A myrtle warbler leaping off a thin branch on a bare tree. It looks funny and awkward with its legs splayed out.
Oh good! I have a little bonus gift for you. Blurrier than the other but perhaps funnier.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekNForNonsense #BirdOfTheDay #Warblers #RareEncounters
Red Phalarope fits my #RareEncounters list. First and only time seeing one last summer near the Oregon Coast. 🪶 #birds
A bald eagle soring in the sky.
Not a good shot, but the 1st & only time I've seen a Bald Eagle! It was distant and almost long gone when I noticed it. I'm heading back up there (Salt River - Arizona) this weekend, so fingers crossed!
#BirdOfTheDay #RareEncounters #BaldEagle
Going to the past for the alt #birdoftheday prompt #rareencounters the 1st two are an immature Brown Booby that traveled to Indiana in June 2024 and the 2nd two are an immature / non breeding Red Phalarope that was spotted in a local warehouse pond in December 2024
#indiana #photography #birding 🪶
The #BirdOfTheDay alt theme today is #RareEncounters birds you have captured least in your camera roll
Orange-bellied Parrot - rare and critically endangered. So privileged to observe 3 of them close to home.
#birds #birdwatching #birdphotography #birdlover #BirdsOfAustralia #ProtectBirdHabitat
From @alan678.bsky.social "The #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #Warblers any bird that’s a Warbler. The alt is #RareEncounters birds you have captured least in your camera roll."
A Long-billed Crombec, one of the 'African warblers'.
The alt #birdoftheday #theme is #rareencounters. This was the one and only time I have ever crossed paths with the Boreal Chickadee.
#bird #birder #birding #nature #naturephotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #photography #nikon
Brown Thresher stands on a a black metal bar.
A one eyed cardinal that lived around here for a couple years. Haven't seen him for a while, though. Miss this guy.
Eastern Towhee on the snow with a seed in its beak.
Baltimore Oriole in a crab apple tree from when I lived in Michigan. I have not seen a single Oriole since moving to Maryland.
Thanks @alan678.bsky.social for the theme today! The #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #Warblers any bird that’s a Warbler. The alt is #RareEncounters birds you have captured least in your camera roll. I don't have any Warblers, so rare it is. #nikon #eck #wildlife #maryland #birds 📷🪶
Close-up of red male cardinal perched on a tree branch.
My #RareEncounters with Northern Cardinals have only happened during our trips to the Midwest. It's been a few years, but hopefully I'll see some again this summer.💚 #BirdOfTheDay #Birds #NaturePhotos 📷
A Wilson's Warbler peeks out from behind a branch, with a bright yellow head and black crest glowing in the sunlight.
A curious Wilson's Warbler peeks out along the trail in Mount Tabor Park, Portland, Oregon #birds #photography #birdphotography #nature #wildlife #pnw #oregon #birdoftheday #warblers #rareencounters #addbirder
Wow Robyn!🤩
We have liftoff
Took this on the totally wrong settings & zoomed in a lot so not amazing quality but it makes me laugh and it fits both #BirdOfTheDay #warblers & #RareEncounters for me
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekNForNonsense #AnimalArtTuesday #ColorADay #BlueTue #EastCoastKin #ECK #birds
Expertly taken Dave! ☺️
#BirdOfTheDay theme is #Warblers with the alt of #RareEncounters. An overwintering female Blackcap back in the early #1990s when the species was rare enough in winter to submit the record to the county recorder.
#ECK #photography #birds #nature #wildlife #TenMinutesFromHome
In May, 2020 a Sandhill Crane enters the frame, flying right to left. The background is deeply wooded and two deer graze in a farmer's field at the bottom of the frame.
This Golden-winged Warbler did NOT cooperate but I was able to reveal some its beauty in post-production. Taken in Central Park, NYC in August 2018. This little migrant gave me about 3 seconds to shoot this silhouette.
For the #BirdOfTheDay themes, I have #RareEncounters with a crane and a bad photo of a rare #Warblers. The 1st photo documents the most recently reported sighting of a Sandhill Crane in my county. That's 6 years ago! The 2nd kicked off a dash of NYC birders flocking to the spot of the sighting.
Great shot Dave ☺️👍🏼
Todays alternative #BirdOfTheDay theme is #RareEncounters. A female/immature Ring Ouzel in a bush at a reservoir on the #Cheshire plain A mountain and moorland species when not on migration
#ECK #photography #birds #nature #wildlife #Kodachrome #1990s #VintageLens #ManualFocus
This is a Kirtland’s Warbler. There are only about 4,000 in existence. They summer and nest in the Jack Pine forests of the middle lower peninsula of Michigan and winter in the Bahamas. #RareEncounters #Warbler #BirdOfTheDay
Photo to of a northern yellow warbler sitting in a huge milkweed patch and looking rather cute
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Warblers any bird that’s a Warbler.
A #NorthernYellowWarbler from last summer and it also fits the alt theme of #RareEncounters.
#ECK #PhotographersUnited #photography #birdphotography #birds
A myrtle warbler just taking off from a skinny branch on a bare tree with many thin branches and a few buds. The sky is clear blue.
We have liftoff
Took this on the totally wrong settings and zoomed in a lot so not amazing quality, but it makes me laugh and it fits both #BirdOfTheDay #warblers and #RareEncounters for me.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekNForNonsense #AnimalArtTuesday #ColorADay #BlueTue #EastCoastKin #ECK #birds
A fluffy owl on a branch. It has a mottled feathered breast and disk-shaped face with rounded eybrows and sleepy narrow eyes.
I can't resist posting the #BirdOfTheDay alt theme of #RareEncounters. To this day, this is the most thrilling rare encounter I've ever had: a highly endangered Spotted Owl in #Marin #California that I stumbled across on a hike about a year ago. 🪶
The view of the back of a small yellow bird with some greyish brown wing and tail feathers, perched on a thin bare branch, against a light, mottled green background
Last spring, maybe the first time I laid out on a warbler, which is still find frustratingly difficult to see, but hey, that means it’s fulfilling both #BirdOfTheDay themes #Warblers and #RareEncounters .
Merlin thinks Wilson’s warbler.
Goldhähnchen im Baum, zwischen Zweigen und Blütenständen einer Hainbuche.
Das heutige alternative Thema zum #BirdOfTheDay von @alan678.bsky.social ist
#RareEncounters
Ich habe nur wenige Goldhähnchen fotografieren können. Heute ist mir eines begegnet.
For today's alt #BirdOfTheDay. #RareEncounters #photography #ECK #EastCoastKin #WestCoastKin #WCK #birds #Canon #AmericanDipper #WaterOusel
At the Paradise River. I'd gone down here to hike one morning, & the bird's bobbing caught my attention. A Ranger identified it for me. Only time I've seen one.
a fieldfare standing on green grass
a little grebe swimming on a calm lake, it's reflection showing in the lightly rippled water
Digging through my camera roll for #BirdOfTheDay 's #RareEncounters . Little Grebe and fieldfare, both I've encountered just once, and got only one half-decent pic each out of it.
a common myna bird walking on a lawn of green grass. the bird is medium-sized, characterized by its dark brown plumage, a black head and neck, a bright yellow bill, and a patch of bare yellow skin around the eye. white patches on its wings are visible as it moves across the grass. the background is softly blurred, showing dark rocks and earth. the IUCN declared the common myna as one of only three birds among the world's 100 worst invasive species. in Hawaii, it is out-competing many native birds for food and nesting areas.
Today’s #BirdOfTheDay alt theme as set by Alan @alan678.bsky.social is #RareEncounters. I only have two pictures of the Common Myna bird and I probably have posted them before, but it was definitely a rare encounter.
#ECK #WestCoastKin
#Travel #HI
#Birds #Myna
#Nature #Photography
Vier vogels in schutkleuren tegen een boom aan. Ze zijn bijna niet te zien.
I'm going with today's alt theme, #RareEncounters, birds you have captured least in your camera roll.
This is a pretty terrible photo of four of frogmouths we saw during a birdwalk in Daintree, Australia in 2002.
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#BirdOfTheDay #RareEncounters #Birds #BirdPhotography
Siskin
Great Crested Grebes weed-dancing
Cetti's Warbler
Black-Necked Grebes
I often see the GCGs , but have only once captured this wonderful dance.
I hear the warblers often - but they're REALLY hard to see/photograph!
Going with the alternate option of #RareEncounters for #BirdOfTheDay today. I hear Soras much more frequently than I see one, so photos of these remain rare for me.
A black, white and gold warbler sings from an ash juniper tree, a species it relies on for nesting in its limited Texas Hill Country breeding range.
Alan's @alan678.bsky.social #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #Warblers any bird that’s a Warbler. The alt is #RareEncounters birds you have captured least. This is a Golden-cheeked Warbler, a critically endangered species that I have only photo’d once - on its breeding grounds in Texas. #birds #ECK
I see these guys off and on, but it's rare that I can get a photo. In fact, this is the only photo I have. #RareEncounters #BirdOfTheDay 🪶
📸 Belted kingfisher: Megaceryle alcyon
#birds #wildlife #nature #dickcissel
The #BirdOfTheDay alt theme is #RareEncounters, birds captured least in your camera roll. Although the Dickcissel is not an uncommon bird in my area, my luck, right place right time, didn't bring a camera, etc., makes it uncommon in my pics collection. ☺️
A bird perched on a slim grey branch, facing right, on an overcast day. The bird has an olive green back, wings and tail. Creamy white breast & flank, black legs & feet, small pointed grey beak and a faint dark stripe through the eye.
#Birds #Vireo Alan H @alan678.bsky.social says the #BirdOfTheDay theme alt is #RareEncounters birds you have captured least in your camera roll. I have had many encounters with the Warbling Vireo but, only once have I come across the Red Eyed Vireo.
