.

"Don't bother trying to land on this feeder!" ~ this fledgling house finch, probably. Well, this fledgling is certainly vocal...and feisty. 🪶 #BackyardBirds #InFlight #BirdOfTheDay 📸House finch: Haemorhous mexicanus

"Don't bother trying to land on this feeder!" ~ this fledgling house finch, probably. Well, this fledgling is certainly vocal...and feisty. 🪶 #BackyardBirds #InFlight #BirdOfTheDay 📸House finch: Haemorhous mexicanus

Because bsky can always use more #Herps... Well...this one was unexpected. #omgitswicks 😂

If it's #YourChoice for #BirdOfTheDay today, then I choose my sweet little bluebirds. 🪶 #BackyardBirds 📸 Eastern bluebird: Sialia sialis

Young bird (a Red-winged Blackbird, in this case) feels terribly neglected ... a short story that is reenacted a gazillion times daily in most places on Earth. 🪶 🌿 1/n

Fledgling finch chomping on sunflower seeds for breakfast. 🪶 #BackyardBirds #Cutie 📸 House finch: Haemorhous mexicanus

Frog’s out there making an important evening announcement😄

Because bsky can always use more #herps...

#BloomScrolling with #Bugs

Yep. And I'm that friend.

Fledgling finch chomping on sunflower seeds for breakfast. 🪶 #BackyardBirds #Cutie 📸 House finch: Haemorhous mexicanus

Good morning folks. It's @alan678.bsky.social turn to host #BirdOfTheDay and I'm sure he will come up with some great themes for you all to contribute too. But for now here's my #StunDay post of a Great Crested Grebe telling me where to go 🤬 #birds #ECK #CanonR5mkii @rspb.bsky.social #ukbirding

We currently have two little blue birds trying land in the middle of our picture window. I think they see the reflection of trees at this time of day and are thinking they can land there? Poor frustrated babies!

The Dragonflies are out now too. Fun to see some on my last outing. #Dragonfly

Song Sparrow, taking a breather before its next solo 🪶

When you're making a sammich and slice a tomato open for it, only to discover the seeds inside it have already sprouted little plants. Guess it's been sitting in the window a little too long. 🤷‍♀️ 😂

The people trying to save a singular arts landmark face scarce funding, extreme flooding and aging adobe. buff.ly/cxSQ7oD

Because bsky can always use more #Herps... Found this fresh #snake shed in our yard today. Definitely non-venomous due to the double row of scales on the underside of its tail. Thinking it belonged to a garter snake (?) due to the faint black line running on its back from the tail to the head.

🔥😎 It's going to be hot. Share these ways to beat the heat. Check on your family, friends and neighbors. @multco.bsky.social

My neighborhood Cooper's hawk keeping an eye on me as I walk by. 🪶 #BackyardBirds #BirdOfTheDay #Stripes #Raptors 📸 Cooper's hawk: Astur cooperii

#BirdofTheDay #theme #stripes #photography #ECK #birds Here is my local sparrow hawk looking for breakfast.

Such a handsome fellow! 🪶 #BackyardBirds 📸 Northern cardinal: Cardinalis cardinalis

I try to take at least one picture wherever I go to give some indication of where I was when all the other photos with that time stamp were taken. Apparently, that didn't happen with this dickcissel. I'm guessing it was at the Antenna Farm in SE Michigan. June 29, 2025

Nothing more fun to watch & listen to than kindergartners discovering kazoos for the 1st time & then hearing them do solfege warm up yesterday. Today it was Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star on the kazoos. Sorry, can't post video, I don't have permission, but trust me, they were cute. 😂 #ArtsCamp #Music

2 ospreys - each on a light pole across my doctor's parking lot from each other. I don't know what they were talking about but this one sure was jibber jabbering at the other one. Also, the 2 babies have fledged and the nest is empty. 🪶 #Raptors 📸 Osprey: Pandion haliaetus

Such a handsome fellow! 🪶 #BackyardBirds 📸 Northern cardinal: Cardinalis cardinalis

Found this exoskeleton in our yard. Not surprising since they've been "singing" so loud lately. #inverts 📸 Cicada molt

No words. 🌿

We don't get to see #Robins for long so I don't have many pics. But here are 2 pics #ForJanet. Thought I'd throw in 4 #Robins having pool party fun even tho I didn't get a good shot of any of them. May your memories of Janet be a blessing. #BirdOfTheDay 🪶 📸 American robin: Turdus migratorius

I love watching these guys flit around the yard. They're such busy little birds. #TitmouseTuesday 🪶 #BackyardBirds 📸 Tufted titmouse: Baeolophus bicolor

I love watching these guys flit around the yard. They're such busy little birds. #TitmouseTuesday 🪶 #BackyardBirds 📸 Tufted titmouse: Baeolophus bicolor

Fledgling red-tailed hawks are loving on each other This is why I love to observe this stage They don’t really understand that they are apex predators yet They watch butterflies. And love on each other. In between begging for food It just tooooo adorable 🥰🥺 📷🌿🪶

Took almost 3 wks, but a hummer found our new feeder next to the red cat's tail this morning. 🪶 #BackyardBirds #BirdOfTheDay #GardenFavourites #BloomScrolling 📸 Ruby-throated hummingbird: Archilochus colubris

#BloomScrolling 🌸🌼

Because bsky can always use more #Herps... Duckweed doesn't bother them.

Took almost 3 wks, but a hummer found our new feeder next to the red cat's tail this morning. 🪶 #BackyardBirds #BirdOfTheDay #GardenFavourites #BloomScrolling 📸 Ruby-throated hummingbird: Archilochus colubris

Greetings, my lovelies. I’ve been a little quiet here lately, but am speaking up to share this epically cool series that @chaski85.bsky.social (with the amazing Mikaela Pace) is playing on next month! We are playing 3 performances of it. Austin folks, don’t miss out!!

Because bsky can always use more #Herps... especially cute little baby #Herps! 💚🐢

What a sweetie! 🪶 #BackyardBirds 📸 House Finch: Haemorhous mexicanus

Because bsky can always use more #herps... "Hey, you need to quit it with the flashing lights!" ~ this tree frog, probably

It's #NationalTrailDay. Take a walk on your favorite trail to celebrate!

“Boulder Mountain Aspens, Evening” — Autumn aspens, Boulder Mountain, Utah. I took me a while to figure…more: gdanmitchell.com/2026/06/06/b... #utah andscape: #photo #photography #photoOfTheDay #lensCulture #landscapePhotography #photographyLovers #naturePhotography #fineArtPhotography #nature

Because bsky can always use more #herps... See those big plate-like depressions behind the eyes? Those are external eardrums and their size is an indicator of whether the bullfrog is male or female. Males have larger eardrums than females.