Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Reflections, any bird reflection. This Snowy Egret had a bit of a narcissus thing going on. 🪶 @robcrank68.bsky.social

For @alan678.bsky.social #BirdoftheDay theme, #BrownIsBeautiful: oh yes, it is! Here's three wrens, all once called Winter Wren (or just "Wren" if you're British), now three separate species. 🪶 (IDs and locations in the alt text)

I said what I said about the silly people who say, "But there has to be a path back for MAGA folk!🤡" There has always been a path back. It's never been an issue at all. Many anti-MAGA folk spent some part of their life on the hateful side. But the path back involves repair. Undoing harm. Like this.

Pheasant-tailed Jacana has #poise and a bunch of #white for #BirdOfTheDay. #birds #taiwan

They are never, ever going to win in Minnesota.

This Mikado Pheasant was #walking in the highlands of Taiwan, little knowing he was walking right into the theme of #BirdOfTheDay as set by @alan678.bsky.social . 🪶

This Taiwan Yuhina snacking on a caterpillar satisfies the #BirdOfTheDay theme - #FeedingTime, any bird eating. 🪶 They're rather tit-like in appearance and behavior, but not at all related - the closest relatives are white-eyes!

A #Raptor capture for #BirdOfTheDay - a Barred Forest-Falcon from the cloud forest of Guatemala. 🪶 Most of my experiences with forest-falcons have been quick glimpses - this one Just Sat There.

Lovely article about an oddball who bought a failing high-end oboe company and is trying to make it work, with a staff of oddballs. This is what I want to read. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/a...

For the #BirdOfTheDay theme of #Solitude, here are three birds which were, in a sense, very much alone. Each of these are birds from eastern Asia which found their way to northern California over the years, far from any other members of their species. 🪶 (IDs in alt text)

For #BirdsInFlight and #BirdOfTheDay, how about this Northern Mockingbird, caught doing its display flight? I haven't often seen this, and felt lucky to have my camera on me! 🪶

::deep breath:: It's here. The @tlvoice.bsky.social is live. This has been, and will continue to be, such a labor of love. Huge gratitude to all of the people who shared their advice, contacts, reflections, writing, photos, and heart to make this possible.

This young White-tailed Kite nicely fits the #BirdOfTheDay alt theme by @alan678.bsky.social today - #city (any #birds in a city environment) - as it flies along with San Francisco's Bay Bridge in the background. 🪶

/8 A huge part of what makes it very hard to convict Jonathan Ross for murder was baked into America generations before Trump was President. That’s the primary factor that lets law enforcement kill with impunity, not Trump. Dick Wolf has killed more black men than Leopold II.

Mayor Jacob Frey: "They are already trying to spin this as an action of self defense. Having seen the video myself, I want to tell everybody directly that is bullshit."

in these moments, in my view, it is a political and spiritual DUTY for my outrage and anger to be as fresh as if I'd never heard how they shot Fred Hampton in his bed. As fresh as if I didn't know Bobby Hutton was surrendering when they shot him. 1/2

🪶 For today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme, @alan678.bsky.social says it's #FoodFinds, any bird with food in its mouth. This young Blackburnian Warbler was chowing down on insects in California and posing very obligingly!

The #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BlackAndWhite, set by @robcrank68.bsky.social - here marked by a variety from around the world. 🪶 Identifications and places in the alt text!

#BirdOfTheDay theme from @alan678.bsky.social is #snowy; that's a challenge for one who lives where it never snows, but I was glad to see this White-winged Snowfinch in the mountains of Switzerland last year. 🪶

For the #BirdOfTheDay theme today - #caughtinmotion - an Allen's Hummingbird in flight above my backyard water fountain. 🪶

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme from @alan678.bsky.social is #B&W, with #Sparrows as the alt theme. I don't much do black-and-white photos, but a Rufous-crowned Sparrow this morning meets the theme! 🪶

A Yellow-throated Warbler from Cozumel for the #BirdOfTheDay theme today and it is #branchingout, birds on branches. 🪶

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #HolidayRobin; here's three, one from each family with "robins" - from the Americas, the Old World, and the Pacific. 🪶 (names and locations in alt text)

The #BirdOfTheDay theme is #SideProfiles - how about a Collared Bush-Robin? A lovely endemic of the highlands in Taiwan, here out in the open on a misty, rainy day.

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Grounded birds on the ground, that theme matched here by a Taiwan Rosefinch from the mountains of that island. 🪶 #birds

one thing I'll add is that monuments can be taken down, buildings can be renamed, but we will NEVER get back the trans lives that are endangered from withdrawal of care as proposed in the US house bill, or the lives across the global south that were lost from USAID being illegally terminated.

A few birds on today's #BirdOfTheDay theme - #NaturesPantry. All seen on Cozumel (Mexico), all feeding on berries or seeds. 🪶 #birds

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #ScratchersAndPruners (any bird Scratching or Pruning itself). This Gray Treepie in Taipei was checking out its underwing. 🪶

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #splashes. A young Sharp-shinned Hawk taking a bath certainly qualifies. 🪶

@robcrank68.bsky.social has set #alansnemesis - kingfishers - as #birdoftheday for @alan678.bsky.social; here's a Pacific Kingfisher from Fiji. 🪶

Today's #birdoftheday is #BirdsOnTwigs. Here's a fabulous Yellow Grosbeak from the dry scrub in Guatemala🪶 #birds

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #movement - here's a Mountain Bluebird taking flight in California. 🪶

The #BirdOfTheDay theme is #HangingAround - birds at unusual angles. A Wallcreeper in the Valais of Switzerland, doing what it does, here entirely upside down.

Today’s #birdoftheday is any bird on a wire. This one is the fabulous Taiwan Yellow Tit. #birds

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Thrushes - here's a Taiwan Thrush and a Fiji Island-Thrush. Until recently both considered subspecies of Island Thrush, that complex is now considered 18 different species! 🪶

Today's theme for #birdoftheday is #staredown . No one stares down with more disdain than an owl - here with a twofer from Lanyu Island, Taiwan 🪶

Crabgrass Frontier (perhaps oddly, the most self-radicalizing book I've yet read), and Mason & Dixon (carefully delineating the bounds of my pretentiousness).

#BirdOfTheDay themes of #paddling and #yellow birds, here in one picture - Lesser Goldfinch male, bathing. 🪶

@alan678.bsky.social 's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #LunchTime Here's a Fairy Pitta bringing lunch back to its nest! 🪶 Taiwan, near Budai.

I'm ready for my #CloseUp, #BirdOfTheDay! A Greater Antillean Grackle from Puerto Rico. #birds

Day is almost up, but I can still join the #BirdOfTheDay theme - #rock. So how about two Rock Partridges standing on rocks! 🪶 Gantrisch, Switzerland

Post a bird announcing that Dick Cheney is dead. 🪶

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Hiding . This Eurasian Bittern did a pretty good job of it - at Katzensee, Switzerland. 🪶

Today's #Birdoftheday are birds at #OddAngles #birdphotography #birds A Prothonotary Warbler whose world has turned upside-down (literally and metaphorically - it's in California, where it shouldn't be)

AVCX, the world’s finest puzzles and games service, and an independent media venture, has done some really cool stuff this year! A thread to brag (and to hype our mini subscription drive) …

Today's #BirdOfTheDay is "Pairs of the Same Birds", from @robcrank68.bsky.social . How about a pair of Eurasian Jackdaws in Bern, Switzerland? 🪶

See a pigeon, post a pigeon. #birds (Band-tailed Pigeon, the remaining native pigeon in (most of) the US.)

Sure thing @aba.org! Not a lifer lifer, but an ABA region lifer - Sharp-tailed Sandpiper at Elsie Roemer Bird Sanctuary in Alameda, California. An Asian species, rare in CA. Found by Deborah Crooks two days ago, still here today! (ABA #691) 🪶