A small royal blue bird with a rusty red chest and sides and a white belly stands on a thin branch in profile facing the right. He is staring into the distance as though deep in thought while the late afternoon sun glints off his black eye.
Lost in Thought
Eastern Bluebird
#ColorADay #BlueTue #AnimalArtTuesday #birds #nature #photography
Only three days? I can go a couple of weeks at least without even trying! 🤣 Thank you for the kind words, Alan.
Thank you so much! 😊
Thanks!
Thank you, Helen! 😊
A photograph of a male Redstart that has a beautiful orange chest with a black face. He is perched on a dead branch with his head turned to the right as viewed just showing the top of his slate grey cap and shoulders. It is a bright sunny day with yellow flowers of gorse bushes just showing in the foreground and bright green spring leaves blurring in the distance behind.
First time out with my camera in a while yesterday and was delighted to see some gorgeous Common Redstarts. This male perched beautifully in among the gorse bushes for a few moments 🧡 📷 🪶
#Birds #BirdOfTheDay #Petals&Perches #BirdsSeenIn2026 #Nature #Nature #BirdPhotography #UKBirding #UKWildlife
A sunlit royal blue bird with a white face, black necklace and black barred wings and tail perches on a thin bare branch with its back to the camera and its head turned back over its left shoulder against a background fille with deep pink flowers and green leaves.
Once again there are a lot of fantastic captures in today's #BirdOfTheDay. Thanks to everyone for sharing their beautiful images with the rest of us.
Blue Jay
#Petals&Perches #BloomScrolling #ECK #corvids #AnimalArtTuesday #ColorADay #BlueTue #birds #nature #photography
A male Lazuli Bunting perched in a patch of purple Lupine flowers and looking at the camera. His feathers are fluffed so he looks pretty round.
We're a few weeks away from Lazuli Bunting season. Looking forward to it. #Petals&Perches #BirdoftheDay #birds
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 🪶
A male Black-capped Chickadee with a black cap and chin, white face, gray-brown wings and tail edged with white, and a buff-colored belly. He was perched on a brown branch of a Magnolia tree that had pale pink and white buds and flowers that were just opening. There are more brown branches and green leaves around some of the buds in the background.
Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Petals&Perches - a bird with flowers in the capture. This cute #Black-cappedChickadee was perched amid magnolia buds and blooms starting to open (Westwood, MA - 4/11/25) 😍🩷🪶
#birds #nature #spring #ECK #birdphotography #OM-1 #Massachusetts @alan678.bsky.social
Chestnut-backed Chickadee with a ros.
@alan678.bsky.social's #birdoftheday is #Petals&Perches – a bird with flowers. Here's a Chestnut-backed Chickadee with a rose at our lower spa in Oakland, California.
Eine Kohlmeise auf dem Ast eines rosa blühenden Kirschbaumes, umgeben von Blüten, hat sich nach vorn gebeugt und zeigt ihr Rückengefieder. Sie wird von der Sonne beschienen.
Das Thema zum heutigen #BirdOfTheDay von @alan678.bsky.social ist
#Petals&Perches
Vögel zwischen Blühendem.
Happy Birthday, Eric! Hope you have a wonderful day.
Thank you, Justine! 🥰
A small sunlit streaky brown bird with a cinnamon brown cap, gray face, and pale underparts stands at about a 45 degree angle with its back to the camera and its head looking slightly down and to the left at the tiny bright pink buds covering the branch it is standing on.
Chipping Sparrow in Eastern Redbud
#ColorADay #PinkMon #BloomScrolling #birds #trees #flowers #nature #photography
🎵My little Buttercup...🎵 😄 Great pick!
A small sunlit cluster of blue purple bell shaped flowers bends a thin green stalk to the right with their weight. Pink buds below the open flowers are waiting their turn with a tiny fly perches on a green leaf above them enjoying their beauty as well.
Virginia Bluebells
#WildFlowerHour #ColorADay #PinkMon #BlueSkyMonday #AlphabetChallenge #WeekPForPurple #flowers #BloomScrolling #nature #photgraphy #NativePlants
A huge sunlit blue gray bird stands on knobby knees facing the camera with its head looking down and toward the left against a blue watery background. In its long daggerlike beak is a tiny fish it has just caught and water droplets are scattered around the action. Two needle thin feathers stream from the back of the heron's head and its yellow eye is gazing intently at its catch.
A softly sunlit female bluebird with pale dusty blue feathers and a muted rusty red chest clings to a diagonal stem of a berry bush in profile facing right and looking slightly toward the camera with a bright red berry clutched in her beak.
A sunlit bird with a deep bright red head and neck, bright white underparts, and a black back with a large white patch on its wings clings to the left side of a diagonal branch in profile facing right while clutching a piece of peanut in its gray white beak against a bright blue sky.
A dark green black bird with yellow skin around the base of its beak and chin swims mostly submerged in tannish gray water in profile facing right. Its neck is extended as it looks toward the sky and is bulging with a large fish that it is trying to swallow. Its hooked beak is closed but the triangular tip of a tail fin can be seen on the back side of it similar to a rhinoceros horn.
You might be able to get all but one of these birds to share their catch with you.
Eastern Bluebird
Great Blue Heron
Red-headed Woodpecker
Double-crested Cormorant/aquatic Rhinoceros
#BirdOfTheDay #ComeEatWithMe #Turdidae #BlueSkyMonday #birds #nature #photography
That's gorgeous, Justine! Seeing the whole field must have been amazing.
A medium-sized black bird with bright orange "epaulets" over yellow bars on the top of its wings calls out with a wide-open beak on a warm spring day. The bird is perched on the thin branch of a tree that is blossoming with bright pink flowers and barely-budding green leaves. In the background is the blurred, blue Anthony Wayne Bridge.
Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus), Middlegrounds Metropark, Toledo, Ohio, USA, April 2026. ©2026 #birds #nature #photography #naturephotography #middlegrounds #toledo #ohio #spring
Thank you!
Oh, how cool. Fantastic shot!
Thank you, Anna! 😊
Fingers crossed for you!
Beautiful capture! 💙
Thank you, Julia!
A small gray bird with a black cap and chin, white cheeks, and pale tan underparts sits in profile facing left, head slightly lifted, on a thin branch with orange brown leaves hanging below it against a blurred background of tan and orange.
It may be spring, but some fall vibes are still hanging around.
Carolina Chickadee
#BirdOfTheDay #ABCD #StunDay #ColorADay #OrangeSun #ECK #birds #nature #wildlife #photography
😇 😁 Thanks, Alan!
Thank you!
