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female great-tailed grackle splashing in a lake

female great-tailed grackle splashing in a lake

female great-tailed grackle splashing in a lake

female great-tailed grackle splashing in a lake

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #SplashingAround, any bird making a splash. #EastCoastKin

#birds #birding #birdnerd #birdwatching #birdsky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #grackle #canon #r7

A color, macrophoto of a Robin perched on a branch in Virginia, during late April, 2026. The capture was taken during rain and the photographer snapped the photo at the split second a raindrop fell on the top of the bird's head, making it appear like a "natural" crown. 📸 Dawn Denise Boyer of Gloucester, Virginia

#WonderfulBirdWednesday

Right in the middle of rain, the photo was captured the split second a droplet of water landed on the #Robins head like a crown! 👑
04/2026

#Birds #Nature
#FlawlessTiming 🌟
#FMSPAD
#SomethingThatFlies
#Birdsky #Wildlife
#Photography
#BirdPhotography
#Macrophotography

🦉Monday Morning🦋

#NatureAnimals #uniquebeauty #rare #BirdOfTheDay #Migratory #Birds #Nature #Wildlife #Photography #BlueSkyArtShow

A small brown duck, followed by a dozen tiny ducklings swimming across a creek.

A wood Duck (or Carolina Duck) hen with 12 ducklings (photographed yesterday) for the #ABCD theme of #BirdOfTheDay picked by @alan678.bsky.social

#birds #nature #ducks #springtime #photography #ECK

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3 turkey vultures sunning themselves in a tree while a 4th looks on

Today’s alt #BirdOfTheDay theme is #WhatTheFlock any capture of three or more of the same bird.

Turkey Vulture Photobomb. #EastCoastKin

#birds #birding #birdnerd #birdwatching #birdsky #vulture #PhotographersOfBlueSky

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male phainopepla with mosquito in its beak

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #ComeEatWithMe, birds who have food in their beaks.

fresh out of post - phainopepla rocking the pompadour and a fresh mosquito. #EastCoastKin

#birds #birding #birdnerd #birdwatching #birdsky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #phainopepla #canon #r7

🤩American Kestrel deep dive. Toronto, Canada, April 17th 2026. Sony A1 I| 300GM 1/4000s, F/5.6 ISO 1600

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american avocet floating in a lagoon

brown booby flying over the water with a fish in its mouth

curlew standing on one leg

a pair of mourning doves perched on a tree - one is preening the other

The #BirdOfTheDay theme is #ABCD - any part of the name begins with these letters. Extra points for a set using all

American avocet
Brown booby
Curlew
Mourning Dove
#EastCoastKin
#extrapoints

#birds #birding #birdnerd #birdsky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #birdwatching #nature #wildlife #canon #r7

An orange cat perched on the edge of a hot tub while licking the water

Razz gets a taste of hot tub water 😺
#caturday #orangecats
#photography

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me too!

I love the way the sunlight makes this flower look like it's glowing 😍 #ECK #bloomscrolling #photography #flowers

remember to look up

highly stylized edit of a burrowing owl at the sonny bono salton sea national wildlife reserve

#birds #birding #birdnerd #birdwatching #owl #birdsky #burrowingowl #PhotographersOfBlueSky

a pair of juvenile mallard ducks preening while standing back-to-back

a group of juvenile mallards - the one in the foreground is sleeping while the one behind it has its eyes open

two mallard ducklings with hen in background

mallard hen leads ducklings to the water

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #DucksOutOfWater, any Duck that is out of the water but NOT FLYING

we have mallards! juveniles and hen with ducklings #EastCoastKin

#birds #birding #birdnerd #birdwatching #birdsky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #mallard #duck #nature #wildlife

greater yellowlegs standing in water with sandpipers flying overhead

The alt #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #Waders. Any wading bird.

Or birds - like the greater yellowlegs and the sandpipers flying overhead. #EastCoastKin

#birds #birding #birdnerd #birdsky #PhotographersOfBlueSky

closeup of a forster's tern

closeup of a great blue heron

closeup of a california scrub jay

closeup of a burrowing owl

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #HeadShots, any head shot will do, the Alt Theme is #Gulls.

we have:
- forster's tern (which, technically, is a gull)
- great blue heron
- scrub jay
- burrowing owl

#birds #birding #birdsky #birdnerd #PhotographersOfBlueSky #tern #heron #scrubjay #burrowingowl

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scrub jay - blue and gray bird - perched on a tree and looking up

california towhee - brown bird with light chest - partially obscured while perched in a tree

The #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #LeafandLight any bird captured in sunlight with leaves in frame.

ig handle: @jscrub
california towhee is fresh out of post dude
#EastCoastKin

#birds #birding #birdnerd #ECK #PhotographersOfBlueSky #birdsky #birdwatching #scrubjay #californiatowhee

I've dabbled in Intentional Camera Movement before. But mostly in forests and with zooming and vertical pans. It was about time I tried a horizontal pan at the beach. This is right before sunrise. #photography #landscape #ECK #clouds #sky #Nikon #Z8 #ICM #art #abstract #sunrise #ICMPhotography

I've mastered Unintentional Camera Movement 😉

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stunning!

Photo by Kort Duce A great blue heron fishes at dusk at a nature area in Longmont, Colorado. In this horizontal color photograph, a weathered log stretches across the pond from left to right. At the left of center, a heron stands on one leg, intent on the water below as it hunts. The scene is almost perfectly mirrored on the pond's surface, reflecting both the bird and the branch. Soft, twilight clouds and the deepening blue of the twilight sky ripple gently in the water. It's a striking, contemplative scene-capturing the quiet beauty of the natural world.

A great blue heron fishes at dusk at a nature area in Longmont, Colorado.

#BirdOfTheDay #Reflections #Robins
#ECK #EastCoastKin #bird #birds #photography #photograph #photographs #photo #photos #greatblueheron #greatblueherons #heron #herons #birdphotographyl