#Gull is the alt theme for #BirdoftheDay, and a chance to share the Bonaparte's Gull from a recent dawn trip to Las Gallinas. Are you allowed to have a favourite gull? #Birds 🪶 #ECK

Open wide! #OpenBeak is the #BirdoftheDay theme and this Marsh Wren couldn't be louder or more open. #Birds 🪶 #ECK

#tricolor is the #birdoftheday, and I've never seen a Tricolor Heron, but the Great Blue isn't just blue, so I hope that counts. #birds🪶 #eck

#MinimalMonday, and a distant Gret Blue Heron on the tides edge at low tide. Mist in the distance. #Birds 🪶 #ECK #OM3 #Vintage1 @omsystem.bsky.social

#MallardMonday, playing around with ICM and long shutter speeds after the sun went down - this Mallard caught my eye. 1 second shutter speeds not meant for moving birds but panning with the mallard kept its shape - smoothed the water not the standing waves. #Birds #ECK 🪶 #OM3 @omsystem.bsky.social

#preeners&scratchers is the them chosen by @robcrank68.bsky.social for today's #birdoftheday, and I offer up a Black Oystercatcher, getting to all the important places with that long orange/red bill. #birds #eck 🪶 #om3

Another for #BNWMacro, and a Rockrose - Monochrome Profile I, #OM3 #SOOC #ECK

#StunDay, and pre-dawn at Las Gallinas. Listening to the very many Marsh Wrens and enjoying the start of the day over still water. #SOOC #OM3 @omsystem.bsky.social #OMSystem #ColorADay #OrangeSun

#Migratory is the #BirdoftheDay theme today, and I didn't even know a Cackling Goose was a thing, until Merlin told me those Canada Geese with shorter necks weren't Canada Geese - even if that was where they were headed. #Birds 🪶 #ECK

#BlueSkyArtShow #Stone, and also a Fence Lizard, and some orange sunburst lichen on possibly quartzite? #ECK

One for #BNWMacro on my morning walk today. With the 30mm Lumix G Macro lens on my #OM3 I was looking mainly at flowers, but then this Spotted Cucumber Beetle landed near the flower I was aiming at. #ECK #SOOC #OM3

#Lookingatme si the #BirdoftheDay theme today, and this dawn Snowy Egret catching the first rays giving me the eye. #Birds #ECK 🪶

One for #Grounded, the #birdoftheday theme. Subtitle "I'll fight you for it - No it is all yours" #birds #eck🪶

One for #flyday, and a Great Egret takes to the sky on a bright sunny day. #birds #eck 🪶 #OM3 #Vintage1 #SOOC

#silhouettesandshadows is the #birdoftheday alt theme, and I hope this counts. I really like when I can get a bird, its shadow and a reflection all in one shot. Light from behind here but not really a strong silhouette. A Great egret with reflection and shadow. #birds 🪶 #eck

#marriedcouples is the theme for today's #birdoftheday, and here a pair of Mute Swans taking the advantage of a lie in before the little ones arrive. #birds 🪶 #eck

#LandMeetsWater is the #BirdoftheDay theme today, with an alt of treeperchers. In and out with each wave at the water's edge, these Sanderling sum up the theme perfectly! #Birds 🪶 #ECK #OM3

#AlphabetChallenge and #WeekKforKaput, and a real wreck - Inverness, Point Reyes. #ECK

#Reflection is the #BirdoftheDay theme, and this Great Egret caught the early morning sun and gave a near perfect reflection on calm water. #Birds 🪶 #ECK

#ColoraDay #PinkMon and maybe even #MacroMonday, although shot with close focus on a 100-400mm. A Checker Bloom, just starting the flower in the hills above the North Bay area. #OM3 🌼

#Splash is the #BirdoftheDay theme, and no bigger splash than when a Brown Pelican hits the water in search of food. #Birds 🪶 #ECK

#Green is the alt theme for #BirdoftheDay, so here is the Green Heron shot I used for the abstract images yesterday. #Birds 🪶 #ECK

When the #BirdoftheDay theme is #Abstract, just how abstract are you allowed to go. Pushing the colours and textures of the Green Heron in Photoshop #Birds 🪶 #ECK

#AlphabetChallenge, and #WeekJforJuxtaposition, and this shot from the Las Gallinas Valley Bird Loop, over the San Pablo Bay Wildlife area, to the Richmond refineries to the south. A goose (Canada Goose?) stands in silhouette. Nature v Industry. #Birds 🪶 #ECK #ClassicMono

#GreyDay is the #BirdoftheDay theme and choosing a Northern Mockingbird. #Birds 🪶 #ECK

#Scape to the weekend, and a City Scape today, San Francisco panorama from Randall Museum #BWFri too. #ECK #OM3 #NikSilverEfEx

#TwigsAreUs is the main #BirdoftheDay theme, and a California Scrub-Jay catching the early sun rasy while perched on twigs. It even stayed in place for me to get a more favourable angle from the sunny side. #Birds #ECK 🪶 #PhotographersofBlueSky

#Headshot is the #BirdoftheDay theme, and here is a Double-crested Cormorant with its head abov water, for now. #Birds 🪶 #ECK

#UrbanGaze and a view over the Richmond Bridge towards Oakland, where the buildings are just catching the rising sun. Straight out of camera #OM3 with Dramatic effect @omsystem.bsky.social #ECK #SOOC

@alan678.bsky.social gave #SongBirds for the #BirdoftheDay theme, and maybe I should have saved my video from yesterday? Here is one of the stars, a Northern Mockingbird, caught on still before I switched to video while it was still singing and a Marsh Wren who I only caught on still. #Birds 🪶 #ECK

Captured some Northern Mockingbird and Song Sparrow song earlier today. #Birds 🪶. I hope I didn't clip too much bottom end from the video. Just the camera audio and some EQ to take out distant traffic noise.

I'm not sure when exactly Brown Pelicans go from Flying to Not Flying - somewhere between these two shots I think. #Birds 🪶

#ColoraDay and #RedWed, and some pre-dawn red in the sky (once I'd got my camera set up right!) looking East across the ppnds at Las Gallinas. #ECK #SOOC #OM3 and 20mm f/1.4 M.Zuiko

I could say it was a UFO, low over Las Gallinas, before making a sharp turn and rapid ascent. But I hadn't set high ISO, so the exposure of my first pre-sunrise shot was very long and I got impatient. I think the light was a cyclist coming down the trail. #UCM (Unintentional CM) #WackyWednesdayArt

#WingsOpenNotFlying is the theme for #BirdoftheDay, and a Snowy Egret, not flying, just dong an Angel impersonation. #Birds 🪶 #ECK

#ColoraDay, #CyanTue and a San Francisco skyline around City Hall, taken from the Randall Museum hills, with a cyan look. #ECK #OM3 #NikSilverEfex

A Common Raven, from the #Corvidae family for #BirdoftheDay - the sign they are sitting on is to keep your dog on a leash - enforced by the Corvids! #Birds 🪶 #ECK

I know this won't last long. But I have more followers than the interim CEO of BlueSky @toni.bsky.team

The photogenic Clark's Grebe from yesterday also gave me a #SideProfile, just before turning a little towards me, so today's #BirdoftheDay gets the same bird. #Birds #ECK 🪶

This was my other candidate for #Photogenic, for #BirdoftheDay and I think the best shot I've managed of a Clark's Grebe. Very similar to Western Grebe, and the black/white line on this one looks quite like a Western, but the bill I think (and so does Merlin...) is too orange. #Birds #ECK 🪶

A couple I could choose from yesterday's walk for the #Photogenic theme for #BirdoftheDay, but going for this poser - a Black-bellied Plover just begging to be photographed, standing on the harbor rocks. #Birds🪶 #ECK #OM3

#StandinginWater is today's #BirdoftheDay theme from @robcrank68.bsky.social with #Green as the alternate. I offer up an American Avocet, just landed and wings still outstretched. #Birds 🪶 #ECK

#BWFri #ColorADay and loved the textures in the net shadow, caustics from the water reflections, rope, and texture of the hulls - crying out for monochrome! #EastCoastKin

When people think your just taking pictures of waves and rocks, until you point out there are 30+ birds in this shot. 25 or more Least Sandpipers and 9 Black Turnstones - probably missing some. #Birds 🪶 #EastCoastKin

#Scape to the weekend, and a #CityScape, San Francisco, from UC Berkeley - SOOC, Key Line II shot on OM System OM3 #OM3 #OMSystem @omsystem.bsky.social #EastCoastKin

I know it won't be the only #SteppingOut Snowy Egret for #BirdoftheDay, they look so cool raising those yellow feet out of the water or mud. Gives good ripples too! #Birds 🪶 #EastCoastKin #PhotographersofBlueSky

Playing around with in-camera double exposures today. Same bird, zoomed in for the 2nd exposure. Great Egret. #Birds 🪶 #OM3 #OMSystem @omsystem.bsky.social

One bee stopped for long enough on a flowering currant for a photo yesterday. The 100-400mm has good close focus - and this straight out of camera. #bee #insects #naturephotography #flowers #photography #PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin

This could fit #ThreesDay or #MixedPairs (sort of), with an Eared Grebe following a pair of Horned Grebes. #Birds 🪶

#MixedPairs is the #BirdoftheDay theme, and I have a pair of Grebes, Eared on the left, Clark's on the right. Similar, but different. #Birds 🪶 #EastCoastKin