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#BirdoftheDay #headshots
This photo of a Gambel's quail makes me laugh.
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A male mostly gray quail looks particularly rotund from head-on perspective. He appears to be looking at the viewer with his head cocked to the side. Beneath a black bill is a triangular black patch. Between two black eyes is a vertically gray and black striped forehead. There is a chestnut cap and the black plume stands straight up from the crown.
November 27, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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‘Standing in the Sky’
Happy Thanksgiving to those celebrating today!! I am thankful for this wonderful BlueSky community from all over the world 🌎🙏 #Birds #Gratitude #BeKind #Nature #Photography
A Great Blue Heron stands at an angle facing us. The smooth water’s surface is reflecting the blue skies above and filling the frame—making it look like “standing in the sky”.
November 27, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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The #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #OnTheEdge , any bird at the edge of a body of water.
Here, a group of sanderlings run along the shore in #LongBeachCA last Saturday.
#Birds #Photography #Nature
A group of five medium size shore birds run from right to left a frame. They are bright white on the under sides with mottled, black and white on their heads, back and feathers. They have black beaks and black eyes. They are on the tan sand just as the latest ocean wave recedes into the sea.
November 26, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Happy Tuesday! Reflection of a ring-billed gull on the wet sand with some “artistic” edits. 😉 #Birds #Photography #Nature #Beach #Sunset
A thin sheen of ocean water over uneven sand creates an interesting canvas. In the middle is the reflection of a white gull’s underside which appears brown in the fading light of the sunset.
November 25, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Monday morning feels…. #Birds #MondayBlues #Photography #Nature #Gulls
A white gull with wings outstretched flies across a gray sky. The wing undersides are gray with white edges. Its yellow beak is open wide as it calls into the air.
November 24, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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I was trying to get a #BirdoftheDay post for Mr. & Mrs. today at the lagoon. These redheads just could NOT get the light right. Hope you had a restful weekend... I see Monday morning right around the corner. 😑 🪶
A duck couple features a male on the left with a rusty colored head, black chest and gray body & the female on the right with a brown and tan body and a slight white eye ring visible. They sit on the still blue waters of the lagoon.
November 24, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Enjoy #SkySunday!! Yesterday afternoon turned out to be a bee-U-tee-full few hours—weather wise. #NoEdits #Sunset #Nature #MobilePhotography
Across Pacific Coast Highway, one see the ocean and Catalina Island in the far distance. Palm trees are scattered across the mid ground and the sky has yellows, oranges and blues around the otherwise mostly cloudy sky.
November 23, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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For #BirdOfTheDay #birdonawire I’m posting this crow from yesterday. S/he is common, yet beautiful.
#Birds #Photography #Nature
Against a gray sky, this black crow stands on a wire looking back over its right shoulder. We see the bird from below and slightly off to the side giving a good profile.
November 22, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Happy Friday, BlueSky! Have a good weekend. #FeatheredFriday #Birds #Photography #Nature #Blue
Standing on a red brick wall, a bluebird faces the camera at a slight angle. He has a blue head with a rusty orange chest and a white abdomen. The blue edge of the right wing is seen. A glossy black beak reflects the sun, and a brown iris is visible in the right eye.
November 21, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Sometimes they like to look down on us…. Great blue heron perched on a leafless, dead tree #Birds #Photography #Nature
A large gray heron in grabbing onto a thick bare branch about 30 feet up in the air. Other bare branches and a clear blue sky fill the rest of the frame. S/he is looking off right of frame.
November 19, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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I saw one of my favorite birds over the weekend—the hooded merganser! (I only had about 45 seconds before he flew away. 🫤) Have a great day! #Birds #Nature #Photography #PrescottPreserve
A male merganser swims by on the green surface of a local pond. He is in profile facing left. He has rich brown flanks and a black back, neck and head. Even his bill is black. A round yellow eye stares at the viewer. Two white stripes on the lower neck and a white triangle behind the eye on a raised crest round out his beautiful appearance.
November 18, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Western bluebird from the weekend. #BlueMonday #Birds #Nature #Photography
Perched on an angled, heavy branch sits a male bluebird in profile. Blue-black head and wings and a rufous chest contrast with the surrounding greenery. His head is turned slightly to look at the viewer with his right eye.
November 17, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Brown pelican fishing
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A pelican is landing face-first through the surface of the water to scoop up fish. The wings are cocked at the sides and above the body. The feet are also tucked presumably making the dive faster and more effective. The rest of the frame is filled with the rippled blue waters of the lagoon.
November 16, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Have a good #SkySunday!! #MobilePhotography #Nature #Stunday #Bright #BlueSkyArtShow (11-15-25, Palm Springs, CA)
Just after a rain, low clouds cling to the mountainside and a bright sun peaks just over the crest on the left. Palm trees dot the midground and some pink and purple flowering bushes frame the bottom.
November 16, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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A small hummingbird sits on a bare branch. I love that the sparse leaves seen on the rest of the bush are three different colors. #Birds #Nature #Photography
A small hummingbird is perched on a thin bush branch. S/he faces the camera and has mostly brown coloring. White chest and throat and some emerald green on the crown and back finish off the coloring. The bush has a few light green leaves, a few purple leaves and a few maroon colored leaves. Background is green and white bokeh.
November 15, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Happy Friday!! #BirdoftheDay #Posts This juvenile black-crowned night heron has been perching here at dusk for the last few days. #Nature #Photography
A brown heron is standing on a wooden post with his/her back to the camera. A vertical wood slat fence is falling down to the left of the post. The background is the lagoon waters. The bird has some sparse white speckling and a red eye. The head is turned in profile to keep an eye on us.
November 14, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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I actually went out to get a #BirdoftheDay photo when it was #wadingbirds day. I never got a chance to upload it. So, here it is for #FeatheredFridays. 'Four snowy egrets standing in the shallows'. Shortly after this photo, they started chasing a cormorant who was fishing nearby. Always fun.
Four white egrets with black beaks and yellow lores stand in the shallow water along a sandy beach. They are all looking the same direction out over the water to the left.
November 14, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Good morning, Jayne! Firstly, that is an adorable photo! Second, I am all about the trumpeter swans this week. I saw a poster on the NYC subway last week that I loved. Basically, they were close to extinction in the 1930s until conservation efforts improved their numbers greatly.
Photo of the inside of a subway car with a framed poster of a graphics style image of a white swan in flight over water reflecting red sunlight.
November 14, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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#WordlessWednesday
#WindowsWednesday
Looking out an airplane window over puffy white clouds. Blue skies above in the distance.
November 12, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Couldn’t resist another view of the grey catbird and the ovenbird from the weekend as today’s theme is #BirdsOnTheGround for #BirdOfTheDay. It also qualifies for #Twosday! 😉
Among the orange and brown fallen leaves, stand two birds in profile. The top of the frame has a gray catbird— all gray with a black cap. The bottom of the frame has a small, mostly olive yellow bird with a light streaky chest. There is an orange stripe bordered in black on the crown. They both are facing right.
November 11, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Another week begins. #CityScape #NYC
Elevated view of an intersection on a cloudy, rainy day in NYC. The streets below come together in an X shape, and headlights and taillights dot the streets below. Various tall buildings are forming the borders of the frame.
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Anyone else getting old time Western movies ‘shoot out/stand off’ vibes? #Birds #Nature #Photography
Standing on the shore with back to the water is a snowy egret. The legs are spread wide and feathers are floofed out to the sides giving the appearance of arms hanging down. The bird looks our direction with a cynical glance. Who will draw first?
November 9, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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A gray catbird and an ovenbird in the same photo felt like quite the feat! #Twofer #Birds #MobilePhotography #Nature
Amongst the fallen leaves under bushes sits a gray catbird looking over his left shoulder toward a small orange and olive ovenbird.
November 8, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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I can't wait for the return of the blue-grey gnatcatcher to my local birding spot. photo taken on 12/28/23 @ the Colorado Lagoon, Long Beach, CA #birds #birdswithlunch #photography #nature
Standing in profile on the branches of a bush, a small gray and blue bird holds a fly in its beak. Little black feet are wrapped tightly around the tiny bush branch. The bird has a very thin, white, eye ring.
November 7, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Happy humpday! On a cloudy morning last weekend, a brown pelican floats by. #Birds #Photography #Nature
A large pelican sits on the dark water surface. S/he has a gray body turning into a white neck. There’s a bit of yellow on the crown. The bill is orange and the tip sits just on the surface of the water. Only dark waters fill the remainder of the frame.
November 5, 2025 at 1:53 PM