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Birds, bugs, and whatever else catches my eye. All 📷 mine unless otherwise noted. Also into books, meteorology, fiber arts, herping, hiking, and all manner of exploration.
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pacbirds.bsky.social
Long-billed Curlew for the #longlegsandneck theme of #birdoftheday picked by @robcrank68.bsky.social.

#birds #nature #montereybay #photography
December 19, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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azgibsonz.bsky.social
"Hope” is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all -
~Emily Dickinson

💙 Have a sweet #ThursJay! 💙

📸 Woodhouse's Scrub-jay, Bluebird of Happiness 🪶🌿

#Corvids
#Bluebirds
#BirdLovers
#Photography
#ImageAndVerse
#EastCoastKin
How a blue-headed corvid called a Woodhouse's Scrub-jay greets you on a cold winter morning when you're taking too long getting the peanuts out...looks just like this imperious sweetheart with its chest puffed up on my deck railing with my snowy Emory Oak as a background.
December 18, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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sandra-aamodt.bsky.social
Little blue heron on St John in the US Virgin Islands
#BirdOfTheDay #LongLegsAndNeck #birds
Heron standing on a branch with its back to the camera and its head to the side, against a blurred green and tan background. It has a reddish purple head and neck and a grayish blue body. Its eye is yellow, and its legs are greenish yellow. Its beak is gray at the base and black at the end.
December 19, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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socal-miked.bsky.social
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #LongLegsAndNeck

black-necked stilts certainly fit the bill - their legs almost look longer when they're sitting down! #EastCoastKin

#birds #birding #birdnerd #birdwatching #stilt #photography #nature #wildlife #photographersofbluesky
black-necked stilt - black bird with white front - sitting in a dry riverbed black-necked stilt - black bird with white front - walking in a river black-necked stilt - black bird with white front - sitting in a riverbed with chicks nearby
December 19, 2025 at 2:58 PM
avianwi13.bsky.social
A Great Egret, looking resplendent for the #BirdOfTheDay.
#LongLegsAndNeck
#EastCoastKin #NaturePhotography 🪶
A very large white bird with long legs and a long neck stands on green grass in front of brownish, slightly rippled water. The egret is looking to one side and its long feathers are gently blowing in the wind.
December 19, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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whistberry.bsky.social
If you see this, post your bird art 🐦
Digital drawing of a fanciful take on a merlin type raptor perched on a gray branch and facing left with its back turned to the viewer to show off its wing and tail pattern but its head is turned partially toward the viewer. Its face and chest are white feathers while the top of its head and back, tail, and wings are light blue with stripes of black.
December 17, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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azgibsonz.bsky.social
Year-end review zoom this morning! 😬

The highlights:

*I was not 'down-sized'
*They gave me the same bonus for x-mas
*They gave me a raise!
*I still work remotely and there are no plans to RTO
*I still get to shit-post on Bluesky between emails

Happy #Wrensday! 🤘😶‍🌫️

📸 Cactus Wren 🪶🌿

#Photography
Ok, that last one wasn't a factor in the review, but it was my main takeaway...so I'm celebrating with this floofy Cactus Wren up on the wire in golden hour light.
December 17, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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carolinemyoachim.bsky.social
Musical chairs? Five cormorants, four weathered pilings.

#birds #photography #BirdOfTheDay #Groups #nature #wildlife #BirdSky #PNW #cormorant #BirdPhotography
Three cormorants perched comfortably on wooden pilings sticking up from a lightly-rippled lake. Two additional cormorants are fighting over the last remaining piling, their beaks open wide and wings open, one bird atop the piling and the other one trying to fly up from the surface of the lake.
December 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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lorichirp.bsky.social
Per Rob, today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Groups, groups of 4 or more birds (can be different species).
The Alternative theme is #Pigeons

A Pectoral Sandpiper in the middle of a group of Long-billed Dowitchers--safety in numbers! Also works for #WaderWednesday! #birds #photography #EastCoastKin
December 17, 2025 at 5:26 PM
avianwi13.bsky.social
Today's #BirdOfTheDay is #groups, and I can think of few birds that are more impressive in a group than pelicans. Even more so when they show off while feeding!
#EastCoastKin #NaturePhotography 🪶
Three gargantuan white water birds with enormous orange beaks float on gray-blue water. All three are bending down with their beaks in the water and open as they feed.
December 17, 2025 at 1:33 PM
avianwi13.bsky.social
For #BirdOfTheDay, Trumpeter Swans make rather impressive #splashes when they land.
#EastCoastKin #naturephotography 🪶
Five extremely large white birds with black beaks land in slightly choppy gray water. They are all splashing water as they land.
December 12, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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azgibsonz.bsky.social
It’s not what you look at that matters,
it’s what you see.
~ Henry David Thoreau

🕉️ May you see the wonders of Nature on #ThursJay! 🤘😶‍🌫️

📷 Woodhouse's Scrub-jay 🪶🌿❄️

#Corvids
#Bluebirds
#Winterbirds
#Photography
#EastCoastKin
#BirdLovers
The white 'eyebrow', chin, and 'necklace' on a blue-headed corvid called a Woodhouse's Scrub-jay kinda make it look like he was hit in the face by a snowball on a winter visit to my deck railing with a snowy background in bokeh for composition. Artsy.
December 11, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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direbecca.bsky.social
ʻAlae ʻula (Hawaiian Moorhen) last November on Kauaʻi for #BirdOfTheDay #Coots&Moorhens. 💚 #Birds #NaturePhotos
Close-up of black, grey, and white chicken-sized waterbird with red forehead and beak. Its beak has a yellow tip. It is standing in shallow water.
December 11, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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anuradhasarup.bsky.social
One of my oldest photographs of birds and always one of my favourites for todays #BirdOfTheDay theme #CootsandMoorhens. Hope you like it too.

#Austria #WillTravel4Birds #birds
December 11, 2025 at 5:51 PM
avianwi13.bsky.social
How can you not love coots? Those ridiculous feet, those striking red eyes. Just cool birds all around.

#BirdOfTheDay #CootsandMoorhens #EastCoastKin 🪶
A row of medium-sized black water birds with enormous yellow feet and red eyes stand on a partially submerged log in the water. One of the birds is facing the camera with its neck stretched upwards.
December 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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azgibsonz.bsky.social
Petals are pretty,
but thorns make you strong.

🕉️ Have a sweet #Wrensday #BlueSky! 🤘😶‍🌫️

📸 Cactus Wren 🪶🌿

#HumpDay
#BirdLovers
#LookingAtYou
#Photography
#EastCoastKin
A Cactus Wren faces you from some bare and thorny branches against blue sky.
December 10, 2025 at 2:36 PM
avianwi13.bsky.social
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #SideView, and this Eastern Towhee is showing off both her side view and her pensive side.
#EastCoastKin #NaturePhotography 🪶
A medium-sized songbird with a brown-gray head and back, chestnut orange sides, and white chest and belly perches on a thin branch. She is shown in profile, with her head turned over her back. She appears somewhat sad or in thought.
December 9, 2025 at 2:58 PM
avianwi13.bsky.social
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #songbirds, so our often under-appreciated Song Sparrow seems like the perfect fit.
These cheery little guys sing their hearts out and are also expert borbs!
#EastCoastKin #NaturePhotography 🪶
A small tan songbird with a white, heavily streaked chest perches on a small, lichen-covered dead log. It is puffed up to an impressively round shape.
December 4, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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azgibsonz.bsky.social
What good is the warmth of summer,
without the cold of winter to give it sweetness?
~John Steinbeck

❄️🐦...have a sweet #ThursJay peeps! 💙

📸 Woodhouse's Scrub-jay 🪶

#Corvids
#Bluebirds
#BirdLovers
#Photography
#EastCoastKin
#WinterBirds
Backlit in soft early morning light against a sparkly snow drift in bokeh for a background, an intimate portrait of a blue-headed corvid called a Woodhouse's Scrub-jay feels artsy.
December 3, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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crawlieswithcri.bsky.social
Mr. Oregon Junco - so perfect, so rOund!

#birds #becurious 🪶
photo of a male oregon junco on a slightly diagonal, bare branch. he is facing the camera looking 1/4 to the right.
December 3, 2025 at 2:40 PM
avianwi13.bsky.social
Hello down there!

This nuthatch is #LookingAtYou in the most nuthatch way possible, for today's #BirdOfTheDay.

#EastCoastKin #NaturePhotography 🪶
Small white songbird with gray head stripe and wings perches on the side of a gray tree trunk. The photograph was taken looking straight up the tree and the bird is staring straight downwards.
December 3, 2025 at 1:23 PM
avianwi13.bsky.social
This gorgeous Red-bellied Woodpecker is showing off her #stripes while snacking on sumac berries for #BirdOfTheDay.
#EastCoastKin #NaturePhotography 🪶
A medium-sized black and white striped woodpecker with a partial red head cap hangs off of a large bunch of small, red, velvety berries. There are other bunches of berries in the background.
December 2, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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noplanetbphoto.bsky.social
The gorgeous #stripes of the chest of the #AcornWoodpecker

#BirdoftheDay #woodpecker #costarica
#EastCoastKin #🪶 #birds #birdwatching #nature #bird #birding #wildlifephotography #birdsofbluesky
#naturephotography #birdphotography #naturelovers #birdwatchers
#birdlovers #birdlife #photography
December 2, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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saskajanet.bsky.social
“You will be visited by 3 spirits"

The three spirits
Looking up at three Bohemian Waxwings perched side by side on a bare tree limb. Heads are tilted making them look very judgemental.
November 26, 2025 at 1:08 AM
avianwi13.bsky.social
The view when a Red-bellied Woodpecker lands directly above your head.
#BirdOfTheDay #unusualangles #EastCoastKin 🪶
A large black and white woodpecker with a red top and back of its head and a red-brown eye perched on the side of a dead tree, as viewed from directly below.
November 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM