Vic Brown @viccbrown.bsky.social · 07/10/2026@robcrank68.bsky.social's theme for today's #BirdOfTheDay is #Bluewater; birds surrounded by blue water. Australian White Pelicans and friends on a small island in a park lake. Bowen, Queensland (October 2023). 3330
Vic Brown @viccbrown.bsky.social · 06/10/2026@helenbennett.bsky.social's #BirdOfTheDay is #BirdSupermodel and the Alt is #UnsungBirds Yellowish Flycatcher. I was up before dawn to see Resplendent Quetzal Costa Rica (2025),as were quite a few others. Nobody else was remotely interested in this little cloud forest dwelling beauty though. 3210
Vic Brown @viccbrown.bsky.social · 05/10/2026@atlanticbirding.bsky.social has chosen #BlueSkies as today's theme for #BirdOfTheDay Red Kite Galahs White-bellied Sea Eagle Scarlet Macaws 2200
Vic Brown @viccbrown.bsky.social · 04/10/2026@robcrank68.bsky.social's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #WingsOpenNotFlying Pied Shag New Zealand - February 2026. 2441
Vic Brown @viccbrown.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Thanks, Neil. It's a bit of a distant shot. Here's a female, still gorgeous, but less flashy 020
Vic Brown @viccbrown.bsky.social · 03/10/2026@robcrank68.bsky.social has chosen #Black&Red for today's #BirdOfTheDay Scarlet-rumped Tanager Costa Rica - February 2025 3403
Vic Brown @viccbrown.bsky.social · 02/10/2026@helenbennett.bsky.social's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BestBeaks Celebrating any bird with a beak or bill that has striking colours, bold profiles, or an interesting shape. Well, Toucan play at that game! Fiery-billed Aracari & Keel-billed Toucan (Costa Rica - February 2025). 3232
Vic Brown @viccbrown.bsky.social · 01/10/2026@atlanticbirding.bsky.social's theme for today's #BirdOfTheDay is #Black&White A Jackdaw on my roof. 2241
Vic Brown @viccbrown.bsky.social · 30/09/2026@robcrank68.bsky.social has chosen #BestOfTheMonth for the #BirdOfTheDay theme. As I've already posted my best two September photos (Dunnock) in the last week, here's a Starling on my chimneypot. 3331
Vic Brown @viccbrown.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Male Holly Blue butterfly (29/9/26). 3rd brood individuals are becoming the norm in my S. Cambridgeshire garden with a few seen each autumn in recent years. Yet more evidence of the effects of our warming climate. #Butterflies 1245
Vic Brown @viccbrown.bsky.social · 29/09/2026@robcrank68.bsky.social has chosen #EFG as #BirdOfTheDay theme; birds beginning with any of those letters (1st name). E - Eider Duck G - Gannet F - Fulmer All photographed 22nd June 2025 on the Brough of Birsay, a small island off the NW coast of Mainland, Orkney. (4th Photo). 1342
Vic Brown @viccbrown.bsky.social · 28/09/2026@helenbennett.bsky.social ’s #BirdOfTheDay is #BokehBirds, birds captured with a soft, muted or blurry background. Bonus points for bokeh. Dunnock on my garden fence (September 2026). 2261
Vic Brown @viccbrown.bsky.social · 27/09/2026@atlanticbirding.bsky.social's theme for today's #BirdOfTheDay is #Seabirds and the Alt is #Airborne Australasian Gannet in flight. Muriwai, N. Island, NZ (Feb 26). 3170
Vic Brown @viccbrown.bsky.social · 26/09/2026@robcrank68.bsky.social has chosen #Pairs as today's #BirdOfTheDsy theme; photos with pairs of the same species. A nesting pair of Ospreys. Queensland - October 2023. 1154
Vic Brown @viccbrown.bsky.social · 25/09/2026@robcrank68.bsky.social’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Borbs & the Alt theme is #Brown. I've posted this Weka before, but not this photo. New Zealand (February 2026). 2221
Vic Brown @viccbrown.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Geranium Bronze (Cacyreus marshalli). Aubeterre-sur-Dronne, SW France (19/9/26). This South African butterfly arrived in Mallorca in the 1980s & is established in S. Europe. They occasionally turn up in the UK on imported plants, but it is thought our winters are too cold for them to establish. 150
Vic Brown @viccbrown.bsky.social · 24/09/2026@helenbennett.bsky.social's theme for #BirdOfTheDay is #TheDivers & the Alt theme is #BirdStare. A New Zealand Scaup for a twofer (South Island, NZ - Feb 26). 1261
Vic Brown @viccbrown.bsky.social · 23/09/2026European Mantis (Mantis religiosa). Spotted in a bowl of wax apples inside an antique/curio shop in Aubeterre-sur-Dronne, SW France, on Saturday (19/9/26). I got some funny looks from other browsers but I couldn't not photograph it 0111
Vic Brown @viccbrown.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Violet Carpenter Bee (Xylocopa violacea). I photographed this massive bee in the centre of Aubeterre-sur-Dronne, SW France, on Saturday (19/9/26). Whilst common in southern Europe, they are rare visitors to England, which, while they occasionally breed, are not thought to be established yet. 170
Vic Brown @viccbrown.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Thanks Atlantic. Tricky lighting, it's the best that I could manage. Lifer for me, though. 110
Vic Brown @viccbrown.bsky.social · 23/09/2026They're not common here in S. Cambridgeshire, but I usually see a few in my local woodland on Devil's Bit Scabious in August/September, and occasionally, one will turn up in my garden. Not this year, though. Far too dry, I imagine. 000
Vic Brown @viccbrown.bsky.social · 23/09/2026@atlanticbirding.bsky.social's theme for today's #BirdOfTheDay is #Raptors. Broad-winged Hawk. San Antonio National Park, Costa Rica (Feb 25). 1170
Vic Brown @viccbrown.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Cronking Ravens are quite a common sight and sound over my village, Gamlingay, in South Cambridgeshire. They've been around for over a decade. When I moved here in 1999, there were none, no Buzzards or Red Kites either. 020
Vic Brown @viccbrown.bsky.social · 22/09/2026@robcrank68.bsky.social's theme for today's # BirdOfTheDay is #Redheads Lineated Woodpecker. Costa Rica (February 2025). 2110
Vic Brown @viccbrown.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Thanks, Froure. Yes, they're quick, I was sitting in a hide by their bird feeders, watching the log, which was much more natural than the cages of seeds and peanuts. 110
Vic Brown @viccbrown.bsky.social · 18/09/2026@robcrank68.bsky.social has chosen ytoday's #BirdOfTheDay theme, #Paridae. Blue Tit at The Lost Gardens of Heligan, Cornwall (March 2023). 3632
Vic Brown @viccbrown.bsky.social · 17/09/2026@alan678.bsky.social's theme for today's #BirdOfTheDay is #ODG, any owl, duck, or goose. Pacific Black Duck (Brisbane 2023). 0160
