#birdoftheday #bestofthemonth

Sandhill crane

Hope OK to post now, I missed yesterday's @robcrank68.bsky.social #BirdOfTheDay #BestOfTheMonth. My best bird capture/s of March were first singing Chiffchaff of the year and two pairs of Great Crested Grebes displaying at Linlithgow Loch, 15 March.
No Alt Theme yesterday.

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BestOfTheMonth : a Short-Tailed Hawk caught a Cedar Waxwing #🪶

A Male Anna's Hummingbird feeding on pale orange Grevillea at a local botanical garden. Its wings are forward and blurred with motion.

A male Rufous Hummingbird perched on an arched blackberry bramble that is just leafing out. His gorget has a green iridescence at the edges.

I'm sharing a couple of hummingbird images for #bestofthemonth #birdoftheday.

The Anna's Hummingbird is a year-round resident, and the Rufous Hummingbird recently returned from its winter home.
#birds #hummingbirds

My submission for #birdoftheday, #bestofthemonth

A song sparrow perched on some thin bare branches. The bird's feathers are a streaky mix of light and dark brown. The background is a blur of green and reddish-brown foliage.

For the #BirdOfTheDay theme, #BestOfTheMonth, and the #AlphabetChallenge theme, #WeekMForMovies, "The Sparrow"
#photography #birds #sparrow #nature 📷🦉🪶

A small brown treecreeper bird has its wings out as it does a short hop-flight to move to a slightly different height on the same treetrunk. This image shows the white stripe on the underside of the wings and is showing the bird from behind. The bird has a piece of bark in its beak.

A small brown treecreeper bird has its wings out as it flies from the top of one tree trunk down to the base of another one. This image shows the white underside of the bird. The bird has a piece of bark in its beak.

A small brown treecreeper bird has its wings out as it does a short hop-flight to move to a slightly different height on the same treetrunk. This image shows the white stripe on the underside of the wings and is showing the bird from behind. The bird has a piece of bark in its beak.

A small brown treecreeper bird has its wings out as it does a short hop-flight to move to a slightly different height on the same treetrunk. This image shows the speckled brown camouflage pattern on the top of the wings and is showing the bird from behind. The bird has a piece of bark in its beak.

Treecreepers are so fun to watch corkscrew up trees foraging for insects/arachnids in the bark, here are some of my favorites from the bird I saw on Saturday on Foster Island in #Seattle.

#bestofthemonth #BirdOfTheDay 🪶

#BirdOfTheDay theme of #BestOfTheMonth

Not a good pic at all, but as I was getting some shots of 2 ravens out front I was photobombed by a mighty Hummingbird.

Hard to tell, but best guess based on the regulars at my feeder is Anna's or Broad-billed.

#BirdOfTheDay #BestOfTheMonth

One wren was gathering leaves

The second wren was collecting moss.

These are perhaps not #BestOfTheMonth but I did like them. Carolina wrens collecting nest material, which they wouldn't take to the nest site as long as I was watching: very cautious birds! And well coordinated in getting sturdy and soft nest stuff

#birds #BirdOfTheMonth #wrens #naturephotography

A bald eagle in flight with wings fully extended, flying low over the water with a blurred green and brown background during rainfall.

The waterfowl suddenly scattered, then this bald eagle swooped in from behind me for low passes over the lake.

#WildlifePhotography #BaldEagle #birds #RidgefieldNWR #BirdOfTheDay #BestOfTheMonth

Large bird with yellow undersides and gray/brown top. Cassin Kingbird eating a fly while perched on a wire.

My #BirdOfTheDay theme #BestOfTheMonth is a pretty Cassin Kingbird at #sanfranciso #fortmason . Don't think we'll see any others for a while. I was one of the few to see it. Living up to being a flycatcher as it snagged lunch & hung around for 15 mins letting me take shots. #birds #nature #wildlife

Bufflehead duck with iridescent head feathers swimming by on calm water

Bufflehead at Carty Unit, Ridgefield NWR, Washington #birds #photography #birdphotography #nature #wildlife #pnw #duck #BirdOfTheDay #BestOfTheMonth

One last round of images before the end of the month. This Anna's Hummingbird (Calypte anna) spent almost ten minutes stretching and preening earlier today.

#birds #birding #wildlife #backyardwildlife #hummingbirds #BirdOfTheMonth #aves #BirdsSeenIn2026 #nature #BestOfTheMonth

My best of the month isn’t my best photo but my best encounter. I saw a bird fly into a tree and I thought, I don’t think that was a woodpigeon. Aimed my camera at the really distant tree and got a blurry pic of a not-woodpigeon :))

ID in alt

#BirdOfTheDay #BestOfTheMonth #BirdsOfPrey #ECK 🦉

Typo

#BestOfTheMonth

#BirdOfTheDay

A pair of hooded merganser swimming in golden and green water reflecting morning sunlight.

One of my favorite duck photos in a long time for #BirdOfTheDay #BestOfTheMonth, a pair of Hooded Mergansers
#birds

Male bluebird perches facing right with sun on his breast.

A blue jay seems to appear out of the darkness as he looks out to the left from under a deck while perched on a branch.

A male red-winged blackbird perches on a branch facing right with its beak open to call while lifting its wings to display its red and orange epaulets in a territorial display.

Closeup of a male house finch with its body facing right but with its head turned to the left.

For today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme of #BestOfTheMonth I’m going with three favorites I’ve already posted plus a new one of a male bluebird surveying his territory in the late afternoon. It’s all very subjective. #birds #backyardbirds #nature #birdphotography #ECK 🪶

Turkey vulture with brown feathers and a pink head swims over a lake, its wings grazing the water's surface.

American white pelican flies towards the camera, its wings flapping downward.

Juvenile bald eagle perched in profile in bare tree, small branches surrounding it.

Blue jay flies, its wings at its sides, with an acorn in its beak.

My contributions to today's #BirdOfTheDay theme of #BestOfTheMonth.

Turkey vulture, American white pelican, juvenile bald eagle, and a blue jay.

#birds
#photography
#birdsofbluesky

I had a fun month.❤️

Kaka (forest parrot) sitting in a shaded spot

#BirdOfTheDay theme is #BestOfTheMonth. I have a lot of favourites from my trip to New Zealand in March. I'm going with this kaka on Kapiti Island. #newzealandbirds #parrots

A cockatiel with a yellow head with an orange spot on the face and a gray body with a little white on the feathers.

Today's #BirdOfTheDay is #BestOfTheMonth, your best bird capture/s of March. Hosted by @robcrank68.bsky.social
@alan678.bsky.social

A cockatiel I had the pleasure taking a photo of at the Zoo in Knoxville, Tennessee on March 11, 2026.

#photography - #birds
#cockatiel - #BirdPhotography

#birdoftheday #bestofthemonth

Great Egret, at the top of a cypress tree. Largest of the egrets, all white with long black legs and a long, very sharp, yellow beak. Distinctive green eye mask. Long feathers on hand for that special time of year here in central Florida. The breeding plumage is gently blown away and behind of the bird, facing into the wind. Setting sun lighting the bird and branches with that special glow.

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme from
@robcrank68.bsky.social is #BestOfTheMonth

Was lucky enough to catch a wonderful hero shot of a Great Egret earlier this month. Mating season plumage blowing out behind the bird, great setting sun lighting. Hope that you like it!

#Photography #Birds #Nature #ECK

Photo of a Male Mandarin Duck. A most amazing and almost ridiculously colourful and ornate bird with its bright orange cheek and wing feathers, its beautiful head which is coloured from its beak over the top of its crown starting with rich green then blue then dark ochre then blue again with pale around the eyes leading back to a white stripe amongst green. The body is similarly coloured with areas of purple, black, white, buff, blue and green all sharply demarcated, topped off with orange legs and a red beak. This one is standing, slightly turned away in a shallow part of the dark river bed

My #BestOfTheMonth have to be the photos of the Mandarin Drake who most obligingly displayed to see off a rival just as we were walking along the riverbank
Canon R5 500mm f/7.1 1:400s ISO3200

#BirdOfTheDay #Birds #UKBirding #EastCoastKin #ArtYear #BirdsSeenIn2026 #Sheffield #UK

Two wood storks fly overhead, side by side, with their wings slightly overlapping. Background is clear blue sky around them.

A pair of wood storks flying overhead in formation for #TwosDay.

I've already posted my #BestOfTheMonth for a previous #BirdOfTheDay, but this one is pretty good too I think. 😊

#ColorADay #BlueTue #Phptography #Birds #Woodstorks

Here's a few for Rob's #BirdoftheDay theme of #BestOfTheMonth, taken recently on a trip over the mountains to Central Oregon. #Nature #Photography #Birds #PNWBirding #Oregon

As the
@robcrank68.bsky.social & @alan678.bsky.social
curated hashtag #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BestOfTheMonth, it also fits #BirdsSeenIn2026.
A marsh harrier finally came near enough ☄️.
I name this rook Ringo lah.
Norfolk UK
#ukbirds #birdingnorfolk #EastCoastKin #ukwildlife #birds #Wildlife

Photo of a pair of Great Crested Grebes (Podiceps cristatus) mating on their nest. These fish-eating water-birds have longish, pointed beaks, longish necks, long bodies (with feet right at the back, ideal for swimming, but not for walking on land), and next to no tails. The face, the front of the neck, and the underside of the body are all whitish, while the back of the neck, the back and the wings are brown-grey in colour. Each bird of this pair has a crest of black feathers on top of the head, and a ruff of feathers (orange at the base, turning to black) around the top of the neck. The female is lying down on the nest (a pile of vegetation on a tiny island in a lake) while the male is sat upright on her rear end, with his legs stretched out in front of him for balance. Out of focus in the background are various branches of waterside trees. The water is a golden brown colour, as it reflects the waterside trees (leafless at this time of year) which are lit up by the late afternoon sun which is low in the sky.

The theme for #BirdOfTheDay today is #BestOfTheMonth. This image from yesterday is not technically my best pic of March 2026, but given the behaviour captured and how far away these Great Crested Grebes were, I’m very pleased with it. The golden evening light helps too. #Birds #UKWildlife #EKC 🌿

Your #BestOfTheMonth is very good indeed. Nice capture!

Per Rob @robcrank68.bsky.social today's #BirdOfTheDay is #BestOfTheMonth, your best bird capture/s of March. I didn't take a lot of photos in March, but I have #EasternBluebird #Short-earedOwl #Osprey #Red-shoulderedHawk. #birds #birdphotography #wildlife #EastCoastKin #pennsylvania #BirdsOf2026