Rufous hummingbird female on a bottlebrush flower in my yard in California. I thought I didn't have a good #bird to fit the challenging puzzle set by @alan678.bsky.social for today's #BirdOfTheDay theme #RedOrDead, but then I remembered this one.
Sandra Aamodt
@sandra-aamodt.bsky.social
Novelty seeker, nature photographer, neuroscientist, dancer, sailor, science writer and editor. Photos my own.
The #BirdOfTheDay theme is #RedOrDead, any bird with red in the capture but not on the bird. The amazingly named White Booted Racket Tail Hummingbird. Photographed in Ecuador, May 2026. #wildlifephotography #splphoto #birds 🪶 #ecuador #hummingbird
Western bluebird male near my house in California. They're around all year, but they're much easier to photograph during breeding season. #BirdOfTheDay #SummerVisitors #birds
😍 I totally lucked out this morning hanging out with the Plover chicks when, all of a sudden, a Kingfisher perched on one of the nearby rocks. It always pays to be in position before the #birds get there. Right place right time 🍀 #BirdsSeenIn2026 🇩🇪 #nature #naturephotography #photography
Black-necked stilt from Francis Bay on St John in the US Virgin Islands to welcome @helenbennett.bsky.social to the #BirdOfTheDay team #FabulousWaders #birds
Yesterday (Aug. 2) was my last day of summer break snd got lucky enough to come across this male rufous hummingbird feeding. Made my summer. #birdoftheday #ilovebirding #bird #birding #birdphotography #birds #FDT #BirdWatching #birdphotography #Colorado #bird_photography 🪶
Atlantic puffin near Matinicus Rock off the coast of Maine, seems an appropriate way to welcome @atlanticbirding.bsky.social to Bird of the Day duties. Taken in 2005, I believe this is the oldest of my bird photos that I still have. #BirdOfTheDay #Firsts #birds
Someone was pretty darn excited to see food incoming! A Northern Mockingbird fledgling for my recent favorite #BirdoftheMonth. Mockingbirds are born feisty. #BestofJuly #birds #backyard #Florida #BabyBird
The most spectacular part of an iceberg is often underneath the water
I've been having "birds on sunflowers" envy while looking at my feed lately, so I went to Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area and found this juvenile brown-headed cowbird doing the thing #BirdOfTheDay #BestOfJuly #birds
Song sparrow singing to the heavens near Dardanelle, California #BirdOfTheDay #OverTheRainbow #birds
Great blue heron at Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area in California, barely cropped #BirdOfTheDay #EgretsAndHerons #birds
Red-headed Woodpecker at Heron Park, Danville, IL. (OM-1 Mk2, M.150-400mm TC at 360mm, ISO 4000, f5.6, 1/500) #bird #birdphotography #microfourthirds #M43 #OMSystems #olympus #blueskyphotographers #Photography #Photographers #PhotographersUnited #redheadedwoodpecker #woodpecker
Today's #BirdoftheDay theme is #YourChoice #birds Male Rufous Hummingbird at the Starsmore Visitor and Nature Center, Colorado Springs 7.29.26
It's difficult to select just one image from a recent photoshoot with common yellowthroats, but I particularly like this image for today's #BirdOfTheDay theme, #YourChoice. #Birds #Warblers #Photography #Nature #WildlifePhotography #BirdPhotography
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #YourChoice — bird capture/captures you’ve been itching to post. Tui, New Zealand 2013 #Birds #NaturePhotography #Nature #Wildlife #BirdPhotography #Honeyeaters #Aotearoa #TiritiriMatangi
Williamson’s sapsucker male coming in with a bug for the babies at Sonora Pass in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California #BirdOfTheDay #YourChoice #birds
I'm feeling literal today, so my #multicoloured #birdoftheday contribution is the Multicolored Tanager at La Minga Ecolodge #Colombia #tanagers #birds
Orange-bellied Flowerpecker (Dicaeum trigonostigma) male feeding on Clidemia hirta fruit (syn. Miconia crenata). The leaves, branches and fruit are covered in ‘hairs’, hence the occasional name of ‘Hairy Clidemia’. #BirdsSeenIn2026 #Ipoh #Perak #Malaysia @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social
Blue-headed parrots at Tranquilo Bay Resort on Bastimentos Island in Bocas del Toro, Panama #BirdOfTheDay #MultiColour #birds
What a galah! 🩷 The last birds on this day, to have dinner before night fall. 😴🌃 #EmeraldBackdrop #BirdOfTheDay #birds #birdphotography #Nature #NaturePhotography #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Photography
A sparrowhawk from back in May with an #EmeraldBackdrop, Alan's theme for #BirdOfTheDay #UKwildlife #birds
Blue-black grassquit male in breeding plumage at Birding Paradise in the Chiriqui Highlands of Panama #BirdOfTheDay #EmeraldBackdrop #birds
This young Great Horned Owl spotted me while I was shooting them. #birds #wildlife #photography #naturephotography
Today’s Alt #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Memories: bird captures you have reason to remember. Short-eared Owl, Kansas 2021. Flying directly at me, so I knew I only had a brief window to get this shot. #Birds #NaturePhotography #Nature #Wildlife #Owls #QuiviraNWR #GoldenHour #FlyoverCountry
