Hello #birdoftheday friends! Thanks to @alan678.bsky.social who has offered #firstwingbeats inspiration today. Here's a blue tit leaving a nest hole in Germany.

Hello #birdoftheday folks! My #BestOfTheMonth, or at least my favorite of the month, is this photo of two blue tit fledglings waiting patiently (for this moment!) to be fed.

A Sandhill crane feeding its colt an earthworm #BestOfTheMonth #BirdOfTheDay

May was a busy month for birding, but this encounter was a highlight. Yellow-billed Cuckoo #BirdOfTheDay #BestOfTheMonth #ECK #birds #nature #wildlife #photography

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BestOfTheMonth, your best captures of May. I have a few, but am posting another shot of the cheery little #MarshWren I saw this week. I love them! (Concord, MA - 5/27/26) 🤩🤎🎶 #birds #wrens #SmallBirdSaturday #LittleBirds #ECK #birdphotography #OM-1 #Massachusetts

#BirdoftheDay #BestoftheMonth I don't know about *best*, but I just couldn't get enough of the Blackburnian Warblers during migration. Just beautiful birds! Smith Oaks Sanctuary, High Island, TX, May 2026 #birds #originalcontent #photography 📷🪶

A fascinating and beautiful theme by @alan678.bsky.social for #birdoftheday, #NegativeSpace. Thanks for sharing all of your photos! I think this may be a carrion crow next to the Rhine in Germany, but I'm not sure.

For today's #BirdOfTheDay #NegativeSpace #photography #ECK #EastCoastKin #WestCoastKin #WCK #Canon #bird #Ducks

#BirdoftheDay today is #Solitude and here is a #BaldEagle watching over the nest. #birds #birding #eagles #naturephotography

Good morning/afternoon #birdoftheday friends! For @robcrank68.bsky.social's theme of #podicipedidae I am sharing these two great crested grebes from my recent visit to their home waters!

“ Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Podicipedidae, any of the species, the Alt Theme is #Paridae, any of the species.” #bids 🪶

The adorable pied-billed grebe. This one was taken on Black Point Wildlife Drive at Merritt Island NWR in March 2023. #Podicipedidae #BirdOfTheDay #BPPD #MerrittIsland #PublicLands #FloridaBirds

Join me this Sunday, 4pm at Byrd's Books in Bethel CT to explore fascinating partnerships and play with poems for two voices from my newest science poetry collection! Click pic for details.

I'm enjoying everyone's shares for @alan678.bsky.social's wonderful #birdoftheday theme, #textures today! Here's a male bobolink perched among the sharp grass blades and seed clusters of my local open space, wearing his ermine stole with patterned epaulettes, wings and tail.

Hello #birdoftheday friends! For @alan678.bsky.social’s theme today of #birdonawire here’s a masked flowerpiercer from Colombia.

What fun all of your #birdoftheday #staringrightatyou pics are thanks to @robcrank68.bsky.social! Here's a Eurasian jay I met a few weeks ago in a staredown.

For @alan678.bsky.social's #grassland bird theme today I'll share my beloved bobolink for #birdoftheday. Enjoying all of your posts!

Scarlet Tanager in flight for #BirdOfTheDay alt theme #Red #Birds #BirdPhotography #Photography

#BirdOfTheDay 🌿 #naturalist #BirdsOfFrontRange You don't get much more #Grassland than a Western Meadowlark singing the song of my childhood.

Hello AGAIN #birdoftheday friends! NOW here's a slightly blurry #wingswideopen shot of a greylag goose racing our boat per @robcrank68.bsky.social 's theme of the day. Another lifer for me from my recent trip across the pond!

Hello #birdoftheday friends! Here's a slightly blurry #wingswideopen shot of a greylag goose racing our boat per @robcrank68.bsky.social's theme of the day. Another lifer for me from my recent trip across the pond!

Delighted to share my #birdoftheday themed photo #scrollback suggested by @alan678.bsky.social of a European robin I saw as a lifer bird a couple of weeks ago in Den Haag!

Hello #birdoftheday-ers! For today's #waterdroplets offered by @robcrank68.bsky.social I'm delighted to share another bird from my recent trip across the pond, a great-crested grebe post dive into a canal near Amsterdam.

Hello #birdoftheday people! Today for @robcrank68.bsky.social's #birdouttawater theme I'm sharing a black-tailed godwit I saw when I was "over the pond" last week!

Hello #birdoftheday friends! Thanks to @robcrank68.bsky.social for today’s #LinedUp theme. Here are four Nanday parakeets watching me watch them inBrazil.

So many wonderful #parenthood pics (and the alt!) for today's #birdoftheday theme offered by @alan678.bsky.social ! Here's a swan parenting her two cygnets in the early morning at a duckweed-covered pond in New England several years ago.

Hello #birdoftheday friends! For my April #bestofthemonth theme offered by @robcrank68.bsky.social I have a common raven with sun drenched iridescent highlights. On to May!

Hello #birdoftheday friends! For the fun theme chosen by @alan678.bsky.social today I'm sharing this female Northern cardinal, who appears quite serious in her #passport photo.

Hello #birdoftheday peeps! For @alan678.bsky.social’s #CamoOrContrast I’m sharing a great potoo from the Brazilian Pantanal.

Happy #birdoftheday, friends! Is there anything more glorious than #TheSongFactor? Thanks to @robcrank68.bsky.social for encouraging everyone to share all of these wonderful photos. Spring is the thing! Here's an indigo bunting feeling the season.

Good night, #birdoftheday friends! For @alan678.bsky.social ‘s lovely #Petals&Perches I’m sharing this green thorntail from Colombia.

Hello #birdoftheday friends! Per @robcrank68.bsky.social I found this chestnut-crowned antpita munching a mealworm in Colombia with that #ComeEatWithMe look.

Hello #birdoftheday friends! For @robcrank68.bsky.social 's theme today I have black-bellied whistling ducks from Brazil's Pantanal (mostly) #ducksoutofwater!

Hello #birdoftheday peeps! Such beautiful #leafandlight photos thanks to @alan678.bsky.social ! Here's a female common yellowthroat from me.

Hello #birdoftheday friends! For @robcrank68.bsky.social 's #jklmnop I'm squeaking in with this Purple finch from an autumn capture. Funny how this section of the alphabet was a bit more of a challenge than it seemed!

Hello #birdoftheday friends! For @robcrank68.bsky.social 's #longnecks theme I am sharing this great egret who spotted me as it did some early morning fishing in Roatán.

Good Saturday, #birdoftheday friends! For @alan678.bsky.social 's #woodlands theme I'm sharing this chestnut-sided warbler from last year--another I hope will soon be coming to the woods near me!

Happy #NationalPoetryMonth! Young readers will bloom with this celebration of language and art from CBCbooks.org. Honored to have my newest with Robert Meganck, #Nature'sRemarkablePartners on this list of beautiful poetry for young readers. @margaretquinlin.bsky.social cbcbooks.org/cbc-book-lis...

Here's a bit of mangrove vireo #birdbutt to join all of the other funny offerings for today's #birdoftheday theme selected by @robcrank68.bsky.social.

Hello, #birdoftheday peeps! The ecolodges I was lucky enough to visit in Colombia create each #ManMadePerch from natural materials to mimic a #naturalperch, like the moss-covered branch this female Zeledon's antbird chose. Sort of a twofer for @alan678.bsky.social 's themes!

Hello #birdoftheday friends! Theme today thanks to @robcrank68.bsky.social is #BlackHeads and here's a Baltimore oriole soon to be coming to a tree near me!

So much fun looking through the #Warblers (all of yours, and mine) for #birdoftheday thanks to @alan678.bsky.social ! Here's a worm-eating warbler doing what it loves to do, while I was doing what I love to do - look for warblers during spring migration!

“You have this oasis, this beautiful place where we get to exist together,” [Victor Glover, NASA Artemis II astronaut] said April 4. "Let's do it," [I say]. "Please."

Hello #birdoftheday peeps! Thanks for sharing wonderful #Black&Red photos for @robcrank68.bsky.social 's theme today. Here's a rose-breasted grosbeak from last year's migration season - hoping to see/hear one in a few weeks here in the northeast US.

Hello #birdoftheday friends! Following the theme of @alan678.bsky.social I'm sharing the bright, outlined #feathers overlapping like scales on the back of this tiny speckled hummingbird from Colombia.

Good morning, #birdoftheday friends! What is more joyous than all of your #smallbirdsinflight? Thank you, @robcrank68.bsky.social for the chance to share this flying male bobolink, soon to return to my favorite local patch for breeding.

Hello #birdoftheday friends! For @alan678.bsky.social 's #weather theme I'm sharing a favorite - a leucistic white-breasted nuthatch in the snow. It visited our winter feeders a couple of years in a row, its typical black and blue-grey showing varying shades of soft brown and fawn.

Beautiful #LargeBirdsInFlight for #birdoftheday today in theme offered by @robcrank68.bsky.social ! Here’s a brown pelican in the Galápagos.

These #attitude offerings for @alan678.bsky.social 's alt #birdoftheday theme are making me LOL! Here's a green and black fruiteater from Colombia giving me the side eye.

Thank you for posting this good news for the Earth!