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Just Todd @1035intheheartland.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I don't want to recycle the #BirdOfTheDay images from my limited library as a newbie, so here's todays sunrise rise over Ohio farmland in Paris Twnsp. #ECK #PhotoOhio #Sunrise

A golden and orange sunrise in perfectly clear skies, silhouettes the barn and silos of a large farm on the horizon.

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Just Todd @1035intheheartland.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Morning, ALL! Rob has chosen #BlueWater as #BirdOfTheDay theme; birds surrounded by Blue Water. Alternative is #Perched, birds standing on anything except branches. I present this Black-tailed Gull perched on a buoy at Walborn Reservoir a few weeks ago. #ECK #Birds #BirdPhotography #BirdOH

A Black-tailed Gull is perched on a Danger buoy at sunrise. It is facing away, showing its black tail and Grey body. Its white head is looking left over its shoulder exposing its black-tipped beak. Early sunrise brightens the blue waters of Walborn Reservoir.

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Just Todd @1035intheheartland.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

helenbennett.bsky.social Today's #BirdOfTheDay is #BirdSupermodel Any bird captured looking like it's posing for a magazine cover. I share the always attractive Bald Eagle. #ECK #Birds #BaldEagle #BirdPhotography #Nature #NotReallyBald #Nikon

An American Bald Eagle poses on a tree, head turned left, its bright yellow beak and focused yellow eye contrasted against its white plumage.

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Just Todd @1035intheheartland.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BlueSkies: any bird against a blue sky. Today I have a far off Bald Eagle watching over the Wetlands at Sandy Ridge Preservation at sunrise on Saturday morning. #ECK #Birds #Eagles #BirdOhio #Nature #NotReallyBald

A lone Bald Eagle sits atop a dead tree, contrasted against an early morning blue sky, its white head bright in the rising sun.

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Just Todd @1035intheheartland.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Good morning, all! Rob @robcrank68.bsky.social says today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #WingsOpenNotFlying, birds with their wings open when not flying. Here's a Canada Goose doing its thing. New location yesterday was amazing. Sandy Ridge Preservation, N. Ridgeville, OH. #ECK #Birds #BirdOH #Practice

A Canada Goose rises out of the water, flapping its wings, as another Goose looks on in quiet judgment!

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Just Todd @1035intheheartland.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

@robcrank68.bsky.social says Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BestOfTheMonth A White-Breasted Nuthatch stops by on a Friday evening to feed on sone mealworm nuggets. #birds #birdphotography #BirdOH #Nature #EastCoastKin #BackyardPics #Nikon

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Just Todd @1035intheheartland.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Good morning, friends. Rob has chosen #EFG as #BirdOfTheDay theme; birds beginning with any of those letters (1st name). Today I share a European Starling from one of my very first days shooting birds this past January. #ECK #Birds🪶 #BirdPhotography #BirdOH #Funugy #Nikon

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Just Todd @1035intheheartland.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Happy Monday!! Today's #BirdOfTheDay is hosted by @helenbennett.bsky.social and the main theme is #BokehBirds, birds with soft, muted or blurry backgrounds. Here is a Yellow Rumped Warbler from Oxbow Lagoon, this past Friday. #ECK #Birds #StillLearning

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Just Todd @1035intheheartland.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Surise at Walborn Reservoir, near Alliance, Ohio. Out looking for whatever may be stopping through on the way south. #ECK #Stunday #BirdPhotography #PracticeMakesBetter #BirdOH #Nikon

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Just Todd @1035intheheartland.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Happy Saturday! Rob has chosen the alternative of #Green, in the background not the bird Here is one of 5 new lifers yesterday! Lincoln's Sparrow at Oxbow Lagoon, Willoughby, Ohio, just after sunrise. ##ECK #Birds #BirdOH #BirdPhotography #Nikon #StillLearning

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Just Todd @1035intheheartland.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Good morning! Helen's alt' theme for #BirdOfTheDay is #BirdStare so here's a female Red-Winged Blackbird keeping its happy eyes on me. Akron, Ohio. #birds #ECK #BirdPhotography #Nature

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Just Todd @1035intheheartland.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Good morning! Atlantic Birding has posted the #BirdOfTheDay themes of #Raptors with the alt. #Corvids Today I share this Osprey surveying the water over Walborn Reservoir. #EastCoastKin #birds #photography #wildlife #ProtectNature #Nikon #Ohio

A gliding Osprey flies overhead against a clear blue sky, its yellow eyed focused on the waters below.

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Just Todd @1035intheheartland.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Good morning, all! Alan has chosen #LightAndShadow as today’s #BirdOfTheDay; any bird capture with both. I share one of my first pics from January, a female Nothern Cardinal. I've since stopped the bird in a box editing! #ECK #Birds #Birds #Nature #Ohio

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Just Todd @1035intheheartland.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Good Morning, friends @atlanticbirding.bsky.social has made today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme #Elegant; any elegant looking bird. I share my first encounter this spring with this elegant and majestic Bald Eagle, taken at the Sippo Lake in Canton, Ohio. ##ECK #Birds🪶 #Eagle #BirdPhotography

A mature Bald Eagle sits on a single dead tree trunk in the mid morning sun, overlooking a nearby lake, drying its feathers.

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Just Todd @1035intheheartland.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Today's #BirdOfTheDay Alt theme is #Pigeons&Doves, any Pigeon or Dove will do. Today I share this Mourning Dove feeding on safflower seed. I really love the soft pastel textures of these birds. ##ECK #Birds🪶 #Doves #BirdPhotography #Ohio #ProtectNature

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Just Todd @1035intheheartland.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

@alan678.bsky.social said: The #BirdOfTheDay theme is #ODG, any Owl, Duck or Goose. No alt. #CanadaGoose at the Kent State Wetlands Research Area, Stark Campus, Canton, Ohio #birdphotography #Birds🪶 #EastCoastKin #Ohio #Nature #Nikon

A lone Canada Goose on alert on calm surfaces pond reflecting the greenery of the surrounding trees.

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Just Todd @1035intheheartland.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The closest thing to a bird I've been able to capture in my last three outings. Monarch Butterfly at Quali Hollow Stark Park, Hartville, Ohio. #ECK #Photography #Nature #Butterflies #Nikon

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Just Todd @1035intheheartland.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Good morning, all!! Helen Bennett today's #BirdOfTheDay is #BirdsWithBerries Any bird captured with berries. Alt: #BirdyLongLegs Any bird with legs that look way too long for its body! Here is a Great Blue Heron from early this spring. #ECK #Birds🪶 #BirdPhotography #Ohio #Nature

A Great Blue Heron stands on the shallows of a wetland.

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Just Todd @1035intheheartland.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Good morning, friends!Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Silhouette. Here's an early morning GBH greeting the start of a new day at the local rookery in Akron this past spring. #ECK #Birds🪶 #Herons #Nature #MorningYoga #Ohio #Nikon

A silhouette of a Great Blue Heron, on a single tree stump, stretching its neck up to the heavens as it welcomes the start of a new day.

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Just Todd @1035intheheartland.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Good evening, friends! Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #AngryBirds, any bird with an angry face. The alt is #MyBestSide, bird capture in profile. Little late in the day, but here is a bathing Eastern Bluebird a bit upset with an intruding House Finch. #ECK #Birds🪶#BirdPhotography #Ohio

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Just Todd @1035intheheartland.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Good morning, all! Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Mouthful; any bird with anything in its beak. Here is a Northern Mockingbird with a pair of chokecherries in its beak. #birds🪶 #EastCoastKin #photography #nature #wildlife #Ohio #BirdPhotography

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Just Todd @1035intheheartland.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Good morning, friends! Today's #BirdOfTheDay alt theme is any #Black&White bird whose main plumage is Black & White. Today I share a Downy Woodpecker from my yard in January '26. #ECK #Birds🪶 #BirdPhotography #Nature #BirdOhio

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Just Todd @1035intheheartland.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Good morning, friends! Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #ABCD, any bird name beginning with any of these letters. Here's my first pic of the ever elusive Belted Kingfisher, taken Sunday at the Kent State, Stark Campus Wetlands. #ECK #Birds #BirdPhotography #Kingfisher #Ohio #Nature

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Just Todd @1035intheheartland.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Good morning! Helen has chosen #BirdBuddies as today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme; 2 different species sharing the same space. Today I share this rough shot of a Solitary Sandpiper with two Mallards feeding in a private pond. Water shots are my most frustrating tries. #ECK #Birds #Ohio #Learning

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Just Todd @1035intheheartland.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Food morning, friends! Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is: #Herons&Egrets; any Heron or Egret shot Alt. is #Borbs; any bird that looks round, chubby, spherical etc. Today I share a Great Blue Heron from a local spot, captured last weekend.

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Just Todd @1035intheheartland.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I spent sone good hours out today practicing my manual settings on the Nikon. So frustrating to come home with so many blurds. Did log my 44th lifer since starting this in January. A Black and White Warbler. Few takes...my eyesight is bad, monopods suck, but Im having fun! #EKC #Birds #Ohio

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Just Todd @1035intheheartland.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

🪶 Alan has chosen #InFlight for today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme, any bird in flight. A Mallard set to land after a short flight at the Mosquito Creek Preserve in NE Ohio last Saturday. ##EastCoastKin #Birds #Waterfowl #Wetlands #Nature #BirdPhotography #Ohio

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Just Todd @1035intheheartland.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Good morning! Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Contrast - light #Birds against dark backgrounds or vice versa. A repost from my smallish library. A Red-Winged Blackbird against a white sky. #EastCoastKin #Nature #Photography #Wildlife #Ohio #Rookery.

A Red-Winged Blackbird perched atop a dead tree trunk with a cloud-white sky background.

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Just Todd @1035intheheartland.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Good morning, friends! Rob's all theme today is #RedHeads. I’m going with this Red-headed Woodpecker from the Nature Center at Shaker Lakes, near Cleveland. #ECK #Birds #BirdPhotography #OhioBirds #Nikon #Woody

A Red-headed Woodpecker on the side of a tree trunk taking aim. It's crimson head above a black back and snow-white breast.

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Just Todd @1035intheheartland.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Good morning, friends! Helen's #BirdOfTheDay is #BirdsUpClose Any bird at close range, allowing you to see their lovely fine details! Today I share this stoic Gray Catbird alongside Walborn Reservoir. #ECK #Birds🪶 #BirdPhotography #OhioBirds #Nature

An up-close picture of a Greay Catbird perched on a tree branch. Its light grey face highlighted by a shiny deep black eye and its head capped with a flattened black cap.

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Just Todd @1035intheheartland.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Good morning, Everyone! Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is: #Parenting; of any form: nesting feeding etc. Alt. is #Blue; on the bird or in the scene. Here's a family of Canada Geese at WalbornReservoir, and a Mallard hen in the blue. #ECK #Birds🪶 #OhioBirds #Photography #Nature #Nikon

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Just Todd @1035intheheartland.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Good afternoon, friends! Rob's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BestOfTheMonth, any bird captures you admire most from August 2026. Slow bird month of August. Here's my faves not for being so good, but because they show improvement. #Birds🪶 #Photography #OhioBirds #Saturdays

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Just Todd @1035intheheartland.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Tonight in Toddville. Amazing the shot you can get with a cellphone!! NE Ohio. The partial eclipse is still a few hours away.

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Just Todd @1035intheheartland.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Tonight in Toddville. 26-0827 6:50 PM EST

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Just Todd @1035intheheartland.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Someone declared it to be #InternationalDogDay 🐾 🐾 Who needs an excuse to post a photo of their besties? Layla and Sylvia #PitMixes #AdoptDon'tShop #Dogs #Photography #ECK #ForeverBonded #Love

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Just Todd @1035intheheartland.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

🪶 Alan has chosen #RecentGardenBirds for #BirdOfTheDay. This is the very most recent garden bird from my backyard, a house finch stopping by for a sip after working all day. #ECK #Birds🪶 #BirdPhotography #Ohio

A house finch posing on the edge of a bird bath.

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Bob Mayer @bobmayer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This evening's thought to ponder from Maggies Farm #Maggiesfarm

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Just Todd @1035intheheartland.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I went out this morning looking for birds and all I saw was everything but birds. Can't trust eBird reports anymore. Here's a friendly neighborhood muskrat at the local Swan spot I drive by occasionally. #ECK #Photography #DriveBy #Nature #Ohio #Wildlife

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Just Todd @1035intheheartland.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Good morning, friends! Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is: #Simple; any bird against a simple background. Today I share a Red-Winged Blackbird on a dead tree trunk at the Heron rookery in Akron, Ohio. #ECK #Birds🪶 #BirdPhotography #Nature #OhioBirds #Nikon

A mature male Red-winged Blackbird perched atop a dead tree trunk with an all white cloud background. The red and white wing markings in bright contrast against the black body.

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Just Todd @1035intheheartland.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Good evening, friends. I'm a bit late fir today's #BirdOfTheDay Alt theme of #Herons&Egrets, any of both species. Here's a Great Blue Heron from the Rocky River Reservation on the west side of Cleveland, Thursday.

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Just Todd @1035intheheartland.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Layla, and her big sister pillow, Sylvia. The one constant in my world are these two angels.

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Just Todd @1035intheheartland.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Happy Friday! Alan H's #BirdOfTheDay ALT theme is #SunnyDayBirds Photos of birds on sunny days. Today I share a lone Mute Swan from a private roadside lake. It's lost its mate, as there had been a pair here for as long a I can remember. #ECK #Birds🪶 ##BirdPhotography #Swan #Nature #OhioBirds

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Just Todd @1035intheheartland.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Good morning, all! Helen's #BirdOfTheDay theme is: #AwesomeOwls 😊🦉 Any owl from the two owl families. Alt: #BirdNameG any bird whose common name starts with the letter G! Today I share both! A Great Horned Owl near Castalia, Ohio. #ECK #Birds🪶 #BirdPhotography #Nature #Owls #WhoWho #AmazingEyes

A Great Horned Owl sits on a dead tree trunk, shrouded in greenery with some sunshine breaking thro the canopy above. Large yellow attentive eyes look below.

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Just Todd @1035intheheartland.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

AB says Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BirdInABush; any bird in a hedge/bush. Today I share this Song Sparrow from my first outing with the Nikon 500 AF lens. I have a lot to learn, but I see improvement. Thanks to all for your support. #ECK #Birds🪶 #Photography #Nature #Ohio #Fun

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Just Todd @1035intheheartland.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

ood morning, friends! Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Iridescence, any bird with colour changing plumage. The drake Mallard is one of my favorites because of this unique trait. #ECK #Birds🪶 ##BirdPhotography #Mallard #Nature #Waterfowl #Ohio

A drake Mallrd duck swimsuit slowly l, showing the iridescence of it head against its yellow bill and brown chest plummage and white neck band.

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Just Todd @1035intheheartland.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

This afternoon in Toddville. 26-0817 5 PM.

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