Great photo Sandy.
I host a good colony of them under my roof in Jakarta. Up to 12 bats certain days. Protecting them from scared or misinformed neighbours.
#BatAppreciationDay

Great shot Mark. I saw my very first one yesterday In SGP.

Beautiful sighting and well framed shot! 💙

I almost missed the #birdoftheday #blue tag with these 2 bee-eaters

A few more nice sightings from the past few days
* Blue-tailed Bee-eater (Merops philippinus)
* Pink-necked Green Pigeon (Treron vernans)

#BirdsSeenIn2026 #birding #indonesia

*Dicaeum maugei

Big green pigeon with burgundy patch on upper wings, yellow and black primaries, grey head with green eye ring, perched on a branch

Tiny flowerpecker with broad dark bill, dark upperparts, white underparts and striking red chest and rump, perched on a branch with blurred green background

Chunky white bird with yellowish bill and signature blue facial skin around the eyes, perched on a palm leaf

Sparrow-like bird with contrasting black head, white underparts and brown upperparts perched on a wall

📢Lifer alerts from a fantastic mini trip in Nusa Penida.
* Red-chested Flowerpecker (Dicaueummaugei)
* Grey-cheeked Green Pigeon (Treron griseicauda)
* Bali Myna / Bali Starling (Leucopsar rothschildi)
* Black-faced Munia (Lonchura molluca)

#birding #indonesia
#BirdsSeenIn2026 #Bali

Spectacular! It looks like a close up rather than telelens. Is that just an effect or a really fancy gear ?

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

2 penguins, feet in shallow water, on a sunny sandy beach with large boulders scattered around and waves crashing in the background. South Africa 2025

African Penguin for the #BirdOfTheDay theme of #BirdsInTheirElement.
Have a great Sunday or start of the week, wherever you are.
#photography #EastCoastKin #Stunday

Upward perspective view of Buddha's Tooth Relic Temple in Singapore's China Town with New Year illumination at night with dark sky in the background

Happy Lunar New Year everyone
#yearofthehorse #CNY #SGP
#scape #cityscape

25 November 2023 (says the graph)?

The contrasting yellow and blue when bill is open is incredible.
In which part of Ghana did you see them @anuradhasarup.bsky.social ? I never got to see them while living there many years.

The second installment of Scott Ritchie's favorite bird photos of 2025.

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Foreground to the left is the vivid green back of a hummingbird with tail spread and wings horizontal cypress trunk with gray squirrel upside-down and blurry

Contested airspace ...
Hummingbird vs gray squirrel!

Squirrels spend lots of time upside-down and staring - male hummingbirds guard! & feint! & guard some more ...

Per Cornell's allaboutbirds[.]org the Ruby-throated Hummingbird weighs 0.1-0.2 oz (2-5 g) 🪶 🌿 #Sqrlpix

What a moment, what a shot!

A small iridescent green hummingbird perched on a thin branch, its long bill slightly open against a soft yellow background.

Fiery-throated Hummingbird #CostaRica

#birds #hummingbirds #nature

Komorebi
Gorgeous light at Nunhead cemetery, London #godrays #crepuscularrays #phoro #photography #naturephotography

White-headed Munia (Lonchura maja). A South-East Asia estrildid finch common in wetlands high grass. #Indonesia #BirdsSeenIn2026 🪶

Stunning bird.
Here is his cousin from Indonesia, the Javan Kingfisher, for blue bird lovers 💙 seen a few weeks ago. #BirdsSeenIn2025 🪶

Is this the bluesky handle of the author? No link

Greater Crested Tern with distinct yellow bill and black crest/nape, perched on a pole in the sea

Solitary Pacific Swallow perched on a stick. Reddish pattern on head, white underparts and dark upperparts, wings and nape

Slightly patterned brown immature Brahminy Kite perched on a branch of a Casuarina tree with leaves obstructing partly the view.

Very blurry Collared Kingfisher perched on a pole in the sea with distinct greenish-blue wings, white breast and underparts and red bill.

Starting the year with a few poor shots of #birdsfromfaraway off #Java, #Indonesia
Collared Kingfisher, Pacific Swallow, Brahminy Kite, Greater Crested Tern.
All species enjoying the peaceful atoll life in the Sea of Java. 🪶
#BirdsSeenIn2026 #birding

Here's how Mr Dove is supposed to look like

My small contribution to #birdbutt for #BirdOfTheDay. This is the beautiful Black-naped Fruit Dove hiding behind leaves. #BirdsSeenIn2025 #birding #java #indonesia 🇮🇩

#indonesia 🇮🇩
Erratum: pale-blue eye, so a male.
Phaenicophaeus curvirostris

Large Malkoha bird with chestnut breast and undertail, green wings and upper parts, grey head, red eye mask and yellow iris, searched on the branch in front of a cliff , with some hanging tree branches. Location: East Java

I had the chance of doing some deep forest birding this week. Here's my latests sight : a Chestnut-breasted Malkoha #BirdOfTheDay #mostrecent #BirdsSeenIn2025 #birds #Java #Lifer #575

Functional architecture meets religion
#Bangkok #BKK #scapes

Amazing bird. Lucky you!

Absolutely love Kingfishers. I would probably have made a poster of these, if these were my shots...
Until I see them all in the region 🤩

Green and yellow tiled mosque cupola behind a green and yellow overpass. Indonesia

Beauty is in the details 💚💛