Good morning, birders 🪶 The #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Firsts; your earliest captures

Alt #BirdOfTheDay theme is: @atlanticbirding.bsky.social most captured family: #RobinsAB’s #Robins #birds #birding #eck #EuropeanRobin #Wildlife #Nature #MacroMonday #Photography 📸 Anita Matzen

@alan678.bsky.social says the #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Firsts some of your earliest bird captures. #ECK #birds #birdphotography @robcrank68.bsky.social From 2006, a Yellow Ringneck Parrot, taken with a Canon PowerShot S1 IS. 😁

Ascending up from below the deep. Darkness gives birth to swirling dreams. Borne across oceans of weeping souls. They journey upon silvered tear filled seas. Towards the bleakness of the grey,where you will hear their crying wails. As they revel with delight in the furling of their sails #vss365

@robcrank68.bsky.social says the #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Grey, any bird with Grey in its plumage. #ECK #birds #birdphotography @alan678.bsky.social Monday morning Western Screech owl. I feel ya dude, I feel you.

Satin Bowerbird. #BirdOfTheDay #birds #WildOz

🪶 Alan @alan678.bsky.social says today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #EyeOfTheWild – piercing eye or eyes as the dominant feature of the portrait. This red-headed barbet seemed quite accusatory. #birds #photography #costarica

A vigilant Yellow-eyed Junco shares the borderlands from southern Arizona to deep into Mexico. Indigenous locals in Mexico called them 'caster of fire' or 'lightning bird', and that they collected light during the day and released it at night. #Birdoftheday #EyeOfTheWild #birds #aves #sparrows

@alan678.bsky.social says today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is: #EyeOfTheWild – piercing eye or eyes as the dominant feature of the portrait. #ECK #birds #birdphotography @robcrank68.bsky.social An owl, hiding in the leaves.

@robcrank68.bsky.social says the #BirdOfTheDay theme is #SittingDownOnTheJob, birds sitting on the floor. The Alt theme is #Yellow, any birds with Yellow in their plumage. #ECK #birds #birdphotography @alan678.bsky.social Two for one: Juvenile grey crowned crane, Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania

I’m off for the evening folks. Please have a lovely rest of your day wherever you are in the world. Red Admirals, how many can you see? #butterfly #BloomScrolling #photography #ECK #ColorADay #RedWed

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is: #TantalisingTextures Smooth soft feathers of any bird contrasted with rough hard surfaces. Alt: #ArtOfMotion, birds moving but not in flight. European starling, California quail, Cooper's hawk #tripledouble #EastCoastKin #birds #birdsky #PhotographersOfBlueSky

A Steller's sea eagle at the Woodland Park Zoo, Seattle, Washington #Birds #Eagles #BirdOfTheDay #TantalisingTextures #Photography #FeatheredFriends #SeaEagle @woodlandparkzoo.bsky.social

Today’s alt #BirdOfTheDay theme is: #ArtOfMotion. So here are 2 white-tailed tropicbirds photographed during a trip to Bermuda a handful of years ago. #birds

A Lewis's Woodpecker on Ponderosa Pine. This species was named after Merriweather Lewis. I wonder what its new name will be? 🪶 #WoodpeckerWednesday #TantalisingTextures #BirdOfTheDay

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme as set by Alan @alan678.bsky.social is #TantalisingTextures (Smooth soft feathers of any bird contrasted with rough hard surfaces). Here is a White-crowned Sparrow on the gravel parking lot at the jetty. #ECK #WCK #Oregon #PNW #Birds #Sparrow #Nature #Photography

🪶 Alan’s prompt for #BirdOfTheDay is #TantalisingTextures Alt. is #ArtOfMotion Here’s a Great Spotted Woodpecker near it’s nest on a large dead Elm tree, with food for the chicks #birds #birdsofbluesky #birdphotography #ECK #irishbirding #naturephotography #WoodpeckerWednesday #ColorADay #RedWed

@alan678.bsky.social says today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is: #TantalisingTextures Smooth soft feathers of any bird contrasted with rough hard surfaces. #ECK #birds #birdphotography @robcrank68.bsky.social Back to 2013 with a Red Kestral. Thanks to the VA Raptor Conservancy for their efforts.

@robcrank68.bsky.social says the #BirdOfTheDay theme is going back to basics with a theme of #Gulls, any Gull will do. #ECK #birds #birdphotography @alan678.bsky.social A European Herring gull, surveying their domain over the isle of #SkelligMichael, Ireland.

@robcrank68.bsky.social says the #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Triplets, 3 of the same birds. #ECK #birds #birdphotography @alan678.bsky.social Three American Flamingos on Isla Floreana, Galápagos,

@alan678.bsky.social says today's Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #ScreenFiller — a capture where the bird takes up a large part of the image. #ECK #birds #birdphotography @robcrank68.bsky.social Just under the wire, going back to 2013 for my first bird conservation shoot. Eastern Screech Owl

#birdoftheday #birds #photography #iphonephotography #naturephotography

@robcrank68.bsky.social's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Corvidae, any of the species will do. #ECK @alan678.bsky.social #birds #birdphotography A common crow, looking every bit the legacy of dragons it is. :D

Happy Bastille Day, to all who celebrate. www.history.com/articles/bas... If you can't get out to buy the requisite celebratory supplies, know that there are many DIY plans out there like this one! Which, I'm given to understand, is fully functional.

#photography #art #nature #wildlife #antarctica Don’t mess with him! 😂 He is the last boss of Antarctica… A first penguin photo from the Antarctica workshop. 📸Armand Sarlangue @armandsarlangue.bsky.social

Immature Crimson Rosella (Platycercus elegans ) at the Australian National Botanical Gardens, Canberra #birds #birdphotography #birdsofbluesky #wildlife #Photography #Nikon #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBlueSky #nature #RosellaCross #Parrots

@alan678.bsky.social says the #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Lifer Capture/ captures of the last new to you bird you’ve seen. Alt #BirdsILove Birds you love to see. #birds #ECK #birdphotography The tufted puffin was new to me this year! And I'll never tire of puffins in general (atlantic puffin)

The alt theme for #BirdOfTheDay is #Reflection. A great egret at sunrise.❤️ #birds #photography #birdsofbluesky

The Grandala is a stunning, high-altitude bird in the thrush family known for the male’s brilliant, deep-blue plumage and black wings, the female grey. They inhabit the harsh, mountainous terrains of the Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau forming massive flocks up to 500. Diet Insects and seeds