Hello #birdoftheday friends! I’m sharing a two-fer for @alan678.bsky.social ‘s themes #wintersurvivors and #corvids!

So many pictures of #birdbutts for this lifer before I could finally put enough parts together to make a mangrove vireo. Happy #birdoftheday to all of you and thanks for the theme, @robcrank68.bsky.social!

Fun #birdoftheday theme from @robcrank68.bsky.social today. So many fabulous birds #divingforfood. Here's a Galápagos penguin getting ready to do just that!

Two of my favorite subjects, @alan678.bsky.social , are #bird&bugs! Here's a young bobolink's successful snag in my favorite local haunt for today's #birdoftheday.

Hello #birdoftheday friends! For @robcrank68.bsky.social 's #waterbirds theme I'm sharing this great blue heron fishing in the early morning light in Roatán, Honduras last week.

Hello #birdoftheday friends! For @alan678.bsky.social 's #oddcouples theme I offer this great egret being chased by a clearly angry red-winged blackbird.

Hello #birdoftheday peeps! Here's a tawny anpitta giving me the #staredown in Colombia for today's theme offered by @robcrank68.bsky.social.

It’s #superbOWLSunday.

Hello #birdoftheday friends! I’ll be lifting off myself today so I’m going for @alan678.bsky.social ‘s alt theme #blurred with this chami antpitta from Colombia.

Hello #birdoftheday friends! For @robcrank68.bsky.social ‘s #pigeons&doves theme with so many lovely photos I have a white-crowned pigeon from Roatán.

I hope this front yard white-throated sparrow will count for @alan678.bsky.social ‘s #backyardbirds theme for #birdoftheday!

For @alan678.bsky.social ‘s #openbeaks theme today for #birdoftheday here’s a chubby little ruby-throated hummingbird youngster outside my front door yelling “feed me!”

Thank you @robcrank68.bsky.social for today’s fun #birdoftheday theme #gullsinwater. Here’s a young herring gull enjoying a clam on the half shell at the edge of the surf in North Carolina.

Hello #birdoftheday peeps! For @robcrank68.bsky.social ‘s #ducks theme today I am sharing these American black ducks peeping their heads above the marsh grasses during our Christmas bird count.

Thanks to @robcrank68.bsky.social for today's #birdoftheday theme #favouriteofthemonth here's a little marsh wren I would not have noticed were it not for other generous birders quietly watching it hop-hide at the water's edge.

I'm enjoying everyone's #eyecontact shares for today's #birdoftheday theme suggested by @alan678.bsky.social (feel better!). Here's a titmouse on the "stage-stump" outside my office window with a glint in its eye!

Lovely #iridescent birds, #birdoftheday friends! Thanks to @robcrank68.bsky.social for this subtle-to-flamboyant theme. Here's a (not-so-subtle) lesser violetear from Colombia doing its thing.

Hello #birdoftheday friends! So many #brownisbeautiful candidates, thanks for this trip through the pics @alan678.bsky.social. Here’s a female common yellowthroat in all her subtlety, including her soft alt wash.

Another white ibis, a juvenile, #paddling along the Suwannee River, captured by kayak last winter for @robcrank68.bsky.social 's #birdoftheday theme that reminds me of warmer times considering our foot of snow and ice cover here in New England today.

Today’s #birdoftheday theme offered by @alan678.bsky.social really got me thinking. Here’s an American white ibis photographed from a kayak in the Suwannee River with #poise for a twofer.

Happy to join all of you #birdoftheday folks for @robcrank68.bsky.social ‘s #swan day! Mute swan with cygnets.

Here’s a killdeer #walking toward me in my favorite local spot in June for today’s #birdoftheday theme offered by @alan678.bsky.social

It's #InsectThursday! Here two flower flies check out a spiderwort blossom.

Hello #birdoftheday friends! For today's fun fun #tailsup theme offered by @robcrank68.bsky.social I have a favorite bird, the Carolina wren, posing on the stump-stage outside my office window.

Thanks to @alan678.bsky.social for today's #birdoftheday theme because who doesn't feel the joy with a songster, head thrown back, #singing? Here's a prairie warbler sending its spaceship-takeoff notes up into the May sky.

Hello #birdoftheday friends! Here's a two-fer for @robcrank68.bsky.social 's themes #feedingtime and #gulls. A herring gull with its blue crab feast at the New Jersey shore, photographed from a kayak.

For @alan678.bsky.social 's alt #birdoftheday theme #birdsyoulove my list is endless. I'm sharing my spark bird, the Eastern towhee, introduced to me by my 9th grade science teacher - an inspiring birder. This towhee was fluffing and preening in June's early morning light.

Hello #birdoftheday friends! Here are sanderlings strolling along the summertime New Jersey shore for @robcrank68.bsky.social 's theme #TwoOfAKind.

Exciting #birdoftheday theme offered by @alan678.bsky.social, and here's one for #raptors: a snail kite from Brazil.

Hello to #birdoftheday folks! For today’s #longbeaks theme chosen by @robcrank68.bsky.social I offer a brown pelican checking out a rock as the Galapagos sun sets. I hope someone will post an Australian pelican with its longest bill in the world!

Very late to #birdoftheday tonight and seeing some lovely interpretations of #solitude. Here’s a male bobolink keeping watch over his grassland breeding grounds last summer.

Hello and happy to see #birdsinflight up today, thanks to @robcrank68.bsky.social for #birdoftheday. Here is a recent rough-legged hawk (lifer) attracting lots of attention at my favorite local park. At first, from far off, its white tail band made me think Northern harrier!

A good Sunday to you, #birdoftheday friends! Thanks to @alan678.bsky.social for today's them #natural, which has inspired so many wonderful shares. Here's a wattled jacana from Brazil, aka "lily-trotter," doing what it does best - walking on water - in its tropical habitat. Check the toes!

This guy is my best #moodyfaces example for today’s #birdoftheday theme chosen by @robcrank68.bsky.social. I think Northern Cardinal is the model, but this red-headed barbet from Colombia seems like a contender for Angry Birds!

Celebrating #feathers&form with this grab from my office window "stump stage" for @alan678.bsky.social 's #bird of the day theme because until this recent photo I've never been properly impressed by the intricate, multicolored mosaic of our quite common, often noisy/nosy blue jay's feathers.

Hello #birdoftheday peeps! Here’s a dark-eyed junco showing off its #shortbeaks entry from a stump-stage outside my office window.

It’s #insectThursday? Yay @robcrank68.bsky.social ! Here’s a Halloween pennant from my favorite local haunt.

Hello #BirdOfTheDay friends! Hope @alan678.bsky.social is having a wonderful day while we find photos. I found this ringed kingfisher from the Brazilian Pantanal finishing off a fish for #foodfinds.

What's in a name, #BirdOfTheDay folks? Here's a #Blackandwhite warbler returning to local woods during spring migration. Thank you, @robcrank68.bsky.social for encouraging a look at birds I think of as black and white but on closer inspection have much more to them!

Love the fancy starling shots! For today's #BirdOfTheDay them of #speckles&spots offered by @alan678.bsky.social I found two camo-clad Western gull chicks from northern California to share.

Such a FUN #BirdOfTheDay theme, #caughtinmotion, thanks to @robcrank68.bsky.social ! Here are 3 roseate spoonbills and a wood stork way at the top of bare branches in the Brazilian Pantanal.

Hello #BirdOfTheDay friends. Here’s to flying into our new year on the thing with feathers. Thank you, @alan678.bsky.social for today’s contemplative theme.

So thankful for the wonderful photos shared for these #BirdOfTheDay themes offered by @robcrank68.bsky.social and @alanh678.bsky.social . Going all in with a great egret for #reflections and hope for 2026.

A song sparrow singing out while #branchingout to join @alan678.bsky.social in his theme for today’s #BirdOfTheDay.

How to choose today's #BirdOfTheDay photo, themed #BirdButts, thanks to @robcrank68.bsky.social? Found this golden-crowned kinglet from the fall, busy picking snacks from within a dwarf Alberta spruce.

This photo of a jabiru stork nest in the Pantanal brings me back to the #serenity of a wonderful evening. Thanks to @alan678.bsky.social for this lovely theme for #BirdOfTheDay. If you are able and would like to click to open the photo, that crop is my #favorite.

Thanks to @robcrank68.bsky.social for today's #BirdOfTheDay theme #outstretched. My favorite local spot has a nice summer breeding population of bobolinks, a migratory grassland species of special concern due to loss of habitat. Here's a male showing off for a female (off to the right).

Still dark here in New England and excited to share my #mostrecent bird photo for @alan678.bsky.social ‘s #BirdOfTheDay theme because this rough-legged hawk is a lifer bird I found at my favorite local spot! Thank you all for this bird-loving community!

For @robcrank68.bsky.social 's #BirdOfTheDay themes of #profiles and #blackbirds (mostly, in this case) I offer this black skimmer from the bank of the Cuiabá river in the Brazillian Pantanal.

Here's a #grounded king rail hiding in a New England marsh for today's #BirdOfTheDay theme chosen by @alan678.bsky.social.