For #RockinTuesday Rocks arranged on a driftwood stump by some old man so a picture could be taken of it. I am admitting to nothing . . .🤪

A close-up of a small songbird perched on a branch, partially framed by green leaves. The bird features a striking, vibrant orange throat and upper breast, contrasted by a slate-gray head and back with white-streaked wings. It is looking downward with a sharp, dark beak and a small black eye.

The Flame-throated Warbler has always been a challenge for me, as I don't see them that often and they're very busy little birds as they flit under leaves looking for delicious insect snacks. I got a little luckier today. #CostaRica #birds

A brilliant purple flower with three triangular petals, a center cluster of purple hairs and stamens with bright yellow anthers, and long, fluted blade-like leaves (Virginia spiderwort).

"All the other colors are just colors, but #purple seems to have a soul — when you look at it, it's looking back at you." – Uniek Swain 💜💚 #MacroMonday #MacroPhotography #Flowers #Gardening #Bloomscrolling #NaturePhotography #ECK #VirginiaSpiderwort #Wildflowers

Dzień dobry ☀️ Udanego i pogodnego dnia

Guten Morgen ☕ Kommt gut durch den Tag

🏞️ Kolsay, Almaty region, Kasachstan
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For #TagTuesday, somebody tagged this garbage can before this Song Sparrow could put his/her mark on it! #birds #photography #ECK #WestCoastKin #PhotographersUnited

#BirdOfTheDay #FeederFriends Here is a guy hanging out at the wrong kind of feeder, but still doing his best to get a drink.

The image shows a male American Robin in the middle to upper right, perched on a horizontal brown and gray maple branch mottled here and there with grayish-green lichen. His head is turned to the side because he knows he has a good profile, and he also wants to show off his bright yellow beak. The robin and the branch are both fully in focus, and we are able to see nice detail of the breast and head feathers, eye, legs and even claws. Below the robin is another, larger horizontal branch in the midground that is somewhat out of focus. To the left a smaller, out-of-focus branch curves upward in the midground, while the background is filled with brownish-gray bokeh from numerous other branches in the distance.

Alan's @alan678.bsky.social theme for #BirdOfTheDay is #ABCD, so here's a American Robin perched on a lichen-covered maple branch and proudly showing off his bright red breast. Norwich VT, April 2026

#ECK #Photography #PhotographersOfBluesky #Nature #Birds #Stunday

The image shows the bright pink inflorescence of an urn plant, Aechmea fasciata, another bromeliad native to Brazil. The inflorescence appears at the middle left of the image, and shows many bright pink leaves with sharp, serrated edges. The inflorescence (a set of specialized leaves that hold the actual flowers when in bloom) is fully in focus, and surrounded on the right and bottom by dark green, glossy, out-of focus leaves with a mottling of lighter green. The leaves are interspersed with black shadows, especially in the upper left corner.

Pink enough for ya? A very striking urn plant, Dartmouth College Conservatory, April 2026

#ECK #Photography #PhotographersOfBluesky #MacroMonday #PinkMon #Bloomscrolling #Flowers

This image a closeup of the head and torso of a crow in a grassy field. This hungry dude is chowing down on a worm---yum! We get a nice view of detail in its glossy wing and head feathers, as well as its beak. It hasn't shaved in a couple of days (well, ever) as can seen by the scruff on its chin. There even looks like there may be a small reflection of the skyline in its eye, though I can't be sure. The crow is surrounded by mostly brown grass but with a hint of green here and there. A little grass in the foreground is in focus, but the grass in the background is out of focus, producing a brownish-green blur that contrasts nicely with the glossy black of the crow.

I was saving this for a food day. It's a food day! #ComeEatWithMe is the theme for #BirdOfTheDay from @robcrank68.bsky.social. Here's a crow with a snack! Norwich VT, April 2026

#ECK #Photography #PhotographersOfBluesky #Birds #Wildlife #Nature

A small, slate-gray bird with a slightly hooked beak is perched upside down on a flowering plant. It is focused on a bright pink flower bud, seemingly searching for nectar. The background consists of soft-focus green leaves and reddish-brown stems.

I spent some quality time with this wonderful Slaty Flowerpiercer this morning in San Gerardo de Dota #CostaRica

These little nectar thieves pierce the base of flowers to extract nectar, bypassing the pollination process.

#birds #nature

Puffinomenal photo!🤩

Close up of a Puffin - an adorable pelagic bird with a multicolored beak, white cheeks, a black stripe down the middle of its head, white chest, black neck and black wings and tail feathers. The Puffin has many translucent Sand Eels in its mouth.

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #ComeEatWithMe, birds who have food in their beaks. Here is an Atlantic Puffin with a beak full of Sand Eels. Puffins have slotted beaks designed to hold multiple small fish. #Iceland #Puffin #birdoftheday #nature #birding #wildlifephotography 🪶

Happy #TwosDay! 2 juvenile Glaucous-winged Gulls and 2 golf balls!😁 #birds #photography #ECK #WestCoastKin #PhotographersUnited

Flock of yellowlegs in flight over a lake, their bright leg color standing out against the brown feathers.

A flock of greater (or lesser???) yellowlegs.

#birds
#photography
#birdsofbluesky

#MonoFootMonday

The Jerome Grand Hotel in Jerome Arizona.

"You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step." — Martin Luther King, Jr.

Blue Jay selecting a peanut from the table. If you look closely, he already has a peanut kernel in his mouth.
#birds

A Black-crested Titmouse clinging to the side of a tree.
#birds

European Starling struggling to stay on the birdfeeder.
#birds

Closeup of a purple passion flower. The flower has multiple layers. Working from bottom to top, The bottom most layer consists of purple petals and purple sepals which look similar, but the sepals have a more rounded tip while the petals have a sharper tip. There are five petals and five sepals which alternate (petal, sepal, petal, sepal, etc). The next layer is the corona which contains thin, squiggly radial filaments, also purple that go from a dark purple in the center of the flower to pale purple at the end of the filaments. Out of the center of the flower rises the ovary from which five pale yellow anthers that look like narrow coffee beans grow. On top of that layer are three stigmas, a pale blend of pale yellow and lavender. There is one unopened passion flower at the top of the image. The background are green leaves.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekPforPurple #MacroMonday

Purple passion flower

#ECK #BloomScrolling #PassionFlower

A Turkey Vulture was circling the neighborhood for a short while.
#birds

The first Sunflower bloom has appeared. We had lots of unexpected sunflowers last year, and it looks like there will be even more coming this year. The hazards of feeding the birds!
#flowers #sunflower

A male Lesser Goldfinch perched on the finch feeder.
#birds

American Pippit got himself a snack 😋. Peace!✌️# birds #birding #ComeEatWithMe #BirdOfTheDay

A female Northern Cardinal perched on the wire. She's looking a little plump, so maybe eggs/babies soon?
#birds

A female Northern Cardinal perched on the wire while eating a seed.
#birds

A Black Oystercatcher breaks into a clam against some rocks.

#ComeEatWithMe is the #BirdoftheDay theme, and this Black Oystercatcher tucks into a clam. #Birds 🪶 #ECK

A curved purple wall with small and smaller white rings attached to the wall in a non-uniform pattern spotted in a Las Vegas hotel/casino.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekPforPurple

A curved purple wall with small and smaller white rings attached to the wall in a non-uniform pattern spotted in a Las Vegas hotel/casino.

#ECK #InteriorDesign #WallTreatment #LasVegas

Wilson's snipe bird with a long beak and brown, black and white feathers in flight against a green blurred field.

Holy cow. I got a Wilson's snipe in flight! They are so shy, and I didn't even see it until it took flight.

#birds
#photography
#birdsofbluesky

photo of a brewer's blackbird on a diagonal branch. he is in profile facing left and has a very large (2 inch at least) stonefly in his beak.

#BirdOfTheDay is Mr. Brewer's Blackbird with a Salmonfly (Pteronarcys californica) (AKA Giant Stonefy) NOM!

I can't find a pic right now, but sometimes the Brewer's will roll the salmonfly in birdseed for extra cronch!

#birds #becurious