I’ve tried here to meet both criteria for the #BirdOfTheDay theme today, which are #Warblers and #RareEncounters . This Pallas’s leaf Warbler was seen on Anglesey in 2024 and isa rare visitor to the UK and even rarer on Anglesey

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #LargeBirdsInFlight, birds LARGER than Ducks in flight. Today’s contribution is an Eurasian Spoonbill . We don’t get too many of these on Anglesey so was pleased to get this shot when it visited a pool near Newborough in May ‘25

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme from @robcrank68.bsky.social is #AdultsWithChicks, the Alt Theme is #Yellow - in its plumage. Today’s contribution is of a Black Woodpecker feeding chicks in a Finnish woodland

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #SteppingOut birds captured mid step. A pair of Ruppels Korhan taking their morning constitutional in the Namibian Desert

Today's #BirdOfTheDay alt theme is #Green - a bird with some green in its plumage. I’ve chosen a shot of a pair of Rosey-faced Lovebirds, a near endemic species in Namibia. This pair were part of a larger flock in a hotel garden near Windhoek

Today’s #birdoftheday theme by @alan678.bsky.social is #birdsandbugs. I initially thought this was bird sand bugs so I’ve selected Dune lark from Namibia which is a bird on sand with a bug in its bill😁

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #WaterBirds, any bird that lives in or gets their food from water. This is a Northern Jacana taken in Costa Rica. Just look at those feet😁

Today's theme for #BirdOfTheDay is #SmallBirdSaturday and in the UK you can’t get any smaller than a Goldcrest. Taken in the garden a few years ago, Anglesey, North Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

The #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #BackyardBirds , birds you see close to home. My choice today is a Bullfinch, a bird that convinced us to buy our home. When viewing properties we saw 6 on the garden feeder and at that point we made our decision. A cracking bird!

Rob’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Reflections, any bird reflection, the Alt theme is #Paridae any of the Paridae Species (Tits). Perhaps I’ve taken this too far with my Slavonian Grebe from Finland in 2024.

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #openbeak birds with beak open. Today’s contribution is a Green Heron see in Costa Rica in 2022

The theme for #BirdOfTheDay today is #Ducks , which gives me chance to post my photo of a Bufflehead near Caernarfon, North Wales was taken in December 25 and was a lifer for me. It has remained in the same until this week . A rare bird for wales and UK

A glare from a Red Kite near Lampeter, Mid- Wales is my contribution to #BirdOfTheDay #Eyecontact

The theme of #BirdOfTheDay is #poise , chosen by @alan678.bsky.social My contribution is a very smart looking Lesser Violetear posing briefly for me on a branch in Costa Rica

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Swans, any Swan will do, but I’ve gone for the Alt theme which is #Pigeons&Doves. These are a pair of Emerald-spotted Doves seem in Namibia in August ‘25

For today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme, #walking, birds walking I have an Egyptian Vulture, seen in Central Spain in ‘23

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #TailsUp, is a Cetti’s Warblers seen on RSPB Cors Ddyga last year. A very secretive little bird a loud distinctive call but rarely seen

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Singing, birds Singing or Calling. The Eurasian Wren, a common small bird in Wales , but what a voice.

#TwoOfAKind theme of #BirdOfTheDay picked by @robcrank68.bsky.social - a pair of Pale -winged Starlings, taken in Spitskoppe, Namibia in 2025

The #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #perfectperch . My contribution is a Hawk Owl in Finland in 2024, what a stare!!!

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Short Beaks and you can’t get them any shorter than a Long -tailed Tit. A cracking little bird 😄

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Raptors Here are a couple of Vereaux’s Eagles in Spitzkoppe , Namibia. Never expected to see one let alone two together. A truly memorable experience

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #LongBeaks, any bird with a Long Beak. I think this Great White Pelican fits the bill (get it?)

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Solitude and is open to interpretation. Which is just as well, as my contribution is a Northern Fulmar whose solitude was interrupted very briefly while I took this shot 😄

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BirdsInFlight, my contribution is a White-tailed Eagle taken in 2024 on the coast of Norway near Vadso

#BirdOfTheDay theme today is #natural any bird in its natural habitat. A Rockrunner on a rock in Erongo Namibia would seem to fit the bill .

The #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #Feathers&Form: "celebrating texture, pattern, and structure of feathers". Today’s contribution is. Northern Black Korean taken in August in Namibia. I just hope the feather patterns come out as I think they are some of the best I’ve seen

#BirdOfTheDay theme of #ShortBeaks, any bird with a short beak, well shortish in this case. Adult male Ortolan Bunting, Finland, 2024

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BlackAndWhite, any bird that is mainly B&W, and the Alt theme is #Finches Razorbills in Norway ( with a splash of yellow).

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Speckled, so my contribution is this Wryneck taken (after a long search) in a small woodland in a residential area of a small town in Finland

For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme #CaughtInMotion I’ve submitted Chat Flycatchers on a wire taken in Namibia

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #GoodLight. So here is my contribution - a Griffon Vulture having a stretch in Spain

The alternative #BirdOfTheDay is #sparrows so here is another Namibian photo this time a Cape Sparrow taken in Sousuvlei.

#BirdOfTheDay #B&W is a White-backed Shrike, one of Namibia’s near endemics

The really late #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #branchingout birds on branches A photo of Swallow-tailed Bee-eaters, Erongo, Namibia last August seems to fit the bill

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay #Outstretched is a Purple Roller in Namibia this August

Let’s Dance down the road to hell while Driving home for Christmas RIP Chris Rea

Yesterday’s Bufflehead at Dinas Dinlle near Caernarfon. Wonderful bird and very pleased to see it ,another lifer for me😁 #BirdingWales @dylanworldbirding.bsky.social

Today’s theme of #BirdOfTheDay being #birdonawire reminded me of this Black-winged Kite seen in Namibia in August 25. A total of 8 Black-winged Kites seen on a fantastic trip. Very smart looking birds😁

My first Welsh Shorelark seen on the Great Orme, Llandudno this afternoon at 2 o’clock before disappearing for 2hours. Thanks to Pete Alderson for finding it and then relocating it. #birdingwales

Dark green Fritillaries, yesterday on Great Orme

Great Orme yesterday morning , silver studded blue, Grayling, Hummingbird Hawkmoth, Brown Argus and Dark green Fritillaries along with a few others. 10 species of butterflies in a small area wow😀

Took a trip to Daresbury, Cheshire today and the Woodchat Shrike did not disappoint

The first northern marsh orchid of the year in the garden. I put it in to Obsidentify app to check the identification and it was 99%+ve for D. majalis although the spike does not fit the Anglesey variant. Comments most welcome @ukorchids.bsky.social

Another cracking episode on Welsh rivers this week on Afon Dyfi @iolowilliams.bsky.social More fantastic scenery and wildlife . Beaver on the Dyfi wow.

Great 1st episode on Afon Rheidol @iolowilliams.bsky.social Fantastic scenery and wildlife photography Brings back great memories

Put the moth trap out last night for the first time in a couple of years and caught an Emperor moth- a lifer 😁