Close-up of a bald eagle, with the white head and brown shoulders filling the frame, taken from the eagle's left, head in profile with a large, yellow hooked beak and one yellow eye visible.

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #HeadShots, any head shot will do. This bald eagle appeared in my neighbor's backyard last week. It remained in the tree for hours, giving me lots of time for a variety of shots.
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#photography #birdphoto #wildlife #BaldEagle

I will never get over how many Bluesky posts are #birds and how many are dead chickens’ body parts. The hypocrisy & lack of moral consistency is wild.

#birdoftheday #birdwatching #twitcher #birdlover #BOTD #birdphoto #birdsky #chickensarebirds #moralconsistencymatters #bird

Large black bird with a featherless red head perches upright in a tree, surrounded by new maple leaves that are green with a red tinge. The bird has its head turned right and is looking at the camera with its right eye.

The #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #LeafandLight any bird captured in sunlight with leaves in frame. Here's a turkey vulture bedding down for the night in a newly leafed-out maple tree, illuminated by the setting sun.
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#photography #birdphoto #wildlife #vulture #TurkeyVulture

A group of gulls with white heads, gray wings and black wingtips splashes together in brown river water. One gull cowers at the center, while three others press close around it with their wings raised. One leans toward the center with an open beak.

The #BirdOfTheDay alt theme is #CourtshiporConflict birds courting or squabbling. Here's a bunch of ring-billed gulls on the Des Moines River. I'm not sure exactly what they're doing, but it isn't a group hug.
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#photography #birdphoto #wildlife #gulls #RingBilledGulls

KEEP PALM AND CARRY ON: Happy Warbler Wednesday! Here are new photos of a gorgeous palm #warbler foraging beside a trail in the New Jersey Pinelands. 🐦 🌎

📷: Paul Leakan, NJPC

#birds #warblers #birdphoto #wildlife

An American robin--a bird with a black head, small yellow beak, gray wings and upper body, and it signature red-orange breast has an upright stance in dry grass, looking at the camera with what seems like an indignant expression. I feel like if he could speak, he'd use words like "ruffians."

Today's #BirdOfTheDay Alt Theme is #Robins, any Robin will do #ForJanet. For that, I have this rather indignant-looking american robin hanging out in a neighbor's yard.
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#photography #birdphoto #wildlife #robin #AmericanRobin

A duck-sized bird with a white beak, black head, red eyes and slate-gray body floats on smooth water, its reflection creating a mirrored image with only a few ripples. Ripples behind the bird show that it's paddling.

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Reflections, any bird reflection. Here's an american coot cruising on Lake Terra, a small pond near my house. I got lucky and caught it on a windless day.
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#photography #birdphoto #wildlife #coot #AmericanCoot

Perdrix rouge posée sur une haie de cyprès

Encore une fois en visite dans mon jardin.
Photo prise le 10 avril 2026 proche de Lyon, France
Perdrix rouge
Alectoris rufa - Red-legged Partridge
#oiseaux #birdphotography #birdphoto #birds

Close-up of an off-white roof gutter, taken at an angle, with three sparrows on it. All birds are a mottled brown with yellowish beaks. The center and best-lit bird is on the edge of the gutter and looking off the frame to to left. The bird beyond it is also on the edge of the gutter, but facing the opposite direction. The closest bird, in the frame's upper right, perches on the gutter's edge as well, but its looking at the farthest-away bird.

@alan678.bsky.social's #BirdOfTheDay alt theme is #Urban , birds in an urban environment. These sparrows are holding a meeting on my roof gutter. (I guess that's suburban rather than urban.)
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#photography #birdphoto #wildlife #sparrow #HouseSparrow

A common merganser, a waterfowl with a reddish head featuring a crest of feathers, a sharp-looking beak, gray wing feathers and reddish feet is in the far left of the picture. It stands on a rock facing away from the camera and looking right, with lake water in the background

For @alan678.bsky.social's #BirdOfTheDay theme of #JKLMNOP , any bird that has any of these letters at the beginning of their first or second names. This is a common merganser spotted at Grand Teuton National Park.
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#photography #birdphoto #wildlife #CommonMerganser

Junco in our front yard.

#birdphoto #birdphotography #canonr6 #backyardbirding #wildlifephotography #wildlifephoto #photographingtheordinary #junco

A ring-billed gull--a bird with a white body and gray, white, and black rings--rises from a large splash in brown river water. The wings are raised and forward of the bird's body.

Today's #BirdOfTheDay Alt Theme is #Gulls. Here's a ring-billed gull taking off after a brief splash in the Des Moines River.
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#photography #birdphoto #wildlife #seagull #RingBilledGull

Canada goose, a bird with a black upper head and bill, white cheeks, and a long, black neck leading down to a white and gray body, stands erect with its neck extended and its head tilted a little to the left as it looks directly at the camera.

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #LongNecks, birds with long necks, so I'm going to offer this quizzical-looking Canada goose.
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#photography #birdphoto #wildlife #goose #CanadaGoose

A small bird, a Tufted Titmouse, perched on a branch in the lower left quadrant of the picture. It is facing left. Its black eye and black beak are prominent as are its claws wrapped around a tree branch. The bird is perched among several branches, mostly horizontal but a few vertical. The tree trunk is along the right side of the picture.

Tufted Titmouse
Gold Branch Trail, Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area, Sandy Springs, Georgia, USA; JAN 2026

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#photograph #Birds #Birding #BirdPhotography #BirdWatching #BirdersOfBluesky #BirdPhoto #BirdPics #BirdID #BackyardBirds

A small bird with fluffy feathers staring at the camera. it has extremely fluffy orange-white breast feathers with black spots, a face with black and white vertical stripes, and a grayish head.

The #BirdOfTheDay #alt theme is #juveniles. For my last-minute offering, here's a juvenile male american kestrel. (a.k.a. "the fluffy falcon.")
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#photography #birdphoto #wildlife #kestrel #AmericanKestrel

Bird with a white face, red on the back of the head, black-and-white patterned wings and a downy white breast grips a tree and aims its straight beak at it. They're called "red-breasted" because there is a splash of pink clear down on the part of the breast by its feet, even though the color on the back of the head is usually brighter and easier to see.

Today’s theme for #BirdOfTheDay is #Woodland, birds you might find in woodlands near you. Slipping in at the last moment, my offering is this red-bellied woodpecker from the woods in the town greenbelt.
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#photography #birdphoto #wildlife #woodpecker #RedBelliedWoodpecker

Golden-crowned Sparrow with with round belly perched on a post in the rain

Golden-crowned Sparrow perched on a post in the rain

#birds #sparrow #birding #birdphoto

Mallard drake with yellow bill and shiny green head, swimming on the lake

Mallard swimming in the sunshine at Lake Washington

#birds #mallard #drake #birding #duck #waterfowl #birdphoto

Brown bird with black eyes and a black, triangular bill pokes its head up from tall grass that has been mowed, as shown by the cut ends, but not recently, as shown by the fact the cowbird's body is largely hidden, with only the back clearly visible.

Today's #BirdOfTheDay Alt Theme is #Grass, any bird standing on Grass. Alas, I do not have a songbird roosting in a marijuana plant. But I do have this pic of a female cowbird in a corporate yard that's gotten a bit overgrown.
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#photography #birdphoto #wildlife #cowbird

The rear end of a coot, covered with gray feathers, pokes up from a blue-green pond.

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BirdButt, birds showing off the rear end to the photographer. So, here's my photo of a diving coot, taken last month.
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#photography #birdphoto #wildlife #coot

Golden-crowned sparrow visiting the yard

Golden-crowned sparrow - so rounded

#birds #sparrow #birding #birdphoto

Bald eagle with an adult's white head and brown body feathers, rooting in a tree with small branches both background and foreground. The eagle is looking down at the camera.

So, I started out on a walk and there's an adult bald eagle perched in the neighbor's tree. I am now confident in asserting that you have not truly been stared down until you've been stared down by a bird of prey.
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#photography #birdphoto #wildlife #BaldEagle

An American robin with a red breast, gray wings and black head stands attentively on an unpainted decorative wooden post, looking off to the left. Green lichen adorns the post.

Today's #birdoftheday theme from Alan
@alan678.bsky.social is #manmadeperch; any bird perched on a man-made object. So, here's an american robin keeping watch on a post.
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#photography #birdphoto #wildlife #robin

A ring-billed gull stands on a log thrusting up and left from the surface of the river. The gull is on the part closer to the water, back to the camera and facing left. It has gray wing feathers and a mostly-white head, and its feathers are blowing in a high wind.

The #BirdOfTheDay alternate is #grey, and this ring-billed gull assuming an Ahab-esque stance on a log in the Des Moines River has plenty of it.
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#photography #birdphoto #wildlife #gull #RingBilledGull

Photo of a robin standing in the grass and looking at the camera. Instead of being smooth and rounded, the head (or maybe just the feathers) of this bird give the appearance of having a high forehead.

For the #BirdOfTheDay #Blackheads I'm presenting this robin with Something Very Odd happening to its head. Or maybe just the feathers on its head. (Anyone who knows what this is, feel free to reply.)
📷 #Fujifilm #FinepixS1
#photography #birdphoto #wildlife #robin

DSP

This #bluetit perched in a tree, before searching for food in the #Autumn #sunlight. These #birds need to pile on the #calories at this time of year to survive #winter. #birdphotography #birdphoto #wildlifephotography. #birdwatching #birding #wildlife #gardenbirds #RSPBEngland

Black -capped Chickadee in our front yard.

#birdphoto #birdphotography #canonr6 #backyardbirding #wildlifephotography #wildlifephoto #photographingtheordinary #chickadee

Couple de perdrix rouges posées dans l'herbe.

Maintenant elles viennent en couple, bientôt les poussins...
Photo prise le 05 avril 2026 proche de Lyon, France
Perdrix rouge
Alectoris rufa - Red-legged Partridge
#oiseaux #birdphotography #birdphoto #birds

Dark-eyed Junco in our front yard.

#birdphoto #birdphotography #canonr6 #backyardbirding #wildlifephotography #wildlifephoto #photographingtheordinary #junco

Sparrow-sized bird with brow stripes on a yellowish breast hangs on and looks around a thin branch. Its top feathers are brown and it has a small beak, and its eye is highlighted by a white semicircles above and below it, and a yellowish stripe running from its beak to the back of its head.

The #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #Warblers so I'm presenting this palm warbler, staking out a branch in my parent's yard in Orlando, Florida.
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#photography #birdphoto #wildlife #PalmWarbler