A white duck with a dark head and long red bill is taking off from the waters of a marsh. This is a male Common Merganser. Common Mergansers forage in a range of habitats, including streams, rivers, lakes, coastal bays, and marshes, typically hunting in waters shallower than thirteen feet. They breed on this marsh in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York, arriving here in late March or early April as ice melts and open water returns.

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #SmallBirdsInFlight. Here’s a male Common Merganser taking off in a marsh. wildadirondacks.org/adirondack-w...

#CommonMerganser #Birds #eastcoastkin #Adirondacks #ADK #AdirondackBirds #birding #birds #nature #wildlife #AdirondackMountains #ECK #ducks #wetlands

A landscape oriented image taken in my garden. The backdrop is a beech hedge, still wearing last year’s leaves so an overall orange colour. In the foreground across the top is the twiggy branch of a cherry tree just coming into leaf. A male siskin has just taken flight from there as he makes his approach on the feeder, which can’t be seen in the image.

Male Siskin

Today's #BirdOfTheDay from
@robcrank68.bsky.social is
#SmallBirdsInFlight any bird Duck Size or smaller in flight.

#SmallBirdSaturday
#BirdPhotography
#UKBirding
#UKNature
#Photography
#PhotographersOfBlueSky
#ECK
#Siskin

For today’s #birdoftheday theme #smallbirdsinflight, here is a puffin seen from above at Bempton Cliffs in Yorkshire, Uk

#birds #puffin #wildlife #yorkshire #EastCoastKin #ECK

European Stonechat Saxicola rubicola (female), Woodend Marsh, Rees Hide, Martin Mere, 21st Sept 2023.

Here is my choice for today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme #SmallBirdsInFlight. 🪶❤️

#birds #ukbirds #birding

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #SmallBirdsInFlight, any bird Duck Size or smaller in flight. The Alt Theme is #Finches, any Finch will do.
I'll also post the occasional #heroicfailure
#birds #photography #ECK #birdphotography #naturephotograhy #BirdsInFlight #Sony #BirdLife

A hummingbird sucking nectar from a flower

A hummingbird in flight

For today's #BirdOfTheDay with the theme #SmallBirdsInFlight, I present two hummingbirds. Both photos are from south of Wimberley in Texas.

Pochard/Tafeleend
I guess that this one can do as "duck size or smaller in flight" for #BirdOfTheDay #SmallBirdsInFlight :-)

A favorite from the CopShots archives -
two 🪶Tree Swallows showing ❤️ in the spring
#BirdOfTheDay #SmallBirdsInFlight
#SmallBirdSaturday
#NewJerseyBirds

A black and white Mourning Wheatear coming in to land. Wings raised, legs down.

Happy Saturday. For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme #SmallBirdsInFlight, and for #smallbirdsaturday from @javajanegallery.co.uk here's a Mourning Wheatear coming in to land, under carriage down and flaps up #Birds #wildlifephotography #birdwatching #birdphotography #photography #nature #ECK

Hummingbird in flight with spread out wings and flashing magenta gorget, next to 2 bright red flower clusters.

An Anna’s hummingbird visiting autumn sage (Salvia greggii) for the #SmallBirdsInFlight theme of #BirdOfTheDay picked by @robcrank68.bsky.social and for #SmallBirdSaturday by @javajanegallery.co.uk

#birds #photography #nature #naturephotography #ECK

The Starlings at Leighton Moss are a great sight when they perform.
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #SmallBirdsInFlight, any bird Duck Size or smaller in flight.

#birds #photography #ECK #birdphotography #ukbirding #naturephotograhy #BirdsInFlight #PhotographyIsArt #BirdLife #naturetherapy

#BirdOfTheDay for Saturday, 4 April 2026 theme #SmallBirdsInFlight and alt theme #Finches
House Finch in flight.
#birds #birdphotography #wildlife #nature #photography #EastCoastKin #ArtChallenges #AlbertaBirds #CanadaBirds #photographersofBlueSky

Chaffinch & Goldfinch #twofer
#BirdOfTheDay #SmallBirdsInFlight
Alt theme #Finches
#birds #ukbirds

#BirdOfTheDay for Saturday, 4 April 2026 theme #SmallBirdsInFlight
Yellow-rumped Warbler.
#birds #birdphotography #wildlife #nature #photography #EastCoastKin #ArtChallenges #AlbertaBirds #CanadaBirds #photographersofBlueSky

I seem to have managed to capture this Redpoll in mid-flight at a point when its wings are down by its sides making it look like it is hopping. It had just taken off from a small birdbath hanging in the trees.

@robcrank68.bsky.social #BirdoftheDay #ECK
Today's theme #SmallBirdsinFlight or Alt theme #finches.
I have 2 in one here, a Redpoll who has forgotten to use its wings and is making like a frog
#photo #birdphotography #nature #wildlife

Kingfisher in flight with powerlines making a crisscrossed pattern behind it against a grayish sky

For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme #SmallBirdsInFlight (any bird Duck Size or smaller in flight; alt #Finches, any Finch will do) a kingfisher flying between crisscrossed power lines in Okeechobee.

#birds #birding #photography #birdphotography #floridabirds #naturephotos #ECK

Redshank

Twite

Goldfinch

Chaffinch

Today's #BirdOfTheDay the theme is #SmallBirdsInFlight
I have a Twite in flight and other tricky customers
Norfolk UK
They are also all #BirdsSeenIn2026
#ukbirds #birdingnorfolk #EastCoastKin #ukwildlife #birds #Wildlife #Nature #BirdPhotography

#BirdOfTheDay
Theme is
#SmallBirdsInFlight
#Birds
#BirdPhotography
Ruby-throated hummingbird (Maine)
Yellow wagtail
Dartford warbler
Swift

A Ruby-throated hummingbird in hover mode #SmallBirdsInFlight #BirdOfTheDay

Deep Bay - Southeast Alaska
#scape #nature #landscape #photography #landscapephotography #travel #PhotographersUnited #WestCoastKin #PhotographersOfBluesky #ECK #seascape #forest #birds #BirdoftheDay #SmallBirdsInFlight #smallbirdsaturday #Boat #sailing #sailboat #ColorADay #GreenSat #Alaska

For the #SmallBirdsInFlight theme, I’m sharing this flock of Red-winged Blackbirds. First, the flock was huge and second, they all banked at the same time, showing their bright red epaulets in unison. #BirdOfTheDay #Birds

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme by @robcrank68.bsky.social is #SmallBirdsInFlight This is a Goldcrest demonstrating the “look no wings” method of flying! Also appropriate for @javajanegallery.co.uk ’s #SmallBirdSaturday

Stock dove (Columba oenas) in flight Rüschendorfer Wiesen, Germany

@robcrank68.bsky.social‬ picked #BirdOfTheDay theme as #SmallBirdsInFlight, and I let a wood dove fly for me.

#Naturephotography #Birds 🪶

African Wagtail approaching for today's #BirdOfTheDay prompt #SmallBirdsInFlight & #SmallBirdsSaturday

#birds #nature #artshare #bif #birdsinflight #saturday #weekend #eck #birdphotography #naturephotography

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #SmallBirdsInFlight, any bird Duck Size or smaller in flight. The Alt Theme is #Finches, any Finch will do.

Does this count?

A distant picture of a Gull situated towards the top of the frame flying over a lake at a right angle with two tarmac paths marking the edge of the lake and separating to lawns of green grass. There are trees with bare branches behind the furthest lawn of grass and urban buildings visible through the tree line.

Good morning, everyone. For todays #BirdoftheDay themes hosted by @robcrank68.bsky.social, which are #SmallBirdsInFlight or the alt. #Finches here is a Gull flying by in the sky. #birds #nature #photography #ECK #ukbirding

🪶 Rob has chosen #SmallBirdsInFlight for today’s #BirdOfTheDay.
Here's a Snipe drumming and a Skylark singing...

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