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Paul Wallace @paulmwall.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Hey guess what I finally got a new lens and I'm going birding *on purpose* tomorrow

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Nicole Adams SideEye-Photography @blathin384.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Alan said, the #BirdOfTheDay the alt theme is #FallBirds, any Autumn/ Fall bird captures. Great Egret during #GoldenHour in Bombay Hook NWR, October 2025. #ECK #photography #birds #reflection

Photo of a Great Egret illuminated by the early sunrise while standing in a shallow pond. There's green vegetation bird's reflection can also be seen

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DWebster🇺🇦🇨🇴🇨🇺🇲🇽🇨🇦🌎🦜 @dwebstersf.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Seems like this Black Phoebe portrait might fit today's theme.. #BirdofteDay #Black&White #birds #nature

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Jen , the MT liberal bird lady @liberal-jen.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

A murmuration of starlings above Sardinia, Italy. One of my favorite natural phenomena.

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SoCal Leslie @socalleslie.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Zen marbled godwit at sunset. Feel the heat. 🪶🌅

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Alex Sauerbrunn @birdsbyalex.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

A Cedar Waxwing performs a delicate balancing act while reaching for some delicious berries for today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme #ThinPerches. #birds #nature #wildlife #photography

A bird with brown and yellow plumage and a black mask hangs upside down from a thin branch while reaching for red berries. Photographed in Avon, Connecticut.

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Paul Wallace @paulmwall.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Brewer’s sparrow, the bird with no field marks. Or: the mark is no mark at all. My lifer! I saw sooo many of these sweet lil passerellids in Wyoming last week Denizen of sage and spruce. Friendly, unassuming, modest, perfectly happy to just be part of the high altitude landscape #birds

Brewer’s sparrow perched on a conifer, body facing left, head turned to the right. Light colored breast and flanks, gray-brown wings and tail and head, small and short triangular bill, dark eye. A remarkably plain bird, small, sincere, not demanding anything of anyone

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Paul Wallace @paulmwall.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

We were asleep at 220am in our backwoods wyoming cabin when a black bear climbed through the window over the sink and ate all our food including our peanut butter and broke a lot of dishes and the coffeemaker carrafe and here is a peanut butter bear nose print on a pan lid that somehow did not break

A lid for a cooking pan with a bear nose print on it. The print is made of peanut butter

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Paul Wallace @paulmwall.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Welp my long lens crapped out on me on day 3 of a 12-day trip to Wyoming but before it did it helped me get this shot of my LIFER! green tailed towhee This sweet lil bird happens to be a junior edition of that particular species #birds

Juvenile green-tailed towhee, standing on a log, facing left. This bird’s mostly gray head and body are mildly floofed out. A faint yellow wash covers his flanks and lower belly and his wings are dark gray edged in yellow-green. The long tail has the same characteristics. He has a soft brown eye and a heavy light-colored triangular beak just barely opened. The background is unfocused brown and green.

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Paul Wallace @paulmwall.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

So I’m in Wyoming and it turns out they have yellow birds here #birds

Female yellow warbler perched on a dead branch, facing right. She is a small bird with a long uniformly light yellow body, dark eye, and a sharp pink beak. Her wings have some dark gray in them but the flight feathers are edged in yellow. Yellow yellow yellow is the theme here, a nice soft shade. The background is jumbled and out of focus foliage.

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Paul Wallace @paulmwall.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The best thing about this picture is, she has a duckweed leaf stuck to her eyeball #birds

Black bellied whistling duck, facing left, against a background of bright green duckweed-covered water. This duck has a brown neck and a tan head and a handsome brown-gray crown stripe. Also a bright pink bill with a gray nail. Most at of her body is hidden by some plants in the foreground but her head is clear and the sun reflects in her eye. She has a teeny duckweed leaf stuck to the inner corner of her eyeball.

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Paul Wallace @paulmwall.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

You never know who you’re gonna find down at the old state park #birds

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Paul Wallace @paulmwall.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I’m not sure if I should have been surprised to find this turquoise eyed villain in the small retention pond at Georgia Southern Univeristy, but I was #birds

Juvenile double crested cormorant swimming in green water, facing right. The bird’s long body is nearly completely submerged in the water but her light brown neck is upright and her drowning face is angled slightly upward. Her orange-yellow beak is large and long and hooked and her eye is bright turquoise.

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Paul Wallace @paulmwall.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Been away for a few weeks but now I’m back with this fine carrot faced monster #birds

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Paul Wallace @paulmwall.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

1.1-billion-year-old basalt with a song sparrow on it #rocks #birds

Song sparrow standing on red basalt among shallow pools of water, facing left, with some nest material in his beak. The sun is full on the small bird and you can see his streaked sides, light-and-dark-brown striped wings, pink legs, long tail, and handsome brown-and-white-striped head clearly.

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taenia @taenia.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I assume this is a juvenile male just molting into his adult plumage. I really like the funky textures he has going on

A male Gadwall shaking out his feathers while standing in calm water.

This is a brown duck with a black rump. He has a fine scalloped pattern on his chest, interspersed with fluffy brown feathers. His rust-red and white wing patches are just visible under brown contour feathers. His bill is orange at the bottom and dark brown on top.

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Gray @grays.art · 14/06/2026

Limpkin considers flight (Aramus guarauna) CREW flint pen strand Bonita Springs, Florida 5-27-26 Alan & Rob’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #SilentPresence, where a bird appears calm, watchful, or contemplative, rather than active. The alt is #Swans. #birds #photography #Stunday #ECK #threewordgenre

Perched on a grassy bank against a soft, blue-gray background, this large, gangly wading bird is primarily a rich chocolate brown, with dense white streaks and triangular spots concentrated on its slender neck and upper body. It has an elongated, slightly down-curved bill that is yellowish at the base and darker at the tip—a specialized adaptation for extracting its primary food source, apple snails. The bird stands on long, dark-gray legs, looking toward the left with its neck held in a graceful curve. In the foreground, thin blades of grass and small white wildflowers are softly blurred, adding a natural texture to the scene.

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Paul Wallace @paulmwall.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

This is an actual bird it is not an AI bird #birds

Prothonotary warbler perched on a branch, facing right, head thrown back, beak wide open, singing his sweet head off. This is a small and very yellow bird. Lemon yellow all over except: his wings which are olive and gray and edged in white; his beak which is black; and his undertail which is white. He is slightly floofed and you can see his backlit tongue just barely! The background is unfocused bright spring green foliage.

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Glen Grambo 🇨🇦 @glengrambo.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

And then there were two! I waited about an hour and a half mostly staring at the reeds, and finally a Sora popped out. And then another one popped out! And then they went for a swim! The female is in front on the left and the male is behind. More in alt text. #Birds 🪶

A pair of Soras swim in the green coloured water of a prairie marsh. They are small members of the Rail family and usually walk among the reeds, but they also like to swim. They have mottled brown feathers, a grey chest and a candy corn beak. The female on the left has a slightly less bold and thinner black chest and face stripe. The male is a bit behind her, on the right and his black stripe is bolder and thicker. He’s also slightly larger.

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Mark Robertson @markrobbie.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

A rrrrrripe Blueberdy 🪶

A rotund and gloriously blue young bluebird male. Even his usually rust belly is quite blue

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Paul Wallace @paulmwall.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Sitting out back with a short drink and it dawns on me that fireflies on a summer evening must be one of the most ridiculously beautiful things I’ve ever seen

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Paul Wallace @paulmwall.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Third and final shot of this lovely creature #birds

White eyed vireo among bright green leaves, facing right. This bird is white and yellow and black. The white is mostly around the neck area and the undertail and transitions smoothly into soft bright yellow at the flanks and crown and forehead. Darkish wings have bright white wing bars and yellow edges. And the eye is sooo white.

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taenia @taenia.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

one of these days I will catch a Cedar Waxwing having an unphotogenic day but not today, alas

A Cedar Waxwing perched on a lichen and moss-covered branch

This is a cinnamon-brown bird with a grey back and a pale yellow chest. It has waxy red tips on the tips of a few wing covert feathers, an upswept crest of feathers on its head and a black mask over its eyes. It has a short, pointed black bill. It is stupidly beautiful.

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HLK @hlkfotos.com · 04/06/2026

Feliz #Thursjay 📷🌿🪶

A photo of a Steller's jay (Cyanocitta stelleri), a large songbird with a deep blue torso, wings, and tail; barring on its wings and tail; dark eyes; black beak; and black head topped with a tall crest. It is perched on the back of a weathered outdoor wooden chair looking downward, facing toward the left of frame.

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Are you kidding me? LOOK AT THIS DUCK #birds

Chestnut coloured duck with white cheek patch, black head cap with ridges, brilliant blue bill and a stiff fan of black tail feathers. You couldn’t make this duck up if you tried.

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Paul Wallace @paulmwall.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

BIRD REPORT there are four northern rough winged swallows flying around my Atlanta neighborhood among the oaks and poplars, nowhere near water, nowhere near a field, and in ten solid years of birding I have never once seen this This has been your Tuesday morning BIRD REPORT

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Paul Wallace @paulmwall.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

In the mood to post a bird this evening so here you go #birds

Juvenile eastern bluebird perched on a bare beach, viewed from behind, facing left. The bird is in warm sunlight coming from the right and the background is dark so you get a nice dramatic contrast, a bright line defining the birds back and head. The edges of the wings and tail are blue but the head is gray and the back and breast flanks, what you can see of them at least, are red.

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

Do birds see us walking everywhere and think we’re stupid

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 27/05/2026

Female birds with confusing names.

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Glen Grambo 🇨🇦 @glengrambo.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

I was able to visit one of our local marshes this morning and it was busy! Just after sunrise, this spotted sandpiper came flying in for some morning foraging in the shallows! #Birds 🪶

A spotted sandpiper flys in to a local marsh. The water is a dark green, reflecting the surrounding trees, and the sun is illuminating the sandpiper from the side. The sandpiper is very spotty with white and brown under it’s wings.

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Full frame @shutterspeed.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

There were 4 of these guys on my walk at lunch at work. This was my best shot out of the lot. #birds #birding #birdphotography #bluesky #photography #nature #naturephotography #nikon #heron #greenheron #urbanwildlife

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Paul Wallace @paulmwall.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Gonna keep posting shots of this lil stunner until I run out of them #birds

Ovenbird standing on a stick lying across a bed of of moss, facing left. The small bird has plain olive wings and back, a bright white breast with bold dark streaks, a neat pink bill and pink legs, and—you can only barely see them—two dark lateral crown stripes and a bright orange central crown stripe. The background is bright leafy spring green foliage.

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Paul Wallace @paulmwall.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

MIGRATION REPORT our local swainson’s thrushes, who I thought might never leave, have now departed campus and are on their way north #birds

Side view of a Swainson’s thrush perched on a branch, head up, alert, facing right. The bird is uniform soft brown above and mostly white below, with soft brown spots on her upper breast. She has a nice tan eye ting, a short tail, and a very poised stance and overall expression. The background is bright light green leaves and unfocused foliage.

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Surprise on a grid road slough-peeping tour — Grey Partridge! #birds

Chicken-like bird with pinky orange on its face and throat is standing in green grass on the edge of a gravel road.

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Trilobyter @trilobyter.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Per @robcrank68.bsky.social, today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #HeadShots. This #cardinal only wanted his headshot from this side, his “good side”. He’s still looking for an agent. #photography #BirdPhotography #birds #BackyardBirds

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Thierry St-Laurent Dion @tstld.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Study of a female Cooper's Hawk Bic pen on paper Available #art #birds #nature #sciart

Study of a female Cooper's Hawk made with a bic black pen.

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Paul Wallace @paulmwall.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Another look at the north Georgia forest chicken #birds

Ovenbird standing on a bed of moss, body facing the camera, head turned to the right. The small bird has plain olive wings and back, a bright white breast with bold dark streaks, a neat pink bill and pink legs, and two dark lateral crown stripes and a bright orange central crown stripe. The background is bright leafy spring green foliage.

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Mark Robertson @markrobbie.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

The elusive & rare orange crown on the warbler so named! Aren't the namers-of-birds some real cheeky monkeys? 🪶

Close up of an olive yellow bird is right wing up and a fuzzy orange top.Do you always have

Another view of the same bird he's crouched and looking down ready to spring off a stem

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Paul Wallace @paulmwall.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I birded a pretty remote part of the north Georgia mountains on Monday and I am pleased to report that I saw my first black bear ever, rollicking down the mountain away from me. He was dark and beautiful and sooo chonky and full of fur. What an absolute thrill!

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Paul Wallace @paulmwall.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Walked along the Appalachian Trail on Monday and look I found a tiny forest chicken #birds

Ovenbird high-stepping across a bed of moss, facing left. The small bird has plain olive wings and back, a bright white breast with bold dark streaks, a neat pink bill and pink legs, and—you can only barely see them—two dark lateral crown stripes and a bright orange central crown stripe. The bird is lifting his right leg as he walks, chicken style, across the moss. The background is bright leafy spring green foliage.

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