A small Black-capped Chickadee with white cheeks, black throat, cap and eyes, and a whitish underside with buffy sides, perched on a brown branch of a tree and surrounded by other branches covered with white snow. You can see white snowflakes still falling. Seen in December 2025 in Westwood, Massachusetts.

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #weather -- a bird in any weather we can see. Here's a favorite shot of Charlie the cute #Black-cappedChickadee perched in a tree laced with fallen snow 😍❄️🖤

#birds #Paridae #borb #ECK #birdphotography #OM-1 #nature #snow #winter #Massachusetts @alan678.bsky.social

Cinciallegra, or cince, in English Tit (bird 😅) from the Paridae family.

#ornithology #birdwatching #titbird #cinciallegra #littlebird #joy #simplepleasures #nature #cince #cincia #snow #frommywindow #appenninomodenese #sestola #italy #paridae #chickadees

A male Tufted Titmouse with silvery-gray upperparts, a white underside, a prominent gray crest, a small black forehead just above their dark beak, dark eyes, white underparts, and a rusty-peach on the flanks. The bird's gray crest was flattened--with gel? :-) --and he was looking at me while I took his photo. He was standing on a wooden platform with light brown wood and green lichen on the side, and there were blurred brown branches in the background. Seen at Stony Brook WS in Norfolk, Massachusetts.

For #SmallBirdSaturday and #BirdOfTheDay, this male #TuftedTitmouse was trying out a new flattop look to help attract a mate (Stony Brook WS, Norfolk, MA - 3/9/26) 😉🖤

#birds #Paridae #LittleBirds #ECK #GreyDay #BirdPhotography #OM-1 #Massachusetts @javajanegallery.co.uk @alan678.bsky.social

A small Tufted Titmouse with a gray back, wings, tail and crest, black eyes, white front, and rusty-colored flanks. This one was perched on a brown branch of a tree during a snowstorm. You can see white snow falling and some snow on the bird's face. There are more brown branches and white snow in the background.

Today’s alt #BirdOfTheDay theme is #EverydayBirds you see often. The #TuftedTitmouse is a bird that's here year-round in #Massachusetts. I saw this cutie out during a snowstorm (Westwood, MA - 2/7/26) 😍🪶

#birds #Paridae #EastCoastKin #BirdsSeenIn2026 #BirdPhotography #OM-1 @alan678.bsky.social

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Reflections, any bird reflection, the Alt theme is #Paridae any of the Paridae Species

Pulling out one of my favorites from last summer.

#BirdOfTheDay theme is #Reflections, any bird reflection

Alt theme is #Paridae any of the Paridae Species (Tits)

Rob says today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Reflections, any bird reflection, the Alt theme is #Paridae any of the Paridae Species (Tits).

#birds #photography

I don't have any "clean" reflections, ready to hand.

A Eurasian Blue Tit (Cyanistes caeruleus) feeding its young while perched on the backrest of a chair. Photo by TheOtherKev.

A Sultan Tit (Melanochlora sultanea) perched on a branch. CC BY-SA 4.0: By Dibyendu Ash - The species Sultan Tit had been photographed during the bird photography tour of GoingWild LLP in Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary at Darjeeling in that state of West Bengal in India. Previously published: Yes, this file has been publish in my facebook account; I am yet to publish this image file in other ornithology portals and websites and in print media also for future use., CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=80245414

It's Tits Tuesday!

DYK that what North Americans call "chickadees" are called tits (or titmice) everywhere else?

A famous species is the Eurasian Blue Tit. A less known one is the Sultan Tit.

#ornithology #birds #paridae #passerine #wildlife #nature #biodiversity #zoology #climate #iucn #science

Rob Crank’s @robcrank68.bsky.social alt #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Paridae. This Carolina Chickadee grudgingly posed for me the other day.

Today's #BirdOfTheDay Alt theme is #Paridae

A small bird with a black and white head, gray feathers and a white abdomen stands atop a feeder pole. The bird's back is to the camera and its head is turned left in profile. In the background is a blurred Japanese spindle bush and yellow, white, and green bokeh.

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Reflections, any bird reflection, the Alt theme is #Paridae any of the Paridae Species (Tits). I don't have any bird reflections, just shadows, so I went with this Carolina Chickadee (Paridae). #Birds #EastCoastKin #AnimalArtTuesday

A round looking with a black cap & throat, and white cheek patches, sits with it's back to the sun, on a dark grey, slim branch. It has a shiny round black eye, tiny black beak, white breast feathers, grey flights and creamy beige under the wings. The background is blurred grey branches and light grey.

#Birds #Chickadee Rob @robcrank68.bsky.social
chose today's Alt theme as #Paridae any of the Paridae Species (Tits). Chickadees are the only member of that family in my area. This little borb was warming itself in some weak January sunlight.

A blue/grey Tufted Titmouse stands amid a pile of seeds.

#BirdOfTheDay #Paridae Tufted Titmouse

Reflections/Paridae Bushtits and Gulls. Peace! ✌️ #birds #birding #BirdoftheDay #Paridae #peace #smile

Rocks created to look like a bird

#rockintuesday #eastcoastkin #photography #birds #rock #birdoftheday

So there is no reflection, but maybe this is a #paridae 😜

Little Blue Heron, shallow water, image reflected well. Medium sized, blue body, long neck stretched nearly straight out, staring intently into the water

Black-Necked Stilt, image reflected in still blue water. medium to smaller wading bird, brighter pink to red legs, white body, black back feathers, long narrow beak.

Tricolor Heron, facing camera in water just covering to lower thigh. reflection of bird cut-off at bottom of picture, but shadow of bird shows faintly on the water surface to right of image.

Tricolor Heron, side shot, classic curved neck, ready to strike. Reflection in bright blue water among small pond vegetation branches and clumps.water

Four entries for today's #BirdOfTheDay theme of #Reflections, any bird reflection, the Alt theme is #Paridae any of the Paridae.
- Little Blue Heron
- Black-Necked Stilt
- Tricolor Heron (part of reflection, but great shadow action)
- Tricolor Heron (that neck!)

#birds #EastCoastKin #ukbirding

Mary the Marsh Tit #BirdOfTheDay #Paridae #ukbirds #EastCoastKin

Rob says today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Reflections, any bird reflection, the Alt theme is #Paridae any of the Paridae Species (Tits).

#birds #photography #PhotographersUnited #EastCoastKin

2 Long-billed Dowitchers and their reflections.

‪Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Reflections from @robcrank68.bsky.social‬, the alt theme is #Paridae any of the Paridae species.

This tufted titmouse isn’t a stunning bird but it’s fun to listen to and fits the alt category.

#birdphotography #birds #Photography #Wildlife #Nature #BirdsOfBluesky

A little puffball of a chickadee hangs upside down from a branch, looking behind him.

A fluffy little tufted titmouse perches on a branch amid fall foliage

A wintry forest scene, as visualized through a reflection on a still pool of water. The image was flipped vertically to give the impression of the forest itself.

Today's theme for #BirdOfTheDay is #Reflections / #Paridae... I love reflections, they're something I photograph often - but I have no good bird reflections. Here are a titmouse, a chickadee, and a reflection of snowy trees in water.

#nature #photography #birds

Reddish egret walking through a shallow salt pond with a wake behind it and a reflection of its whole self below it.

Today's #BirdoftheDay theme is #Reflections, the alternate any of the #Paridae species (Tits). Here's one of my favorites, a reddish egret striding across a salt pond at Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge in Florida.

#photography #birding #floridabirds #naturephotos #photosky #eastcoastkin

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Reflections, any bird reflection, the Alt theme is #Paridae any of the Paridae Species (Tits).
Having spent way too long trying to find the photo I wanted of a long tailed tit - I've given up and decided to go with a reflected Dalmatian Pelican landing on Lake Kerkini

Marsh tit (Poecile palustris) hanging from a twig Notzinger Weiher, Germany

Coal tit (Periparus ater) in side view sitting on a branch Near Garmisch, Germany

Great tit (Parus major) clinging to a small branch Munich, Germany

Blue tit (Cyanistes caeruleus) sitting on a twig Erding, Germany

@robcrank68.bsky.social picked #Paridae as today's alt theme for #BirdOfTheDay 🪶

A blue tit about to launch itself off a skinny branch.

#Paridae #BirdOfTheDay you say? #StickHappens

‪Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Reflections from @robcrank68.bsky.social‬ any bird reflection, the Alt theme is #Paridae any of the Paridae Species (Tits-bird not human).

Female mallard

#birdphotography #birds #ducks

The front half of a Canada Goose in profile, with its reflection mirrored in the water below. Its head and neck area slightly glisten with stray water droplets.

Rob has chosen for today's #BirdOfTheDay theme: #Reflections, any bird reflection, the Alt theme is #Paridae any of the Paridae Species (Tits/Chickadees)

Canada Goose and its reflection. They are very common, but also very lovely. #birds

Rob's @robcrank68.bsky.social #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Reflections, any bird reflection, the Alt theme is #Paridae any Paridae Species (Tits).
I give you a Red Winged Blackbird from 2011.
Sometimes I forget how long I've been annoying birds. 😇
#birds #EastCoastKin #RedWingedBlackBird #CanonT1i

gray-backed bird with white belly, long tail, round head and tiny bill, perched at the end of a bare twig

Today's Alt #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Paridae — any of the Paridae Species (Tits).

Long-tailed Tit, France 2005

#Birds #NaturePhotography #Nature #Wildlife #BirdPhotography #France

A black, brown, grey, and white chestnut-backed chickadee standing on a metal hook, looking to the right of the image. Behind it is a rust colored stained fence, blurred.

Another shot of a chestnut-backed chickadee voguing on the shepherd's hook in our garden 🥰

#Birds #BirdOfTheDay #Paridae #BackyardBirds #PNW #Edmonds #Photography #BirdNerd #FeatheredFriends #StrikeAPose

A Black-capped Chickadee with a white and buff-colored front, a white face with a black cap and chin, and black and white wings and tail, perched on a brown branch of a Magnolia tree with a brown tree trunk and white snow in the background.

For today's alt #BirdOfTheDay theme, here's Dee, one of many #Black-cappedChickadee visitors. I can't tell them apart so they're all "Dee" 😁 (Westwood, MA - 1/24/26) 😍🤎

#birds #Paridae #EastCoastKin #LittleBirds #Winter #BirdPhotography #NikonP950 #Massachusetts @robcrank68.bsky.social