This duck photo'd in June 2025 experiences #solitude, having a flooded Rock Creek in #WashingtonDC pretty much to itself, for today's #BirdOfTheDay. #Photography #NaturePhotography #Birds #EastCoastKin #Nikon #DSLR #LightroomClassic #ContentCredentials #PhotographersOfBluesky #PhotographersUnited

Photo-shoot yesterday: Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) at the National Press Club called for the Democratic Party to take a populist stance on issues rather than cater to donors. Shown here: post-program gaggle. More photos: technewslitphoto.smugmug.com/National-Pre... #NewsPhotography #WashingtonDC

Here's a glossy ibis photo'd Apr 2025 at Wakodahatchee Wetlands park in south #Florida for #BirdsInFlight, today's #BirdOfTheDay. #Photography #NaturePhotography #Birds #EastCoastKin #Nikon #DSLR #LightroomClassic #ContentCredentials #PhotographersOfBluesky #PhotographersUnited

Three white ibises, two male and one female (look closely), in their #natural dense tree environment, for #BirdOfTheDay. Photo'd Sept 2025, Ocean City, NJ. #Photography #NaturePhotography #Birds #EastCoastKin #Nikon #DSLR #LightroomClassic #ContentCredentials #JerseyShore #PhotographersOfBluesky

Well said Tim.

Here's probably the best description of the relationship between #Buffalo, the Buffalo Bills, and Josh Allen I've seen, in the New York Times ... www.nytimes.com/athletic/694... #BuffaloBills #BillsMafia #JoshAllen #GoBills

Ennui is one of the #MoodyFaces seen on an American oystercatcher in Cape May, NJ, this guy photo'd June 2022 for today's #BirdOfTheDay. #Photography #NaturePhotography #Birds #EastCoastKin #CapeMay #JerseyShore #Nikon #DSLR #LightroomClassic #PhotographersOfBluesky #PhotographersUnited

"Hope is the thing with feathers" said Emily Dickinson. This great blue heron has a few, for #Feathers&Form in today's #BirdOfTheDay. Photo'd Apr 2025 at Wakodahatchee Wetlands in south #Florida. #Photography #NaturePhotography #Birds #EastCoastKin #Nikon #DSLR #LightroomClassic #ContentCredentials

If you're looking for #ShortBeaks then size matters. Here's an eastern bluebird photo'd in Jan. 2025 at Huntley Meadows Park in Groveton, #Virginia for #BirdOfTheDay. #Photography #NaturePhotography #Birds #EastCoastKin #Nikon #DSLR #LightroomClassic #PhotographersOfBluesky #PhotographersUnited

Photo-shoot last night: Jan. 6, Five Years Later. Organized and produced by the Jim Acosta Show. Featured police officers beaten on Capitol Hill (shown here), former Rep. Adam Kinzinger, and other commentators. More photos: technewslitphoto.smugmug.com/DC-and-regio... #Photography #NewsPhotography

This American oystercatcher wrestles with its #FoodFinds for the #BirdOfTheDay, while a grackle asks "You going to share that?" Photo'd June 2022 in Cape May, NJ. #Photography #NaturePhotography #Birds #EastCoastKin #Nikon #DSLR #LightroomClassic #CapeMay #JerseyShore #PhotographersOfBluesky

This #BlackAndWhite guy is a tufted duck I'm told, for today's #BirdOfTheDay, photo'd May 2025 at St. Stephen's Green in #Dublin, #Ireland. #Photography #NaturePhotography #Birds #EastCoastKin #Nikon #DSLR #LightroomClassic #ContentCredentials #PhotographersOfBluesky #PhotographersUnited

These lesser yellowlegs, photo'd Nov 2024 in Cape May NJ, have plenty of #Speckles&Spots to qualify for today's #BirdOfTheDay. #Photography #NaturePhotography #Birds #EastCoastKin #Nikon #DSLR #LightroomClassic #CapeMay #JerseyShore #PhotographersOfBluesky #PhotographersUnited

I will stretch today's #BirdOfTheDay theme a bit with a #snowy egret photo'd Sept 2025 in Ocean City, NJ. #Photography #NaturePhotography #Birds #EastCoastKin #Nikon #DSLR #LightroomClassic #ContentCredentials #JerseyShore #PhotographersOfBluesky #PhotographersUnited

I'm overdue to thank Alan H and Rob Crank for their #BirdOfTheDay leadership. For today's #CaughtInMotion entry, here's an osprey over Cape May, NJ with its next meal, photo'd Jun 2024. #Photography #NaturePhotography #Birds #EastCoastKin #Nikon #DSLR #LightroomClassic #CapeMay #JerseyShore

This #Alexandria, #Virginia fireboat on the #Potomac offers a robust greeting to the #NewYear for the #BlueSkyArtShow. Photo'd 24 Dec. 2025. #Photography #NewsPhotography #EastCoastKin #Nikon #DSLR #LightroomClassic #ContentCredentials #PhotographersOfBluesky #PhotographersUnited

A request to all birders wherever you are in the world. Please join in with the #BirdsSeenIn2026 challenge run by @tonyrinaud.bsky.social All you need to do is add the hashtag to photos taken in 2026, adding species name and country taken. Here Common Teal at Sandbach Flashes in Cheshire yesterday.

For today's #BirdOfTheDay, here's a northern mockingbird in #GoodLight, photo'd in Apr 2025 at Theodore Roosevelt Island in #WashingtonDC. #Photography #NaturePhotography #Birds #EastCoastKin #Nikon #DSLR #LightroomClassic #ContentCredentials #PhotographersOfBluesky #PhotographersUnited

Here's a #nook of sorts, a stairway window at Kylemore Abbey in County Galway #Ireland, a former castle turned Benedictine monastery. Photo'd May 2025. #Photography #Nikon #DSLR #LightroomClassic #PalacesAndGardens #EastCoastKin #AlphabetChallenge #ThemesWeek #WeekNforNook

Probably my most-viewed photo ever is of Highmark Stadium shot in Sept. 2014. As the Buffalo Bills get ready to play maybe their last game ever in that stadium, I tell how that photo came about in today's TechNewsLit Explores. write.as/technewslit/... #NFL #BuffaloBills #BillsMafia #Photography

In the New Year's Eve literary bowl at halftime, it's the Writers Workshop 14, Fugitive Poets 3. #IowaHawkeyes #GoHawks #CollegeFootball

As we reflect on the past year, here's a #Reflections shot of a swan in Cape May, NJ from Sept 2025 for the #BirdOfTheDay. #Photography #NaturePhotography #Birds #EastCoastKin #CapeMay #JerseyShore #Nikon #DSLR #LightroomClassic #ContentCredentials #PhotographersOfBluesky #PhotographersUnited

This nest-building grey heron is #branchingout for today's #BirdOfTheDay theme, photo'd in Mar 2025 at Meadowlark Gardens Park in Vienna, #Virginia. #Photography #NaturePhotography #Birds #EastCoastKin #Nikon #DSLR #LightroomClassic #ContentCredentials #PhotographersOfBluesky #PhotographersUnited

As these wood storks fly off in the distance, they're today's #BirdButts photo for #BirdOfTheDay. Photo'd in Apr 2025 over Wakodahatchee Wetlands Park in south #Florida. #Photography #NaturePhotography #Birds #EastCoastKin #Nikon #DSLR #LightroomClassic #ContentCredentials #PhotographersOfBluesky

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Serenity. Here's an eastern bluebird photo'd in Jan 2025 at Huntley Meadows Park in #Virginia that seems at ease with the world. #Photography #NaturePhotography #Birds #EastCoastKin #Nikon #DSLR #LightroomClassic #PhotographersOfBluesky #PhotographersUnited

This pileated woodpecker is flashing #red for today's alternative #BirdOfTheDay criterion. Photo'd May 2024 in our #Arlington, #Virginia backyard. #Photography #NaturePhotography #Birds #EastCoastKin #Nikon #DSLR #LightroomClassic #PhotographersOfBluesky #PhotographersUnited

For today's #BirdOfTheDay, here's my #MostRecent bird photo, taken on Wed: a seagull over the #PotomacRiver in #Alexandria, #Virginia. Here's why I was there: technewslitphoto.smugmug.com/DC-and-regio... #Photography #NaturePhotography #Birds #EastCoastKin #Nikon #DSLR #AdobeExpressPhotos

Boathouses with condos and office buildings in a #Dublin, #Ireland Grand Canal #cityscape. Photo'd May 2025. #Photography #UrbanGaze #UrbanArchitecture #EastCoastKin #Nikon #DSLR #LightroomClassic #ContentCredentials #Scape #PhotographersOfBluesky #PhotographersUnited

For today's #BirdOfTheDay here's an American #HolidayRobin photo'd last month in our #Arlington, #Virginia backyard. Best holiday wishes to all. #Photography #NaturePhotography #Birds #EastCoastKin #Nikon #DSLR #LightroomClassic #ContentCredentials #PhotographersOfBluesky #PhotographersUnited

I somehow missed the #Alexandria, #Virginia waterfront holiday show with Santa Claus on waterskis for the past 39 years. Not ths year. Plus the fireboat hose demonstrations were pretty cool. More photos: technewslitphoto.smugmug.com/DC-and-regio... #Photography #Waterskiing #Fireboats

Today's #BirdOfTheDay asks for a sharp #contrast image. Here's a great egret chick in a tree nest, surrounded by dark green leaves. Photo'd Apr 2025, Wakodahatchee Wetlands in south #Florida. #Photography #NaturePhotography #EastCoastKin #Birds #Nikon #DSLR #LightroomClassic #ContentCredentials

The #BirdOfTheDay request today is #SideProfiles, so here's a ruby-throated #hummingbird photo'd in our #Arlington, #Virginia backyard in Sept. #Photography #NaturePhotography #Birds #EastCoastKin #Nikon #DSLR #LightroomClassic #ContentCredentials #PhotographersOfBluesky #PhotographersUnited

If these moss-covered rocks qualify, then this American oystercatcher is #grounded for today's #BirdOfTheDay. Photo'd June 2024 in Cape May, NJ. #Photography #NaturePhotography #Birds #EastCoastKin #Nikon #DSLR #LightroomClassic #ContentCredentials #CapeMay #JerseyShore #PhotographersOfBluesky

It was nesting time at Wakodahatchee Wetlands Park in south #Florida in April 2025, so it was all #AboutTheKids. Here's a great egret and chick for today's #BirdOfTheDay. #Photography #NaturePhotography #Birds #EastCoastKin #Nikon #DSLR #LightroomClassic #ContentCredentials #PhotographersOfBlueSky

Here's an #OpenHouse of sorts for the #BlueskyArtShow, the Martin Luther King Memorial in #WashingtonDC at peak cherry blossoms bloom, photo'd 27 Mar 2025. #Photography #TravelPhotography #EastCoastKin #TidalBasin #CherryBlossoms #Nikon #DSLR #LightroomClassic #ContentCredentials

For the #BirdOfTheDay today here's a northern cardinal in #QuietMoments in our #Arlington, #Virginia backyard, photo'd last month. #Photography #NaturePhotography #Birds #EastCoastKin #Nikon #DSLR #LightroomClassic #ContentCredentials #PhotographersOfBluesky #PhotographersUnited

If want #LongLegsAndNeck for the #BirdOfTheDay, look no further than these two wood storks in flight over Wakodahatchee Wetlands Park in south #Florida in Apr 2025. #Photography #NaturePhotography #Birds #EastCoastKin #Nikon #DSLR #LightroomClassic #ContentCredentials #PhotographersOfBluesky

Setas de Sevilla: an overhead honeycombed wooden structure in #Seville, #Spain resembling giant mushrooms (setas) with a market, restaurants, and play areas for kids. Photo'd Nov. 2023. #Photography #StreetPhotography #UrbanGaze #EastCoastKin #Nikon #DSLR #LightroomClassic

#BirdOfTheDay today wants #Groups, shown here getting one's ducks in a row. Photo'd in April at Wakodahatchee Wetlands park in south #Florida. #Photography #NaturePhotography #EastCoastKin #Nikon #DSLR #LightroomClassic #ContentCredentials #PhotographersOfBluesky #PhotographersUnited

For #BirdOfTheDay, here's an American oystercatcher on the beach at Cape May, NJ in June 2024 searching at #NaturesPantry for something, but not sure what. #Photography #NaturePhotography #Birds #EastCoastKin #Nikon #DSLR #LightroomClassic #ContentCredentials #JerseyShore #PhotographersOfBlueSky

For #BlueskyMonday we have a photo from Feb 2020 of a tanker crossing through the Culebra cut on the Panama Canal, with the Centennial Bridge in the background. The Culebra cut goes through the continental divide in Panama. #Photography #EastCoastKin #PanamaCanal #Nikon #DSLR #LightroomClassic

Here's a snowy egret in a tree in Ocean City, NJ photo'd in Sept., to meet the #BirdOfTheDay request for #HeronsAndEgrets #Photography #NaturePhotography #Birds #EastCoastKin #Nikon #DSLR #LightroomClassic #ContentCredentials #PhotographersOfBluesky #PhotographersUnited #JerseyShore

Went back to Apr 2022 to find these gold #finches chowing down at my feeder for the #BirdOfTheDay. #Photography #NaturePhotography #Birds #EastCoastKin #Nikon #DSLR #LightroomClassic #ContentCredentials #PhotographersOfBluesky #PhotographersUnited #Virginia #Arlington

Here's a #BirdOfTheDay with a story: At St. Stephen's Green in #Dublin in May 2025, these ducks were making #splashes but not in a good way. A female defended her ducklings from two males. #Photography #NaturePhotography #Ireland #EastCoastKin #Nikon #DSLR #LightroomClassic #ContentCredentials

Photo-shoot today: Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) at Center for American Progress, speaking about America's spiritual crisis. More photos: technewslitphoto.smugmug.com/DC-and-regio... #Photography #NewsPhotography #RaphaelWarnock #WashingtonDC

The alternative #BirdOfTheDay request today is #gulls. Here's a seagull in flight off the beach at Cape May, NJ in Nov 2024. #Photography #NaturePhotography #Birds #EastCoastKin #Monochrome #BlackAndWhite #JerseyShore #Nikon #DSLR #LightroomClassic #ContentCredentials #PhotographersOfBluesky

Photo-shoot yesterday: #Axios event on permitting legislation. Interviews with Rep. Rep. Julie Fedorchak (R-ND), Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI), Sen. John Hickenlooper (D-CO), and Bechtel chairman Brendan Bechtel, shown here More photos: technewslitphoto.smugmug.com/DC-and-regio... #NewsPhotography

The likely reason this grey heron at Meadowlark Gardens Park in Vienna, #Virginia is on a tree limb is to be a #NestBuilder, for the #BirdOfTheDay. Photo'd Mar. 2025. #Photography #NaturePhotography #Birds #EastCoastKin #Nikon #DSLR #LightroomClassic #ContentCredentials #PhotographersOfBluesky

Wow. Watching a Bills game is like speeding into a car crash and then when you get out the police officer tells you "You Won". 😵‍💫 Go Bills!! 🫶 #bills #billsmafia

New photos available exclusively from the D.C. Notables gallery on the TechNewsLit collection at the Alamy photo agency: Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) and Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME). www.alamy.com/portfolio/13... #Photography #NewsPhotography #USCongress #USSenate #MarkKelly #SusanCollins #Alamy