Morning light and the Great Egret... #photography #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #thelittlethings

In the woods near Nashville this morning:

Miniature Monch Tank! 🥹🥹 Definitely the tiniest baby gopher tortoise I've ever seen. Resisted the urge to scoop him up.

Do I count? 👋😅 seen this morning in a potted plant.

From today’s hike. And with that, good night. ~•~ Fruited Balloonpod Milkvetch (Astragalus whitneyi) with lupine, daggerpod, mariposa lily and paintbrush on a high elevation ridgeline. 🌿

Steller’s Jay is the best Jay. Prove me wrong. #birds #birdphotography

Redhead ducks dive under the water to feed, and like other diving birds, they need a run before they get airborne. This female Redhead had just landed in the marsh and, you guessed it, the horned grebe enforcer had issues! She is running at top speed here as she gets ready to lift off! #Birds 🪶

‪Alan H‬ @alan678.bsky.social 's #BirdOfTheDay ALT theme is #LivingLandscapes Fledgling Noisy Miners (Manorina melanocephala) in a flowering Jacaranda* * see alt for more #ECK #birds #birdphotography #birdsofbluesky #Photography #Nikon #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBlueSky #BlueSkyArtShow

Love in a mist. #Photo taken this morning for #MacroMonday 🩵 #EastCoastKin #ECK 1-william-hulbert.pixels.com/featured/lov...

My first ever successful photo of a hawk moth, taken today among the verbena. You have to be quick… #nature #insect #bug

I happened to live in Lexington, KY when Joel Pett drew this for the Lexington Herald-Leader. It has stuck with me all these years because it's so dead-on the type of idiocy climate change deniers engage in.

Thanks that was fun! :) @poorlycatdraw.bsky.social

It's apparently Pollinator Week so here is a sparkly bicolored striped sweat bee doing good work These colorful bees live in communal dirt burrows in our small Chicago yard and make good use of the many native and non-native flowers growing around our neighborhood #BringBackThePollinators

Emerald peacock 🦚 #butterfly This was the highlight of the butterfly exhibit 😍🦋💛

Spot the heron!

A Sandhill Crane in the midst of some preening. The foot is giving strong dinosaur vibes.

The #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Geese so need to share my adorable goofball Nene friends. Halemau'u trail, Haleakala National Park. #birds 🦉🌿📷

Single Male Starling ISO Mate A common starling fans his wings and calls out in what appears to be the typical mating display of the species. laurel-gale.pixels.com/featured/sin... #birds #nature #wildlife 🐡📷

And then there were two! I waited about an hour and a half mostly staring at the reeds, and finally a Sora popped out. And then another one popped out! And then they went for a swim! The female is in front on the left and the male is behind. More in alt text. #Birds 🪶

one of these days I will catch a Cedar Waxwing having an unphotogenic day but not today, alas

Steller’s Jay! Ours have white racing stripes.

A striped honeyeater and a spiny-cheeked honeyeater sharing a branch. Stripy seems to have something to say and spiny is listening 😆 From one of my trips to Gluepot Reserve.

One of the most common birds in our marshes is the red-winged blackbird. But there is another blackbird around and it’s raspy “yeah, yeah, yeah” call is also iconic! This Yellow-headed Blackbird decided to fly closer, so I could really hear his call, and showed ALL the feathers! #Birds 🪶

I saw this bird sitting directly above me on the path and it took me a while to figure out who it was. It’s a Blue-gray Gnatcatcher! Very small and very cute #birds 🌿

🪶 Alan has chosen #NegativeSpace as the #BirdOfTheDay theme. Alt. is #Solitude I have a few: - Swallow on a branch - Whitethroat singing from Whitethorn - Blackbird singing from a tree stump #birds #birdsofbluesky #birdphotography #ECK #irishbirding #naturephotography #flyday #forestfriday

Western Meadowlark bring the yellow #birds 🌿

Carunculated Caracara spotting the landing. These birds are only found in the high Andes Mountains of Ecuador and southern Colombia. They will feed on almost anything including worms, maggots, rodents, birds, and lizards. Caracaras are in the same family as falcons. 🪶 Antisana National Park, Ecuador

This image just feels like spring - Swainson's thrush. #birds

One of the amazing things about birds is how they seem to fly and manoeuvre in flight so effortlessly. But it’s hard work, and this little chipping sparrow shows us the fundamental key to flight … you may need to zoom in to see it, but it’s ALL in the way they hold their tongue! #Birds 🪶

Meet the long-eared hedgehog! Inhabiting parts of Central Asia, this omnivore feeds on fruit, insects, & small vertebrates. It has been observed rubbing its spines against toads, suggesting it might be using their toxins for its own self-defense. Photo: vladimirblinov ,CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist

🇧🇷Corruíra-do-campo 🌎Cistothorus platensis Conservação: Pouco Preocupante A corruíra-do-campo é uma ave da ordem Passeriformes da família Troglodytidae. 📷 Carlos Goulart

Northern Yellow Warbler. I think this young male was born last year based on the white eye ring. #birds #nature #wildlife #PhotographersUnited

Damn I love this plant. #nativeplants #nativegarden #gardening #Wisconsin

That time one of our cactus children bloomed

I saw my first daylight barn owl yesterday. What a stunning bird! 🪶

Here's a splash of spring colours in our backyard - a Baltimore Oriole and an Indigo Bunting. #birds #birding #Ancaster #HamOnt #Bobsbackyard

Bluebells in the Netherlands

An Eastern Chipmunk peaks out from a tree to see if it's safe to head for the forest floor.

The rare double blep

A Tufted Titmouse in a flowering Crabapple. 🌸

A young Sandhill Crane (note yellow eye, adults have orange) splash landed close to a Sandhill Crane family. This put the Sandhill Crane family on alert; mama crane kept the young one safe under her wing while dad flew over and chased the young crane away shortly after the family photo was taken.

A male Yellow-rumped Warbler bopping around a Maple tree, looking for tasty insects to eat.

Got up early in hopes of catching this photo before work this morning. There's only a few days each year where it's cool enough in the morning to make this shot possible. Thankfully, today was one of those days! #wildlife #birds

Big news! Gertie Junco got her passport photo taken. She pretended her fluffs were a mustache and they let her keep them. #BirdOfTheDay #PassportPhoto #EastCoastKin #ECK #birds #PhotographersUnited #photography

Sorry to be overly sincere for a second, but here's why we decided to persevere through all of the bullshit and take over InfoWars. There's just gotta be a line somewhere. Thank you @pablo.show for letting me talk so openly about this.

I love when humans respect animals

he was nothing but a humbug, trying to be a bugbear.

Morag would like to report a duckling nibble attack #spudlet #ducklings