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Carol Beasley
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Retired from health care quality organization. Conservation volunteer, native plant enthusiast, birdwatcher, childless cat lady (and Democrat, of course). All bird photos my own unless otherwise indicated.
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Carol Beasley @beasleycl.bsky.social · Dec 23
In Trinidad last March. Ruby-topaz hummingbird.
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A fiery-throated hummingbird #Portrait and a pair of fiery-billed aricaris making baby aricaris #BirdsBeingBirds in Costa Rica 2025. Wishing you love in its many forms today! ❤️ #BirdOfTheDay #Birds 🪶
Brightly colored hummingbird perched on a branch. Two colorful aricaris (colorful, large-billed birds) in a romantic moment.
February 14, 2026 at 1:10 PM
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A swallow-tail gull has caught a meal and a frigate bird is threatening to steal it. A double-dive? Galapagos March 2023. #DivingForFood #BirdOfTheDay #Birds 🪶
A large black bird (frigate bird) flying above a black and white full (swallow-tail gull) attempting to steal its food. Frigate birds cannot dive into the water and often steal food from other birds.
February 13, 2026 at 1:52 PM
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A super-bloom in Joshua Tree 2019 was accompanied by a super-hatch of tasty caterpillars allowing this black-throated sparrow to stock up! #Birds&Bugs #BirdOfTheDay #Birds 🪶
Black-throated sparrow with a beak full of caterpillars.
February 12, 2026 at 1:34 PM
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A twofer today—American black duck with jaunty blue wing patch. #waterbirds #blue #BirdOfTheDay #Birds #BostonBirds 🪶
Dark brown duck with yellowish bill and bright blue patch on wing.
February 11, 2026 at 3:07 PM
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Not so odd when you think about it. Both belted kingfisher and double-crested cormorant on the hunt for tasty fishes. Cape Cod 10/2024
#OddCouples #BirdOfTheDay #Birds 🪶
A belted kingfisher in a post next to a cormorant on a nearby post looking in the same direction.
February 10, 2026 at 7:29 PM
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An American goldfinch giving me the #StareDown along with #borb vibes.
#BirdOfTheDay #Birds 🪶
Yellow bird with black wings and cap looking directly into camera.
February 9, 2026 at 4:13 PM
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A turkey vulture—one of the world’s most useful, but least beloved birds, #posted and #red headed. Without them we would all be worse off. #BirdOfTheDay #Birds 🪶
A turkey vulture with red head and black feathers sitting on a post.
February 8, 2026 at 3:35 PM
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And for the alt theme, a camera-shy Baltimore oriole 6/2025

#blurred #BirdOfTheDay #Birds 🪶
A Baltimore oriole in flight.
February 7, 2026 at 6:11 PM
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A copper-rumped hummingbird settled on her tiny nest. Trinidad and Tobago 3/2024. #Serenity #BirdOfTheDay #Birds 🪶
Colorful hummingbird sitting on nest in small palm tree.
February 7, 2026 at 6:03 PM
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A red-tailed hawk silhouetted against the sky. Boston MA area, Spring 2025.
#Backlitbeauty #BirdOfTheDay #Birds 🪶
Red-tailed hawk in flight, looking up at underside of bird. Lighted from behind with translucent wings and tail.
February 6, 2026 at 5:33 PM
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For #Black&White #BirdOfTheDay here’s a white-headed marsh tyrant. Trinidad & Tobago March 2023. #Birds 🪶
Small bird with white head and black body perched on a branch with water behind.
February 5, 2026 at 9:15 PM
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A recent sighting from Yellowstone National Park: a trumpeter swan with wings outstretched and a little hooded merganser just trying to get out of the way!
#openwings, #BirdOfTheDay, #Birds 🪶
Photo of trumpeter swan with outstretched wings, and a hooded merganser flying out of striking distance.
February 2, 2026 at 6:36 PM
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Many winter ducks in Yellowstone National Park. Mixed flock including Barrow’s Goldeneye (quite plentiful here) and the not-so-Common Goldeneye male and female. Also a male Hooded Merganser getting out of the strike zone of a Trumpeter Swan.
#BirdOfTheDay #Ducks #Birds 🪶
Male Barrow’s Goldeneye duck (crescent shaped cheek spot). Female and male Common Goldeneye. Male has rounded cheek spot. Male Hooded Merganser flying away from Trumpeter Swan extending its wings.
January 31, 2026 at 5:39 PM
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Let’s hear it for the “LBB’s.” A white-throated sparrow with a dash of yellow by the eyes. #BrownIsBeautiful #Yellow #BirdOfTheDay #Birds #BostonBirds 🪶
Profile view of white-throated sparrow.
January 27, 2026 at 8:32 AM
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Scarlet ibis (Trinidad 2024) is today’s #BirdOfTheDay #Paddling #Birds 🪶
Scarlet ibis standing in the water.
January 26, 2026 at 9:58 AM
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Exhibiting #poise with their #white accents, this hooded merganser couple feels fully qualified to be a #BirdOfTheDay.
#birds 🪶
#BostonBirds
Male and female hooded merganser ducks standing on a submerged branch in a river.
January 25, 2026 at 11:12 AM
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Today’s offering of #Pigeons&Doves could also have qualified for yesterday’s #BirdInABush. Wood pigeon, Scotland 2023
#BirdOfTheDay #Birds 🪶
Wood pigeon with its head sticking out of a hedge.
January 24, 2026 at 4:14 PM
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For #BirdOfTheDay #BirdInABush I fell in love with this common tody flycatcher. So small but with a big attitude. Costa Rica 3/2025 #birds 🪶
Common tody flycatcher. Yellow underbody; otherwise black.
January 24, 2026 at 2:53 AM
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On a lake in the Adirondacks in 2019 I captured a series of images of an adult common loon offering a small fish to one of its chicks. I especially like the one with the chick’s beak open…“Mine! Mine!” #FeedingTime #BirdOfTheDay #Birds
January 20, 2026 at 9:21 PM
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Admittedly not my favorite bird species but in #WinterLight this one had some compositional charm.
#Birds #BirdOfTheDay #BostonBirds. 🪶
Close-up profile view of Canada goose showing S-curve of neck.
January 19, 2026 at 1:50 PM
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A pair of northern jacanas and a pair of screech owls Costa Rica 3/2025 🪶
#birds #BirdOfTheDay #TwoOfAKind
Two jacanas standing on large floating leaves in water. Two screech owls side by side on a branch.
January 19, 2026 at 1:02 AM
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#birdoftheday #short #birds 🪶
Can you believe this little fella with the stubby beak (and tail) is a woodpecker? One of the smallest—Olivaceous piculet. Costa Rica, March 2025.
Can you believe this little fella with the stubby beak is a woodpecker? One of the smallest—Olivaceous piculet. Costa Rica, March 2025.
January 16, 2026 at 5:41 PM
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#TwoSpecies, #TwosDay, #Birds 🪶
A Great Kiskadee dive bombs a Yellow-Headed Caracara. Costa Rica 3/2025
A Great Kiskadee dive bombs a Yellow-Headed Caracara. Costa Rica 3/2025
January 14, 2026 at 1:50 AM
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In honor of #speckles&spots day, red tailed hawk enjoying the sunbeams on a cold morning. Cambridge MA. #birds 🪶
View of a red tailed hawk sitting on a tree branch showing spotted breast feathers.
January 5, 2026 at 6:51 PM
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Preening Red-tailed Hawk, Cambridge MA
Preening Red-tailed Hawk, Cambridge MA.
December 22, 2025 at 5:43 PM