A split second in the lives of a mallard & a bloke who's slow off the mark clicking the shutter on his camera. #birds #badbirdpics

An elm tree with multiple long wiggly branches extends up from the left side across the entire top of the photo. The spidery branches of multiple elms fill the bright blue winter sky in the background. Everything is leafless besides one lone spruce tree in the distance.

Please enjoy this photo of elm trunks and branches... with absolutely zero northern flickers in it. #BadBirdPics 😂

Two good candidates for #birdbums and #badbirdpics - a great tit and a female chaffinch.

I came so close to getting a great picture of the egret taking off. #badbirdpics

That thing when you're looking out over the river & an egret pops up form under the bridge right in front of you. I wasn't quite fast enough. #badbirdpics

This bluetit is another example of #stickhappens & #badbirdpics. A rough day for pictures.

A properly frustrating walk with the camera this morning: I spent ages failing miserably to get any decent pics of a couple of firecrests & then wasted almost as much time again failing to capture a bunch of long-tailed tits. Some you win, some you lose.
Spot the firecrests here #badbirdpics

A bluetit that turned its head away just as I took the picture. #badbirdpics

A bird in flight, slightly out of focus against a blue sky with a few clouds in the lower part.

Either a merlin or kestrel in flight. Darn thing took off before I could figure it out. #badbirdpics

Autofocus getting it wrong again & producing some miserably failed attempts to photograph a great tit in Getxo this morning. #badbirdpics #blurredbirds

A gray concrete cliff of a building with blue sky behind it. Somewhere in that blue is a peregrine falcon

Top of a (different) gray concrete building against a blue sky. Black smudges are all that can be seen of the ravens doing acrobatics in the air above it.

Sunny green forested hills in the foreground, a blue-green mountain behind and a blue sky above with one thin white cloud. A black speck might be a turkey buzzard.

Some green oak leaves at the bottom. An empty blue sky above. Out of frame was a raven heckling a redtail hawk. It was dope.

Lots of great bird sightings on this trip! The peregrines at SJ city hall, some ravens having a sky social on Mt Umunhum, turkey buzzards looking for dinner, and a bold raven harassing a redtail.
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Sadly my pictures not so great.
#badbirdpics

Gads! There is a hashtag for #badbirdpics? How about #badbutterflypics? I have so many.

Tiny yellow bird perched amid wildflowers and long grass on a steep hillside under blue skies.

#BadBirdPics with a proper camera I could perhaps do justice to the loveliness of this lemon-bright male goldfinch on an orange fiddlehead flower.

When the robin jumps up to the next branch just as you click the shutter. #badbirdpics

Two remarkably unsuccessful attempts to photograph a bluetit this morning. #badbirdpics

...and continuing with a long-tailed tit. #badbirdpics

Some #birdbums and #badbirdpics from this morning, starting with chaffinches...

Of course for every decent chiffchaff pic I take a handful of #birdbums and #badbirdpics

A photo that is mostly gray barked tree trunks and horizontal branches covered in snow. At top left and bottom right, two male American Cardinals sit hunched against the sleet, eyeing one another up. The one at top left is showing his brilliant red breast and crest and his orange beak is apparent; the one at bottom right has his back to us and so appears in more muted maroon tones.

We had only thick grey sky and sleety snow for the solar eclipse at dawn, but here's a bad pic of the best thing I saw this morning: two (2!) male American cardinals in a grumpy face-off. Rule of thirds went right out the window; you'll have to click to see them. 🪶 #BadBirdPics

Mostly the little beggars managed to run their backs on me just as I clicked the shutter. #badbirdpics

I had no luck at all with this chaffinch it just refused to come out from among the branches. #badbirdpics

Spot the chaffinch. #badbirdpics #birdbums

Some #badbirdpics and a #birdbum pic of today's great tit.

#badbirdpics of the day. #stickhappens

And now here’s the enormous redtailed hawk in the sunrise glow, literally not giving a hoot about my presence. #BadBirdPics

This is what you get when the cormorant shakes its head just as you click the shutter. #blurredbirds #badbirdpics

First bird of 2025 was a Blue Jay, but happy my Eurasian friend from St Louis showed up.

#birds #birding #birdwatching #birdfeeding #badbirdpics #newyear

Spot the chiffchaff. I thought I was going to get a spectacular picture but the little beggar took off just as I clicked the shutter. #badbirdpics #stickhappens

My husband put together these bird feeders a few years ago. It's a very 'rustic' setup, and our birds love it! It caters to small birds so our regulars are chickadees, downy and hairy woodpeckers, white and redbreasted nuthatches. Branches have holes for peanuts. #BadBirdPics

I've posted a few under #badbirdpics and #blurredbirds too. Making the best of a bad job.