A little grey bird with a black beak, some black on its wings and tail, is perched on a towel draped over a balcony wall. In a very saucy fashion, it is looking right at the lens with its head just slightly turned.

For the #BirdOfTheDay alt theme #grey:

This little #Barbados #bullfinch was delightfully friendly.

(Might have had something to do with the fact that I shared my breakfast with it every morning.)

#bird #birding #wildlifephotography #Photography #PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin #sonyalpha

Yes, an obvious choice for today’s theme!
#BirdOfTheDay
#BlackHeads

American Crow mid-stride across the snow, one foot lifted like it’s on a mission. This one walks instead of hops, covering ground with a steady, no-nonsense pace.

#WildlifePhotography #manitoba #BirdPhotography #AmericanCrow #Corvusbrachyrhynchos #Birds #Birding #BirdOfTheDay #BlackHeads

Today's #BirdOfTheDay the theme courtesy of Rob & Alan is #Blackheads so this oystercatcher seen on the Norfolk UK coast in March is also a #BirdsSeenIn2026
#ukbirds #birdingnorfolk #EastCoastKin #ukwildlife #birds #Wildlife #Nature #BirdPhotography

Standing on the ground eating sunflower seeds.

#Birds 🪶🐦
📍Dalarna, Sweden

Common Wood-Pigeon

#nature #photography #birdphotography #wildlife #outdoorphotography #naturephotography #birdwatching #PigeonSky #BirdOfTheDay alt theme #Grey

Crested tern sitting on a rock along the shoreline

#BirdOfTheDay theme #BlackHeads
Crested #tern at Daydream Island, Whitsunday Islands, Queensland, AU. #seabirds #Australianbirds

bullfinch

Oystercatcher

Blackcap

@alan678.bsky.social

#BirdOfTheDay
#Blackhead

Black pigeon on a chimney. The background is light blue sky. The pigeon is almost completely black, including its beak. The breastfeathers are iridescent like on a feral pidgeon

#BirdOfTheDay theme is #BlackHeads, any bird with Black on its head

This #pigeon I saw today does have some #black on its head.

#photography #bird

Square-tailed Drongo-cuckoo, a medium sized black bird with a long black tail with a very shallow fork, darker below, glossy above, with white barring on undertail and a narrow, decurved black bill. Perched on a bare branch in trees. Drongo-cuckoos are members of the cuckoo family that strongly mimic black species of Drongo (which are in the corvid family). Key differences are the cuckoo-like thin, decurved bill and the white-tipped undertail coverts. Drongo-cuckoos are brood parasites of babbler species and it's unclear exactly how mimicking drongos benefits them.

Square-tailed Drongo-cuckoo, a medium sized black bird, with a long black tail with a very shallow fork, perched on a branch in trees.

#BirdOfTheDay theme is #BlackHeads, any bird with Black on its head, like this Square-tailed Drongo-cuckoo I found in Benchakitti Park #Bangkok a week ago. See alt text for more on Drongo-cuckoos. #cuckoos #mimicry #migrantbirds
#Thailand #birds #birding #EastCoastKin #urbanBirding #birdsSeenIn2026

Photo of a Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos major) perched on a branch, holding a peanut in her beak. This bird is mostly black and white in colouration - white underside, black back and tail, wings mostly black but each with a wide white bar and lots of white spots, heads mostly white with black markings (black crown, and a black stripe surrounding the cheek). The vent (the underside of the rump) however is red. There is no red patch on the back of the head of this one, which means she is a female. Her body is facing away from us and turned slightly to the right, with her head turned to face directly to the right, so we see the full extent of her longish grey Woodpecker beak.

#BlackHeads – any bird with black (not pimples!) on their head –is the theme for #BirdOfTheDay today. Both of the previous 2 posts in this thread qualify but as it is #WoodpeckerWednesday here is a Great Spotted Woodpecker photographed in mid-Wales in 2024. #Birds #BirdPhotography #UKWildlife #EKC 🌿

Photo a Day 2026 - Day 98: A bright male cardinal in the rain.
#photoaday #birdoftheday #blackheads #birds #nature #photography

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BlackHeads, any bird with Black on its head.
I hope this treesparrow fits 💁🏻‍♂️

#birds #photography #ECK

Baltimore Oriole

#BirdOfTheDay
#BlackHeads
#Birds 🪶

A beautiful American robin perched proudly on a twisted, broken branch in a forest. Its body is facing to the right but its head is facing the camera and tipped up so you can see the black and white pattern on its neck. There's beautiful light on the bird and part of the branch. The background is blurred with green and cream bokeh.

You lookin' to me?

A robin in the mini forest at UC Berkeley from a couple weeks ago.

#BirdOfTheDay #BlackHeads #Grey #EastCoastKin #ECK #birds #ArtYear

Close up of face of tufted duck, looking directly at camera. On the water.

Tufted duck, Portishead

#BirdOfTheDay #TuftedDuck #BlackHeads #Birds #Photography #Portishead

Gray Hawk
Buteo plagiatus
Heredia, Costa Rica

Rob Crank says: Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BlackHeads, any bird with Black on its head, the Alt Theme is #Grey, #Gray birds with Gray Feathers on them. #birds #photography #ECK #WestCoastKin #PhotographersUnited

A pair of Caspian Terns, standing on the muddy bank of the Corte Madera Creek at low tides. Both had been flying along the creek with many succesful dives.

Some true #BlackHeads this time for another #BirdoftheDay post, and this pair of Caspian Terns were patrolling the Corte Madera Creek today, with a stop off to discuss dives. #Birds 🪶 #ECK

Watercolour painting of a black-headed parrot.

@robcrank68.bsky.social #BirdOfTheDay #BlackHeads Here is a watercolour I did a while ago of a #black #headed #parrot. #birds #bird 🪶

Sensational photography Dave!! My goodness 🤩👌🏼

A male Rose-breasted Grosbeak for #ColourADay #RedWed and today's #BirdOfTheDay theme #BlackHeads.

#ColorADay #ECK #photography #birds #nature #wildlife #TenMinutesFromHome #BrucePeninsula #BruceCounty #VintageLens #ManualFocus

#Blackheads (part 3 - with apologies for the overload)
#BirdOfTheDay

Stonechat
Carrion Crow
Shag
Hooded Crow

Beautifully taken Dave my friend ☺️👌🏼🩶

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BlackHeads with the alternative theme #Grey. A Gray Catbird with a black cap.

#ECK #photography #birds #nature #wildlife #Velvia #2000s #VintageLens #ManualFocus

An American coot, a waterfowl, floating in water with its beak open.

#This American coot, photo'd last month at Huntley Meadows Park in #Virginia, definitely has a #BlackHead for today's #BirdOfTheDay and #BirdsSeenIn2026.

#Photography #NaturePhotography #Birds #ECK #Nikon #DSLR #LightroomClassic #ContentCredentials #PhotographersOfBluesky #PhotographersUnited

#Blackheads (part 3) #BirdOfTheDay

Goldeneye
Jackdaw
Black-Crowned Night Heron
Reed Bunting

Color photo of a small black, white and grey bird - a Carolina chickadee - clinging sideways to the chain of a hummingbird feeder.

A Carolina #chickadee for the #birdoftheday #blackheads theme.

#photography #BirdPhotography #BackyardBirds #grey #Nature #birds

A male Baltimore oriole perches on an upright branch facing right and showing off his orange breast under an all-black head.

Looking forward to the return soon of the Baltimore orioles and their #BlackHeads to my back yard. #BirdOfTheDay #birds #orioles #backyardbirds #birdphotography #nature #ECK 🪶

#Blackheads (part 2) #BirdOfTheDay

Coal Tit
Great Tit
Long-Tailed Tit
Canada Goose

Gareth the Great Tit. Photographed today. #BirdOfTheDay #BlackHeads #birds #birding #wildlife #photography #nature #ECK #EastCoastKin

A lovely pose for this Chestnut-backed Chickadee resting on a lone branch. This birds are commonly observed here in the Pacific Northwest and Washington State.

Here’s another fun one for today’s #BirdoftheDay and the theme of #BlackHeads
with this Chestnut-backed Chickadee

#Birding #BirdPhotograply #Nature #Chickadee

A small songbird perches head down on the dried head of a sunflower. The bird has a greenish back, black wings with white bars, a yellow chest and a black cap on its head.

#blackhead #BirdOfTheDay #BirdsOfFrontRange
A male Lesser Goldfinch pulls out seeds from a dried sunflower head.
From August 2025

#BirdOfTheDay Alt Theme is #Grey, any bird with grey feathers

Crested tit