Black coloured bird taking flight out of long grass against a green shade cloth background
#BirdOfTheDay #TakeOffs a willy wagtail fulfils the criteria here.
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Three Brown Pelicans taking flight from the San Francisco Bay while a gull naps on the beach in the foreground.
Three Brown Pelicans in 3 stages of #takeoff for #BirdOfTheDay. 💚 #Birds #NaturePhotos #Takeoffs
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A ring-billed gull lands behind another gull, causing it wo "run" away.
Two ring-billed gull; one exiting the frame as the other establishes its presence wings spread wide.
Get outta here. #Takeoff ... said one ring-billed gull to another.
#Birds #Photography #Takeoffs #BirdOfTheDay #Gulls #Nature #WildlifePhotography #AnimalPhotography #BirdPhotography
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Oh this would have fitted my theme Alison so if you don’t mind #BirdOfTheDay #takeoffs
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#takeoffs over water can add an extra splash to the show.
From a few days over Summer, sitting in a small hot hide in central #Spain, while the birds played in the water pool outside.
#BirdOfTheDay #BirdsSeenIn2025 #TurtleDove
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Outta Here (2025) The #BirdOfTheDay theme by @alan678.bsky.social is #takeoffs. Here’s a puffin taking off of the big rock off the coast of Elliston, Newfoundland #birds #puffins #eastcoastkin #photography #newfoundland #birdwatching 🪶
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The theme for #BirdOfTheDay today is #TakeOffs, so here's a Roseate spoonbill taking off from a tree to join the flock by the water's edge 🪶
#birding #wildlife #photography
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A black bird with wings hunched over it is partway out of the river, its feet still under water. Behind it there are regular splashes indicating where it has been stepping into the water to push off. ƒ/18; 1/160 s; 300 mm; ISO 200
The #BirdOfTheDay theme by @alan678.bsky.social is #takeoffs, and rather than repeat an image I just used recently, here's a slightly out-of-focus and oddly lit shot of a cormorant midway through a water takeoff.
Cormorants sit rather low in the water, so taking off is a bit of a production.
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Ops forgot there WAS another one .. a fun one!
Double Magpie #takeoffs
#BirdOfTheDay #birds #EastCoastKin
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Dos ocells sobre unes branques emergents sobre les aigües de l'estany d'Ivars i Vilasana. Un d'ells te les ales obertes perque acaba d'aterrar.
Precioses criatures alades. Estany d'Ivars i Vilasana.
#Fotografia #Monochrome #ClassicMono #BirdOfTheDay #TakeOffs #EastCoastKin
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The "tween" mallard&mallard hybrid did "take off exercises" before they tried flying ever. I never seen any of them do this till this past summer! Geese have to be taught how to fly.Ducks just fly. Geese parents have a lot of responsibility. #takeoffs #birds #ducks #BirdsOfTheWorld #MallardMonday
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An almost-sharp blue jay for the #BirdOfTheDay theme of #takeoffs. 🪶
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On the left side of the image, a gull holding a large clam in its beak, with wings raised as it takes off. Somewhat hidden against a backdrop of dark beach pebbles, a crow watches intently. Blurry in the background, a tiny wave is washing up on the rocky shore.
Unlikely to make it out with my camera today, so here's a favorite of mine from the archives: Gull, clam, crow.
#photography #BirdOfTheDay #takeoffs #BirdSky #gull #crow #PNW #nature #wildlife #beach #birds
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Today's #BirdoftheDay theme is #takeoffs. Here's a Townsend's Warbler lifting off from the branch of a Sitka spruce, taken in Newport, OR. #Nature #Photography #Birds #PNWBirding #thepeoplescoast #Oregon
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Yay .. great one Alan!
Theme also great!
.. though I have few 🙄
in fact just the one 🤪
Kestrel taking off over Devils Dyke in July
#takeoffs #BirdOfTheDay #EastCoastKin #birds #photography
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Cormorant hunched up during take off, water solashes
Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme from @alan678.bsky.social is #takeoffs. #birds #photography #EastCoastKin
Cormorant at the start of what always looks like an unnecessaryily long take off run.
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Immature bald eagle talking off from an icy river.
Group of Canada geese in the snow, with one in the back starting to take off.
Magpie taking off over a river, from behind, head not visible.
Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme from @alan678.bsky.social is #takeoffs. Fun one. #birds #photography
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a tern spreads its wings as it takes off from water.
#BirdOfTheDay #takeoffs Elegant Tern (Thalasseus elegans) doing its best heraldic crest impersonation, Rio del Mar beach, #Aptos, #California #birds #photography #birdphotography #nature #wildlife #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography
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The #BirdOfTheDay theme is #takeoffs
That time a Cooper's hawk launched itself straight at me. It flew about three feet over my head.
#birds #hawk #raptor
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A photograph of a Crow that has one foot on and one off a post that he had been perched on. He is leaning forward to the left and looking down as if he is about to fall off his perch!
Here's Mr Crow for #BirdOfTheDay on the theme #takeoffs
He looks like he is falling off his perch rather than taking off! ☺️
Good evening from me, see you tomorrow 👋 📷 🪶
#Photography #Birds #UKWildlife #EastCoastKin
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With #BirdOfTheDay theme being #takeoffs (set by @alan678.bsky.social) - here's three images of a juvenile Gannet taking off. Photos taken from Bamburgh Beach, Northumberland (Sept. 2025). #birds #ukwildlife
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Blue Jay, sideways on a rail, taking off with a peanut - TN
Good morning, butterflies
#BirdOfTheDay theme is #TakeOffs
The angle of this blue jay, very fancy takeoff 🤣 🪶
#EastCoastKin
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Today's #BirdoftheDay theme is #takeoffs, so here's a small series of birds taking flight. A Bald Eagle, Eastern Bluebird, Red-bellied Woodpecker and White-throated Sparrow. Western PA #birds #birdphotography #wildlife #nature #nikon #EastCoastKin
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A blue jay spreads its wings, which are slightly blurred, as it takes off backwards from a bird feeder. Its back and the back of its tail, at lower left, are showing with its head turned back towards the camera revealing its black and white face. Photo taken in Walpole MA USA
As far as #TakeOffs go, this blue jay performs a slight degree of difficulty as he goes off backwards from a bird feeder. #birds #BirdOfTheDay #bluejay #nature #birdphotography 🪶
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