The #birdoftheday theme is #birds with food in their bills. How could I not put #Vultures up?! The not very decorous feeding frenzy of Old World Black & Griffon Vultures on video. @alan678.bsky.social @markavery.bsky.social @vulturecat.bsky.social @iand777.bsky.social @carlbergstrom.com #wildlife

One more from me for the #birdoftheday theme of #birds with food in their bills. In some areas House Sparrows have learnt to take dragonflies, as they emerge from their larval casings & dry out, snip off the wings & eat them. @alan678.bsky.social @alexanderlees.bsky.social @iand777.bsky.social 🪶

A lot of snow has fallen in Budapest, Hungary, over the last few days but life goes on. As this Eurasian Green Woodpecker knows very well.

Next up for the #birdoftheday theme of #birds with food in their beaks is perhaps a little bit gruesome but very much natural. A White Stork eating its dead chick, clearing the nest of a corpse & recycling it back into energy & food. @alan678.bsky.social @robcrank68.bsky.social @iand777.bsky.social

Today's #birdoftheday theme set by @alan678.bsky.social is #birds with food in their beaks. so many to share... I will start with a very beautiful male Black Redstart who nests on my patio in Extremadura. @robcrank68.bsky.social @alexanderlees.bsky.social @iand777.bsky.social @markavery.bsky.social

Found in a 'secret' compartment of an antique box. Date on back March 1916. When you think what was happening in March 1916... Someone choose to cut this out, keep it flat & safe. I love #antiques & their untold stories! @markavery.bsky.social @lissakevans.bsky.social @brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social

For #thicktrunktuesday here is another dehesa Holm Oak from Extremadura. Love these bent over twisted shapes. @thekentacorn.bsky.social @annealais.bsky.social @walksincamera.bsky.social @ni9akers.bsky.social

The obvious UK bird for the #birdoftheday theme of black and white is the Common Magpie, but as the second photo shows life isn't always black and white... @alan678.bsky.social @robcrank68.bsky.social @iand777.bsky.social

The #birdoftheday theme is black and white. A Woodchat Shrike that is mostly black and white but with a 'pop' of colour thrown in! @alan678.bsky.social @robcrank68.bsky.social @iand777.bsky.social @drtonygillie.bsky.social @markbirdingpinoso.bsky.social #birds #wildlife #nature 🪶

Today's #birdoftheday theme is black and white, so here's a couple of Wheatear species. Black-eared and Black. @alan678.bsky.social @robcrank68.bsky.social @iand777.bsky.social @drtonygillie.bsky.social @markbirdingpinoso.bsky.social #birds #wildlife #nature 🪶

The #birdoftheday theme for today by @robcrank68.bsky.social is #birds with long legs & necks. It's also nearly the shortest day & I'm off now for a few weeks, so I've gone for a combination of White Storks & a setting sun. @alan678.bsky.social @iand777.bsky.social @brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social 🪶

More open wings for today's alternative #birdoftheday theme. This time a bit smaller... A Spotless Starling giving it some! @alan678.bsky.social @robcrank68.bsky.social @iand777.bsky.social @drtonygillie.bsky.social @markbirdingpinoso.bsky.social #birds 🪶

Today's alternative #birdoftheday theme from @alan678.bsky.social is open wings. Going for the big option... @robcrank68.bsky.social @iand777.bsky.social @pitcarity.bsky.social Have I mentioned I like Vultures? #birds #nature #wildlife 🪶

Finally for me on the theme of groups for #birdoftheday Here's a group of White Storks & Black Kites feeding on grasshoppers on probably the best #birding track in the world... @robcrank68.bsky.social @alan678.bsky.social @iand777.bsky.social @drtonygillie.bsky.social @markbirdingpinoso.bsky.social

Moving away from Vultures for today's #birdoftheday theme of groups, here's a group of Azure-winged Magpies closely inspecting a fence post, a vital role they carry out that largely goes unrecognised... @robcrank68.bsky.social @alan678.bsky.social @iand777.bsky.social #birds 🪶

Another group for today's #birdoftheday theme. I could post a lot of Vulture photos for this theme... 😆 @robcrank68.bsky.social @alan678.bsky.social @drtonygillie.bsky.social @vulturecat.bsky.social @laffingkat.bsky.social #birds #nature #wildlife

Today's #birdoftheday theme is groups. So here's a group of Vultures out on the plain. #birds 🪶 @robcrank68.bsky.social @alan678.bsky.social @vulturecat.bsky.social @iand777.bsky.social @drtonygillie.bsky.social

Battle worn but still going, Holm Oak (Quercus rotundifolia) in Extremaduran dehesa. #ThickTrunkTuesday 🌳 #trees @irishrainforest.bsky.social @thekentacorn.bsky.social @walksincamera.bsky.social @annealais.bsky.social

Going through some old memory cards, found the first photo & thought why did I take that, then the next photo told me. Iberian Hare hiding. Best mammalian eye? @iand777.bsky.social @fionamathews.bsky.social @markavery.bsky.social @markbirdingpinoso.bsky.social #nature #wildlife 🐰

Today's #birdoftheday theme is nature's pantry with an alternative of winter #birds I'm going for the double with this Fieldfare and an apple in the snow. @alan678.bsky.social @robcrank68.bsky.social @iand777.bsky.social #🪶

My second offering for #birdoftheday alternative theme is this one... Hiding in plain sight. @alan678.bsky.social @robcrank68.bsky.social @iand777.bsky.social @pitcarity.bsky.social #birds 🪶

The #birdoftheday alternative theme today is hidden. Here's my offering of a... @alan678.bsky.social @robcrank68.bsky.social @iand777.bsky.social #Birds 🪶

Third & final offering from me for today's #birdoftheday theme of Coots & Moorhens is a somewhat bigger & more colourful type of moorhen, a Purple Swamphen. @robcrank68.bsky.social @iand777.bsky.social @drtonygillie.bsky.social @markbirdingpinoso.bsky.social #birds 🪶

Second up from me for today's #birdoftheday theme of Coots & Moorhens is a Common Moorhen. @robcrank68.bsky.social #birds 🪶

Today's #birdoftheday theme is Coots & Moorhens... Three offerings from me then, first up a Common Coot. @robcrank68.bsky.social #birds 🪶

A close-up of one of Ireland's three native translucent rainforest ferns: Tunbridge filmy. Best appreciated in the wet, its fronds swell and glisten with fat drops of succulence.

Climate change played a key role in the extinction of an early human species www.sci.news/otherscience... Historical precedents... @irishrainforest.bsky.social @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social @deepfrieddna.bsky.social

After all the rain of yesterday, here's something sunny and joyful to begin today with. #foxoftheday #mammals #nature #wildlife @iand777.bsky.social @chrisgpackham.bsky.social @nicwilson.bsky.social

There's house painting & then there's house painting... (the eye of the Bonelli's is perfect). #Art #Streetart @iand777.bsky.social @alexanderlees.bsky.social @markbirdingpinoso.bsky.social @laffingkat.bsky.social @pitcarity.bsky.social @brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social #birds 🪶

Another offering for today's #birdoftheday theme of side on views of #birds A reminder of sunnier weather... A Roller. What a bird! @robcrank68.bsky.social @markavery.bsky.social @markbirdingpinoso.bsky.social @drtonygillie.bsky.social @iand777.bsky.social @pitcarity.bsky.social

Nothing like the joy of crows riding a southern squall.

It's just f**king relentless. Can't they understand? The orangutans and the rainforest ecosystem of which they're a part *IS* the gold.

Postcards are seriously out of fashion, some were quite rubbish, but others such as these, from a series of flowers by the Swiss artist Thor E Gyger, are true works of art. Mid 1950s post marks. Would love to find the original art work. #Art @brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social @iand777.bsky.social

The main theme for #birdoftheday today is side on views of #birds My offering is this gorgeous Barn Swallow. A bird I really miss when they are not here. @robcrank68.bsky.social @iand777.bsky.social @brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social @pitcarity.bsky.social @markbirdingpinoso.bsky.social 🪶

Today's #birdoftheday alternative theme is #birds not looking at you or birds turning away. This young Old World Black Vulture did that. It reminds me of those school days home haircuts... @robcrank68.bsky.social @iand777.bsky.social 🪶

"Historic return to London"? From that statement then you must have plenty of historical evidence they were in London previously. Can you share it with us, plenty would like to see it. @alexanderlees.bsky.social @iancarter67.bsky.social @markavery.bsky.social

Today's #birdoftheday theme is #birds with nest material. I wrote about this Wren building a nest for @markavery.bsky.social website in 2018, read it here - markavery.info/2018/07/12/g... It led me to try writing a book... @robcrank68.bsky.social @brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social @iand777.bsky.social 🪶

The #birdoftheday alternative theme is black #birds I'm not going to pass up the opportunity am I... Old World Black Vulture. @robcrank68.bsky.social @iand777.bsky.social @markbirdingpinoso.bsky.social @markavery.bsky.social #vultures 🪶

The #birdoftheday alternative theme today is Black #birds First up for me is a bird that is very black and very beautiful. @robcrank68.bsky.social @iand777.bsky.social @markavery.bsky.social @carlbergstrom.com #crows #raven #corvid 🪶

Nice little auction find... Brass matchbox holder, probably Edwardian, lovely repousse work to create the floral pattern, especially when you consider it is just 4cms tall. Anyone recognise the flowers or pattern? @brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social @iand777.bsky.social @bsbicountries.bsky.social

And finally from me on the #birdoftheday theme of #birds looking at you, here's the master of the stare. A Little Owl at its nest box. @robcrank68.bsky.social @alan678.bsky.social @iand777.bsky.social

Continuing with the #birdoftheday theme of looking at you, this time a Bonelli's Eagle. @robcrank68.bsky.social @alan678.bsky.social @iand777.bsky.social 🪶

Today's #birdoftheday theme is #birds looking at you. Let's get rapacious with that. First up (of course!) is a Griffon Vulture. @robcrank68.bsky.social @alan678.bsky.social @iand777.bsky.social @pitcarity.bsky.social

PFAs in the news & our bodies, but we don't just poison ourselves. Writing Tarka Revisited (out next year see pinned tweet) I learnt that Otters have them too, & rat poisons, micro plastics, Ibuprofen, anti histamines... @leanahosea.bsky.social @markavery.bsky.social @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

Huge News from the Western Amazon: it's the year 2025 and we are still describing entirely new, strikingly-distinctive large-bodied bird species! Behold Tinamus resonans sp. nov. the Slaty-masked Tinamou mapress.com/zt/article/v... #Ornithology @tetzoo.bsky.social 🪶

More stripes for today's #birdoftheday theme, this time the mint humbug headed Rock Bunting. 🪶 #birds @alan678.bsky.social @robcrank68.bsky.social @iand777.bsky.social @markbirdingpinoso.bsky.social

Set by @alan678.bsky.social today's #birdoftheday theme is stripes. If it's #birds with stripes you want, then hows about a gorgeous Purple Heron with fabulous neck stripes. @robcrank68.bsky.social @iand777.bsky.social @iancarter67.bsky.social 🪶

Today's #birdoftheday theme is reflections. Five Barn Swallows over mirror like water. @robcrank68.bsky.social @alan678.bsky.social @iand777.bsky.social @brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social @markbirdingpinoso.bsky.social @drtonygillie.bsky.social #birds 🪶

Today's alternative #birdoftheday theme set by @robcrank68.bsky.social is Blue Tits, birds we think of as feeding on our garden feeders. But they will also eat flesh... Blue Tit of the ogliastrae subspecies feeding on meat at a Red Kite feeding station. @iand777.bsky.social @iancarter67.bsky.social

Little Hedgehog - by Stirling artist (and my daughter) Charlotte Strawbridge @cstrawbridgeart.bsky.social This... and other originals, prints, cards, etc are available to purchase from Charlotte's website, here: www.charlottestrawbridge.co.uk/art #art #nature #wildlife #hedgehog