Male Northern Harrier , Lakeland, Florida. #birdoftheday #blueskies

Florida Scrub Jay, Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, Titusville, Florida #birdoftheday alt #blue

American Flamingo, Port Aransas, Texas #birdoftheday #WingsOpenNotFlying

Northern Cardinal #birdoftheday #black&red

Great Egret, Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, Titusville, Florida #birdoftheday alt #longbeak

Audubon’s Oriole, South Texas #birdoftheday alt #yellowelements

Roseate Spoonbills, Port Aransas, Texas #birdoftheday #bestbeaks

Painted Bunting, Sarasota, Florida #birdoftheday alt #vivid

Anhinga preening. #birdoftheday #black&white

American Flamingo, Sept 2023, several of these birds showed up in the Florida west coast after the hurricanes that hit us that summer. Ft Desoto Park, St Petersburg, FL. #birdoftheday #BestoftheMonth

Carolina Chickadee, Tampa, Florida #birdoftheday alt #Paridae

Golden-fronted Woodpecker, South Texas #birdoftheday #EFG

Black- bellied Whistling Ducks, South Texas #birdoftheday alt #awkwardavian

Great Kiskadee, South Texas. #birdoftheday #bokehbirds

Painted Bunting, Sarasota, FL #birdoftheday alt #airborne

Atlantic Puffin, Farne Islands, UK. #birdoftheday #seabird

Loggerhead Shrike #birdoftheday #green

Whooping Crane Pair and yearling. South Texas. #birdoftheday #pairs

Brown Booby, South Texas. #birdoftheday alt #brown

Sora, South Texas #birdoftheday #borbs

Crested Caracara, Sarasota, Florida #birdoftheday #birdstare

Double Crested Cormorant, South Texas. #birdoftheday #thedivers

American Crow, Fort Desoto Park, Florida. #birdoftheday alt #corvids

Harris’s Hawk, South Texas. #birdoftheday #raptors

Herring Gull, Cape Cod, Massachusetts #birdoftheday alt #gull

Male Pyrrhuloxia , South Texas #birdoftheday #redhead

Male Northern Harrier, Largo, Florida. Migratory birds arrive in Florida starting in early fall. Some stay, like this harrier, and some are just passing through. #birdoftheday #fallbirds

Painted Bunting, Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, Titusville, Florida #birdoftheday #lightandshadow

#birdoftheday #captionthatbird I’m taller! No, I’m taller!

White Morph Reddish Egret, South Texas. #birdoftheday alt #scruffy