Wings ahoy! From #Hungary 's #Raptor weekend again for #BirdOfTheDay theme #WideOpenWings A White-tailed Eagle and Hooded Crows Scientific Name: Haliaeetus albicilla Conservation status: Least Concern #Birds #birdsSeenin2026 #WillTravel4Birds

3 curiosities of a Mountain Wren for #WrensDay Scientific Name: Troglodytes solstitialis Conservation status: Least concern #BirdOfTheDay #Colombia #WillTravel4Birds #bird

For #BirdOfTheDay theme #Borb, a Common Chiffchaff doing it's best. #Bird #Austria #WillTravel4Birds #yellow

Look at me! Look at me!!.... please 😁 A Colombian chachalaca ensuring it looks its best for todays #PowerPose theme in #BirdOfTheDay (Ortalis columbiana) Conservation status: Least Concern #Colombia #WillTravel4Birds #birds #wildlifephotography #StandTall

Small but quite fierce with it's #RuffledFeathers #BirdOfTheDay theme A Rufous-crowned tody-flycatcher. #Colombia #WillTravel4Birds #birds

Neighborhood Celebrity #BirdsInTheirElement #BirdOfTheDay #Austria #Reflections #bird #WillTravel4Birds #bird #BirdsSeenin2026

Not to be left behind, a White-tailed Eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) doing a Marabou style #OneLeg to be part of todays #BirdoftheDay theme at the Hortobágyi National Park. Conservation status: Least Concern #WillTravel4Birds #birds #BirdsSeenIn2026 #sidestep #Hungary

Asking to be part of #BirdoftheDay theme #OneLeg A Marabou Stork (Leptoptilos crumenifer) does a slow walk high in the tree at Lake Naivasha, #Kenya Conservation status: Least Concern #WillTravel4Birds

For #birdoftheday #cutelittle here's a golden fellow, the Striated fieldwren . Endemic to Australia they are generally difficult to spot . Not so our happy one, as it posed for a photo-session. #birds #Australia #WillTRavel4Birds

Leoben today, as winter returned. Here are some glimpses from a leisurely walk. #Leoben #Snow #winter #colourpops #Austria

For todays #BirdOfTheDay theme #WingsOverWater a Cocoi heron in the Panthanal. #Birds #Brazil #WalkOnWater #WillTravel4Birds #heron

Flying off to bed to be up like a bright #Robin tomorrow :) ‪#BirdOfTheDay #BranchBirds #WillTravel4Birds #Austria #Bird

If Brown-cheeked Hornbills are Pharaohs, this is the Court Jester. Yellow-casqued Hornbills. As with us, commonly spotted at a distance, high on the forest canopy. We were SO VERY LUCKY to have seen them! #hornbill #bird #ghana🇬🇭 #WillTravel4Birds #BirdsSeenIn2026 #BranchBird #BirdOfTheDay

A pair of Brown-cheeked Hornbills. Are they not beautiful? I keep comparing them with ancient Egyptian murals of the Pharaohs 😊 This was the only time across our entire trip that we saw them. Conservation status: Vulnerable #hornbill #birds #ghana #WillTravel4Birds #BirdsSeenIn2025

A pretty picture, New Zealand's Tui for #BirdoftheDay theme #Portrait. The yellow on top of it's beak is pollen. All other colours its own. Scientific Name: Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae Conservation Status: Least Concern #Tui #NewZealand #birds #WillTravel4Birds

Two disturbing reads. Book 6 & 7 of 30 for 2026 #ReadingChallenge2026 #nonfiction

Thinking of a morning at Reynisfjara, Black Sand Beach. Now that it's been eroded away #reynisfjara #blacksandbeach #Iceland #landscapes #ChangingPlanet

A different mood from the Eagles and frenzied Cormorants, a sweet pair of Collared Doves for the #BirdOfTheDay alternate theme #Pigeons&Doves #birds #nature #Italy #gentle #calm #Doves #WillTravel4Birds

And then they fought! Fought on land and in the air. Fought over the smallest pieces of fish. Scientific Name: Haliaeetus albicilla Conservation status: Least Concern #WhiteTailedEagle #Hungary #Raptors #birdphotography #WillTravel4Birds #Eagles #Friday #Fighting

Please see the first photograph large. It's a particular favourite I've wanted to share for long. A few moments later came the other 2 images. For #BirdOfTheDay theme #DivingForFood. #Cormorants #Austria #WillTravel4Birds #RiverLanding #Birds #Nature #Friday is for #Fishing

Full frontal and mighty. This one is ringed. The cool bracelet it wears on it's right leg says it is from Budapest. #WhiteTailedEagle #Hungary #Eagle #Raptors #birds #WillTravel4Birds #BirdsSeenin2026

For #BirdOfTheDay theme #WaterBirds, a Pied Cormorant making quite a splash! Also quite a #Blue 'eyed boy it is too 🙂 #NewZealand #Cormorant #Zealandia

We'd gotten to the hide in dark. The mighty White-tailed Eagle landed at first light, focused on the fish, laid out for it. Talk of on-time guests!! Though actually we were the visitors and they, the locals! #Hungary #Eagle #birds #WillTravel4Birds #BirdsSeenIn2026

Till the camera photos get downloaded, some quick snapshots of the Hungarian Puszta, the Great Alföld. #hungary #photography #moodylandscape #winter #landscapephotography

5.30am. in position. Good morning people & birds! #willtravel4birds #hidephotography

In Hungary hoping to photograph raptors. Please wish us luck! #birdphotography #birdingweekend #willtravel4birds

The Transfer. Was it a parent or was it a loving partner? I can't tell but it was a sweet moment to see and now to share with you. #WhiteThroatedBeeEater #Ghana #AnkasaForestReserve #beeEater #birdphotography #WillTravel4Birds #sharing #GiveAndTake #ebird #birdlife #BirdsSeenIn2026

The little Eurasian Chaffinch. #Austria #BirdOfTheDay #BackyardBirds #Birds

Orange for today with these Black-headed Paradise-Flycatchers. While seen numerous times this was the only time I got some photographs. Could these might be hybrids with African paradise flycatchers because of no white bars on their wings? #Birds #WillTravel4Birds #Ghana #BirdsSeenIn2026

'What's this theme of #LongNecks I hear?' Asked this Common Ostrich, as it proceeded to put the very same to good use. From a very rainy weekend in #SouthAfrica some years ago. #BirdOfTheDay #Birds #WillTravel4Birds #Wildlifephotography

For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme #Reflections A Common Kingfisher deep in thought on the larger scheme of things. #birdphotography #Kingfisher #Austria

In Ankasa Forest Reserve, Ghana we found ourselves all alone in the protected forest. No other vehicles. No sounds of conversation. We sat in silence by a small pond, enjoying the presence of some busy Shining-blue Kingfishers. #Bird #Kingfisher #Ghana #BirdsSeenIn2026

Still life in oil sold at a Cambridge Drawing Society exhibition in 2020. This one shows quite a bit of impasto built up during the process of composition. #stilllife #roses #studio

It's been a good month on the reading front! The Bird Way ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Work like a Woman ⭐️⭐️⭐️ When we were Orphans ⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Return ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Raising Hare ⭐️⭐️ (more details in alt text) Why do I not 'get' award winning books, rather how do critics judge and award books? It's a mystery! #ReadingChallenge2026

Exhibition exploring in Vienna #Albertina #Vienna #paper #ShortTripAway

A cold day in Vienna #winter #vienna #austria

The sleekly elegant Anhinga, adding a slender neck and face to it's long beak. For #BirdOfTheDay theme #LongBeaks #bird #Brazil #WillTravel4Birds #photography

A Sword-billed Hummingbird showing it's got what it takes to participate in todays #BirdOfTheDay theme #LongBeaks #Colombia #Hummingbirds #birds #WillTravel4Birds

A Little Egret wanting to be featured in #BirdOfTheDay theme #Solitude. Scientific name: Egretta garzetta Conservation status: Least Concern #birds #India #WillTravel4Birds #StandingTall #Waiting

What they lack in colour they make up in overall cuteness and ease of spotting. These Western Plantain-eater are cousins of yesterday's Yellow-billed Turaco. I loved seeing them across our travel in #Ghana. #WillTravel4Birds #BirdPhotography #nature #bluesky #Birdlife

Ladies and Gentlemen, please say hello to Ghana and meet it's charismatic inhabitant, the Yellow-billed Turaco. It's brilliant red and bright green come from special pigments unique to Turacos. #birdoftheday #birdsinflight #Ghana #WillTravel4Birds #BirdPhotography #nature #bright #Monday #bluesky

And finally, here come the baby #LongLegsAndNeck at the #BirdOfTheDay parade. Anyone knows what a group of baby Ostrich called? Common ostriches in Amboseli National Park, #Kenya Hope you enjoyed today's family album! 😀 #birds #WillTravel4Birds #wildlifephotography #nature

Papa #LongLegsAndNeck at the #BirdOfTheDay parade Somali ostrich in Samburu National Park, #Kenya #birds #WillTravel4Birds #wildlifephotography #nature

The #LongLegsAndNeck ladies brigade at the #BirdOfTheDay parade Common ostriches (btw there seems to be a debate over the spelling of the plural) in Masai Mara, #Kenya #birds #WillTravel4Birds #wildlifephotography #monochrome #nature

There are some #QuietObservers on the roof tops. Abdim's Storks in #Oman. Scientific Name: Ciconia abdimii Conservation Status: Least Concern #BirdOfTheDay #birdphotography #WillTravel4Birds

I think of this as a deeply meaningful calligraphic symbol of the 6 elements. Earth of which the heron is made of. Air through which it flies. Water a source of it's food. Fire the sunlight turning it orange. Spirit the essential life force in us all. Yes, I spent too much time on my own today!😄

For today's #BirdoftheDay theme #OpenWings from last year's Autumn migration. Thousands of Common Cranes reach the Hungarian 'Puszta', to rest and feed then fly further south. Full story: www.anuradhasarup.com/photography/... #Birds #Hungary #Migration #WillTravel4Birds #HortobágyiNemzetiPark

Missing the colours of a tree in Autumn. 'Decked for a show, Lerchenfeld.' 30x40 cm. Oil pastels on paper #treescape #trees #park #TreeOfTheDay #TotD #Austria #painting #ArtAdventCalendar

Under the watchful eyes of a Superb Starling at Lake Nirvasha for #BirdOfTheDay theme #QuietObservers Tagging @alan678.bsky.social #EastCoastKin #photography #Birds #Wildlife #Kenya #WillTravel4Birds

Right in time for today's #BirdOfTheDay theme #Groups, our local flock of Cormorants flew in today for a feed. It's a gorgeous sight of 30 odd birds, flying in low, between buildings, right in the heart of the town. #Birds #BirdsSeenin2025 #WillTravel4Birds #Austria #Birdlife