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Winter Wren for #BirdOfTheDay
#Petals&Perches

A flock of mallards.

Today's #BirdOfTheDay ALT theme is #WhatTheFlock.

#bird #birdphotography #mallard

A speckled juvenile blackbird on grass, with a flowerbed contained by a low sandstone wall in the background.

Juvenile blackbird in the garden. #BirdOfTheDay #ABCD #Norwich

A side view of a close up of a female mallard, sitting on the outside lip of a white boat.

I’ve only got three pictures that fulfill the #BirdOfTheDay #DucksOutOfWater theme. They are all of this female mallard I took whilst I was on a boat trip on the #Norfolk Broads. I’ve posted 2 of them before. This is the third!

Beautiful! An iconic scene of gold finches doing what they do. Love it!

An adult herring gull on a stone wall looking across brightly coloured market stalls. The flint Guild Hall is in the background and the sky is cloudless.

Another gorgeously handsome herring gull supervising #Norwich market. Taken last week, with the flint Guild Hall in the background. #BirdOfTheDay #Gulls

Herons. S Sarasota Bay.

#BirdOfTheDay #LeafandLight

A swan on dark river water with reflections of the swan and the surrounding trees.

A handsome swan and its reflection on the #Norfolk Broads. #Reflections #BirdOfTheDay #Norwich

I particularly like the pic with the pair of swans looking in the same direction. A wonderful shot! I hope this year has better luck for them.

A side view of a grey heron, standing on the concrete wall of a park boating lake. Blue skies and trees in leaf are in the background.

Henry once again on carp patrol at the park boating lake. #LongNecks #BirdOfTheDay #Norwich

To a great Egret chicks in the nest looking up at their parent.

#SmallBirdSaturday
#BirdOfTheDay theme is #Woodland , birds you might find in woodlands near you. The alt is #juveniles any young bird captures.

@balail.bsky.social

A fledgling great tit sitting on a green garden umbrella base on grass.

I’ve never managed to take a decent picture of a woodland bird, in a woodland, so I submit this fledgling great tit in the garden instead! #Woodland #BirdOfTheDay #Fledglings #Birds

Owl in flight, from behind

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BirdButt, birds showing off the rear end to the photographer. I always want to get an image of a bird in flight, but maybe I should be more specific. (Long-eared owl near Minneapolis)
#photography #owl #wildlife

A herring gull on a lamp post, looking straight at the camera while a gull flies in from the right. Buildings form the background.

#BirdOfTheDay #ManMadePerch This made me chuckle yesterday. The gull looked right at me while a pigeon photo-bombed the picture! #Norwich #Gulls #Pigeons

A night vision black and white still of a hedgehog heading into a wooden feeding station on a garden patio.

So chuffed! Bernard came back last night! He’s a hedgehog who had terrible ringworm all over his nose, but was fixed by a hedgehog rescue lady. He was marked and then re-released into our garden last summer, but soon disappeared. Now he’s back and looking really well! #Hedgehogs #Nature #Norwich

A group of black-headed gulls standing on cracked ice of a boating pond, with frosted trees in the background.

Black-headed gulls with their winter plumage, on the icy boating lake at the park. #BirdOfTheDay #BackHeads #Norwich #Birds #Nature

Colpoy's Bay, Ontario shortly before sunrise for #ColourADay #PinkMon.

#BrucePeninsula #BruceCounty #ECK #photography #clouds #sunrise #TenMinutesFromHome

A portrait orientation woodland scene with silhouetted trees and some bluebells. There look as if there are two suns about to set, but it's just the one, with tiny bits showing on either side of a tree, creating sunstars. There are some branches backlit by the sun, and some bluebells are too.

A better sunset at the #bluebells tonight - this time at Dockey Wood, part of Ashridge National Trust, not far from me.

The double sun stars remind me of the Pink Floyd song "Two Suns in the Sunset" - I hope it's not a bad omen... 😬

#CanonR5markII #Berkhamsted #LocalPhotography

A juvenile cormorant resting in their usual place after a bout of fishing. This cormorant is sat on a protruding tree stump in water. Head turned to the right after I stood on a twig and was spotted.

Sometimes the Cormorant is black in colour. At other times, brown or with a hint of indigo. If lucky, you will see all of these colours at the same time. Then, there is the structure of the feathers. A cormorant. #UKWildlife #BirdOfTheDay #Feathers #Birds #Photography #ECK #WildlifePhotography

A side view of a male peacock with his tail feathers down. He is in dappled sunlight.

#BirdOfTheDay #Feathers A beautiful male peacock in Holland Park, London.

A Ruby-crowned Kinglet (Corthylio calendula) flying from one branch to the next in a pine tree.

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #SmallBirdsInFlight, any bird, duck-sized or smaller, in flight.

A Ruby-crowned Kinglet (Corthylio calendula) flying from branch to branch, frantically searching for insects to consume. #birds #birding #rubycrownedkinglet #photography #wildlife

For #BirdOfTheDay theme #smallbirdsinflight a sparrow coming right at you #Birds #Wildlife #Nature #EastCoastKin #Photography #Birding #NaturePhotography #BirdPhotography #PhotographyIsArt

Anna’s hummingbird hovers midair, wings spread wide. She has a small patch of shiny pink feathers on her throat. Her head and body are white with shiny green feathers mixed in. The background is dark, shaded trees, out of focus.

Anna’s hummingbird (female) #SmallBirdsInFlight #birdoftheday #nature #photography #birds #hummingbirds

Beautiful heron photo! Just perfect!

A swan on the water of a small river, amongst green reeds on the banks.

A handsome mute swan at Strumpshaw RSPB nature reserve in #Norfolk #BirdOfTheDay #RiverBank #Norwich #Birds

A black silhouette of a red kite flying in a blue sky.

My sad iPhone attempt at capturing a magnificent red kite in Buckinghamshire. #BirdOfTheDay #BigBirdsInFlight

And now we’ve had a visit from this great tit, collecting some of the alpaca fur we’ve left out for the birds! Should be a cozy nest! (No hedgehogs visiting the feeding station yet though). #BirdOfTheDay #Birds #Norwich #Spring

Blue tit gathering moss from the cherry tree root this morning! Hoping it’s for one of our bird boxes! #BirdOfTheDay #Spring #Norwich

Bare trees in front of a purple-blue sky, with a park boundary hedge in the foreground.

I loved the silhouettes of these trees against the beautiful evening sky on our walk home yesterday. #Norwich #CitySilhouettes