A male Red-winged Blackbird is standing on a small clump of dirt surrounded by water. He is facing the camera with his head turned towards the right. He is almost perfectly reflected in the lightly wavy, brown and green water. His eye looks glassy because his third eyelid is covering it.
Blackbird on a tiny island. His eye looks glassy because his protective nictitating membrane is elevated, not because he's a zombie. #thirdeyelidthursday #birds
For #ThursJay, here's an American Crow using his nictitating eye membrane for #ThirdEyelidThursday!
#birds #crow #Corvid #cawmunity #photography #ECK #WestCoastKin #PhotographersUnited
A king vulture throwing its head backwards, showing its nictitating membranes on both of its eyes. The membrane is yellow with red veins running through it.
A king vulture stretching its head and neck while showing you its nictitating membranes
#Birds #Vultures #ThirdEyelidThursday #Haw #Photography #Stretch #FeatheredFriends @tracyaviary.bsky.social
For #ThursJay, an American Crow using the nictitating eye membrane so fits for #ThirdEyelidThursday too!
#birds #crow #Corvid #cawmunity #photography #ECK #WestCoastKin #PhotographersUnited
A Bald Eagle standing in shallow water with water droplets falling from its bill after taking a drink. Its eye looks like a dull grey marble due to its elevated third eyelid.
This eagle's eye has its protective nictitating membrane elevated, giving the eye a dull appearance. #ThirdEyelidThursday #birds #raptors @drbrianpet.bsky.social
#ThirdEyelidThursday
#Thursjay
Mexican jay at the Ash Canyon Bird Sanctuary
Close up photo of the head and shoulders of a Great Blue Heron in profile. Its translucent, white nictitating membrane is covering the front third or so of its cornea. The heron is perched in a low branch of a weeping Willow tree, so multiple small branches are hanging down in front of it. It is minimally obscured.
@drbrianpet.bsky.social told me #ThirdEyelidThursday is a thing so I'm sharing this Great Blue Heron with its nictitans partially closed as my first contribution. #birds #herons
Brown bird with a long, curve beak
#ThrasherThursday!
and
#ThirdEyelidThursday!
Curve-billed #thrasher
in a mesquite tree
at the Holy Trinity Bird Sanctuary
See the #thirdeyelid
half-way up
#bird #birdphotography 🪶
It was close. And the lens was extended to 600mm, so...
#ThirdEyelidThursday!
Mallard #duck
swimming with his
#thirdeyelid up 😲
#bird #birdphotography 🪶
#closeup
Vibrant feathers of blue and green.
#ThirdEyelidThursday!
Peacock walking around
with his #thirdeyelid up 😲
#bird #birdphotography 🪶
Holy Trinity Bird Sanctuary
St David #Arizona
You can see a few of the leaves still on the tree to identify the mesquite. The eye is in focus. Much of the rest of the bird is not.
#ThirdEyelidThursday!
meets
#ThrasherThursday!
Curve-billed #thrasher
in the big mesquite tree
in my backyard
has the #thirdeyelid up 😲
#bird #birdphotography 🪶
Not brown. The colors are gray (primarily), black, and white, with some red, flabby skin under the chin.
#ThirdEyelidThursday!
Brown #pelican perching on the railing at the marina and the #thirdeyelid is up
#bird #birdphotography 🪶
Large brown and white bird on a stack of large sticks
#ThirdEyelidThursday!
An #osprey sits on the nest with the #thirdeyelid up
The #nest is on top of a platform on Shelter Island
#SanDiego
#bird #birdphotography
#raptor
Perched on a chain-link fence with hunched shoulder. Cloudy and foggy.
#ThirdEyelidThursday!
Look👀
close and see the #thirdeyelid up
Reddish #egret along the
#SanDiego River Estuary
#bird #birdphotography 🪶
A type of flycatcher. The topside is black. The underside is white.
#ThirdEyelidThursday!
Here is a #black phoebe
perching on some sort of succulent plant
along the #SanDiego River Estuary
#bird #birdphotography 🪶
A lot of blue feathers. The third eyelid is about halfway.
#ThirdEyelidThursday!
The peacock's #thirdeyelid is up!😲
#bird #birdphotography 🪶
#peafowl
Two mallards and one mutant mallard
#Threesday
meets
#ThirdEyelidThursday!
Three #ducks
and the one that is actually in focus
has his #thirdeyelid up!😲
#birds #birdphotography 🪶
Holy Trinity Bird Sanctuary
I know I said there could be only one entry from me for #Songbirds on #BirdOfTheDay but I forgot about this Dipper on the River Calder. It also qualifies for #ThirdEyelidThursday - who knew there was such a theme?!
#Birds
#BirdingScotland
#BirdTherapy
#UkWildlife
#wildlifephotography
#EastCoastKin
For #ThursJay and #ThirdEyelidThursday and, can you believe it...? #songbird for #BirdOfTheDay!
An American #Crow is using the nictitating eye membrane and is genetically in the songbird order Passeriformes! #birds #photography #EastCoastKin #corvid #cawmunity
Little brown and tan striped bird with a wet beak
#ThirdEyelidThursday!
Scruffy female house finch at the birdbath with the #thirdeyelid up
#bird #birding #birdphotography 🪶
A little bird that is tan and black and white and some patches of yellow
#ThirdEyelidThursday!
Yellow-rumped #warbler
on the table with the pomegranates
eating suet
and the #thirdeyelid is up!😲
#bird #birding #birdphotography 🪶
Little brown and tan striped bird.
#ThirdEyelidThursday!
Female house #finch has her #thirdeyelid up and #gunk on her beak
#bird #birdphotography 🪶
Round chunk of suet on the table with pomegranates in the background
#ThirdEyelidThursday!
Cactus #wren chomps the suet while the #thirdeyelid is up😲
Look👀 #close 🔍
#bird #birdphotography 🪶
Little bird with a pointy beak (like a flycatcher) has feathers of white, gray, tan, black, and yellow
#ThirdEyelidThursday!
The little yellow-rumped #warbler
has the #thirdeyelid up😲
#bird #birdphotography 🪶
The lower part of the bird is obscured by the large mesquite branch
#ThirdEyelidThursday!
meets
#ThrasherThursday!
Curve-billed #thrasher
in the big mesquite tree
in my backyard
has the #thirdeyelid up😲
#bird #birdphotography 🪶
Large owl with feathers of white, gray, tan, and black
#ThirdEyelidThursday!
The great horned #owl
with the problematic lighting
has the #thirdeyelids up!😲
Desert Museum
#Tucson
#bird #birdofprey #birdphotography 🪶
Expand and look close to see the vasculature of the third eyelids
#ThirdEyelidThursday!
Harris #hawk
who has #gunk
on the beak
also has the
#thirdeyelids up!😲
Look👀 close🔍 to see the pharynx!
#bird #birdphotography 🪶
#raptor
Long-distance shot, because the quail have been skittish
#ThirdEyelidThursday!
Gambel's #quail running in my backyard with his #thirdeyelid up😲
#bird #birdphotography
🪶
We put the sunflower seeds in the blue bowl
#ThirdEyelidThursday!
A female house #finch
eating sunflower seeds
and her #thirdeyelid is up!😲
And there's pomegranate #gunk
on her beak too😲
#bird #birdphotography 🪶
The bird is tan, yellow, black, and white
#ThirdEyelidThursday!
Here is a yellow-rumped #warbler
in the mesquite tree
and the #thirdeyelid is up!😲
#bird #birdphotography 🪶
