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Christina Evans @christinae.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A preening Wilson's Snipe (Gallinago delicata) for the #BirdoftheDay alt theme #LongBeak. #birds #Florida

Christina Evans @christinae.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Roseate Spoonbill (Platalea ajaja) has one of the #BestBeaks. Also beautiful in breeding colors. #BirdoftheDay #birds #Florida #pink

A dark vertical frame with a stunning Roseate Spoonbill in breeding colors, perched in nice light on a branch in the bottom left half. The wading bird has long pink legs, a long white/light pink neck and a long blue/gray bill with a large spatulate spoon shape at the end of it. Accents of bright deep yellow are around the bird's red eye and where the wing meets the shoulder/neck. The wings are pink blending into brilliant red at the top. The background is dark with greenery and a large gray and brown tree trunk running diagonally from right to upper left over the bird's head.

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Christina Evans @christinae.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Northern Yellow Warbler (Setophaga aestiva) immature female in Wild Coffee (Psychotria nervosa). I have other recent photos that might beat it, but it's #BestoftheMonth I have ready to post. #birds #BirdoftheDay #Florida #backyard #migration

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Christina Evans @christinae.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

An American Kestrel (Falco sparverius) male, the smallest and certainly one of the most beautiful North American falcons is #BirdoftheDay for the theme #Raptors. #birds #Florida #KissimmeePrairie

A dark, dramatically-lit vertical frame featuring a male American Kestrel, facing forward right with head and small beak turned back to the left. His bright orange feet are perched one over the other atop a thin branch with a few green leaves and one red leaf on it. A beautiful small falcon, he has slaty blue on the head with some accents of russet, a dark brown eye and bold vertical streaks of black coming down from his eye and behind it. His breast is light, with some rust color, and his belly has small dark spots scattered on it. You can see some under tail bands. The light is coming from the right and the background is quite dark olive green. Though small, he looks intent and fierce as any other raptor would as he looks for prey.

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Christina Evans @christinae.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A Northern Cardinal male is #BirdoftheDay for the theme #Light&Shadow. #birds #backyard #Florida

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Christina Evans @christinae.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A White-winged Dove (Zenadia asiatica) is the #BirdoftheDay for the alt theme #Pigeons&Doves. #birds #Florida #backyard

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Christina Evans @christinae.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Northern Mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos) eating Simpson's Stopper (Myrcianthes fragrans) berry for a better late than never #BirdoftheDay theme #BirdsWithBerries. #birds #nativeplants #Florida

A Northern Mockingbird in the middle of a mass of thin branches cover with small green leaves with ripe, bright orange berries, and unripe yellow berries. The gray bird with a light underside is contorted, forming an upside down U-shape, with the head forward, in order to grab the largest, brightest red-orange berry with their opened beak. The image is a millisecond before the berry is plucked.

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Christina Evans @christinae.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Coelioxys slossoni ssp. slossoni is a sharptail cuckoo bee that doesn't seem to have a common name. A kleptoparasite, it lays eggs in the nest cells of leafcutting bees (like the White-footed Leafcutter recently posted) and its larva eat the host pollen. #Florida #invertebrate #insect #macro

Coelioxys slossoni ssp. slossoni - an interesting sharptail cuckoo bee is hanging upside down to a dead flower stem, clinging with its front four legs and mandibles, resting and waiting for rain to come in. The bee has a segmented rusty red thorax and legs, warm dark brown wings, black body, head, and antennae, with pale yellow in the eye. Though it has a bit of white fuzz in places, it does not have the hairs seen on pollen collecting bees, since it is klepto parasitic and its offspring steal the pollen from host bees. The background of this vertical frame is shades of green.

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Christina Evans @christinae.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Red-shouldered Hawk (Buteo lineatus) is the #BirdoftheDay for the #AngryBirds theme and the head in profile can work for the alt of #MyBestSide, too. #birds #Florida #backyard

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Christina Evans @christinae.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A Gray Catbird (Dumetella carolinensis) in Wild Coffee (Psychotria nervosa) with a berry is #BirdoftheDay for theme #Mouthful. #birds #Florida #NativePlants #birdphotography

A Gray Catbird is in the midst of a Wild Cofee shrub with shiny, quilted, rich green leaves, holding up a bright red berry in their beak. As the name implies, the bird is all gray except for a black cap, and has a dark eye.

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Christina Evans @christinae.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

A female Black-and-white Warbler (Mniotilta varia) is for the alt #BirdoftheDay theme #Black&White. The tiny blue flower is on a stem of Florida native creeping sage (Salvia misella). #birds #warblers #backyard #Florida

A female Black-and-white Warbler is perched facing right near the end of a rough, weathered wood snag jutting out from the left. She is, as the names implies, black and white with two white wing bars, a white eyebrow stripe, and a streaked breast and underside. The background is rich, dark green and there is a small, single green stem coming up from the bottom of the frame with a tiny, bright blue flower.

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Christina Evans @christinae.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

White-footed Leafcutter Bee (Megachile albitarsis), waiting for rain to come, on the seed head of button rattlesnakemaster (Eryngium yuccifolium). #InsectThursday #invertebrates #Florida #yard #nativeplants #macro

A square image featuring a White-footed Leafcutter Bee hanging upside down on the right side of a prickly brown seed head of button rattlesnakemaster. The bee has a black abdomen and white fuzzy stripes created by white hairs which are also on his thorax and legs. He has yellow hairs on top of the head area and a light greenish eye and two black antennae. The background is very pale greenish tan colors.

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Christina Evans @christinae.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A fluffed Palm Warbler (Setophaga palmarum) with a breakfast fly is #BirdoftheDay for the alt theme #Borbs. #birds #Florida #warblers

A round, fluffed up Palm Warbler with a fly caught in its beak, is facing forward left, sitting on green to tan, grassy, weedy ground. The little bird is warm brown on back and top of head, with a streaked, light-colored breast and a light eyebrow stripe. The fly looks like a housefly with red eyes.

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Christina Evans @christinae.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

A happy Hooded Merganser (Lophodytes cucullatus) female for the alt #BirdoftheDay theme #SittingonWater. #birds #Florida #ducks

A Hooded Merganser female duck, facing right, swimming in dark brown water with her head, tail, and chestnut crest raised, looking quite proud and happy.

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Christina Evans @christinae.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

A first winter Herring Gull (Larus argentatus) is #InFlight for the #BirdoftheDay. #birds #Florida #gulls

A young Herring Gull is flying over gray/blue water, facing forward right with long wings reaching out from the top left to the lower right of the horizontal frame. The gull is mottled brown and white with a dark eye and bill, and can see pink legs tucked up beneath.

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Christina Evans @christinae.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) male showing off his yellow shafts is #BirdoftheDay for the alt theme #BrightAccents. #birds #BackYard #Florida

A male Northern Flicker (yellow-shafted) perched on top of a large gnarly tree snag in a vertical frame. A good-sized brownish woodpecker with striking barred upper parts and a bright red nape back of the head. The black malar stripe indicates a male bird, and the bright yellow feather shafts are characteristic of this species in the east and north. (Western birds are "red-shafted")

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Christina Evans @christinae.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

A Snowy Egret (Egretta thula) in breeding plumage is the #BirdoftheDay for the theme #ItsAllWhite. Easy to see why these stunning birds were hunted for their beautiful feathers years ago until they were protected in the early 20th century. #birds #Florida

A dramatically side-and back-lit Snowy Egret in breeding plumage is perched atop a rough gray snag facing forward and looking slightly downward, showing off an impressive crown of delicate white feathers over their head, and looking fierce with yellow eyes, red lores, and black beak. The background is completely black. Easy to see why they were hunted for their feathers until they were protected in the early twentieth century.

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Christina Evans @christinae.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

A Ruby-throated Hummingbird (Archilochus colubris) immature male visiting white Marlberry flowers (Ardisia escallonioides). #BirdoftheDay #FlowerPower #birds #backyard #Florida #nativeplants

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

This. The whole thread.

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Christina Evans @christinae.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Northern Mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos) fledgling being fed by mom or dad. #BirdoftheDay theme is #Parenting. #birds #backyard #Florida #BabyBird

A dynamic action scene of a recently fledged Northern Mockingbird being fed. The baby bird is perched facing forward on an angled oak branch with their beak raised and opened wide showing a bright yellow/orange gape, as a parent bird’s head leans in from the right about to put food in. The baby bird is shades of gray and brown and has a light breast, dark wings, and white wing bar. The breast feathers are a little wet. The background is indistinct leafy greens.

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Christina Evans @christinae.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

A Louisiana Waterthrush (Parkesia motacilla) helping out with pest control by eating a Surinam cockroach in the #backyard For #BirdoftheDay theme #BestoftheMonth. One of the few birds I photographed this month! #Florida #birds #warbler

A Louisiana Waterthrush, is standing on a patio of large rounded stones, facing left, and tilted forward with their tail in the air. It nabbed a Surinam cockroach, and had the bug in their beak, before eating it. The little bird has a dark brown back and tail, a long white eyebrow stripe, and a white breast, heavily streaked with dark brown. The flanks and belly are also streaked and have a light warm wash of color. The long legs are pinkish. The background fades into beige leaf litter and then dark green shrubbery.

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Christina Evans @christinae.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

A couple of Black-necked Stilts (Himantopus mexicanus) for #BirdoftheDay theme #Coastal&River. #birds #Florida

Two Black-necked Stilts are standing on the bank, facing left, with water in the background behind them. They are uniquely striking black and white birds, with white in front and black wings and head cap, a thin, long black pointed bill, and extremely long bright pink legs - thus the name “stilt”. Their eyes are red.

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Christina Evans @christinae.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

A young male House Finch (Haemorhous mexicanus) snacking on the seeds of red tropical sage (Salvia coccinea). One more #BirdoftheDay. I posted a different image of this same bird a few days ago, but he is right for the theme #NaturalSeeds so here he is again. #birds #Florida #backyard

A young male House Finch is perched with head down and tail up, facing right on a thin green sage stem trailing down from left to right. The bird is shades of brown with red-orange color in his head and on his neck and breast. He has seed from the stem in his beak. The background is varying shades of green leaves.

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Christina Evans @christinae.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

A female Belted Kingfisher (Megaceryle alcyon) perched on a Red Maple (Acer rubrum) branch for the alt #BirdoftheDay theme #KingfisherQuest. #birds #Florida

A female Belted Kingfisher, dark gray with a white belly and rusty red band, perched on the left side a twiggy Red Maple branch with a few new leaves and red flowers on it. Light blue sky in the background.

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Christina Evans @christinae.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

A Louisiana Waterthrush (Parkesia motacilla), an early migrant warbler, nabbed a Surinam cockroach for dinner in the back yard yesterday on the stone patio, making them #BirdoftheDay for the theme #RecentGardenBirds. #Florida #birds #warblers #migration

A Louisiana Waterthrush, is standing on a patio of large rounded stones, facing left, and tilted forward with their tail in the air. It had just nabbed a Surinam cockroach, and had the bug lying on its back in front of them, right before eating it. The little bird has a dark brown back and tail, a long white eyebrow stripe, and a white breast, heavily streaked with dark brown. The flanks and belly are also streaked and have a light warm wash of color. The long legs are pinkish. The background fades into beige leaf litter and then dark green shrubbery.

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Christina Evans @christinae.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

A young male House Finch (Haemorhous mexicanus) snacking on the seeds of red tropical sage (Salvia coccinea) for #BirdoftheDay theme #ThinPerches. #birds #nativeplants #Florida

A young male House Finch is perched, facing right on a thin green sage stem trailing down from left to right. The bird is shades of brown with red-orange color in his head and on his neck and breast. He has some seeds from the stem in his beak. The background is varying shades of green.

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Christina Evans @christinae.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Bee Fly (Toxophora amphitea) perched on a seed head of Lanceleaf Coreopsis (Coreopsis lanceolata). Photographed in the front yard recently just before it started to rain. #arthropod #insect #Florida #nativeplants #macro

An oddly hump-backed bee fly is delicately perched atop a brown seed capsule in a vertical frame. The fly has two wings, a long pointed proboscis, and long dark hairs on its body and legs. The background is mostly clean, pale beige, with an angled streaked of light green near the top.

This detailed image was created by combining a series of four photos to increase the depth of field.

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Christina Evans @christinae.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (Polioptila caerulea) is taking a sun bath for the alt #BirdoftheDay theme #SunnyDayBirds. #birds #Florida

A Blue-gray Gnatcatcher is fluffed up with spread out tail and wings on the ground, in dried, brown oak leaves and sticks, taking a sun bath. The tiny gray bird has bright white feathers on the outside edges of their dark tail, and has an opened beak with head raised in the heat. The bird has a dark round eye wing a white eye ring.

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Christina Evans @christinae.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

A Tufted Titmouse (Baeolophus bicolor) fledgling enjoying a leaf bath after I sprayed wild coffee leaves with water. #BirdoftheDay for theme #BirdintheBush. #birds #Florida #backyard

A Tufted Titmouse fledgling fluffed up and a little wet in the midst of the quilted-looking bright green leaves and little white flowers of a Wild Coffee shrub. The young bird is gray with a white front and a pointed tuft atop their head.

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Christina Evans @christinae.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Great Horned Owl (Bubo virginianus) mom and her fuzzy little one nesting in a large oak tree for the alt #BirdoftheDay theme #Mothers. #birds #Florida

An adult Great Horned Owl and fuzzy-headed chick together in a nest made of twigs, spanish moss and leaves in the crook of a large live oak tree. The owlet is standing up with its head above that of its parent.

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Christina Evans @christinae.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

A Northern Parula (Setophaga americana) with Wild Coffee leaves is #BirdoftheDay for theme #StrikeaPose. #birds #Florida #nativeplants

A Northern Parula is perched atop a node on an oak branch on the right half of a horizontal frame, facing left with head held high. Parulas are tiny warblers with a blue-gray back, a bright yellow throat and chest, two white wing bars, and a broken white eye ring. There are ovate, lush green Wild Coffee leaves with a quilted look to them behind and to the left of the little bird.

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Christina Evans @christinae.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Common Ground Dove (Columbina passerina) juvenile is #50ShadesofGrey for #BirdoftheDay. It is a young bird. Not positive it qualifies as a #Fledgling, but maybe! It was unusual to see this species in our suburban #backyard. They prefer more open habitat. #bird #Florida

A juvenile Common Ground Dove is facing left, perched on a rough, bark covered branch, with another large gray branch in the background and greenery behind that. The bird is various shades of gray, with some warm beige, black and white spots in the wings. The feet are pink, the beak is orange-y with a dark tip, and the eye is dark red with a black pupil. the breast and head feathers are fresh looking with lighter edges, creating a scalloped look, and this plumage indicates it is a young bird.

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Christina Evans @christinae.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

A beautiful Magnolia Warbler (Setophaga magnolia) is #BirdoftheDay for the theme #warblers. I love photographing warblers in our shallow backyard pond and it’s almost that time of year again! #birds #Florida

A colorful Magnolia Warbler is facing right, standing in a depression in a rounded beige rock in shallow water about to bathe. He has a gray head with a black mask, white above and below his eye, a bright yellow throat, chest and underside, with a streaky black “necklace”. White wing bars and white patches in the tail feathers also are identifying features of this very pretty little bird.

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Christina Evans @christinae.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Resting Wood Ducks (Aix sponsa), two males and a female, in their preferred habitat near the bank of a lake. #BirdoftheDay for theme #AtOneWithNature. #birds #Florida

Three Wood Ducks, two very colorful males and one plainer brown, but beautiful, female are floating peacefully in shallow water near the wooded, mossy bank of a lake in dappled sunlight.

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Christina Evans @christinae.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus) female on a nest cavity for #BirdoftheDay theme #NoBranchWood. #birds #Florida

A vertical frame featuring a female Pileated Woodpecker perched on the edge of a large hammered-out cavity in the side of a dead, barkless gray tree. She is a large woodpecker with a black back and a lang black tail resting on the tree below her. She's facing right and photographed from below. Her head has a strong black eye stripe with a broad white stripe below it, another black malar stripe and then white again and she has a large, very bright red crest on top, (like the cartoon character, Woody the Woodpecker!). There is a small white patch visible on her wing. The background is indistinct, out of focus trees and sky.

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Christina Evans @christinae.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Have already seen an early migrant Prothonotary Warbler (Protonotaria citrea) in our yard this season like the one here playing #PeekABoo. #BirdoftheDay #birds #warbler #naturephotography #Florida

Prothonotary Warbler, a small warbler with a sharp beak, gray wings and tail and brilliant yellow head and top is hanging from a branch nearly upside down, peering out from behind dark green leaves nearly as big as the bird is. Vertical format.

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Christina Evans @christinae.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

A Sanderling (Calidris alba) in breeding plumage walking the beach is #BirdoftheDay for theme #BestFootForward. We seldom get to see them in such fancy dress in #Florida, since they are only here from fall to spring. #birds #shorebird #peeps #sandpipers

A Sanderling is walking on wet, light beach sand with one leg forward and foot raised, facing right with head slightly down as they look for food. They are a small sandpiper, with a small round head and a black bill as long or slightly longer as the head. This one is in breeding plumage, so has a rich chestnut brown head, back, and chest, with intricate patterns of black and white on the feathers. The flanks, belly, and under tail are white. The foreground sand fades to light blue water in the background behind the bird. The image is horizontal and taken from a low angle putting the viewer on the bird’s level.

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Christina Evans @christinae.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

A Gray Catbird (Dumetella carolinensis) in Simpson's Stopper tree with an extra large berry is #BirdoftheDay for theme #RedorDead. #birds #Florida #NativePlants #birdphotography

A Gray Catbird is in the midst of a Simpson’s Stopper tree with small dark green leaves and a lot of round orange, red, and yellow berries. The dark gray bird with a black cap, eye and beak is facing right in the lower left of an horizontal frame, and only the top front half of him is visible. He has the largest red berry in his beak, holding it up like a prize. There is golden light in the background.

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Christina Evans @christinae.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

A Reddish Egret (Egretta rufescens) is certainly one of the most #FabulousWaders even when they aren't dancing around as they fabulously do. #BirdoftheDay #birds #Florida #naturephotography

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Christina Evans @christinae.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

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

A recently fledged Northern Mockingbird is standing on a branch facing right in an excited begging stance, with tail raised straight up in the air, and beak wide open, showing the bright yellow-orange insides of the mouth. The baby bird is gray to brown, with two white wing bars on the wings which are not fully grown, and has a white underside with some pale brown-gray spots. Indistinct green leaves are in the upper background, with a brown out of focus area below that.

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Christina Evans @christinae.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

A White-eyed Vireo (Vireo griseus) perched between dives into the pond while splash bathing and looking up #OverTheRainbow. Easy to see where the name came from. The pretty greenery is Maidenhair fern (Adiantum capillus-veneris). #BirdoftheDay #birds #photography #naturephotography #Florida

A wet yellow and gray White-eyed Vireo, a small bird with two white wing bars and a white iris is facing forward looking upward to the left, perched on a twig in the midst of bright green, feathery Maidenhair fern in a vertical frame. Showing how it got its name with a piercing gaze upward displaying the white iris.

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Christina Evans @christinae.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Eastern Bluebird (Sialia sialis) male standing guard near his nest is #BirdoftheDay for the theme #MultiColour. #birds #Florida

An Eastern Bluebird male is perched facing forward on a thin tree branch with his head turned to the left and beak opened to dispel heat in this vertical frame. His head is bright blue, as are the visible parts of his wings and tail. His throat and breast are warm rusty red/orange, and his belly and under tail are white. He has a very dark, large round eye and black feet. The background is indistinct warm browns to black.

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Christina Evans @christinae.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Ruby-throated Hummingbird (Archilochus colubris) female in flight for the #BirdoftheDay theme #EmeraldBackdrop. #birds #backyard #Florida

A female Ruby-throated Hummingbird in flight, facing right in a horizontal frame with a mottled green background. She has dark wings, raised above her, a green back and head, a light “collar” and underside, tiny black feet held below her, and a long, thin pointed bill.

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Christina Evans @christinae.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

This Reddish Egret white morph in classic canopy pose works for both #BirdoftheDay themes of #CHE and the alt #Memories. Memorable for how happy I was when I saw it, and for the image winning a national award and being published. #birds #photography #Florida

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Christina Evans @christinae.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Osprey (Pandion haliaetus) keeping a piercing eye on his nest in Everglades National Park for the #BirdoftheDay theme #EyeOfTheWild. #birds #raptors #Florida

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