An encore appearance!
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Would have been good for yesterdays #OneLeg them. Alas.
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I don't think there is a #BirdOfTheDay theme today so I'm going with yesterday's alternate; the alt is #oneleg any bird standing on one leg.
Meet the Weka, a large, flightless rail from New Zealand, Abel Tasman NP 🪶
A night heron with a white chest, black head and beak, gray wings and piercing orange eyes standing on one leg in a kayak launch.
A black crowned night heron showing off and proving that the best birds only need #oneleg to stand on for #BirdOfTheDay.
Good morning folks. The #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #speckled any bird with speckled markings. The alt is #oneleg any bird standing on one leg.
A couple photos from today’s walk in the sun. A House finch, Red-winged Blackbird and Spotted Towhee.
For today's #BirdOfTheDay I bring you a sleepy sandpiper on #oneleg, a very far a away but beautiful tanager, and a gorgeous grouse!
Solitary Sandpiper - Colombia
Beryl-spangled Tanager - Colombia
Ruffed Grouse - WI, USA
#Birds #Birding #Birdwatching #Colombia #Wisconsin 🪶
#birdoftheday alt theme #oneleg
A photograph of a night heron standing on an old tree branch that has made its way in to a river.
Two Canada geese on a road. They're facing to the right. The one in the front is sitting on the ground and slightly blurred. The one behind it is standing on one foot with it's beak tucked onto its chest. That one is in focus. It's next to a small patch of grass.
Foot in the air like you just don't care
Canada Geese at Lake Merritt in Oakland yesterday
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Two Australian White Ibis stand in the foreground on a round-topped concrete wall. One is balancing on one leg. The wall runs from the lower left to the upper right of the photo, with grass on either side of it. A metal picket fence comes in from the edge of the grass on the left to join the wall at the top right of the image.
Two Australian White Ibis, out for a stroll in a Sydney park.
#BirdOfTheDay #birds #oneleg #BinChicken
A male Kestrel in a palm tree stretching its tail, left wing, and left leg. He has a slate blue head, tan and white face with vertical black stripes, a rusty breast, and white belly with black spots. The underside of his tail is rust with white edges and black stripes and the lower is black with white tips. The underside of his wing is white with black spots on top and black stripes below. His outstretched foot is yellow with black talons.
Daily Double
"The #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #speckled any bird with speckled markings. The alt is #oneleg any bird standing on one leg." @alan678.bsky.social
#Kestrel #birds #backyardphotography #photography #naturephotography 📷 🪶
Via @alan678.bsky.social "The #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #speckled any bird with speckled markings. The alt is #oneleg any bird standing on one leg."
A Song Thrush
It had been a disappointing day: just the usual daily birds. Robins, sparrows, pigeons, cardinals, blue jays. Then I heard a ruckus just in front of me: there, on the ground, was a juvenile red-tailed hawk. It had apparently tried to grab a squirrel, which was up a nearby tree emitting a buzzy sound that sounded highly stressed. For several years, red-tailed hawks had messed with me, flying off when I pointed my camera at them, or flying close by knowing full well that my battery was about to die. At last, in recent years, they relented and became more cooperative. This one hung around for quite a while, hopping to different perches. I must have taken a thousand photos. This is one.
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A plump shorebird stands on one leg, stretching the opposite leg and wing behind it. It has a rusty breast, with black speckles
The #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #speckled - any bird with speckled markings. The alt is #oneleg - any bird standing on one leg. This stretching Sanderling qualifies on both counts #birds #photography #ECK
The #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #speckled any bird with speckled markings.
The alt is #oneleg any bird standing on one leg.
The #BirdOfTheDay theme today set by Alan @alan678.bsky.social is #speckled, any bird with speckled markings. The alt is #oneleg any bird standing on one leg. So here is a Common or Eurasian Treecreeper (Certhia familiaris). It's dull, speckled plumage perfectly camouflages it against mossy tree bark.
Eurasian or Common Curlew (Numenius arquata) is perfectly camouflaged by it's dull, speckled plumage.
A Northern Flicker or Common Flicker (Colaptes auratus). A member of the woodpecker family native to most of North America, parts of Central America, Cuba, and the Cayman Islands, and is one of the few woodpecker species that migrate. Photographed in Massachusetts.
A Grey Heron (Ardea cinerea), a species that often appears to forget that it has two legs! Photographed at one of the ponds in the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.
The #BirdOfTheDay theme today set by Alan @alan678.bsky.social is #speckled, any bird with speckled markings. The alt is #oneleg any bird standing on one leg. So here are European Treecreeper, a Curlew, a Northern Flicker and a Grey Heron. More info in ALT. #Birds 🪶🦉 #Nature #Photography #Nikon
For today's Bird of the Day alternate. A Northern Shoveler with a yoga move.
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#oneleg #photography #ECK #EastCoastKin #birds #wildlife #NorthernShoveler #Canon
curlew - a tan bird with dark brown speckles and long beak - standing on the ground on one leg
front shot of a curlew - a tan bird with dark brown speckles and long beak - standing on the ground on one leg
The #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #speckled any bird with speckled markings. The alt is #oneleg any bird standing on one leg.
I'm double dipping with our dear old friend: the curlew #EastCoastKin
#birds #birding #birdnerd #birdsky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #nature #wildlife
Large group of flamingos in shallow water. Photo: Thomas Christensen (rightreading.com)
Another one for #BirdOfTheDay the alt theme is #oneleg -- any bird standing on one leg. So here are some flamingos at the Smithsonian National Zoological Park.
Two small grey with white speckled shore birds resting on a sandy beach.
#Speckled Black-bellied Plovers on #OneLeg for #BirdOfTheDay. These beauties have a Vulnerable conservation status. They were near San Francisco Bay last January. 💚 #Birds #NaturePhotos #iNat 📷
Several Canada geese (black head and neck with white vertical stripe on face, gray body, and black legs and feet) on ground with light, scattered snow. Three geese are sitting on the ground. Between them is a goose standing with one foot held up.
For the the #BirdOfTheDay alt theme alt of #oneleg picked by @alan678.bsky.social. Its feet were cold! Feb. 12, 2018, Reno, Nevada, USA
This darling little Sanderling allowed me to get unusually close while kayaking a tidal mud flat, after a moments pause it hopped away on one leg, the only one it had...
#BirdoftheDay #OneLeg
A great horned owl perches on an old, weathered fence post at dusk in Longmont, Colorado. In this vertical color photograph, the owl rests at the center of the frame. Its body is turned to the right, while its head swivels back over its shoulder, watching behind it. The softly blurred background reveals the same rustic fence stretching across both the lower and upper portions of the frame. Golden and green prairie grasses complete the scene, lending a muted, pastel quality to the fading light. Photo by Kort Duce
A great horned owl perches on an old, weathered fence post at dusk in Longmont, Colorado.
#BirdOfTheDay #speckled #oneleg
#EastCoastKin #ECK #bird #birds #birdphotography #photography #photographs #photo #photos #owl #owls
Posing Like Napoleon
A #speckled Red-shouldered Hawk perches with #oneleg tucked, evoking Napoleon’s famous “hand-in-waistcoat” pose.
Birds supposedly perch on one leg to conserve body heat, but this was a warm spring day. Maybe we're all creatures of habit.
#birds #BirdoftheDay #photography
Black and white photo of a Great Blue Heron standing on one leg atop a tree log, which is partially hovering over the water.
Black and white photo of a Great Egret standing on one leg atop a tree branch and is in the process of shaking itself
Photo of a Snowy Egret standing temporarily on one leg while the other is hovering above the muddy ground right on the water's edge
photo of a Great Blue Heron standing on one leg atop a tree branch from a dead tree. It was windy and the feathers are quite ruffled
Another one for #BirdOfTheDay the alt theme is #oneleg any bird standing on one leg.
Herons and egrets are the masters of the one legged stand... stoically and for long periods of time.
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Common Loon, head under water looking for fish.
Two Northern Flickers perches on branches
Great White Egret standing on one leg, scratching with the other.
Blue Heron standing on one leg on a log in a creek.
#BirdOfTheDay #Speckled Alt #OneLeg
Common Loon looking for fish, Northern Flickers, Great White Egret, Blue Heron.
Per Alan H: The #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #speckled any bird with speckled markings. The alt is #oneleg any bird standing on one leg.
#birds #photography #ECK #WestCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #ThrushThursday
A juvenile (North) American Robin with a speckled breast!
Hahaha😂…Brilliant capture Alan!!! 🤩👌🏼
Ok so I’m trying to get Rob to ban me for 5 minutes. 😂 Here’s a twofer for today’s #BirdOfTheDay themes #speckled and #oneleg #birds #photography #ECK
Exquisite shot my dude!! 🤩👍🏼
#BirdOfTheDay alt is #OneLeg any bird standing on one leg.
I managed to catch a moorhen on the hop the other morning at our local city-park.
Sparty
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