A female Mallard churns up the water around her.
For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme of #SplashingAround, here is a #Mallard explaining to twenty of her closest friends that she is ready to be courted, thank you very much.
#birds #photography #BirdPhotography #duck #ducks #wildlife #WildlifePhotography #nature #NaturePhotography
Let's hope this #music is more relaxing than the rest of the world.
#improv #piano
youtu.be/HPtNzZtQJrY
There's always that one piece of photobombing grass. *Sigh*
Premee Mohamed: what if the mushroom was inside us all along
What is this "on trend" thing you speak of?
A young Orchard Oriole clings to a stalk of mullein, a tall thin plant featuring a spiral of yellow flowers, as a female Orchard Oriole hovers beside it with an insect in her beak.
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Petals&Perches. The petals are mullein, the perch belongs to a young #OrchardOriole, breakfast has been provided by Mum, and that one annoying stalk of grass can go right to hell.
#birds #photography #BirdPhotography #wildlife #WildlifePhotography #oriole
I shall BREAK all the RHYTHMS to PIECES.
#improv #music #accordion
youtu.be/TY-kWYVA3wA
Hurrah: It Never Rains has been nominated for an Aurora Award in the "Graphic Novel/Comics" category! Congrats to all the nominees!
www.csffa.ca/awards-infor...
A Great Blue heron spreads its wings and pulls an enormous red and white goldfish from a pond choked with lily pads.
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #ComeEatWithMe, a.k.a. birds that have food in their beak. The food of this #GreatBlueHeron is rather surprised that it IS food.
#birds #photography #BirdPhotography #heron #herons #wildlife #WildlifePhotography #nature #NaturePhotography
I continue to be impressed by how many musical layers one can produce with a seven-string #lyre.
#improv #music
youtu.be/cmZc0iX9O94
In a new It Never Rains comic, the walls in that apartment are quite thin. itneverrainscomic.com/20260420.html
YouTube is up to some new tomfoolery. In the last few days, when I've been writing tags for my videos, it's randomly changed them without explanation. "Piano" turns into "Floor"; "Trossingen lyre" becomes "Defying the lyre." Hey, YouTube: please cut it out with the pointless, annoying AI.
A Cedar Waxwing, a tan bird with a black eye mask that makes it look like a bandit, perches on a branch that is covered with dogwood fluff, more fluff held in its beak.
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #ABCD, with the alternate theme being #CaptionThis. This #CedarWaxwing is clearly saying, "If I have to sit on this nest for weeks, it's damn well going to be fluffy."
#birds #photography #BirdPhotography #wildlife #WildlifePhotography #nature #NaturePhotography
A female Wood Duck perches on a log, her feathers ruffled and her shiny turquoise speculum prominent.
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #DucksOutOfWater. This #WoodDuck is feeling all fancy.
#birds #photography #BirdPhotography #duck #ducks #WoodDucks #wildlife #WildlifePhotography #nature #NaturePhotography
A male House Finch, a bird with bright red head feathers, clings to a twig, a red berry held in its beak.
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #FeederFriends, birds you might see at your feeder (not necessarily AT the feeder). I don't have a feeder, but a #HouseFinch is a bird I see at other people's. This one is proud of his berry.
#birds #photography #BirdPhotography #finch #finches #WildlifePhotography
In a new It Never Rains comic, Rose and Maggie compare tragic pasts.
itneverrainscomic.com/20260417.html
Bluesky melted down today and made it so hardly anyone saw this dapper punk #GreatBlueHeron, which I posted for the #BirdOfTheDay theme of #Headshots. Thanks, incompetent slop robot!
The brontosaurus is and has always been my favourite, and NO ONE can take that away from me.
Also, the people who have been going "Well, anybody only ever had a favourite dinosaur because of Jurassic Park" did not see my bookshelves when I was six.
Once, a guy nearly doored me, then looked me in the eye and went, "Oh, sorry." I said, "Jesus fucking Christ." He chased me down the street, screaming, "I apologised! I apologised!"
A headshot, in profile, of a Great Blue Heron with its head feathers fluffed out. It stands in strong light against a dark background.
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Headshots. This fluffy #GreatBlueHeron is ready for its closeup. This is also, of course, a neckshot.
#birds #photography #BirdPhotography #heron #herons #wildlife #WildlifePhotography #nature #NaturePhotography #GreatBlueHerons
Too bad @randyrainbow.bsky.social's already used that song.
They're just the loveliest birds.
A male Indigo Bunting, a dark blue songbird, perches amongst leaves against a dark green background.
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #LeafAndLight. This #IndigoBunting looks less lit up than the leaves because of the cool way his feathers reflect light. He is not actually blue, but don't tell him that.
#birds #photography #BirdPhotography #bunting #wildlife #WildlifePhotography #NaturePhotography
