A Great Blue Heron stands motionless in shallow blue water, its long neck stretched upward and sharp beak pointed forward. The still water creates a near-perfect mirror reflection of the bird below. Sparse aquatic grass and floating vegetation surround it.
Great Blue Heron standing still in a pond, nature hiding in plain sight.
3-2026
#BirdOfTheDay #Reflections #GreatBlueHeron #BirdPhotography #SonyAlpha
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Reflections, any bird reflection set by @robcrank68.bsky.social ~ chosen a female Wood Duck ~ photo taken at Ebbw Vale Festival Lakes ~ South Wales ๐ชถ๐ฆ #birdingWales #ukbirding #birdphotography #ECK #ukwildlife #naturephotography #naturetherapy #kingfisher
A pair of mallards is swimming in fairly still water, giving a good reflection. The female is in the lead, and they are heading to our left. Behind and to the right of them is a great blue heron, also having a reflection, looking in the same direction they are going. The background is the rocky water's edge.
๐ชถ I'll be watching you... The #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Reflections, says Rob @robcrank68.bsky.social, and this pair of mallards has a great blue heron keeping an eye on them. #birds #photography
A greater yellowlegs is hunting with its bill in the shoreline water, reflected in the water of the wetlands in the autumn evening sunlight. Its bill is in the water almost the entire way and the legs have water almost up to the knife, so the reflection touches the water at the legs and mouth. Foreground has some muddy shoreline while the background is flat water reflecting the color of the evening sunlight
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme from @robcrank68.bsky.social is #Reflections, any bird reflection.
Greater Yellowlegs, autumn sunset, Emiquon NWR, 9.2024.
#birds #photography #sonyalpha
great egret striking at a fish in the water. head is submerged and reflection of body is visible
snowy egret standing in stagnant water - reflection is visible
great blue heron on the banks of a canal. reflection is visible
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Reflections, any bird reflection
I have few egrets with the heron ๐ #ECK
#birds #birding #birdnerd #birdwatching #herons #egrets
#PhotographersOfBlueSky
A group of several gulls stands on a small, flat chunk of ice floating in calm, reflective water during a cold day. The birds vary in age and species, showing a mix of adult white and gray plumage alongside mottled brown juvenile feathers. In the center, one gull has its wings spread wide as if balancing or preparing for flight. Their reflections are clearly visible in the river water below, under a soft, overcast light. Delaware River, Burlington, NJ, USA
According to @robcrank68.bsky.social: "today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Reflections, any bird reflection"
Late today; busy at work.
So I'll try to make up for it by increasing the number of birds, maybe.
#birds #photography
#BirdOfTheDay
#Reflections
A #SnowyEgret at #LosCapitancillosPonds in #SanJose
#HunterFranklinPics #Birds #BirdsOfBluesky #Egrets
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Reflections, any bird reflection: a Snowy Egret hunting in a flooded field #๐ชถ
A small, handsome duck swimming in a lake with his reflection. He has a black head, white sides, black and white patterned feathers on top of his body and a black tail. His bill is blue and his eyes are gold. The water is reflecting nearby trees in different shades of bright green with a dark curvy line going down the center. The scaup is surrounded by concentric rings of ripples.
Handsome handsome
Look at this gorgeous fun-size scaup with his blue bill and gorgeous reflection. He's definitely not "lesser."
#BirdOfTheDay #reflections #ColorADay #BlueTue #ArtYear #EastCoastKin #ECK #birds #PhotographersUnited #photography #OM-3
Two juvenile wood ducks, not fully in their adult plumage, are standing on a log that juts out of the water. Each bird is at an end of the log, one near the water line and one in the air. The birds and the log are mirrored in the rippled creek below, dappled with green and yellow.
For #BirdOfTheDay / #Reflections, here is a pair of juvenile wood ducks (one male and one female, I think).
#birds #nature #photography
Sleeping female mallard duck with reflection. ยฉJohn Kaprielian
#BirdOfTheDay theme is #reflections so here is a sleeping #mallard hen with her reflection. #birds #Birdwatching #ducks #anatidaephilia
An Ae'o (Hawaiian stilt) in a classic feeding pose mirrored in very still water with green water plants in the background
When the #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Reflections I have an advantage: Kealia Pond National Wildlife Refuge. One mirrored Ae'o, coming up! #birds ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฟ
a great blue heron, a long-legged predatory wading bird, stands on dark, seaweed-covered rocks at the edge of the water. the bird, with its grey and white plumage and long yellow beak, is reflected clearly in the still water below. in the background, large boulders covered in green algae rise from the water.
A Great Blue Heron at the jetty in Bandon for today's #BirdOfTheDay theme of #Reflections, as set by @robcrank68.bsky.social.
#ECK #WCK
#Oregon #PNW
#Birds #Heron
#Nature #Photography
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Reflections, any bird reflection. The Alt Theme is #Robins, any Robin will do #ForJanet.
Going with the reflection but will share a Robin #ForJanet later this week.
Have to go now to see if the mama owl or the owlets will show up ๐ค
#BOTD #Gulls #Nature #Birds #ECK
A grebe swimming through a lagoon
Hai, am grebe. Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Reflections ๐ชถ
#birds
#birding
#nature
#wildlife
#photography
#SouthCarolina
Photo by Kort Duce A great blue heron fishes at dusk at a nature area in Longmont, Colorado. In this horizontal color photograph, a weathered log stretches across the pond from left to right. At the left of center, a heron stands on one leg, intent on the water below as it hunts. The scene is almost perfectly mirrored on the pond's surface, reflecting both the bird and the branch. Soft, twilight clouds and the deepening blue of the twilight sky ripple gently in the water. It's a striking, contemplative scene-capturing the quiet beauty of the natural world.
A great blue heron fishes at dusk at a nature area in Longmont, Colorado.
#BirdOfTheDay #Reflections #Robins
#ECK #EastCoastKin #bird #birds #photography #photograph #photographs #photo #photos #greatblueheron #greatblueherons #heron #herons #birdphotographyl
A redshank with extra-long reflected shanks.
Small but perfectly formed #Reflections: a redshank's shanks.
#BirdOfTheDay #birds
Today's theme for #BirdOfTheDay is #reflections set by Rob @robcrank68.bsky.social. So here is a Little Grebe (Tachybaptus ruficollis) aka Dabchick. Taken on Loch Rusky north of Stirling, Scotland.
A Black-winged Stilt (Himantopus himantopus) spotted near the reeds in the shallows along the shore line in Parque Regional Salinas y Arenales de San Pedro del Pinatar, Murcia, Spain.
A Common Moorhen (Gallinula Chloropus) taken along the Water of Leith in Edinburgh, Scotland.
A female Goosander (Mergus merganser) taken along the Water of leith, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Today's theme for #BirdOfTheDay is #reflections set by Rob
@robcrank68.bsky.social. So here are a Little Grebe, a Black-winged Stilt, a Common Moorhen and a Goosander. More information in ALT Text. #Birds ๐ชถ๐ฆ #Nature #Photography #Nikon #ECK
An American Coot floats in a marsh with its reflection in the water below, with water droplets on its head and bright red eye visible.
American Coot at River S Unit, Ridgefield NWR, Washington #birds #photography #birdphotography #nature #wildlife #pnw #oregon #birdoftheday #reflections
For #BirdOfTheDay theme #reflections A blue wing teal duck #Birds #Wildlife #Nature #EastCoastKin #Photography #Birding #NaturePhotography #BirdPhotography #PhotographyIsArt
A blue tit on the birdbath in my garden. The bath fills the bottom oh the frame defused foliage the top, along the midline is the edge of the bath and central on it facing left is the bird, itโs striding out with purpose. Other than ripples from a water droplet the bath is still and so itโs reflecting the bird against the green and yellows of the foliage.
Today's main theme for #BirdOfTheDay is #Reflections, any bird reflection, as set by @robcrank68.bsky.social
#BlueTit
#BirdPhotography
#UKBirding
#UKNature
#ECK
