Even busy hummingbirds need a break now and then! This young ruby-throated #SummerVisitor to New England looks like it’s not happy to be caught by the paparazzi resting on a branch! #BirdOfTheDay #birds #hummingbirds #birdphotography #ECK 🪶

A mourning dove enjoys a sunny spring day in the branches of a budding maple tree. #RedOrDead #BirdOfTheDay #birds #doves #backyardbirds #birdphotography #ECK 🪶

Go ahead, show off! It’s #TurtleTuesday again! #turtles #naturephotography #nature #ECK

Nature hater Trump is putting 2,840 acres of Ohio’s only national forest out to bid for fracking He will lay waste to one of Americas most precious forest Where is the uproar -where is the protest ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/07/30/f...

Federal government will put 2,840 acres of Ohio’s only national forest out to bid for fracking • Ohio Capital Journal

The Bureau of Land Management announced 41 parcels totaling 2,840 acres in Wayne National Forest will go up for a bid on Sept. 15.

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Co-host @helenbennett.bsky.social has chosen today's #BirdOfTheDay theme #FabulousWaders while #Speckled is the Alt. So here’s a black-necked stilt in Florida, a great blue heron in Minnesota, a snowy egret in Massachusetts and a juvenile red-bellied woodpecker in my back yard. #birds #waders #ECK 🪶

This young duck from Vancouver’s Stanley Park is itching to get into the #MallardMonday fun. #birds #mallards #ducklings #canada #birdphotography #ECK 🪶

Cheers to @atlanticbirding.bsky.social on their first day hosting #BirdOfTheDay and first theme of #Firsts (some of your earliest bird captures). My first series of backyard bird photos for social media (Insta) started as a pandemic diversion. Here are 4 from May 2020. #birds #backyardbirds #ECK 🪶

A bald eagle carries its Catch of the Day across Glacier Bay in Alaska. #BestOfJuly #BirdOfTheDay #birds #eagles #raptors #birdphotography #photography #nature #ECK 🪶

This female ruby-throated hummingbird looks #OverTheRainbow to a colorful backdrop. #BirdOfTheDay #birds #hummingbirds #backyardbirds #hummers #birdphotography #ECK 🪶

You want #Yellow for #BirdOfTheDay today? “I’ll give you yellow,” says the male goldfinch! #birds #goldfinches #backyardbirds #birdphotography #ECK 🪶

For #YourChoice I picked this flock of willets making a racket over the marsh. While not the most technically sharp shot, I like the composition, sky and the memory of the moment. #BirdOfTheDay #birds #shorebirds #birdphotography #clouds #ECK 🪶

This is a fun shot of a tiny #Ruby-throatedHummingbird in silhouette against a red building. He's decided his favorite place to perch is atop a metal hummingbird stake in a pot on my deck. So cute! (Wayland, Mass. - 7/25/26) #birds #ColorADay #RedWed #WackyWednesdayArt #ECK #photography #OM-1

For #DucksOutOfWater here’s our local wild male mallard (we call him Jake) up from the stream to check out what’s fallen from the bird feeder. #BirdOfTheDay #birds #mallards #ducks #birdphotography #ECK 🪶

For Rob’s #BirdOfTheDay theme of #MultiColour, here’s a quartet of black, white and red seen in my back yard: red-breasted grosbeak, red-bellied woodpecker, downy woodpecker and red-winged blackbird. #birds #backyardbirds #woodpeckers #blackbirds #birdphotography #ECK 🪶

Here’s a male red-winged blackbird #WeatheringTheElements during a downpour against an #EmeraldBackdrop (well, green at least) for a #BirdOfTheDay double. #birds #backyardbirds #blackbirds #birdphotography #ECK 🪶

Here’s an introspective goldfinch for Alan’s main theme of #EmeraldGreen today. #BirdOfTheDay #birds #finches #backyardbirds #birdphotography #ECK 🪶

Ditto. We need #MooseMonday 🫎 #moose #Scape #autumn #bog #mobilePhone

Bill Stedman@steddybirds.bsky.social · last wk.

It’s #MountainMonday but can it be #MooseMonday as well? #scape #nationalparks #denali #moose #ECK

It’s #MountainMonday but can it be #MooseMonday as well? #scape #nationalparks #denali #moose #ECK

A #Gray Catbird hopping around the branches. #BirdOfTheDay #catbird #birds #nature #photography #birdphotography

A red-breasted nuthatch and grey catbird wear their #Grey proudly for Rob’s #BirdOfTheDay theme. #birds #backyardbirds #birdphotography #catbirds #nuthatches #ECK 🪶

An Osprey gives me a look while carrying a stick back to the nest. I saw an Osprey carrying a much bigger stick yesterday. Osprey will continually bring in sticks to the nest to fortify any weak spots, and to build a high rim to prevent nestlings from falling out of the nest.

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Hey, guys! Check out these wings for #CHE Day! #BirdOfTheDay #birds #herons #greatblueherons #nature #birdphotography #ECK 🪶

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme from @robcrank68.bsky.social is a tough one of #OneTwoThreeFour with Rob posting four photos, each with different birds. So here is one American robin #ForJanet, two eastern bluebirds, three sanderlings and four ospreys. #birds #backyardbirds #birdphotography #ECK 🪶

This great blue heron has its #EyeOfTheWild on a potential meal at the Stony Brook Wildlife Sanctuary in Norfolk MA. #BirdOfTheDay #birds #herons #waders #audubon #birdphotography #ECK 🪶

My #LastSeen (taken with my phone yesterday at the beach) was a very hungry herring gull who was declaring that our lunch was in HIS territory and no one else should try to steal it! #BirdOfTheDay #birds #gulls #beach #birdphotography #sandwichthieves #ECK 🪶

While #SittingDownOnTheJob this mute swan fell asleep! #BirdOfTheDay #birds #swans #birdphotography #naptime #nature #ECK 🪶

@alan678.bsky.social says the #BirdOfTheDay alt theme is #ArtOfMotion, “birds moving but not in flight.” So here’s a female mallard flapping her wings just to dry off. #birds #mallards #birdphotography #ducks #ECK 🪶

Here’s a pair of tree swallows at their nesting box in Northfield MN for my second crack at the challenging #BirdOfTheDay theme of #TantalisingTextures — smooth feathers against rough surfaces. #birds #swallows #birdphotography #nature #ECK 🪶

Here’s a tree swallow on his nesting box for @alan678.bsky.social and his #BirdOfTheDay theme of #TantalisingTextures — smooth, soft feathers of any bird contrasted with rough hard surfaces. #birds #swallows #birdphotography #nature