Photo a Day 2026 - Day 216: Sandhill Crane family visiting my yard this afternoon. #Photoaday #birds #nature #photography

Photo a Day 2026 - Day 215: My sweet boys, Bruce and Buckley. 🥰 #Photoaday #Dogsofbluesky #Rescuedogs

From my first digital camera (Nikon D1H). I captured early morning swan photos in Jackson, WY while my dog was being treated at the emergency vet next door. He had chewed up a bottle of power steering fluid while I was taking sunrise photos! (He was fine. 🙂) #BirdOfTheDay #Firsts #Birds #nature

I've had so much fun watching this young Red-bellied Woodpecker trying new things and becoming more and more independent! I had to choose a photo of him as my favorite for July! #BestOfJuly #BirdOfTheDay #birds #nature #photography #birdphotography

Photo a Day 2026 - Day 214: This Eastern Gray Squirrel found the perfect camouflage when a Red-shouldered Hawk landed in the same tree. He froze into this knot and stayed completely still until the hawk flew away. Smart squirrel! #photoaday #nature #photography

For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme #OverTheRainbow, here's a pair of Anhingas looking skyward. #birds #nature #photography #birdphotography #ECK

Photo a Day 2026 - Day 213: I love watching juvenile Wood Ducks develop their vibrant colors. This group gets more striking by the week! #photoaday #birds #nature #photography #birdphotography

Great Blue Heron with a very large catfish! #BirdOfTheDay #EgretsAndHerons #birds #nature #photography #birdphotography #ECK

Photo a Day 2026 - Day 212: A watchful mama Peahen with her 5 little Peapods. They're part of a feral colony of peacocks who live in one of our local parks. 🙂 #photoaday #birds #nature #photography #birdphotography

Photo a Day 2026 - Day 211: Sometimes I walk in to a room, look at what my dog is doing, and have to say "What the heck?!" No idea what Bruce and his gator woobie were up to! 😂 #photoaday #dogsofbluesky #dogs

Photo a Day 2026 - Day 210: My parents' sweet rescue dog, Kylee. Her life definitely took a happy turn when she came to live with them! #photoaday #dogsofbluesky #rescuedogs

Carolina Chickadee hopping around in green leaves and Spanish moss. #BirdOfTheDay #EmeraldBackdrop #photography #birds #nature #birdphotography

Photo a Day 2026 - Day 209: I love watching this juvenile Northern Cardinal visiting my feeders and trees. He isn't very coordinated and often slides down the curved feeder pole, trying to get a better grip! #photoaday #birds #nature #photography #birdphotography

Tufted Titmouse perched on a pole. #BirdOfTheDay #Grey #Birds #Nature #Photography #BirdPhotography #EastCoastKin

Photo a Day 2026 - Day 208: The whole Red-bellied Woodpecker family seems to be getting in on protecting the feeder! This is Mama Woodpecker giving a Dove what-for. She did manage to scare a second dove away but this one is just staring at her. #photoaday #birds #nature #photography

This one fits both today's #BirdOfTheDay themes of #CHE and #Memories. This is a feeding frenzy at Lake Apopka in Florida. Hard to capture the scope, but there are hundreds of alligators, egrets, and herons going after fish that have been trapped by low water levels. #birds #nature #photography

Photo a Day 2026 - Day 207: This juvenile Red-bellied Woodpecker is having a little tantrum because a pair of Red-winged Blackbirds have arrived at what he considers to be his personal feeder! #photoaday #birds #nature #photography #birdphotography

Photo a Day 2026 - Day 206: This is what panic looks like on the face of a Florida Soft-shelled Turtle as he realized he was being stalked by this Great Egret! Fortunately, the Great Egret paused to consider his size, and that gave Turtle time to escape! #photoaday #birds #nature #photography

For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme #OneTwoThreeFour, we have 1 Red-tailed Hawk, 2 Black-bellied Whistling Ducks, 3 White Ibis, and 4 Mottled Ducks - all shot today for this fun theme! #birds #nature #photography #birdphotography

This is the shell of a cicada nymph that has morphed into an adult. Adult cicadas emerge by splitting open the back of their nymphal exoskeleton, crawling out, and leaving the empty husk behind. I'm both fascinated and grossed out! (Flashbacks to the movie Alien!) #nature #photography #insects

A few months ago, I posted a photo of this same plant covered in baby Lubber grasshoppers. Today there were only 3 left - adults (nearly 4 inches long!) but not yet ready to fly (unless they just like the plant!) #nature #photography #insects

Photo a Day 2026 - Day 205: Red-bellied Woodpecker playing hide-and-go-seek with me! If there's ever a "empty tree trunk" theme, I have an ample supply of photos now! 😉 #photoaday #birds #nature #photography #birdphotography

Southern Ground Hornbills have such human-looking eyes! I was so lucky to get to see several of these huge, odd-looking and incredibly fascinating birds in Kruger National Park in South Africa. They're an endangered species. #BirdoftheDay #EyeoftheWild #birds #nature #photography #birdphotography

Photo a Day 2026 - Day 204: Carolina Wren watching me from a tree branch. #photoaday #birds #nature #photography #birdphotography

Here's an African Openbilled Stork settled down for a rest in Balule Nature Reserve in South Africa. #BirdOfTheDay #SittingDownOnTheJob #Birds #Nature #photography #BirdPhotography

Photo a Day 2026 - Day 203: Lotus Blossom #photoaday #nature #photography #ECK #bloomscrolling

Photo a Day 2026 - Day 202: Mischief is a really huge cat. I think I might need a bigger office chair! 😆 #photoaday #catsofbluesky #rescuecats #ECK

A Laughing Gull with his Willet friends and a tiny Snowy Plover. #birdoftheday #gulls #birds #nature #photography #birdphotography

Photo a Day 2026 - Day 201: Caught this female Cardinal with her mouth full. 😊 #photoaday #birds #nature #photography #birdphotography

Ruddy Turnstone walking on the beach. #BirdOfTheDay #SummerLovin #birds #nature #photography #birdphotography