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sianeez.bsky.social @sianeez.bsky.social · 2h

Watercolour and fineliner pen for Day 1 of #birdtober2026 There’s some variation in the colouring maybe due to subspecies variations. #birdtober #SciArt #birds #birdart #watercolour #painting #drawing #art #nature

A small painting in my sketchbook of a lilac-breasted roller. The top right is a watercolour painting of the bird’s head while the bottom left is the whole bird. Both have lilac upper breasts and turquoise lower chest and feathers stand up on the crown. The lower belly is turquoise and back had brown feathers and turquoise tail.

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actio @actio.bsky.social · 23h

September #BirdWhisperer 🪶 #printmaking #kleineKunstklasse

Monotype in oil colors and offset ink depicting a Black Woodpecker

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Confusion 🧠 @neocortex.bsky.social · 20h

The bird of September is the Black woodpecker / Schwarzspecht (Dryocopus martius) for @birdwhisperers.bsky.social #ballpointpendrawing #penandink #sketchbook #birds 🪶 #BirdWhisperer #sciart #art #animalart #birdart #kleineKunstklasse

Multicolor ballpoint pen sketch of a black woodpecker at a tree hollow.

Drawing in my sketchbook with ballpoint pens on the left.

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Alan Martin @alanmartin-art.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Some #whittling and a bit of #poetry inspired by the Black Woodpecker for September's #BirdWhisperer challenge. Nature's own whittler is pecked from wood and revealed; irony ingrained. #haiku #BirdArt #Birds #nature #art #BskyArt #BskyPoetry

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

Watercolour painting of a Black Woodpecker for the @birdwhisperers.bsky.social September art challenge. Find dark feathers tricky to paint. #BirdWhisperer #birds #painting #art #artchallenge #sketch #drawing #nature

An A5 watercolour painting of a black woodpecker on a vertical tree trunk with a dark hole in the tree behind the woodpecker. The woodpecker has a blue sheen to the feathers. It has pale yellow eyes with almost a triangle shaped black pupil. It has dark wing feathers and a bright red crest. Its yellow beak is long and pointed at the end. The feet are a light colour with a hint of grey-purple shade. The background to the left of the tree trunk is pale blue with out of focus brown branches. The tree trunk is yellowish on the left side and a light pinkish brown on the right with dark holes in the bark and horizontal lines.

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sianeez.bsky.social @sianeez.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Grey heron captured a couple of days ago. It disappeared as soon as I took this shot. #BirdOfTheDay #EFG #birds #photography #canonr100 #nature #coastalbirds

A photo of a grey heron taken on the coast partly partly submerged with its legs completely under the water. It has a long light coloured neck with black crown and an orange/yellow long beak. Its tail and wings are grey while belly is white. In the background is sea water and three greylag geese on the other side of the bay.

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Watercolours By Rachel @elidanza.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Anyone know the collective noun for puffins? Happy Tuesday x #watercolour #seabirds #puffins #flight #wildlife

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sianeez.bsky.social @sianeez.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

These two blessed greylag geese swooped past me today for the #BirdOfTheDay theme is which is #Airborne #photography #canonr100 #nature #geese #birds

A photo of two greylag geese flying past on a sheltered bay where they had been feeding. They have bright orange beaks and brown and white feathers. Background is late afternoon sunshine lighting up the rugged coastline.

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Mark Simmonds @markbirdingpinoso.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My #birdoftheday #pairs is this pair of Great Crested Grebes displaying at El Hondo earlier this year. Such elegant birds. #birds #birdphotography

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Vera Kober Art @vera-kober-art.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My painting of a flower

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Bobbitworm (AllanM) @opengtuning.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Eurasian Goldfinch in apple blossom #art #bird #birds #drawing #nature #wildlife

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Etherington Brothers @etheringtonbros.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Our feature artist/tutorial for today is this SIMPLY WONDERFUL page of notes by the talented @BearlyFeline! Beautiful explanations, wonderful illustrations and real-world examples, a perfect tutorial! #wolves #dogs #wolf #characterdesign #artips #drawing #tutorial

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What Bird?🦜 @whatbirds.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

What bird is this? 🤔 (See alt text for clue) 🌍 #whatbird | #birdsoftheworld | #birds 🦉

A photo of a small, plump songbird (9–10 cm / 3.5–4 in long) perched on a thin, thorny twig. It has an olive-green back, a pale grey belly, and a distinctive head pattern featuring a bright yellow and orange crown stripe bounded by bold black stripes, alongside a stark white stripe right over its eye.

Clue: Look closely at that fiery crown stripe and bold white eyebrow—this tiny royalty of the treetops is Europe's second-smallest bird!

Fun Fact: Despite weighing only about 5 to 7 grams (roughly the same as a single 20p coin or nickel!), this energetic little bird must eat almost constantly to survive, consuming high-protein spiders and tiny insects equal to its own body weight every day.

Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)

Text source: Gemini (Edited)

📷: Photo by Frank Vassen via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

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sianeez.bsky.social @sianeez.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Tonight’s bic pen quick sketch before bed 😴 I saw a whole flock of them last year in a tree which prompted me to want to buy a camera. Beautiful birds. #art #birds #scribbleart #nature #drawing #sketch #longtailedtit

A quick sketch of a long tailed tit perched on a branch. It is a small bird with a short, dark beak with dark feathers around the eyes and on the nape as well as the wings. It has a long dark tail. On the belly are pink and orange/ochre feathers. I used black, pink and orange bic pens for the bird and green, black, purple and pink pens for the branch.

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Helen Bennett 🌿 @helenbennett.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Good morning Let’s celebrate #TheDivers for #BirdOfTheDay today 🪶 Share your fab photos of any diving bird... I’ll start with this adorable Little Grebe🤎 📷 Alt theme: #BirdStare Any bird captured staring right back at you! Happy Thursday everyone! 😊🕊️👋 #Birds #UKWildlife #Photography #ECK

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Graham Jones @oldmanrambling.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Autumn is on hold here and Summer has still got more than a toehold, so I have gone back to last year for #PalacesAndGardens theme of #MellowYellow and a visit to the stunningly colourful Sheffield Park Gardens @nationaltrust.org.uk in early November. #EastCoastKin #ECK #Photography

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Paul’s Pics @paulspics.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

An immature Bald Eagle in flight #BirdOfTheDay #Raptors #Birds

Immature Bald Eagle soaring across a clear blue sky.

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Watercolours By Rachel @elidanza.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The trees are beginning to take on their Autumn 🍂 Hue Happy Thursday x #watercolour #wildlife #hare #trees #autumn

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Hijab Series: 'What if' (2014) by Yemeni photographer Boushra Almutawakel #womensart

A series of six monochrome photographs showing a man and a woman, in stages the man is eventually shown wearing the burka that the woman wears in the first image, while the woman eventually is uncovered to wear clothes with no headdress

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The Garden Jungle @thegardenjungle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Today is the turn of #TheDivers to have the limelight for #BirdOfTheDay so I have a selection for you (species in the alt tags). #birds #thegardenjungle #wildlifephotography #birdwatching #shropshire #UKwildlife #birdphotography #canon #photography

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What Bird?🦜 @whatbirds.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

What bird is this? 🤔 (See alt text for clue) 🌎 #whatbird | #birdsoftheworld | #birds 🦉

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Bird Whisperer Project @birdwhisperers.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Calling all bird-loving artists! This month's bird is the Black Woodpecker! 🖤 Draw! Paint! Sculpt! We hope you'll join us. Posting day is Sept 30th. Rules and Full Size Ref. Photo here: birdwhispererproject.com/participate/ #birds #BirdWhisperer #art

Black Woodpeckers are a crow sized bird with all black feathers except for splash of red on their heads. Our bird is female, noted by the red only appearing on the hindcrown. She is perched on the opening of a hole in a large tree

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Atlantic Birding @atlanticbirding.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

🪶 Good Morning Everybody, Happy Wednesday Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is: #Raptors; any bird of prey Alt. is #Corvids; any member of the crow family. - A Buzzard on a dead tree in the rain - A curious Eurasian Jay in close up #birds #ECK #birdphotography #naturephotography #birdsofbluesky

A Common Buzzard perched on a dead tree in the pouring rain. The bird is right of centre of the shot, with its back turned to the camera but its head turned around to stare at it.
The bird has a brown head, paler around the bill, which is black and hooked. It has a yellow cere above the beak. Its back is a lightly mottled brown, darker as it gets to the tail.
The tree is fully dead with patches of bark missing along the trunk and branches. The trunk travels up along the right hand side of the frame and a horizontal branch, with multiple side branches, holds the buzzard. Another, smaller branch is jutting out above it.
The rain is heavy and large drops can be seen throughout the shot. It gives the shot a hazy appearance. The background is an out of focus wall of trees leaves.

A Eurasian Jay in close up perched at the top of a small bush. The bird is centre of the shot, facing left so that it’s left side is visible.
It has its head raised in an alert pose and is glancing at the camera slightly. It has a thick black bill, white throat and crown, which is streaked with black and a prominent black steak from its beak to its shoulder. Its plumage is pinkish, with bright blue and white barring on the wing coverts, turning to black and white behind it.
Some barely visible, out of focus vegetation in the foreground gives a hazy effect to the birds feet and tail. It is perched on a bare branch, just visible at the bottom of the shot, which has a spur travelling upwards behind the bird to the right. A bush with small, oval green leaves is in the bottom left and the background is a white sky with some out of focus branches visible throughout.

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The Garden Jungle @thegardenjungle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This Red Kite has decided that the tree out the back of The Garden Jungle is its preferred perch now, lovely to see it there many times during the day, I’ll add this to the #BirdOfTheDay #Raptors images #birds #thegardenjungle #wildlifephotography #birdwatching #shropshire #UKwildlife

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Rachel Hollis @rachelhollisart.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Purple-crowned Lorikeet print, printed in portrait for a customer instead of landscape 🌸 #birdart #parrot #wildlifeart

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Atlantic Birding @atlanticbirding.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

🪶 Alan has chosen #LightAndShadow as today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme; any bird capture with both Alternative is #FallBirds, and Autumn/Fall bird captures A Stonechat on bramble in the winter sunset. #birdphotography #ECK #birds #photography #birdsofbluesky #goldnehour

A Stonechat perched on old bramble stems in the winter sunset. The bird is right of centre of frame, facing the camera with its head turned to the left so the left side of its face is visible.
The bird has a thin beak, black head, off colour a little in the off season, a white half collar on the sides of the neck and an orange-red breast. The bottom of its black tail can be seen behind it.
The sunset is shining in from the right and lighting up the back of the birds head, left side of its chest and dark legs. The right side is in light shadow.
The bird is perched on an arch of old bramble stem, which is in the bottom right of the frame along with two other stems. They are illuminated with the golden light of sunset. Another bramble stem, out of focus, travel from the left of the shot almost all the way along the bottom.
The background is an out of focus white sky with a line of out of focus green at the bottom

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EveryHeron 𓅣 @everyheron.bsky.social · 20/10/2024

In olden days people saw Heron as some of the saddest, wretched, depressed creatures. Perhaps they just saw themselves reflected? Today people who stop to watch describe us as meditating, thoughtful, wise, and seeing the world better than most. Again, reflections. 💙 (1804)

HERON.

COMMON HERON, HERONSEWGH, OR HERONSHAW.

(Ardea Major, Lin. - Le Heron hupé, Buff.)

ALTHOUGH the Heron is of a long, lank, auk- ward ſhape, yet its plumage gives it on the whole an agreeable appearance; but when ſtripped of its

The Heron is defcribed by Buffon as exhibiting the picture of wretchedneſs, anxiety, and indigence, condemned to ſtruggle perpetually with mifery and want, and fickened by the reſtleſs cravings of a famiſhed appetite, &c. However faithful this in- genious naturaliſt may have been in pourtraying the appearance of the Heron, yet others are not in- clined to adopt his fentiments in defcribing its habits and manners, or to agree with him in opinion that it is one of the moſt wretched of animated beings.

It is probable that it fuffers no more than other birds, many fpecies of which employ equal atten- tion in looking for their prey, and it is not un- likely that the Heron derives pleaſure from it in- ſtead of pain. This bird, however, is of a melan- choly deportment, a filent and patient creature; and will, in the moſt ſevere weather, ſtand motionleſs a long time in the water, fixed to a ſpot, in appear- ance like the ſtump or root of a tree, waiting for its prey, which conſiſts of frogs, water-newts, eels, and other kinds of fish; and it is alſo ſaid that it will devour field-mice.

Cover of book

HISTORY OF BRITISH BIRDS.

THE FIGURES ENGRAVED ON WOOD BY T. BEWICK.

VOL. II.

CONTAINING THE

HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF WATER BIRDS.

NEWCASTLE:

PRINTED BY EDWARD WALKER, FOR T. BEWICK: SOLD BY HIM, AND LONGMAN AND REES, LONDON,

[Price 15s. in Boards.]

1804.

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What Bird?🦜 @whatbirds.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

What bird is this? 🤔 (See alt text for clue) 🌍 #whatbird | #birdsoftheworld | #birds 🦉

A photo of a stocky, medium-sized bird (28–30 cm / 11–12 in long), perched sideways on a curved tree branch. It has a creamy, pale tan head and chest, a dark brown back, and vibrant royal blue and teal feathers on its lower body and wings, with a strong, heavy black beak.

Clue: With a crown of cream and wings of brilliant cobalt, this West African acrobat is named after its signature aerial acrobatic displays!

Fun Fact: To impress a potential mate, both sexes perform high-speed aerial somersaults and roll side-to-side through the sky while calling out raucously!

Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)

Text source: Gemini (Edited)

📷: Photo by Tim Vickers via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain CC0)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User%3ATimVickers?wprov=sfla1

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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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sianeez.bsky.social @sianeez.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Dear folks spare a thought for the humble, homeless pigeon in your town and city centres. I saw a whole flock huddled on the ground. I looked up and saw spikes everywhere where they would naturally perch. No protection, no love - I felt 💔😔 #birds #art #scribble #sketch #drawing #pigeon #birdart

A quick bic pen drawing of a pigeon that perched on my leg in the park without any encouragement. I only think they are telepathic as I had fed some the previous week. They definitely knew me! I use various colours including light blue, pink and purple for the chest, green for the neck and black with white stripes for the wings. Feet are dark pink/red with dark claws. My knee is black as I was wearing black leggings.

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JBGarrity Photography @joegarrity.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This hawkbill found a delicious sponge, which is not on the menu for a carnivorous, double-lined coral bream. I guess consuming sand isn't a problem, either. 😆 #marinelife #wildlifephotography #wildlife #naturephotography #nature #scuba #seaturtle #turtle #ocean #eastcoastkin #photography

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

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Elegant . Swans on the water move so eleganty. This one was spotted today with its mate. #photography #birds #canonr100 #swan

A photo of a white mute swan on the river. Beak is orange with black feathers at the top of the beak extending to the eyes. Necks are long and slender. Tried to capture the elegance today of this swan

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Mike Saunders 🇺🇦 @hardwaterhacker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Elegant - any elegant looking bird. The alt is #Scruffy - any bird looking a bit worse for wear. I'm going with this elegant Western Grebe. #birds #nature #wildlife

A horizontal photo of a Western Grebe on calm water in soft morning light. The grebe is on the left, looking to the right, body slightly angled towards the camera. The bird has a bright white breast, neck, throat, and chin. The top of the head is black. The black extends down the back of the neck. The head feathers stand up, giving the bird a square buzz cut look. The back feathers are gray and wet from a recent dive.

The grebe has piercing red eyes. Only the right eye is visible. It has a long, pointed beak. The beak is pale orange. The top of the beak is dark, nearly black.

The scene is filled with soft morning light. Shades of pale pink and gold fill the scene. The water is still other than small ripples from the bird. The water appears pale blue.

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@Pianoartfaithb @artfaithb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

the song of little tree in autumn 💛 Paint pen and ink with leaf that wanted to be part of the drawing Hand drawn ✍️ #Blueskyartshow

Drawing of an autumnal tree set against a rainbow sky and above grasslands

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sianeez.bsky.social @sianeez.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Some small lino prints from drawing directly on the soft cut lino tonight. I tried printing the back of the block to give an orange background but the white lines disappeared! I don’t like the white background either! #beginner #birds #kingfisher #birdart #blockprinting #printing #reliefprinting

Top left is a carved soft lino block of a kingfisher standing on a wooden post. The background has been carved away with only two birds although they look more like bats! Top left I printed an orange background first but the white lines didn’t show when I printed the front bit over it. Bottom right is my first print where I tried to use multiple colours at the same time. Bottom left I carved the background and just used black Ranger ink. There is a lot of chatter in the background.

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East London Kingfishers @londonkingfishers.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Mirror image By this point these competing kingfishers were less a metre apart. #LondonBirds #nature #wildlife #birds #kingfisher

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Atlantic Birding @atlanticbirding.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

🪶 Alan has chosen #ODG as today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme; any Owl, Duck or Goose No Alternative today A flock of four Tufted Ducks backlit by the golden sunset #birdphotography #ECK #birds #photography #birdsofbluesky

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