#Scape to the weekend, and this #bridgescape, #beachscape from my OM-3, hand-held, digital neutral density (ND64) and zoomed from 60-12 on the Leica Lumix lens during the half-second exposure. Baker Beach and the Golden Gate Bridge. #EastCoastKin #ICM

The Alt theme for me today in #BirdoftheDay and #BackLitBeauty and a Snowy Egret gets the rim lighting treatment. #Birds #EastCoastKin 🪶 #Nature #Wildlife

An early #BirdoftheDay for me, as it is still yesterday where I am - alt theme #BlackandWhite #Black&White and a Black-necked Stilt eating a small snack. Pink in the legs of course. #Birds 🪶 #EastCoastKin #BirdsofBlueSky #Nature #Wildlife #OMSystem #OM3

#BirdoftheDay has an alternate theme of #LongNecks, and this is also in my backyard, in the broader sense of the phrase. The shorter of the long necked herons - not often seen extended, but a Green Heron does have a long neck when needed. #Birds 🪶 #EastCoastKin #Nature #Wildlife #BirdsofBlueSky

#BirdoftheDay is #Reflections and this may even be the same Snowy Egret from yesterday's open beak shot. Different angle, with the sun behind me and dark looking waters setting off the white bird. #Birds 🪶 #EastCoastKin #Nature #Wildlife #BirdsofBlueSky

Got another #OpenBeak for #BirdoftheDay on my walk this afternoon, and it is amazing just how wide a Snowy Egrets beak will open. #Birds 🪶 #EastCoastKin

#OpenBeak is the #BirdoftheDay theme, and here is an American Crow, crowing about the great local seefood. #Birds 🪶 #EastCoastKin #Nature #Wildlife

#BirdoftheDay is #GullsInWater, and a Western Gull with a crab. #Birds #EastCoastKin #Wildlife #Nature 🪶

Just love the colour of Black-crowned Night Herons eyes. Amazing. #Birds 🪶 #EastCoastKin #OMSystem @omsystem.bsky.social #OM3 #Nature #Wildlife

The #BirdoftheDay theme is #Ducks, and here are some Northern Sholver pictures. Tricky to get the heads up at the same time! #Birds #EastCoastKin #Nature #Wildlife #BirdsofBlueSky 🪶

#Scape to the weekend, and a #skyscape. A nice bright moon made for an interresting walk. All handheld shots - OM-3 and 100-400mm. The Moon and Jupiter were close together - and managed to catch Europa, Io, Ganymede and Callista. Bay and Richmond Bridges too. Exif in Alt. #EastCoastKin

#FavouriteoftheMonth is the #BirdoftheDay, and a few contenders as I browsed through, but getting some better BIF shots with my new camera/lens combo I think it has to be this one. A Snowy Egret in flight towards the low sun. #Birds 🪶 #EastCoastKin #Nature #Wildlife #BirdsofBlueSky

#Eyecontact is the #BirdoftheDay theme, and this Black-bellied Plover get looking round to see if I was still there. #Birds 🪶 #EastCoastKin #BirdsofBlueSky #Nature #Wildlife

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Iridescent, birds with Iridescent Colours, and I took this one yesterday, thinking I'd wait for Mallard Monday, then this theme comes along. Perfect. #Birds 🪶 #EastCoastKin #Nature #Wildlife #BirdsofBlueSky

I hope the other 200 people on the "To:" line felt as special as I did when I received this!

#BrownIsBeautiful is the #BirdoftheDay theme, and for me it has to be this Pied-billed Grebe. #Birds 🪶 #EastCoastKin #BirdsofBlueSky

#BirdoftheDay is #Paddling, and plenty to choose from for me, so a two for one, and a paddler in water and a paddler in mud - Black-necked Stilt and Black-bellied Plover, passing on the shore (but not strangers). #Birds 🪶 #EastCoastKin #BirdsofBlueSky

#Poise is the #BirdoftheDay prompt, and my offering is a Snowy Egret, with some nice rim lighting from the low afternoon sun, and a graceful curving of its neck. #Birds #BirdsofBlueSky #EastCoastKin #Wildlife #Nature

Today's #BirdoftheDay them from @robcrank68.bsky.social is #Swans, and I don't have too many, but was lucky to get this one, complete with cygnets. Bottoms up! #Birds 🪶 #EastCoastKin

#Scape to the weekend and a #CityScape - Las Vegas, long exposure. #EastCoastKin

I've missed posting a few #BirdoftheDay posts while travelling, but I do have a #Walking, and a Sanderling, in full stride. #Birds 🪶 #EastCoastKin #Nature #Wildlife #BirdsofBlueSky

#WinterLight is the #BirdoftheDay theme and getting nice sunny days after a wet spell is always great. Add to the that the low afternoon sun, reflections, and a Snowy Egret. #Birds 🪶 #EastCoastKin #Wildlife #Nature #BirdsofBlueSky

"Heads down! He has a camera!" #Birds 🪶

Post a #car picture you took. #photography

I don't think my two Terns picture did either of the birds justice - so here is a solo Forster's Tern, maybe one of the pair - who knows. #Birds 🪶 #EastCoastKin #BirdsofBlueSky

#TwoOfaKind is the #BirdoftheDay theme, and one good Tern deserves another (Spike Milligan) - but more accident than design in this shot. Two Forster's Terns. 🪶 #Birds #EastCoastKin

I'm glad I didn't need leg or bill colour to ID this Black-bellied Plover. Just mud. #Birds 🪶

Today's #BirdoftheDay theme is #PerfectPerch, and although not a branch it is the perfect place to keep an eye on the water. A Brown Pelican about to touch down on the railing of a pier near the Chimney Rock trail and the cliffs near Drake's Beach in the background 🪶 #Birds #EastCoastKin

Occasionally a #Birds photo I take makes me think it might look good in black and white. Black-necked Stilts are good subjects, and when the reflections of boats in the rippled water have this kind of texture - well, it seemed to work out ok. 🪶 #EastCoastKin #ClassicMono #Nature #SilverEfEx

So much more going on than I'd first seen when taking this photo. The wing out, but also the leg extedned beyond the wing, and the eye hald closed. Always intersting to watch Great Blue Herons. #Birds 🪶 #EastCoastKin #Photography #Nature #Wildlife

A White-crowned Sparrow for #ShortBeak #BirdoftheDay posting today. catching the wonderful sun we've been having the last few days in NorCal - this on at Point Reyes, Marin County. #Birds 🪶 #EastCoastKin #Photography #Wildlife #Nature

It's #FlyDay and my #Birds post today is a Snowy Egret. I'm getting used to the new camera and how it does focusing - getting some good BIF picturs. 🪶 #EastCoastKin #Nature #Wildlife #Photography

A graceful Great Egret, checking under its wing. Lucky to get the shot against a darker background in the late afternoon. #Birds 🪶 #EastCoastKin #Photography #Wildlife #Nature

The same #Raptor, a Red-Shouldered Hawk, for a #BirdoftheDay video clip of the preening session. I'd forgotten I'd taken this so quickly edited this morning. #Birds 🪶 #EastCoastKin #Video #Wildlife #Nature

The #BirdoftheDay theme is #Raptor and here is a local Red-shouldered Hawk on its favourite tree it would seem. #Birds 🪶 #EastCoastKin #Photography #Wildlife #Nature

A late entry for #BirdoftheDay #LongBeaks, and this shot from today, and a different Great Blue Heron watches a passing Turkey Vulture. Odd to see them looking up rather than down. #Birds 🪶 #EastCoastKin #Nature #Wildlife #Photography

A few more shots of the Northern Elephant Seals (and Great Blue Heron) at Drake's Beach. Two fishermen comparing techniques, a male in the lagoon, a female on the beach and a pup and mother. #Birds 🪶 #EastCoastKin #Photography #Wildlife #Nature #Mammals

#BirdoftheDay theme is #LongBeaks and the Great Blue Heron from yesterday was a very elegant example. #Birds 🪶 #EastCoastKin #Wildlife #Nature

The Northern Elephant Seal pups were very cute. The lighting wasn't the best, sun behind them, maybe do another trip later in the day another time. #Wildlife #Nature #EastCoastKin I'm sure I'll post more...

#TwoSpecies #TwosDay and that unlikely combination of a Great Blue Heron and an Elephant Seal - or maybe not so unlikely? Drake's Beach, Point Reyes, Marin County. #Birds 🪶 #EastCoastKin #Photography #Wildlife #Nature

I've posted this before, but I think it sums up the #Solitude theme for today's #BirdoftheDay. A Common Merganser on an early morning mist covered lagoon. #Birds 🪶 #EastCoastKin #Photography #Wildlife #Nature

#BirdsinFlight is the #BirdoftheDay theme from Rob, and I managed some Belted Kingfisher shots that came out ok. #Birds #EastCoastKin #Photography #Nature @Wildlife

First trip out with my OM-3 and the manual focus 200mm Olympus Zuiko f/4.0 (400mm equiv) - an $80 lens - Seawood Photo, San Rafael. My usual models showed up, and even got some Bird in Flight tests too. Need more manual focus practice. #Birds 🪶 #EastCoastKin #Photography #Nature #Wildlife

One for #Stunday and #Birds 🪶 and a Snowy Egret against a dark water background, head feathers raised nicely. #EastCoastKin #Photography #Nature #Wildlife

#Natural is the #BirdoftheDay theme, and birds in their natural habitat. So tempted to show a picture of a spash where a grebe had just dived, but going for this hidden and exposed Great Blue Heron instead. #Birds 🪶 #EastCoastKin #Photography #Nature #Wildlife

Hey, it may just be a tiny bit of a wing on the edge of the frame, but it is in focus. And I bet there are quite a few who can even identify the bird. #Birds 🪶 #AtLeastITried #EastCoastKin #PhotographyFails

As soon as I saw the #BirdoftheDay theme was #MoodyFaces I knew I'd have to post this Black-crowned Night Heron again. Sorry for the repeat, but going to monochrome just for a change. #Birds 🪶 #ClassicMono #EastCoastKin #Photography #Nature #Wildlife

Another for #Feathers&Form for the #BirdoftheDay theme, and this Green Heron certainly meets the standard of celebrating texture, pattern, and structure of feathers. I couldn't decide between the sunny or shady side - so here are both. #Birds 🪶 #EastCoastKin #Photography #Nature #Wildlife

I took this yesterday, and thought it might be a #FlyDay post - then #Feathers&Form is the #BirdoftheDay prompt, which fits too. A Great Egret takes to the air. #Birds 🪶 #EastCoastKin #Photography #Nature #Wildlife

#BirdoftheDay theme os #ShortBeaks and this Song Sparrow qualifies I think. Managed to get some close-ups, though not really sure what it was standing in... #Birds 🪶 #EastCoastKin #Nature #Wildlife #Photography