Bird with whitish breast, gray back and black head with white stripe in a flowering bush
Harking back to 2018, I get to share this photo of a bananaquit in Costa Rica for today's #BirdOfTheDay 😊
#Perches&Petals #birds #birdphotography #naturephotography
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Thanks very much! Have a lovely afternoon and evening
Brown and russet colored bird with open beak as it prepares to swallow a cedar berry
#ComeEatWithMe said the American Robin. There are no more cedar berries on the tree now for this #BirdOfTheDay
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Two small brown and cream/white colored birds perched on a water dish, one looking at the camera with a wide open beak
"You didn't know I can do a full aria, did you, mom?" The young chipping sparrow was very pleased to be included in today's #BirdOfTheDay - if anyone else would like to guess what the youngster was saying, please do let us know. 🙂🐥
#CaptionThis #birds #naturephotography
Female mallard in 2024
Male mallard in 2023
Had to go back in time to find photos of #DucksOutOfWater - here are a couple mallards
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Gorgeous bird and wonderful portrait!
I sympathize with your having to watch feeder rivalry - it happens at my feeders as well and I have four feeder poles up with 3 feeders each!! But I also get lots of birds and that is real pleasure.
Purple finch and messy eater in 2022
More delicate diner in 2025 and more lightly colored than the one in 2022 (not just an artefact of lighting/processing)
Two male purple finches as my #FeederFriends for #BirdOfTheDay - One came by in 2022 and one in 2025 (and they were here again this past winter and only recently left to migrate).
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When looking for a contribution to #HeadShots for #BirdOfTheDay, I realized that I don't often focus on birds' heads so much. Here are a brown thrasher and a Carolina wren.
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I always feel lucky when spotting a Northern American beaver swimming across a pond.
#Mammals #Americanbeaver #rodent
Baltimore oriole in a scene of #LeafandLight for #BirdOfTheDay
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Duck with yellow bill, green head, white collar and white and black on its back
A male mallard was swimming quietly making #Reflections
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Thank you!!
Thanks! After I left and was quite far away, I turned to look down at the lake and saw the two mating in their lakeside abode. 🙂
Osprey pair on nest they constructed on a utility tower. They have been using this nest for several years now. Their nest is right on a lake. Some way away another pair has built a nest on another tower; perhaps one of their offspring.
A locally beloved osprey pair for today's #JKLMNOP theme for #BirdOfTheDay
#birds #naturephotography #nest
Small greenish bird with reddish throat and long beak
Small greenish bird with reddish throat and long beak; showing off his iridiscent throat feathers
Small greenish bird with reddish throat and long beak; showing off his iridiscent throat feathers
A week ago, my first ruby-throated hummingbird arrived at a feeder; today, there were two males disputing the "territory". This is one who was preening after their encounter. North Carolina
#birds #naturephotography #ruby-throatedhummingbird #NorthCarolina
Brown and gray bird with wings spread as it takes off from the water
Brown pelican at the North Carolina coast.
#LongNecks #BirdOfTheDay #naturephotography #birds
Baby bird with beak wide open perched next to parent with a large insect in its mouth
An Eastern kingbird baby waiting for its meal.
#Juveniles #BirdOfTheDay #birds #naturephotography
This was now identified as a young Parasitic Jaeger chasing a sandwich tern.
Thanks but I do wish I'd gotten an ID on the bird! 🙂
Photo from years ago at the NC coast. Didn't get an ID on the bird but it is showing a #BirdButt in flight. Perhaps a juvenile.
#BirdOfTheDay #gull #birds #naturephotography
Brown and white bird perched on trail sign in a local nature reserve
A hermit thrush that kept me company for a while on a walk.
#BirdOfTheDay #manmadeperch #birds #naturephotography
Thank you!
Gray bird with black and white head that has a crayfish suspended between the top and lower beaks
This yellow-crowned night heron, which does has some black on its head, had closed the nictitating membranes to protect its eyes as it was positioning a crayfish to swallow.
#BlackHeads #BirdOfTheDay #night-heron #birds #naturephotography
That is indeed a lovely shot!
Gray-brown bird with orange eye and beak on a giraffe's neck
Gray-brown bird with orange eye and beak on a giraffe's neck looking for food
Seeing the red-billed oxpeckers on giraffes in Africa was one of my #RareEncounters.
#BirdOfTheDay #Africa #birds #naturephotography
"Beaver moon" in November 2025
How miraculous to be seeing the back of the moon along with the astronauts as they come out from going behind it. I hope many children will be able to remember this decades from now as a unique opportunity to see such history being made.
#science #moon #space-exploration
Bird with red head, white breast and black and white back perched at nest hole
A red-headed woodpecker was looking into a nest hole that might be an abode for this spring.
#BirdOfTheDay #Black&Red #birds #naturephotography