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Lori Batchelor🇨🇦
@lorichirp.bsky.social
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Hooked on bird photography (and some other subjects)! Canadian near Vancouver in British Columbia. I love re-posting pix by others on my timeline so please check my Media tab to view my photos/videos. Disabled with MS. Happily married!
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Lori Batchelor🇨🇦 @lorichirp.bsky.social · Mar 4
A grey day in the park yesterday was brightened when a passerby mentioned he had seen an owl a few hundred yards in the direction we were headed and we found it! #birds #photography #birdphotography #Raptors #owl 🦉

A Barred Owl (my first attempt at ALT Text)
A Barred Owl, a large, stocky owl with brown and white markings, round head, no ear tufts, and a medium-length tail, is perched on a branch in a forest.
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julia11.bsky.social
Close up of a young Red Tailed Hawk for today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme of #HeadShots
A head shot of a young Red Tailed Hawk against a green background.
November 27, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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trusttheroad-24.bsky.social
4 for BOTD

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is all about #HeadShots and the alternative birds are #Swans.

Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate 🫶🍂🍁🍂

#Birds #birding #photography #closeup #scape #PhotographersOfBluesky #PhotographersUnited #nature #outdoors #thelittlethings #photohour #EastCoastKin
November 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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johngot.bsky.social
#BirdOfTheDay theme is #HeadShots, and alternative is #Swans. So this one from a while back in #cheshire should match #birds
Swans head
November 27, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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frightopenclose.bsky.social
For Robs #BirdOfTheDay theme #HeadShots, any Birds 'Close Up Capture' or #Swans I will go for the latter and this male Mute Swan in a local park i pictured in June 2024. #birds #photography #EastCoastKin #ukbirding
A picture of a lone male Mute Swan facing right with its neck and head looking backwards and standing on a tarmac path next to a lake in a local park with various trees in the background behind the lake.
November 27, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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wiredrabbit.bsky.social
Poser Scrub Jay because he knows I am taking his photo.
#Birds #Headshots #Photography #Jays #Nature
Close up of a scrub jay's face. Seems a male, though not totally sure.
November 28, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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wiredrabbit.bsky.social
Profile of a Lilac Breasted Roller, beautiful but their sounds are kinda yuck. Basically a loud "graaak" and not really singers.
Here's a youtube link to hear their "song".
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6en...
#Birds #Headshots #Rollers #Africa #Nature
Lilac Breasted Roller profile, colorful African bird with an awful sound.
November 28, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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tenebrisvacuum.bsky.social
My contribution to the #BirdOfTheDay theme of #Headshots:

A Tree Sparrow, a Bluejay, a Dark-eyed Junco, and a Tufted Titmouse.

#Birds🪶 #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Ontario🇨🇦
A close-up portrait of a Tree Sparrow. A close-up portrait of a Bluejay with its mouth open and crest extended. A close-up portrait of a fuzzy lookin Dark-eyed Junco A close-up portrait of a Tufted Titmouse.
November 27, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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klausbusse.de
#BirdOfTheDay 🪶

Same day, these two were a pair. I was sitting at the river Isar, and they approached me until #HeadShots were my best option.

Mergansers breed in Munich within the city, and I doubt that there are many places where you could come nearly as close.
Common Merganser (Mergus merganser) male, Isar, Germany Common Merganser (Mergus merganser) female, Isar, Germany
November 27, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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jancasavant.bsky.social
Today's close up capture is a male #CommonYellowthroat that was hopping through the brush along a trail in Marshfield, Massachusetts (May 2025) 💛

#birds #warblers #BirdOfTheDay #HeadShots #EastCoastKin #ColorADay #YellowThu #BirdPhotography #NikonP950 #Massachusetts @robcrank68.bsky.social
A cute male Common Yellowthroat with a bright yellow throat and chest, olive-colored back, and a black mask across the eyes with a ring of white feathers. This bird was hopping through the brown brush next to a trail at Daniel Webster W.S. in Marshfield, Massachusetts.
November 27, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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harlander-1.bsky.social
Backyard English Sparrow along the North Branch of the Chicago River

#BirdOfTheDay #Headshots
#nature #photography #birds
November 27, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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justyncayse.bsky.social
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #HeadShots, any Birds 'Close Up Capture'.
Jong waterhoentje.
Kop van een jong waterhoentje.
November 27, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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kellylenihan.bsky.social
#BirdOfTheDay theme is #HeadShots
Red-winged blackbird American goldfinch White-crowned sparrow Red-shafted northern flicker
November 27, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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profwieden.bsky.social
Today's #BirdOfTheDay is #HeadShots. Here is a #MarabouStork. Photo taken in #Botswana in May of 2025. #BirdPhotography #birds #photography #Africa #travel #safari
November 27, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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caseysisterson.bsky.social
A sharp-tailed grouse in #Manitoba, Canada is eager to participate in #BirdOfTheDay's #HeadShots topic. Love these birds, especially around mating time and their awesome mating dances.
November 27, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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cajungrannystew.bsky.social
some #headshots of #birds from the national zoo for today's #birdoftheday
November 27, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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fizbin.bsky.social
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme from @robcrank68.bsky.social is all about #HeadShots (any bird's 'Close Up Capture')

I'm going with this Muscovy Duck.

#birds
The head of a Muscovy Duck, showing several of the bulbous bright red growths that species is prone to. Bubali Bird Sanctuary, Noord, Aruba ƒ/7.1; 1/800 s; 210 mm; ISO 200
November 27, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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kellylenihan.bsky.social
#BirdOfTheDay theme is #HeadShots
Crossbill Juvenile male Anna's hummingbird California quail American robin
November 27, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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noplanetbphoto.bsky.social
Happy Thanksgiving! #wildturkey #BirdoftheDay #Headshots

#EastCoastKin #🪶 #birds #birdwatching #nature
#wildlife #bird #birding #wildlifephotography #birdsofbluesky
#naturephotography #birdphotography #nikon #naturelovers #birdwatchers
#birdlovers #birdlife #photography #thanksgiving
November 27, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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socal-miked.bsky.social
Our #BirdOfTheDay theme is #HeadShots

here's an assortment of the same from the archives #EastCoastKin

#birds #birding #birdnerd #birdwatching #egret #hawk #mallard #heron #PhotographersOfBlueSky
closeup of a snowy egret - white bird with yellow eyes and black beak closeup of a red-tailed hawk - brown bird with light chest and black beak closeup of a mallard - brown bird with iridescent head closeup of a great blue heron - gray bird with white accents and black/yellow beak
November 27, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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beckkaplan.bsky.social
Chimney
#birdoftheday #headshots #goose #birds #autumn #ukwildlife #wildlifephotography
A headshot of a greylag goose with brown plumage and an orange bill and eye ring. Warm breath can be seen coming from the bill.
November 27, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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elyclive.bsky.social
#BirdOfTheDay #HeadShots
Jackdaw
Short-eared Owl
Collared Dove
Sparrowhawk
November 27, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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flightpattern.bsky.social
Sandhill Crane posing for #HeadShots and the #BirdoftheDay. October 2025, Delta BC.

#birds #nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography
A Sandhill Crane’s long neck, red mask and amber eye are captured in profile against the bokah of green grass behind it.
November 27, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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squaremean.bsky.social
For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme #Headshots, a #crow posing for my camera. I do think I got the best side of this cutie.
Uncropped.

#photography #crow #bird #portrait #Krähencontent #corvid
Portrait - head and shoulders - of a crow. The head is turned so that the right eye and the beak are in focus and in the center of the picture. The background is blurry with colors between beige and light green.
November 27, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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boesephotography.bsky.social
I don’t have many good #headshots So for #BirdOfTheDay I will be doing #Swans
#MuteSwan #TrumpeterSwan
#UrbanNature #HighPark
#Toronto
November 27, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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ronm123photo.bsky.social
I’ll go with this ‘giant bird’ 😉 for today's #BirdOfTheDay #HeadShots theme of any Birds 'Close Up Capture'. Alomost a bit disconcerting to see a #kingfisher this close up I think?
Might post separately for the Alternative theme of #Swans.
#birds #photography #EastCoastKin #ukbirding #ukbirds
A close up of a kingfisher looking head on against a blurred green background.
November 27, 2025 at 11:10 AM