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@atlanticbirding.bsky.social Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Black&White; any shot in black and white. Here is a B&W version of a bathing Grebe I've posted before. #Birds #WetlandBirds #Grebe

a black and white shot of a Grebe, in shallow water, shaking off water. The grebe and water droplets are reflected in the still water

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commongoodguy.bsky.social @commongoodguy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Given that #BestOfTheMonth is the #BirdOfTheDay theme, and yesterday was #EFG, this seems to fit the dual bill. Plus, Green Herons are among my favorites.

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Clinty1 @clinty1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today's theme for #BirdOfTheDay is #EFG, birds beginning with any of those letters (1st name). Here's an Eastern Kingbird #Birds #EasternKingbird

Eastern kingbird perched on a thin, dried reed. This bird has a white chest, white tip of tail feathers and black/brown/grey body

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Clinty1 @clinty1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BokehBirds - any bird captured with a soft, muted or blurry background. Here's a female Green-winged Teal paddling in duckweed filled waters #Ducks #WetlandBirds #Duckweed

Green-winged teal surrounded by green duckweed. The female is primarily brown and green. A bit of her green wing feather is seen

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Clinty1 @clinty1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Seabirds- any bird found at sea or the coast The alt. is #Airborne- any bird in flight. Here's a Brown Pelican grabbing a meal #Birds #BrownPelican

A brown pelican in the water grabbing a fish. this bird has a yellow head, red ring around the eye, and long, large bills

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Clinty1 @clinty1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

@robcrank68.bsky.social Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Pairs, photos with pairs of the same species in them. Here's a handsome Northern Shoveler pair #Birds #Ducks #NorthernShoveler

A female and male northern shoveler pair. The female is brown and cream with a flat orange bill. The male's head is iridescent green

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Clinty1 @clinty1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Borbs, birds looking plump.The Alt theme is #Brown, birds with Brown in their plumage. I'm going with the alt, and perhaps a twofer-here's a young, floofy, Sandhill Crane #Birds #SandHillCrane

A young sandhill crane standing in shallow water, its back to the camera. The bird is brown/tan/cinnamon colored with red markings at the top of the beak between the eyes

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Clinty1 @clinty1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My butterfly bush was frequented by Monarchs during migration #InsectThursday #Monarchs

A monarch butterfly, wings outspread, resting on a purple blossom, against a blue sky

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birdnerd275 @birdnerd275.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #TheDivers so here’s a double-crested cormorant i saw at a state park about four years ago. they were surfacing in random spots for just a few seconds before diving again so i had a fun little game of whack-a-mole getting this shot

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Clinty1 @clinty1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #TheDivers Here's a Grebe, just up from a dive. And I think she's a twofer for the Alt theme- #BirdStare #Birds #WetlandBirds #Grebe

A Grebe, slick from a dive, paddling in still, gray water. The bird's refection is shown in the water. Grebes are small, diving birds

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Puregoldj @puregoldj.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I saw this black vulture looking for lunch walking through the woods near home.

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Clinty1 @clinty1.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Raptors - any bird of prey Here's a foraging Northern Harrier #Birds #NorthernHarrier

A northern harrier hawk landing in a marsh area of dry reeds. This is a medium sized hawk. It's wings are in a V shape

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Gray @grays.art · 21/09/2026

Little blue heron (Egretta caerulea) on bare tree snag CREW pen flint strand marsh Bonita Springs, Florida 9-19-26 Alan has chosen #LightAndShadow as today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme: any bird capture with both. Alt. #FallBirds: Autumn/Fall bird captures. #eck #nature #threeWordGenre #birding #birds

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Michael Babcock @mbabco.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A Common Flameback at Kaeng Krachan, Thailand. (I don't like calling this magnificent woodpecker "common.") He's got the requisite #Redheads, any bird with a Red on its head/beak, for @robcrank68.bsky.social's #BirdOfTheDay theme for today.

A Common Flameback woodpecker with it's bright red top of the head.

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Clinty1 @clinty1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

@robcrank68.bsky.social Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Redheads, any bird with a Red on its head/beak. Here's a Purple Gallinule posing for today's theme #Birds #WetlandBirds #PurpleGallinule

A purple gallinule standing on a lily pad, facing the camera. This bird's beak has a bright red beak with a yellow tip. It's body is iridescent blue/purple/green

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Brian Smith @briansmith-photos.eurosky.social · 21/09/2026

#Light&Shadow is the #BirdoftheDay theme, the alt is #FallBirds. This Least Bittern heading back into the shadows, after forgetting for a little while that is a secretive bird. #Birds #eck 🪶. I did get some clearer pictures of the Bittern, but loved the shadows on this one.

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Clinty1 @clinty1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #LightAndShadow, any bird capture that has both. The alt is #FallBirds, any Autumn/ Fall bird captures Here's a possible twofer- a female Mallard gliding gracefully on an October morning #Birds #Ducks #Mallards

A female mallard duck-in shades of browns and whites-gliding in water that reflects fall colors of oranges, greens, yellows and browns

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Alan H @alan678.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Hi birders, I’ll be back on Wednesday to annoy everyone again. The #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #LightAndShadow, any bird capture that has both. The alt is #FallBirds, any Autumn/ Fall bird captures. Sorry can’t respond to comments. 🙏🏼🤗 Goldcrest #birds #photography #ECK

A tiny Goldcrest perched on a slender branch, surrounded by lush green leaves. The bird’s delicate greyish-buff plumage is softly illuminated, with a vivid yellow-orange crown stripe catching the light. Its fine, pointed bill and large dark eye are clearly visible as it looks upward, while its fine feathers glow against the darker, softly blurred woodland background. The natural shadows create a beautiful, intimate woodland portrait.

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Helen Bennett 🌿 @helenbennett.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Today's #BirdOfTheDay is #CaptionThatBird 🪶 1. Post any of your bird 📷 that make you smile 2. Add ONLY a witty caption & hashtags 3. ⚠️Please describe your photo in the Alt Text so everyone can enjoy the theme 🙏 Have fun! ☺️ “Dammit Gary, get your wing out of my face! I'm flying blind back here!"

A photo of four Greylag geese flying in a neat, diagonal line across a clear, pale blue sky. The birds are captured mid-flight in various stages of their wingbeats. The bright daylight highlights the textures of their mottled grey-brown feathers, white tails, and stout orange bills. A comical optical illusion occurs between the front two birds due to the camera's perspective. The leading goose's downward-extended wing perfectly overlaps the head of the second goose flying closely behind it. This creates a funny visual effect, making it look as though the front bird is covering the second bird's face with its wing so it cannot see where it is going. The remaining two geese follow further down the line, one with its wings angled upward and the other downward.

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Christina Evans @christinae.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

An #elegant Snowy Egret in breeding plumage for the #BirdoftheDay. #birds #Florida

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urimo.bsky.social @urimo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

In New Zealand, pied stilits sometimes breed with the critically endangered black stilt (kakī), which produces hybrid offspring with a dark band across the chest, like this #Elegant bird. #BirdOfTheDay.

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rebeccam31.bsky.social @rebeccam31.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

AB’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #elegant. The #ReddishEgret looks like it’s doing ballet when it fishes, so I thought of that immediately. For the alt of #scruffy I decided to keep it in the family with a disgruntled looking #TricoloredHeron. #birds #WildlifePhotography #ECK

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Clinty1 @clinty1.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

@atlanticbirding.bsky.social Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Elegant- any elegant looking bird. Alt. is #Scruffy- any bird looking a bit worse for wear Here's a Snowy Egret, a normally elegant bird, looking a bit rough on her beach walk. #Birds #SnowyEgret

A snowy egret, walking on a sandy beach. The bird is all white, black legs, yellow feet, black beak with yellow markings near the eyes. The bird's feathers are ruffled.

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Atlantic Birding @atlanticbirding.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

🪶 Good Morning, Happy Saturday Everyone! Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is: #Elegant; any elegant looking bird Alt. is #Scruffy; any bird looking a bit worse for wear - A graceful Grey-Crowned Crane - A Rook that’s been feeding in decaying seaweed #birds #ECK #birdphotography #naturephotography

A Grey Crowned Crane, taken in captivity, standing on mown grass looking at the camera.
The bird is right of centre of the frame, facing the camera so that it’s looking directly with the left side of its body visible. Its crown almost reaches the top of the picture and its feet are cut off at the bottom. The bird has a striking fan of thin, golden feathers in the top of its head. Its has a black forehead and white cheeks patches, its beak is a grey colour with visible nasal holes on the top. It has long grey feathers along its neck, turning to a darker grey on the underbelly and back. The wings are white, turning to black at the ends and tail. Its legs are long and black.
The background is mown grass, with a large rock poking out of the grass to the left of the shot and a stone path along the top.

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Lyndy Lambert @lyndyphotos.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A disheveled blue tit, for the #Paridae theme of #BirdOfTheDay. #EastCoastKin #birds

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Clinty1 @clinty1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

@robcrank68.bsky.social Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Paridae Here's a lovely Black capped Chickadee on a lovely blue sky day #Birds #BlackCappedChickadee

A black capped chickadee perched on a branch, against a blue sky. This bird has a black cap, white ring under the eyes, white and buff colored chest

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urimo.bsky.social @urimo.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A white-faced heron with a #Mouthful of treats for #BirdOfTheDay.

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Kevin Wertman @kevin.wertman.org · 11/09/2026

Atlantic Birding set today's #BirdOfTheDay to #Mouthful. I tend to shy away from sharing photos like these, but it is nature in action and I aspire to become some kind of nature photographer. 🙂 #Photography #Birds #Egrets

A white egret has a large bullfrog (I think) at the end of its beak. The frogs legs are splayed in all directions as it struggles to escape. Background is a dirt road at the wetlands.

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Sandra Aamodt @sandra-aamodt.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Ringed kingfisher female with a fish that's quite a #mouthful from Fazenda Barranco Alto in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil #BirdOfTheDay #birds

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Clinty1 @clinty1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

@atlanticbirding.bsky.social Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Mouthful Here’s a female Red-winged Blackbird prepping for her nest #Birds #RedWingedBlackBird

Female red winged blackbird with a beak full of dried grass

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Barrie Cull @barrie6.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Rob’s #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #Iridescence - any bird whose colour changes with light on them. Here’s a male Mallard duck showing its iridescent green head.

A male Mallard duck with its back towards the camera shows an iridescent green head with yellow bill. Its back and wing feathers are brown, white and black. It is sitting on the ground with green vegetation around it.

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rebeccam31.bsky.social @rebeccam31.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Rob set the #BirdOfTheDay theme as #iridecense. I think this #GlossyIbis I saw earlier this week fits the bill. #birds #WildlifePhotography #ECK

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Tony Gillie @drtonygillie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I'm going for a #twofer with this Black-winged Stilt (Himantopus himantopus) for today's #BirdOfTheDay. Not only is it #Black&White but the wings show #Iridescence in certain light. It also happens to have the longest legs on a bird relative to body size. 😀 #birds #ECK #nature #photography #wildlife

A bird with white head and body, and black wings. It has extremely long orange legs and is standing by the edge of dark blue water on a rocky foreshore. Its long black beak is slightly open, and it has a light brown eye. It's facing left, and the early morning sun is catching its left wing transforming the black to dark green with hints of purple.
The claim about the longest legs relative to body size is supported by the Guiness Book of Records.

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Kari Maaren @angrykem.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Iridescence. It can sometimes be a bit too easy to ignore the humble #Mallard, but just look at this distinguished gentleman with the purple tones shimmering all over his green head. #birds #photography #BirdPhotography #ducks #wildlife #WildlifePhotography #nature

Close-up of the head and breast of a male Mallard, a duck with a pretty iridescent green head that is also showing hints of purple.

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Clinty1 @clinty1.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Iridescence, any bird whose color changes with light on them Here’s a male Mallard showcasing his blue speculum feathers and of course his iridescent green head #Ducks #Birds #Mallard @robcrank68.bsky.social

Male mallard rising from the water, wings extended and forward. Iridescent green head and blue speculum feathers

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irishlazz @irishlazz.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is: #ABCD, any bird name with any of these letters. American Bittern gets 2 points! Second time seen in person, way better photos. LOVE how he tipped his head ALL the way up so he could get a good binocular look at me - truly engineered for his fishing style.

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Of course this turkey sized crow turned his back just as I snapped the pic in traffic. In my 64 years I've never seen one this massive.

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Clinty1 @clinty1.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #ABCD, any bird name beginning with any of these letters. Here's a Black-capped Chickadee peeking in for today's theme #Birds #SongBirds #BlackCappedChickadee

A black-capped chickadee perched on a dried reed stem. This bird has a black head, white cheeks and buff colored chest

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Clinty1 @clinty1.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

@helenbennett.bsky.social Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme challenge is #BirdBuddies. Two 'different' bird species sharing the same space. Here are a Spoonbill and a Tricolored Heron passing by each other #Birds #WetlandBirds #Spoonbill #TricoloredHeron

A bright pink spoonbill has it's beak dipped in shallow green water. A tricolored heron is passing behind the spoon bill. bth are reflected in the water

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Helen Bennett 🌿 @helenbennett.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme challenge is #BirdBuddies ! Can you find two 'different' bird species sharing the same space!? Here's a lovely Dunnock and Wren perched together on a bramble stem 📷 🪶 🤎 Alt. #BirdsInGreen Any shade of green on a birds plumage 😊 Happy Tuesday everyone 🕊️👋 #Birds #ECK

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rebeccam31.bsky.social @rebeccam31.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

AB has given #Herons&Egrets as today’s #BirdOfTheDay challenge. Living in Florida, I photograph these guys all the time (and never get tired of it!), but I decided to reach a little farther afield for this determined-looking #LavaHeron. #travel #Galapagos #birds #WildlifePhotography #ECK

A squat charcoal gray bird hiked across rough black lava rock. It has wind blown feathers, long yellow legs, a long black beak, and a yellow eye.

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