Thank you!

😁 Thank you! I can live with that punishment

A Rufous Hummingbird sipping from the honeysuckle

Another Rufous aiming at the foxglove

A White-crowned Sparrow posing amidst cherry blossoms

A few Snow Geese in flight. Pretty sure it's more than three?

#BirdOfTheDay #Petals&Perches #WhatTheFlock #photography #birds

So many colours around that goldfinch! And... on the goldfinch too!

A male stonechat with a black head, white neck patch, and warm orange chest perches upright on a curved stem of bright yellow rapeseed flowers. It stands above a dense, softly blurred field of matching yellow blooms, creating a glowing golden backdrop. The bird faces slightly to the right, sharply in focus against the hazy sea of colour.

Good morning. Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Petals&Perches any bird with flowers in capture. The alt is #WhatTheFlock any capture of three or more of the same bird. Good luck. #birds #photography #ECK

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me and my friends getting "left behind" by AI

3-panel comic. (1) (A person with a picture of a spacecraft behind head.] PERSON 1: There are now three spacecraft headed to Europe: NASA’s *Europa Clipper*, which will investigate Europa’s subsurface ocean, (2) [Person is gesturing at a picture of a different spacecraft while talking to a person with a ponytail and a person with short hair.] PERSON 1: ESA’s *Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer*, which will study the topography and chemistry of Europa and the other moons, (3) [Person with a picture behind head of a Zamboni with a rocket launcher underneath] and the NHL’s *Zamboni Voyager*, which plans to resurface Europa. PERSON FROM OFF-PANEL: Oh no. PERSON 1: We tried to stop them, but the league is set on an expansion.

Europa Missions

xkcd.com/3234/

An acrylic painting of orange-yellow aspen trees in the forest.

My painting QUAKING ASPENS

It's all about birds and bugs for #BirdOfTheDay #ComeEatWithMe

A Taiga Flycatcher with a fly

A Ruby-crowned Kinglet with a hoverfly

A White-crowned Sparrow with a wasp

A female Red-winged Blackbird with a juicy little caterpillar

#photography #birds

My photo shows a Hellenistic era hemispherical mosaic glass bowl viewed from above. The glass has a floral pattern made up of tiny, many-petalled blue, white, and yellowy-green flowers against a dark purple background (looks black in my photo). The bowl has an alternating diagonal-striped black and white glass rim. The bowl has been reconstructed from fragments and the plain light blue areas are where missing glass fragments have been replaced during reconstruction. It measures 13.2 cm in diameter and 7.5 cm in height. It was made in the eastern Mediterranean about 200-100 BC.

This Hellenistic mosaic glass bowl looks so modern, yet it was made over 2,000 years ago!

Ancient glassmakers created the tiny flower pattern using a technique now known as ‘millefiori’ (thousand flowers). A timeless design still made by glassmakers today!

British Museum 📷 by me

#Archaeology

An American Dipper in the river with water flowing over top. The stream is clear and smooth with feather detail visible through the water.

American Dipper foraging in the Clackamas River at Milo McIver SP, Oregon #birds #photography #birdphotography #nature #wildlife #pnw #oregon #stunday #birdoftheday #abcd

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A is for Avocet
B is for Bushtit
C is for Cardinal
D is for Dowitcher

#BirdOfTheDay #ABCD #photography #birds

For todays #BirdOfTheDay #ABCD I'd like to share this adorable scene of a family of Coot/Meerkoet that I took yesterday:

I feel like it won't take long for this "AI" era to be a deep cultural embarassment.

"They kept saying their AI had become sentient every 6 months and people just sorta kept believing it even though it was never true."

THE DUCKLING LOAD! OVER 20 WOOD DUCKLINGS WITH A SINGLE MOTHER!!!!

After 6 days baby bird free, today more than made up for it!

I don't know if it's a bluesky record, but it's a Brett Banditelli record! 🪶 🐣

A male Rufous Hummingbird perched on a twig, facing and glaring in my general direction. The light is catching his gorget fully copper and orange

A male Rufous Hummingbird perched on a twig, body mostly turned camera right but head in my direction. The light is catching his gorget fully copper and orange

For @javajanegallery.co.uk's #SmallBirdSaturday we have a male Rufous Hummingbird, the rightful and shiny Lord Protector Of The Feeders Behind The Richmond Nature House. He arrived about a month ago, and has since chased off another Rufous pretender to claim his title.

#photography #birds

Mr. and Mrs. Wood Duck hanging out on logs sticking out of the water, as is their way

-- Piper Spit, Burnaby Lake. April 2026

#BirdOfTheDay #DucksOutOfWater #photography #birds

Horned Furby with a knife sez: Be A Problem Money Can't Solve

A vertical tubular birdfeeder full of mixed seeds is being visited by five small birds with grey breast, white throat and rusty brown cap on its head (chipping sparrows). All the available spaces at the feeder are occupied.

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme of #FeederFriends (birds you might see at your feeder) reminds of that time *all* the Chipping Sparrows came over for dinner. (There's one on the perch in the back, too.)

#birds #photography

#BirdOfTheDay theme #Waders

#tureluur #Commonredshank #Tringatotanus #Tringa ‪#juveniles #juvenile #chick #reflection #PhotographersOfBluesky #ThePhotoHour #NaturePhotography #birdphotography #ThePhotoHour #BirdLife #WildlifePhotography #EastCoastKin #ECK #wildlife @alan678.bsky.social

No one has ever been more surprised supporting the face eating leopard party resulted in their face being eaten.

Eisner could tell more story in a single cover than many artists in a whole-ass 24 page comic

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An assortment of typical feeder-friendly birds:

Spotted Towhees, Song Sparrows, Dark-eyed Juncos, and Red-breasted Nuthatches (this last one actually on a feeder)

#BirdOfTheDay #FeederFriends #photography #birds

The only one I know in that list is Hades II. If you've played the first game (which is awesome) this is an even more awesome sequel

Seriously! "Deceptive lizard" vs "Thunder lizard" there is no competition

Here's a young Wood Stork for today's #BirdOfTheDay theme of #HeadShots. He was with 2 other young Wood Storks. They appear to have reached the age of independence but have not yet developed the scaly necks that mature adults have. #birds #nature #photography