Again from the archive — a Great Blue #Heron captured #inflight for today’s #OpenBeak theme. Zoom in a bit to check out the tongue 😊
Lovely light from the right provides contrast between the wings and warmth to the heron’s breast and face
This photo also works for #wingsonwednesday
#BirdOfTheDay
This photo captures a Sandhill Crane in flight against a pale, clear sky. The bird is captured in a silhouette, flying with its neck and legs fully outstretched. While mostly a silhouette, some lighter brown/tan coloration is visible on the bird's body and wings. It has a long, open bill as it emits a loud, bugle-like trumpeting call that can travel over two miles.
#BirdOfTheDay #ShoutItOut
#WingsOnWednesday
#WildlifeWednesday
#Birds #SandhillCrane #Flying #Migration #Nature #Wildlife #OnlyBeautifulThings #PeacefulPost #BirdPhotography #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography #PhotographersOfBluesky #PhotographersUnited #EastCoastKin #AltText
This image, taken through a window, is a vibrant artwork using an abstract, intricate style of art filter on a photograph. The filter gives it a textured, almost woven appearance with a color palette of bright yellow, lime green, and teal accents. In the upper right, an orange-red breasted Robin with a dark tail is perched on one of the many stylized branches. The background consists of a dense network of yellow and green branches and trees. The lower left shows a section of a colorful mandala design on the window.
View through my...
#WindowsOnWednesday
#ColorADay #RedWed (rust red)
#WildlifeWednesday
#WingsOnWednesday
#Birds #Robins #Nature #Wildlife #OnlyBeautifulThings #PeacefulPost #NaturePhotography #BirdPhotography #ArtInNature #PhotographersOfBluesky #PhotographersUnited #EastCoastKin #AltText
The photo is a close-up image of a Ring-billed gull walking on a sandy beach. The bird has a white head, neck, and underparts, with a light gray back and wings. Key features visible in the image include a yellow bill with a distinct black band or "ring" around it near the tip, pale yellow eyes, and yellow legs and webbed feet. The background consists entirely of light-colored sand.
#BirdOfTheDay #Borb #Gulls
#WildlifeWednesday
#WingsOnWednesday
#Birds #Nature #Wildlife #Beach #Coast #OnlyBeautifulThings #PeacefulPost #BirdPhotography #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography #PhotographersOfBluesky #PhotographersUnited #EastCoastKin #AltText
For #WingsOnWednesday here's a few dodgy photos of the #Cormorants drying their wings #Shadows #Birds
Another one of my husband's photos, this was a #Cormorant from behind drying off his #Wings 🙂 #WaterbirdWednesday #WingsOnWednesday #feathers #birds
This photo captures an adult male Baltimore Oriole perched on a bird feeder. The bird is known for its striking coloration, featuring brilliant orange plumage on its undersides, breast, and shoulders, a black head and beak, and black wings accented by a bold white bar. The oriole is shown in profile, looking to the right standing on a red plastic tray, which is part of a black wire feeder structure. Two halved oranges are visible on the feeder, one to the left which is partially eaten, with the inside facing out, and a whole half to the right. The background is a soft blur of green foliage.
#BirdOfTheDay #BackyardBirds
#WildlifeWednesday
#WingsOnWednesday
#Birds #Nature #MyGarden #Wildlife #OnlyBeautifulThings #SimplePleasures #PeacefulPost #Breathe #NaturePhotography #BirdPhotography #WildlifePhotography #PhotographersOfBluesky #PhotographersUnited #EastCoastKin #AltText
A male bufflehead duck in a pond of water, stretching, with its wings raised up over its head. The light is shining on the feathers on its head making them glow iridescently
A male bufflehead duck reminding us to stretch after we've been sitting and scrolling for too long 🤭
#Birds #BirdOfTheDay #Iridescent #Ducks #WednesdayWaders #WingsOnWednesday #Wings #Seattle #PNW #Photography
Photo of a bald eagle in flight against a very dreary and drab grey sky
#WingsOnWednesday!
My favorite neighbor, a #BaldEagle taken at Bombay Hook NWR, 11 November 2025
#EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #photography #birdphotography
Looks like any other raptor, mostly. There is that broad white stripe before the brown and tan striped tail.
#WingsOnWednesday!
I kept scaring this #bird
and it kept flying off
I'm fairly certain it's carrying
some prey animal it killed
#birdofprey #birdphotography 🪶
Northern #harrier at Whitewater Draw
The surface of the water is dotted with bird feathers
#WingsOnWednesday!
Northern pintail flying to a different spot on the cienega
Experts tell me this is a #duck
#bird #birds #birdphotography 🪶
#ducks
Large gray bird with a red mask
#WingsOnWednesday!
Sandhill #crane flyby
at Whitewater Draw
#bird #birdphotography 🪶
Juvenile herons have more of a brown cast to their feathers and lack the long feathers at the back of the head. This wildlife refuge supports many herons.
A young Great Blue Heron, deploying the air brakes upon landing at Ridgefield NWR yesterday.
#Birds #WingsOnWednesday
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An overhead shot of a red dragonfly on white painted wood with wings and their venation in full view.
Dragonfly for #WingsOnWednesday.
#photography #insect #nature #dragonfly
A monarch butterfly in pink Drummond's phlox flowers surrounded by green grass.
Monarch butterfly on pink phlox for
#WingsOnWednesday!
#bloomscrolling #flowers #photography #butterfly
From the archive for today’s #wingsonwednesday (a rogue prompt, I believe)
The horizon beyond this wing is the meeting of desert and sky as my wife and I returned to Jordan for our second year (of four) of her teaching at a boarding school founded by His Majesty King Abdullah II
A great adventure!
The fly kind of slow
#WingsOnWednesday!
Brown #pelican
#flying over the
#SanDiego River estuary
I was standing near Robb Field
when I took the picture
#bird #birdphotography 🪶
Look close and see the left eye looking at you
#WingsOnWednesday!
An #osprey
#flying over Shelter Island
#SanDiego
#bird #birdphotography 🪶
#raptor
