A flock of sanderlings at the surf’s edge include seven standing and seven flying (if my math is right). The surf’s white foam goes diagonally across the photo from top left to lower right. There are no attempts to tie in old rock songs in this alt post.
Surf and sanderlings only. #WhatTheFlock #BirdOfTheDay #birds #shorebirds #nature #birdphotography #ECK 🪶
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Many thanks for your kind assessment!
GBH found a great spot to pose! And love the flocks!
Thank you for adding the botanical to the ornithological! 🌱
A large breeding flock of common terns, with their black heads, stirs along a beach near a calm channel. Some are standing and some have their wings up to fly.
A flock of common terns flies left to right.
To every thing, Tern! Tern! Tern!
The Byrds
#WhatTheFlock #BirdOfTheDay #birds #terns #birdphotography #Americanbands ECK 🪶
A large group of herring gulls stands on a beach near the surf at the opening of an inlet. You can see the beach on the other side of the channel with more gulls out of focus.
And I ran, I ran so far away …
A Flock of Seagulls
#WhatTheFlock #BirdOfTheDay #birds #gulls #birdphotography #Britishbands #ECK 🪶
A female northern cardinal in profile facing right perches amidst the leaves at left and pink blooms at right of a rhododendron bush. The brown cardinal’s red beak and tuft on its head, along with the black band of feathers from its eye to its beak, stand out.
There aren’t many blooms here yet, so I went back to June of last year for #PetalsAndPerches to find this female northern cardinal perched in a rhododendron. #BirdOfTheDay #birds #cardinals #backyardbirds #photography #ECK 🪶
All I can say is Wow!
Looks like they have eyes for each other! Tis the season!
A male eastern bluebird, surprised that he’s a turdidae member, perches in the afternoon on the branch of a blooming maple tree. He is facing right with his butt closer to the camera.
Thank you to @robcrank68.bsky.social for teaching me that one of my favorite birds is a member of the #Turdidae family (never heard of it and had to do some research)! #BirdOfTheDay #alt #birds #bluebirds #backyardbirds #birdphotography #ECK 🪶
Closeup of a purple iris shows patches of yellow and white on the base of its petals. Background is blurred daylily stalks.
A purple iris blooms to brighten June of 2020. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekPforPurple #flowers #bloomscrolling #ECK #photography
Thank you Alan! Always appreciate your effort to look at so many BOTD posts!
Looking forward to it! 👨🍳
This is a snapshot of the failure of MSM and the concomitant ignorance within the American electorate about what is happening in and to their country.
For the #ComeEatWithMe #birdoftheday theme, I'm sharing this #photo of a Snowy Plover. Note the leg bands - this protected species is making a comeback with the conservation measures that have been put in place. I was in the right place at the right time that day! 😊
A piping plover on the beach, facing front left, holds a fresh worm in its beak that it plucked from the sand below.
A male eastern bluebird, standing on a railing facing left showing its orange breast, has a dried mealworm in its beak.
A female ruby-throated hummingbird hovers with wings up over a red feeder going left to right with its head and beak poking into an opening to get to the sugar water inside. And, yes, I realize that technically you can’t see the food in its beak as the theme requires! But it’s in the spirit of things!
A herring gull facing left on a beach holds an entire green crab by the leg in its yellow beak.
Let’s get cooking with #ComeEatWithMe today: some like their worms fresh and salty (piping plover); some like them dried and crunchy (eastern bluebird); some take a liquid lunch (ruby-throated hummingbird); and some get a bit crabby (herring gull). #BirdOfTheDay #birds #ECK 🪶
You have cooked up a recipe for success once again! Cheers!
Appreciate it, Rob!
Thanks Rob
If you watch and share one thing today make at this. Why is every democrat in the country not talking like this?
You win for having an Adélie penguin! 🐧 don’t imagine anyone else had that A entry!
Glad the winter is over here in New England!
Thank you! Tried to fit the themes!
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As always, I appreciate the kind words!
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An American robin stands on a railing post facing to the right but away from the camera, with its head turned to look left. Behind are rhododendron leaves.
A red-winged blackbird perches in profile atop an evergreen facing left but with his head turned back to look right. You can see its red epaulet on its left wing.
A gray catbird perches on a branch amidst mossy blooms, looking ahead to the right.
A mourning dove sits on a thick maple branch looking ahead and to the right with red maple blooms out of focus behind.
#ABCD for #BirdOfTheDay theme:
A is for American robin
B is for blackbird (red-winged)
C is for catbird (gray)
D is for dove (mourning)
#birds #backyardbirds #birdphotography #ECK 🪶
