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A Belted Kingfisher and a snack for #BirdOfTheDay #FoodFinds

Finally!!🥳

Loons for #BirdOfTheDay #BlackandWhite

Jay of the day with their eyes on the prize #birds

Mr. Big and Little Dude....sadly the Downy is not in focus, but the size comparison is something! #birds

The 2026 ABA Bird of the Year is the Horned Lark! Get ready for a great year of celebrating Horned Larks! www.aba.org/the-2026-aba...

Peder Mørk Mønsted (Danish, 1859–1941) "Winter Landscape", 1916. Oil on Canvas, 101 × 71 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

TLC are also working with Dr Fernanda Alves to help protect forty-spotted pardalotes by providing feather dispersers & specialised next boxes for our important feathered residents! Read the story at: abc.net.au/news/2026-01-04/forty-spotted-pardalote-bruny-island-endangered-species/106176110

The world right now

Further to that last post of mine - in case you were wondering what an Australasian swamphen looks like (formerly known as the purple swamphen - for obvious reasons), here's one I photographed at Mount Gambier in 2022. This one exuded attitude 😆 The are beautiful birds.

lots of lovely birds and hoarfrost today #birds

Fantastic!

Philippine Airlines has the best Inflight Safety Video, and I just have to share it with you all. I know what that sounds like, but please watch it. This is absolute cinema. youtu.be/2UkTBuEx-ek Thank to you our Patreon supporter for sharing this with us. Wow.

A Snow Bunting running across the field for #BirdOfTheDay #Snowy

Jay of the day #birds

line up at the suet feeder #birds

Emergency feel-good content incoming! Mum and bub. Wild budgies at Mount Bryan East a few years ago.

Good clouds 😊

The Shape of Silence - Hawke's Bay, NZ. At dawn, the trees at Lake Tūtira were barely more than shadows in the fog. As the sun lifted, their shapes emerged—brief, delicate silhouettes—before the light burned the mist away and the magic dissolved into the everyday. #photography #landscape #nz #fog

It's New Year, so time to look back and forward. These are 10 things I think we need to recognise in 2026. It’s a response to what I think are profoundly damaging mistaken assumptions I’ve heard and read from practitioners, journalists, and analysts in 2025. Warning: very long🧵

I have at last managed the shot I wanted - a Hoopoe with its crest up. This one allowed me to walk up close and to lie down. It then walked closer to me and ended up only 6 feet away - mind blowing. Amazing birds. #birds #birdphotography #birdsseenin2026 #canonphotography

About 5 hours today on the WIP. Worked on the upper right and upper lower left. Btw. This is Pismis 24 as seen by JWST. I shall not be naming this painting after the official stellar object name....for reasons 😏

What if none of these things is a distraction from the other things and instead they're all just horrible things

Pileated portrait #birds

la reine des neiges, c’est moi tags : Mélenchat, #winter #meteo #caturday #cats

Pileated Woodpecker #birds

there's always a line-up at the peanut slinky😂 #birds

Red-breasted Nuthatch at the spa #birds

#BirdIfTheDay #GoodLight

Winter Moon😊

best first day of the new year gift...a visit from a Pileated Woodpecker! not a great pic as I took it through the window so I wouldn't disturb him...so very happy to see him!🥳 #birds

Birds, bugs, fish, whatever. Let’s see some #NewYearsEveIridescence

had a lovely visit from a few Pine Grosbeaks today...and finally some sunshine!🥳 #birds

a curious and floofy House Sparrow #birds

A Ural Owl keeping an eye on a Raven flying by. One of the most memorable encounters for me this year in the Finnish nature. Happy New Year 2026! 🪶🦉 #BirdsSeenIn2025 🇫🇮 #NaturePhotography

A House Sparrow with an extra fancy white feather☺️ #birds

Hairy Woodpecker #birds

success!!🥳 #birds

please excuse the yelling, but REDPOLL!!! #birds

Enter the new year like a long-eared rabbit emerging through a curtain of tall grass to face the stars 🌌

So often it's when you're not even trying to find them You're shovelling the end of your driveway, and you look for no reason into your woods I had heard she was here a week ago. Maybe she left? Went deeper into the marsh nearby... No, she's watching you shovel 30 feet away👀 #Birds #Ontario

For #BirdOfTheDay #Oustretched, an Agami Heron #CostaRica #birds #birdphotography #nature

#BirdOfTheDay #BirdButts

Cracking up, and remembering that It is impossible to be stressed or depressed when I watch a cat attacking someone’s foot. 😂 especially with the sound on.

Agami Heron in full breeding splendor at Agami Island #CostaRica #birds #herons #nature

Black-capped Chickadee #birds

Winter blues😊

Frosty Jay of the day #birds

another gloomy, cloudy day brightened by the Evening Grosbeaks and some lovely hoarfrost☺️