#BirdoftheDay | #ODG | #GreatHornedOwl Great Horned Yawn #birdphotography #birdsofrhodeisland #tivertonri

#BirdOfTheDay | #BirdsWithBerries | #HouseFinch Messy eater! #birdphotography #birdsoftivertonri

#BirdOfTheDay | #Silhouette | #glossyibis Not glossy! #birdphotography #birdsofrhodeisland

#BirdOfTheDay | #Mamas&Papas | #LongTailedDuck On Christmas Day last year, these overwintering ducks were hanging out among a small flock. The drake in front has the distinctive long tail, behind which the hen is paddling. #birdphotography #birdsofmassachusetts

From 2019, one of my favorite birds ever, a leucistic Common Grackle doing a passable bald eagle impersonation. #commongrackle #leucism #birdphotography

#BirdOfTheDay | #AngryBirds | #commongrackle Even when they are all dolled up with perfect lighting, grackles still look angry. #birdsofnewyork #wildnyc #birdphotography

#BirdOfTheDay | #BirdsInAbstract | #RedBreastedMerganser Splish! Splash! Bathtime. #birdphotography #birdsofrhodeisland #littlecompton

#BirdOfTheDay | #Mouthful | #housesparrow Invasive House Sparrow with an invasive German Yellowjacket. #birdphotography #birdsofrhodeisland

#BirdoftheDay alt | #Black&White | #blackandwhitewarbler I went with the alt theme! Black-and-white Warbler from many Aprils ago. #birdphotography #birdsofnewyork #centralpark

#BirdOfTheDay | #ABCD | Antpitta, Bittern, Cuckoo, Drongo Here are #equatorialAntpitta, #americanBittern, #darkbilledCuckoo, and #blackDrongo from Ecuador, USA, Galapagos, and China. #birdphotography

#BirdOfTheDay | #BirdBuddies | #blackbelliedplover & #commontern I'm not sure these are buddies but they are definitely different species. A plover drops in on a tern. #birdphotography #birdsofmassachusetts #gooseberryisland

#BirdOfTheDay alt | #Borbs | #americanredstart I recently rediscovered this photo in my archives and thought "how borbilicious". Then along came today's ALT theme. #birdphotography #birdsoflittlecompton

#BirdOfTheDay | #Herons&Egrets | #blackcrownednightheron I've been advised that you can't beat a 💩 shot. Here are before and after photos of a juvenile Black-crowned Night Heron #birdphotography #birdsofrhodeisland

From the archives at this time of year, Eagle #2 hides its eyes to give Eagle #1 privacy. Unfortunately for Eagle #1, the camera sees all! #birdphotography #baldeagle #birdsofrhodeisland #littlecompton

#BirdOfTheDay | #Pigeons | #redbilledpigeon At a resort in the Yucatan, my wife sat at the beach while I sat in a composting area and saw this Red-billed Pigeon. #birdphotography #birdsofmexico

#BirdOfTheDay | #InFlight | #osprey Osprey and fishy dinner seems to be singing a duet. #birdphotography #birdsofrhodeisland #boydslanemarsh

#BirdOfTheDay alt | #BrightAccents | #blackcheekedwoodpecker From the cloud forest of Ecuador, a bright red cap and golden forehead contrast nicely on a Black-cheeked Woodpecker! #birdphotography #birdsofecuador #blackcheekedwoodpecker

#BirdOfTheDay | #Contrast | #greategret Fishing by z-o-o-o-o-o-p! #birdphotography #birdsofmassachusetts #allenspond

#BirdOfTheDay | #ItsAllWhite | #bluefootedbooby Booby baby in the Galapagos Islands. #birdphotography #birdsofgalapagos #northseymour

#BirdOfTheDay | #FlowerPower | #rubythroatedhummingbird A Ruby-throated Hummingbird hovers to catch some nectar. #birdphotography #birdsofrhodeisland

Web and Heron A Black-crowned Night Heron stands beneath a web. #birdphotography #blackcrownednightheron #birdsofrhodeisland #tivertionri

#BirdOfTheDay | #BirdsUpClose | #semipalmatedplover A plover poses in front of a beach stone. #birdphotography #birdsofrhodeisland #littlecompton

Today's #BirdofTheDay theme is #Parenting. Fostered cowbird begging for food from foster parent yellowthroat. #birdphotography #brownheadedcowbird #commonyellowthroat

"Worm! Glorious worm!" sings a Black-bellied Plover. #birdphotography #blackbelliedplover #birdsofmassachusetts

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BestOfTheMonth, so any bird captures you admire the most out of your August 2026 Collection. I definitely had the most fun photographing terns as the hunted, so I'll choose a Forster's Tern with fish. #birdphotography #forsterstern

Today's #BirdofTheDay theme is #Coastal&River, with the Alt theme of #Rocky. Here is a Black-bellied Plover on a rock at the south coast of Massachusetts. #birdphotography #blackbelliedplover

A Black Tern was flying above resting birds, bugging them. Here the tern is pestering a Black-bellied Plover. #blacktern #blackbelliedplover #birdphotography #birdsofmassachusetts

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #NaturalSeeds. Here is an American Goldfinch, a messy eater if ever there was one. #birdphotography #americangoldfinch

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay ALT theme is #Yellow; Going back a few months, here is a Yellow Warbler. #birdphotography #northernyellowwarbler

The #BirdOfTheDay theme today: #RecentGardenBirds, most recent capture/s of a bird/s in your garden. Today I brought out my camera, perhaps to get a shot of the hawk family in the woods but no! Instead here is an American Goldfinch. #birdphotography #americangoldfinch