A Eurasian Nuthatch (Sitta europaea) perched on the top rail of a wooden fence, on which a few peanuts and sunflower seeds have been placed. The Nuthatch is facing towards the right of the picture, beak open and clutching a peanut, feet hidden behind the food in front of the bird, and tail out of view behind the wooden rail on which he or she is sitting. The feathers of top of the Nuthatch's head, the nape, the back, and most of the wings are a bluish-grey colour; some of the wing feathers are black. A thick black stripe runs from the base of the beak to the eye (also black), and from the eye to the shoulder. The underparts are a rich buff colour. The upper part of the longish, Woodpecker-like beak, and the front part of the lower part, is blackish, the rest of the lower part is grey. The lower part of the face, below the eye stripe, is white.

#Snacks is the main theme for #BirdOfTheDay today, so for post #17 in this thread of Brandon Marsh #NaturePhotography (pics taken in mid-March) here's a Nuthatch holding a peanut prize aloft. #Birds #BirdPhotography #PlumeScrolling #UKWildlife #EKC 🌿

A Ducky Education I learned how to duck this winter.

#Ducks #bats #BirdsofFrontRange #Plumescrolling #BirdsofBlueSky #Birds

A blue jay flies off with a peanut in its mouth. It has only just taken off, so bothe its wings and tail are spread for maximum lift.

#BirdOfTheDay #blue #birdsofFrontRange #plumescrolling
I was 20 before I saw a blue jay along the Front Range.

Photo of a Great Tit (Parus major) perched on a Lichen-encrusted twig. The largest of the UK's Tit species, the Great Tit has a black head with large white cheek patches, a green back, blue wings (each with a white bar), a blue tail, and yellow underparts. The black colouration of the head continues down the middle of of the chest and belly, in a band which is thicker in the male than the female. The body of the bird in this picture is facing slightly to our left, with the head turned towards our right and looking upward.

A gorgeous Great Tit is the subject of post #11 in this Brandon Marsh #NaturePhotography thread. A common bird of woodlands and gardens, the average lifespan of a Great Tit is 3 years, but some individuals have lived for more than 10 years. #Birds #BirdPhotography #UKWildlife #PlumeScrolling #ECK 🌿

For a timeline cleanse, enjoy this video of a robin attempting to dry its rear in the rain today. #TinyJoys #PlumeScrolling

A Blue Tit (Cyanistes caeruleus), perched on a twig. The bird's body is facing towards us, but his or her head is turned to the left side of the image. Blue Tits are small, colourful, and characterful birds. The head is white with a blue crown, with a black stripe encircling each cheek. The underparts are yellow, with a short, often irregular black stripe running down the middle of the belly. We can't see the wings or back here. The underside of the tail is grey. The beak, and the legs and feet, are dark grey.

Popular opinion: Blue Tits are ridiculously cute. That is all, please continue to enjoy your day, and stand by for more #NaturePhotography in this #BrandonMarsh thread. 🙂

#Birds #BirdPhotography #EastCoastKin #UKWildlife #PlumeScrolling 🌿

A showy duck - green head and mullet, red eye, orange bill, white mutton chops, russet chest, tan sides and white belly (whew!) Does a tail stand ind still water by rearing up and flapping his wings.

Got out this morning in between wind storms to find this male Wood Duck showing off for the ladies. #BirdsOfBluesky #birdsofFrontRange #plumescrolling

Naughty Jen the budgie flies to our lights. We tell her not to, but no one tells no Jen what to do. -- hadda splor good JEN

Some bad bird flew to the top of our picture frame. A small green and gold and black budgie named Jen. -- who? ha ha ha good JEN

Jen the budgie claims a HUMON as her territory. The HUMON doesn't mind, because it's Jen, you know? She does this. -- forgot say GOOD JEN cuz GOOD JEN - good JEN

Slightly out of focus cute green, yellow, and black budgie swinging on her swing. This is Jen budgie and she's in charge of your days and your nights.

Birdeez REPORT: it SATBIRDAY! Com splor wit JEN!

Jen brayv splorer #budgie yes yes

OOOO swaying perch

OOOO very flat perch

OOOO HUMON face weerd

OOOO swing good swing

#bird #pet #hen #Satbirday #PlumeScroll #PlumeScrolling #cute #adorable

A beautiful pied cockatiel on a perch looking very innocent and cute. This is CD, and today he decided to "sit" in my spot on the couch until I got back and could be "real" HUMON for the flock. -- ver ver hansum yu cant be mad - CD

Birdeez REPORT: hey HUMON!

com heer HUMON hey

o okay we need HUMON an ther no HUMON?

CD wil be HUMON ha ha ha

in tha HUMON place bein yu HUMON

ohai HUMON wasn doin nothin

#cockatiel #pet #rescue #bird #cute #adorable #PlumeScrolling #birb

A very sweet pied cockatiel crinkles up his left eye at you. This is VINNIE BIRD, and his head itches again. He has a quest for you, should you choose to accept it...

Birdeez REPORT: Skritches!

Yeah

o yeah

mor skritch

so gooded yes yes

NO nip nip nip

wha? PREEN! Preen hed!

o yeah, please preen...

--VINNIE BIRD

#cockatiel #rescue #preen #PlumeScrolling #bird #pet #love #BirdJobs #adorable #cute

A male duck paddling in calm water. The body of the duck is two tones of brown, the wings are dark. The head is mostly black, with green swooping up from its forhead across its crown to end in a mullet at the neck. White muttonchop markings, white bill with orange nares and bright red eyes complete the incredible coloration.

#plumescrolling #birdsofFrontRange #birdsofBluesky
A beautiful day - I needed to get outside. Am glad I did - Wood Duck at a local pond.

A small bird with brown back, pinkish-orange sides and chest, white belly, gray head, pinkish beak, and dark eyes, stands on the surface of snow.

#borb #BirdOfTheDay #birdsofFrontRange #plumescrolling #iNat
Juncos are the borb-iest.
Pink-sided Dark-eyed Junco from 2022 12 22. You know, back when we had snow.

A black and white duck

A black and white duck

A black and white duck. Again

Nice Oxfordshire rarity to show up, even better when its on my local patch! Long-Tailed Duck (oddly missing its long tail). Should be at the coast, if indeed found anywhere in the UK, not in the most land locked county.

#plumescrolling

A very black American Crow sits on a medium branch. It is puffed up and cawing at my dogs beneath the tree (not shown).

#BirdOfTheDay #corvid #birdsofFrontRange #plumescrolling 🌿
This crows feathers were ruffled as he was cawing his displeasure at my dogs.
What is it about dogs and corvids mouthing off to each other? Both too smart for their own good, I suspect.

BREAKING NEWS: CUTIE captured on film! #PlumeScrolling #owl

#PlumeScrolling #TinyJoys

A small gray bird stands belly deep in a rushing stream. It has plunged its head into the water, causing droplets to spray as a wave breaks over it.

#BirdOfTheDay #waterdroplets #birdsofFrontRange #plumescrolling #iNat
American dipper showing off its borbiness while it plunges its head into a rushing stream.

A super-adorable normal gray cockatiel (Maui) balled up into a sweet yellow, orange, and gray circle of feathers, sleeping sweetly, dreaming of sweet HUMON and millets.

Adorably asleep pied cockatiel VINNIE BIRD dares you to count the colors in his beautiful feathers. Go ahead. But quietly. He needs his rest, you know?

Sweet sleepy CD the pied cockatiel rests outside an empty box. No, that box is empty. You not see you no sleeping MAUI inside it. As we know, bird in box = can't be seen by no one. Hee hee hee.

Jen budgie on her swing judging you. Because have you given her what she deserves? Have you really admired her beautiful feathers, green, gold, and black? Have you noticed how amazing her balance is? Exactly. Shame on you. Admire the JEN.

Birdeez REPORT: Redee for tha WEEKEN? WE ARE.

Nuff of HUMON gon away. Nuff missn owt! Gon hav SERVISS n TREATZ n ATTENTIONS! BIRDEEZ gon RULE n be SUPER IMPORTED!

#pet #bird #birds #rescue #cockatiel #budgie #cute #adorable #sleepy #sweet #PlumeScrolling

A small round birb sits in the snow. It is grey with a white chest and belly. It has a dusting of snow on its little pinkish beak.

#BirdOfTheDay #plumescrolling #birdsofFrontRange There aren't many bird I find #cute, but this little birby Slate-colored Junco, aka "snowbird," does it for me.
From 12/22. You know, back when we had snow.

A Blue Tit, perched on a vertical, lichen-covered twig (on the other side of that twig, from our perspective). The underside of the bird’s body and tail are facing towards us (with the tail pointing towards the bottom right corner of the image), with the head turned to face towards the left side of the image. Blue Tits are small, colourful, and characterful birds. The head is white with a blue crown, and black stripes encircling the cheeks. The underparts are yellow, with a short, often irregular, black stripe running down the middle of the belly. We can't see the wings or back here. The underside of the tail is grey. The beak, and the legs and feet, are dark grey.

More of a #TwigBird than a #BranchBird (today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme), but I’m going with it! A brilliant Blue Tit (from Brandon Marsh on Saturday) to end a #Plumescrolling thread in which we’ve seen pics of this species either approaching or departing. #Birds #UKWildlife #EastCoastKin #Photography 🌿

I meant to include the LTT post 👇🏻 in this #PlumeScrolling thread. But quoting it gives me the chance to add that in honour of this bird, I had a piece of the (vegan) rhubarb & ginger cake from the Brandon Marsh café which was about the same shade of pink. Also – look at those Denis Healey eyebrows!

Head shot of a bird with alternating brown and white stripes from the top of his head to his chin. His small sharply pointed beak is covered with bits of purple berry skins.

#collectingfood #BirdOfTheDay #plumescrolling #birdsofFrontRange
Song Sparrow with berry mash all over his beak. Can birds lick their beaks clean, or is this a reason why they wipe them on things?

Photo of a Marsh Tit (Poecile palustris) perched on the top rail of a wooden fence, on which a peanut and a few Sunflower seed hearts or kernals have been placed. The bird is facing towards the right side of the picture, and he or she has a sunflower seed heart held in their beak. Tits are part of a family of birds which in North America are known as Titmice or Chickadees. Like other Tits, the Marsh Tit is a small bird. The top half of the head, the eyes, the short beak, and a small patch on the throat are all black. Each side of the face below the eye is white, the chest is whitish and the rest of the underparts are a pale buff colour. The back, wings, and the relatively short tail are mostly various shades of brown, or grey. The legs and feet are grey.

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme #CollectingFood seems to have been the theme for the last several posts in this #PlumeScrolling thread! So let's continue it with this Marsh Tit, clutching a large Sunflower seed, at Brandon Marsh today. #Birds #UKWildlife #EastCoastKin #BirdPhotography 🌿

A Eurasian Nuthatch (Sitta europaea, a fairly small, woodpecker-like bird) perched on the top rail of a wooden fence, seen from the back but with his or her head and body turned towards the right. The feathers of top of the bird's head, the nape, the back, the tail, and most of the wings are a bluish-grey colour; some of the wing feathers are blackish. A thick black stripe runs from the base of the beak to the eye (also black), and from the eye to the shoulder. The cheek and throat are white, the longish, pointed beak is a dark bluish-black. The underparts are a rich buff colour, and the short legs, and feet, are pinkish. There are a few sunflower seed hearts on the top of the rail, between the feet of the Nuthatch.

#BirdButts part 2 for #BirdOfTheDay. Not quite as obvious as in the Blue Tit pic, but this Nuthatch, striking a pose at Brandon Marsh yesterday, was definitely displaying his or her backside. #PlumeScrolling #EastCoastKin #UKWildlife #Birds #BirdPhotography 🌿

Photo of a Blue Tit taking off from the top rail of a wooden fence, displaying his or her mostly yellow backside and the greyish undersides of a pair of opening wings as the bird flies away.

Tits and bums from me now, well one Tit displaying their birdy bum, as the theme for #BirdOfTheDay today is #BirdButts. Another Blue Tit at Brandon Marsh yesterday, one who decided to moon me on departing from the feeding spot. The cheek of it! #PlumeScrolling #EastCoastKin #UKWildlife #Birds 🌿

Photo of a Coal Tit on top of a wooden post, with a piece of suet held in his or her bill. The Coal Tit is a small passerine or perching bird. The head is black, except for a large white patch on each cheek, and a white stripe running down the pack of the head. The back, wings and tail are mostly grey; the wings have two rows of whitish spots on them. The underparts are a pale pinkish-brown colour. The beak is black, and the legs and feet are grey. This Coal Tit is facing towards the right side of the image. In the background, out of focus, a Blue Tit, with wings outstretched, is flying towards the post to claim his or her share of the items of food piled on top of it. The Blue Tit has a mostly white face with a blue crown; a black stripe on each side of the face runs from the beak, to and past the eye; black also extends a little way down from the base of the beak to the neck, where it joins a thin black band around the neck. The underparts are yellow, with black stripe running down the belly. The undersides of the wings and the tail are greyish.

As I enjoyed a day in the sunshine and in the company of birds yesterday, at Brandon Marsh near Coventry, I’ll resurrect this old #PlumeScrolling thread. Here’s a cute Coal Tit, with a Blue Tit incoming. #Birds #NaturePhotography #UKWildlife #EastCoastKin 🌿

Went to the Suberb Owl! We went to the Superb Owl! Hope you get to go, too.

#SuperbOwl #BirdsofBluesky #Plumescrolling #BirdsofFrontRange

A fluffy pied cockatiel (tha CD!) yes, the CD, relaxing after the scary. Gotta perch and fluff up and relax.

Quick BIRDEEZ update!

Oh haded a SCARY FLY

Oh noez

Ohai HUMON was SCARY

Oh HUMON do tha chirps, HUMON carn about the CD

good HUMON good CD

OK better

#cockatiel #bird #pet #adorable #rescue #CutiePie #PlumeScrolling #Scary

Good Jen budgie, the green and gold budgie on the swing, loves hanging out there and in the eaves. Her devoted JESSE bird is on the roof to her right. He is a lovely green and gold budgie boy who loves Jen and Booster. Good JESSE BIRD. Good JEN.

Lovely Booster, to the right on the ladder, golden and sweet budgie hen, posing with friend JESSE to the left on the ladder.

McCoy budgie posing on the perch. Gold and green CoyCoy knows he's adorable. See, you're adoring him RIGHT NOW. As you should.

AND IT CD! HAI! Hansum pied CD cockatiel wit his budgies! Hangn owt, gooda CD!

Late day BIRDEEZ REPORT: Hangn owt!

Ohai HUMONZ ohai it BUDGIEZ!

AN CD. CD sometimz hangowt budgiez.

MOSSLEE budgiez. We'd not ben getting attenshuns. Getd attenshuns. Gooded budgiez.

#budgies #cockatiel #pet #pets #bird #birds #rescues #budgie #cute #adorable #flock #PlumeScrolling

With alt-text. #bird #chickadee #PlumeScrolling #fashion #snowflake #BeautifulBlackAndWhite