If you look closely, this Black Skimmer has two tiny fish in its bill. (Though, not sure if they will still be visible after Bluesky compression.) #FoodInBeaks #BirdOfTheDay 🪶

One of the juvenile long-eared owls in the park (Photo: Sicco Rood).

American Bitterns are, at best #HiddenInPlainSight but (at least for me) are usually completely hidden. #BirdOfTheDay 🪶

Semi-palmated Plover with #reflections 🪶 #BirdOfTheDay

One week later, a grebe parent successfully hands off a small fish to grebe baby. #BusyBirds 🪶 #ECK

An Eastern Phoebe looks around to spot his next flying snack. #NegativeSpace #BirdOfTheDay 🪶

While I eagerly await the start of this year’s grebe water taxi service, here’s a shot from a previous year. #BirdOfTheDay 🪶 #podicipedidae

With beautiful colors of spruce green and raspberry red, the Lewis's is one of North America's most distinctive woodpeckers, and a very infrequent sighting for me. #WoodpeckerWednesday #Texture #BirdOfTheDay #Birds #ECK

Clearly these two are up to no good. #Twosday #Birds #ECK #BOTD

Duckling posts will continue until morale improves. #BirdOfTheDay 🪶 #Anatidae

Clearly these two are up to no good. #Twosday #Birds #ECK #BOTD

It’s still #FemaleBirdDay throughout Memorial Day weekend. Here’s a Black-throated Gray Warbler. Only the males have a black throat, the females have a white throat instead. #BirdOfTheDay #T 🪶

Female Allen’s Hummingbird in celebration of #FemaleBirdDay 🪶

Incoming… Red-tailed Hawk (thankfully he did swerve and miss me) #StaringRightAtYou 🪶#BirdOfTheDay #ECK

Yesterday I filmed several baby birds walking across a street directly at my camera and asked Bluesky to suggest music Several dozen folks did Some even dubbed music over the original clip. I haven't been able to get this out of my head. So I give you A Bluesky exclusive: Reservoir Ducks 🐣 🪶

Happy #Flyday. Lesser Nighthawk on the wing at dusk. 🪶 #ECK #birdsinflight #BOTD

A Scarlet Tanager lit by bright sunlight in a tree off my deck a few days ago. #BirdOfTheDay #Red #bird #birds #birding #birdphotography #nature #naturephotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #catskills

I'm going with this male redstart from last week in Scotland for Alan's alternate #red theme for #BirdOfTheDay. But is it red or is it orange? Or is it orangey red? And is its tail more red than it's breast? Probably yes. Anyway, redstart means red tail - good enough for me! #UKwildlife #birds

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Grassland — any bird pictured with grass. Greater Prairie-Chicken, an obligate grassland species, Kansas 2007 #Birds #NaturePhotography #Nature #Wildlife #NatureCommunity #Photography #BirdPhotography #BirdWatching #Grouse #FlyoverCountry

From this spring, a wee gosling. 🪶 #grassland #BirdOfTheDay

Mr. Black-chinned Hummingbird has #WingsWideOpen as he goes for the nectar. 🪶 #BirdOfTheDay

I usually hear them before I see them... Scrub Jay fits both #ScrollBack and #unloved theme / alt theme for #BirdOfTheDay 🪶

White-breasted Nuthatch climbing down from a #feeder with a seedy snack. #birds #BirdOfTheDay

A Spotted Towhee with #ruffled feathers for Alan’s #BirdOfTheDay theme. 🪶

Black Skimmer creating #WaterDroplets as he fishes. #birds #BirdOfTheDay

Happy #Flyday!! #FeathersInFoliage is the #BirdOfTheDay for today, and this Black-headed Grosbeak fits the theme. 🪶

For today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme of #WadersOuttaWater here is a Yellow-crowned Night Heron. 🪶 #ECK

A young female Northern Harrier for Alan’s #FeatheredFemmes #BirdOfTheDay theme. 🪶 This young gal was perched on a short snag right next to the trail when I turned the corner; I managed to get past her & get a few shots without her taking off.

For today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme, a trio of Black Oystercatchers #LinedUp on a rock. #birds

Timeline can never have too much nature. California poppies #BloomScrolling is better than doomscrolling! 🌿

This Yellow-crowned Night Heron is #LockedOn in a hunt for crayfish. 🪶 #BirdOfTheDay #ECK

Definitely have been spotted by this Merlin, one of North America’s smaller #Raptors #BirdOfTheDay theme. 🪶

For today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme, I’ve gone with #EFGH - birds with any of these letters at the beginning of their names. 🪶 #ECK

A Red-breasted Sapsucker is my pick for #photogenic #BirdOfTheDay. This individual posed so nicely! 🪶 #ECK

#Yellow eyes for the alt #BirdOfTheDay theme today. 🪶

Late to the party... a regal Common Raven fits the #Black theme for today's #BirdOfTheDay He/she kindly posed for me while I snapped a few frames. #Birds #ECK

Black Skimmer #LowFlying for the next meal. #BirdOfTheDay 🪶 #ECK

Mr. Pin-tailed Whydah seems like a #MetGalaBird with those long tail plumes & coral red bill. 🪶

"Mom, I'm still hungry! Can I pleeeease have another bug?" For #BirdOfTheDay theme of #pairs by @robcrank68.bsky.social, a juvenile Vermilion Flycatcher who just got fed by mom, but wants more.

Green Heron patiently stalking. #RockSolid #BirdOfTheDay #birds #ECK

The prettiest #BirdOnAWire I ever did see. #BirdOfTheDay #birds Happy May Day everyone!

I gotta worm! I gotta worm! I gotta worm! for #BestOfTheMonth theme of today’s #BirdOfTheDay #birds

Ms. Red-winged Blackbird is a #BeautyInBrown 🪶#BirdOfTheDay

Any time I successfully grab a takeoff shot in focus, it qualifies as #WellTimed for me! Here, a Mountain Bluebird launches from his perch in a field of reeds #BirdOfTheDay🪶

Combination #MondayFace and #PassportPhoto for #BirdOfTheDay. a sullen Cedar Waxwing. 🪶

Did someone say #LongNecks is the theme for today’s #BirdOfTheDay ? 🪶

For today’s #CamoOrContrast #BirdOfTheDay theme, I’m going with camo, even though it may not look that way. Unless you get down to eye level & wait for one to approach, Olive-backed Pipits are almost invisible. #birds

Mr. Wilson’s Warbler belting out the song of his kind. #TheSongFactor theme of today’s #BirdOfTheDay #birds #ECK

Vermilion Flycatcher for @alan678.bsky.social #BirdOfTheDay theme of #Insectivores 🪶🪰

Allen’s Hummingbird with a combo of coppery and #Green feathers for today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme. #birds