The nuthatch, familiar from recent posts, is now climbing up the stack of concrete slabs, the camera on its back. But for the photo, it looks over its left shoulder, turning its head with its pointed beak towards the viewer – like a three-year-old checking to see if its parents have noticed its little trick.
See, #notabranch!
#birds, #garden, #localpatch, #nuthatch, #concrete, #birding
A grey morph reef heron floating on a piece of thermacol in the docks. There are plastic bottles around it.
Floating...
Sucks that humans can't stop littering.
#BirdOfTheDay #notabranch
#Heron #Birds #Nature #EastCoastKin #Photography
Weeeee bit late! Oops! #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #notabranch So birds perched on anything except a branch. I’m posting house swallows on my short scalloped iron fence.
#birds #photography #WestCoastKin #Birds
Went through the camera roll to find a good example of #notabranch for today's #BirdOfTheDay and came up with these moppets. Seen at a visit to the Horicon Marsh last month. #birds
A Short-eared Owl, looking over its right shoulder while perched on a post with a large round dowel atop for use by the owls and other birds in the area (including harriers, herons, bald eagles, and ravens)
#BirdOfTheDay theme today is #notabranch
A Short-eared Owl (Asio flammeus) photo from this past February, Samish Flats, Skagit County, WA.
📷🪶🦉
A pair of nest-building swallows, one in mid-flight just leaving the nest, the other partially alighted with wings still open
a pair of swallows on a timber railing, both singing, one very stridently
Two comb-crested jacanas backlit by strong early-morning light, illuminating their red combs brightly
Strange companions, a royal spoonbill and a great egret standing almost pinion to pinion in the early morning, standing in the shallow waters of a lagoon.
Today's #BirdOfTheDay chosen by
@alan678.bsky.social is any bird #notabranch
I'm having too much fun with this, so here are a few more...
Pairs each time, swallows, comb-crested jacana, royal spoonbill and great egret
#photography #birds #EastCoastKin
A heron stands on a tiled roof in Florida
heron on a roof, taken several years ago in Florida #Birdoftheday #notabranch #EastCoastKin #photography
A late Summer visitor -- a Ruby-Throated Hummingbird pauses to contemplate her long southern journey.
📷Fujifilm X-T5 w/Fujinon XF 55-200mm Lens (2025)
#AnimalArtTuesday, #Birds, #notabranch, #BirdOfTheDay, #EastCoastKin, #Photography, #PhotographersofBluesky, #Hummingbirds, #MaineCoast
Male bearded reedling, a small passerine, long-tailed, cinnamon-brown bird found in reedbeds, easily identified by the male's distinctive blue-grey head and black "moustache" which droops down the sides of its cheeks. It is perched on a reed, with a seedy head, and the background is a reed bed.
Male bearded reedling (Panurus biarmicus) (aka Bearded tit) on a reed in North Norfolk.
I'm a bit late for today's
#BirdofTheDay theme: #NotABranch
#EastCoastKin
#birds
#birdphotography
A pigeon on the tiles near the payphones in Main Street Station in Toronto. A person has entered the station, with other people in the background. Windows are reflecting daylight on the tiles.
#BirdOfTheDay #NotABranch #AnimalArtTuesday #TelephoneBox -ish
Confused pigeon waits for a bird call - 2025
#Phonetography
#EastCoastKin #ArtYear #peckupthephone #coo-coo #RaptureIMeanCallMe
A photograph of a bird stood on a stone at the harbour. There are a few birds in the background.
A bird for #BirdOfTheDay standing on, #notabranch but a stone at the harbour.
#nature #harbour #stives #Cornwall #birds #photography
A chaffinch standing on the edge of a plate, on an outside table, helping themselves to some coleslaw and puff pastry
The birds at Glenveagh Castle don't use branches for lunch #BirdOfTheDay #notabranch
Another one for
@alan678.bsky.social
’s #BirdOfTheDay. The theme today is #notabranch (So birds perched on anything except a branch).
And for #Twosday here are 2 young Cardinals, I don't usually get two of these at the same time. #cardinals #botd #EastCoastKin #backyardbirding #shotthroughawindow
A large black and white bird with a long bill perched on the back of a cafe chair and peering toward the camera.
For #birdoftheday #notabranch a handsome and hopeful Australian magpie perched on a cafe chair offering to share my breakfast. Sunshine Coast 2022 🪶
A Great Blue Heron is standing on some grey rocks looking towards the turquoise water of the Gulf of Mexico.
My submission for
#BirdOfTheDay #notabranch #rockinTuesday #TidesOutTuesday
#ColorADay #BlueTue #waterbird #GreatBlueHeron #birds #wildlife #photography #outdoors #florida
#PhotographersUnited #nature
#ArtChallenges #photohour
#EastCoastKin #AnimalArtTuesday
Today’s #birdoftheday theme is #notabranch (birds perched on anything but a branch). Here‘re my contributions: an eastern mockingbird perched on a utility pole, and a juvenile red-tail perched on a fence.
#wildlifephotorgaphy #urbandwildlife #mockingbird #red-tailedhawk
Bird with black/white stripe head, soft brown breast, white stripes in wings, fat beak, sitting on metal fencing, with something in its beak.
Female or juvenile Black-headed grosbeak... I think. 🪶
#birdoftheday #notabranch
#birdoftheday #notabranch
Poor little guy hit a window and was rescued by my son. Flew off after a few minutes.
The sun had just disappeared when I spotted this great blue heron down the river. Got my camera setup just in time to film them catching a lil fishy
#BirdOfTheDay #NotABranch #bird #birds #wildlife #canada
In this case, the pipes are calling … #notabranch #treeswallow #massaudubon #birdphotography #birds 🪶
@alan678.bsky.social The #BirdOfTheDay theme is #notabranch (birds perched on anything except a branch), I give you a House Wren in his house. From April until July these guys are in this house. They seem to pack up and leave overnight. #housewren #canonR10 #EastCoastKin #photography #botd
a Red-shouldered Hawk perched on a rusty metal pipe. the hawk has a reddish-brown breast and belly with rusty shoulder patches, and a distinctive black and white banded tail. Its back and wings are a mix of brown and white patterned feathers, and its head is mostly white with dark markings around its eyes and a yellow beak. The bird is looking towards the right side of the frame. In the background are numerous bare tree branches.
red shouldered hawk (Buteo lineatus) on our property in Grants Pass, 2018 for today’s
#BirdOfTheDay #notabranch theme, chosen by @alan678.bsky.social
#WestCoastKin
#Birds #Hawks
#Oregon #PNW
#Nature #Photography
#BirdOfTheDay theme is #notabranch so birds perched on anything except a branch.
Red-shouldered hawk (maybe) warming up on a fence
#birds
Canon EOS R7 with Canon RF 100-400mm lens
Mountain Bluebird on a picnic table in Badlands National Park, USA for #BirdOfTheDay #notabranch from a July 2025 trip.
At My Mom's Feeder
#BirdoftheDay #NotABranch
#Landscape
#Nature #Photography
#Outdoor #Art
#OutdoorPhotography
#LandscapePhotography
#PhotographersOfBlueSky
#EastCoastKin
A starling with a black head and iridescent blue green wings clutching a green chain link fence. Its head is turned back to right.
A rare bird photo from me for #BirdOfTheDay #NotABranch and #AnimalArtTuesday.
A superb starling (I think) from Tarangire in Tanzania
#EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #photography
#ArtYear
