Black-necked stilt taking a walk in the clouds. #birds #MyChoice #reflection

@derekbeaulieu.bsky.social – Do It Wrong: How to Be a Poet In the Twenty-First Century @louiseblight.bsky.social – Where the Earth Meets the Sky: A Story of Penguins, People and Place in Antarctica @ianboothby.bsky.social – Frostbite: A Graphic Novel Tanya Boteju – Lake Life

Looking forward to joining fellow authors at the Vancouver Writers Fest in October! 🐧 📘 #VWF2026

Vancouver Writers Fest@writersfest.bc.ca · 7d ago

Meet more featured guests from the lineup of 150+ authors who will be joining us at this year’s Vancouver Writers Fest, October 18–25! Visit writersfest.bc.ca to browse the full list now. Event details will be available in early September.

Adélie Penguins on sea ice, McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. #BirdOfTheDay #AtOneWithNature #birds #seabirds #wildlife #Antarctica

A Red-tailed Hawk mobbed by two American Crows. #BirdOfTheDay #birds #BlueSkyMonday

Eastern Curlew (critically endangered here in Australia). #BirdOfTheDay #shorebirds #WildOz

This downy Masked Booby chick is looking dismayed at how its life has turned out so far. #BirdOfTheDay #birds #wildlife #nature

This moulting Spotted Towhee took a bath and ended up even more bedraggled. Some red(-ish) light in the background for the #BirdOfTheDay theme by @alan678.bsky.social. #birds #nature #wildlife #towhee #GardenWildlife

Wild Military Macaw, western Mexico. The bird is taking a step forward to join its mate, which had just flown into the same tree. #BirdOfTheDay #birds #nature #BestOfJuly #wildlife #birdphotography

A Pileated Woodpecker looks up into the suet feeder, which is generally visited by much smaller species like chickadees and nuthatches. #BirdOfTheDay #birds #woodpeckers #BirdPhotography #wildlife

Wild Military Macaw, feeding, western Mexico. #BirdOfTheDay #birds #wildlife #nature

Approaching fledging season for the local Glaucous-winged Gulls. This chick is nearly old enough to leave its island nesting site and head for the ocean. #BirdOfTheDay #birds #grey #gulls #nature #wildlife

A pair of beautiful Black-bellied Whistling Ducks, watching from across the pond. #BirdOfTheDay #birds #RedBeaks #nature #wildlife

The ubiquitous Eurasian Collared-dove (Streptopelia decaocto), soft feathers against the hardness of its urban habitat. #BirdOfTheDay #birds #UrbanBirds #CityScapes

I liked the way this perching Silvereye both blended in with and complemented its forest habitat. #BirdOfTheDay #PerfectPoise #birds #nature

A beautifully plain House Finch. #BirdOfTheDay #Finches #birds #nature

Gentoo Penguin returning to the sea at dawn, South Georgia. #BirdOfTheDay #SunriseSunset #birds #nature #wildlife

A Gentoo Penguin on a summer day at its Antarctic Peninsula colony. #BirdOfTheDay #RedBeakFeetEyes #birds #nature #wildlife

Glaucous-winged Gull, one of the world's white-headed gull species. This one is starting to moult at the end of the breeding season. #BirdOfTheDay #birds #gulls #white #nature #wildlife #seabirds

Blackish Oystercatcher, Falkland Islands. #BirdOfTheDay #RedBeaks #birds #nature #shorebirds #FalklandIslands

Male Wood Duck contemplating the pond. #BirdOfTheDay #birds #multicolour #nature #ducks #WoodDucks

Glaucous-winged Gulls on territory in May, just starting their #nesting season. #BirdOfTheDay #birds #wildlife #gulls #seabirds

Bullers Albatross. #WorldOceansDay #BirdOfTheDay #seabirds #WildOz

Black-browed Albatrosses at one of the world's largest colonies, in the #FalklandIslands. #BirdOfTheDay #birds #wildlife #naturephotography #nature #albatrosses

Reposting as it's Glaucous-winged Gull nesting season around here again. (Pic from our 2024 survey.) #BirdOfTheDay #gulls #birds #SalishSea

Louise Blight@louiseblight.bsky.social · last yr.

Gull survey season is nearly here again.... #seabirds #SuperSeabirdSunday #gulls 📷 no. 2, Thor Veen

Canada Geese swimming in a sea of Oxeye Daisies. #BirdOfTheDay #birds #nature #geese #Anatidae

Solitary Silver Gull at Sydney Harbour. #BirdOfTheDay #birds #gulls #nature #wildlife #solitude

Double-crested cormorants (Nannopterum auritum) look like unassuming black birds from a distance, but when you get up close for #Headshots, you can see the incredible bright blue in their eyes. The inside of the beak is the same ridiculous neon blue! #BirdoftheDay #birdphotography #nature #eck

Fledgling Snowy (formerly Wandering) Albatross, Diomedea exulans, South Georgia. #BirdOfTheDay #birds #seabirds #SuperSeabirdSunday #wildlife #nature

Springtime view down to the neighbourhood pond. #nature #photography #landscape