"I hear today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #ScreenFiller. I want you to photograph me like one of your French birds."

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Corvidae. Here's a Steller's jay with a mid-morning snack.

The #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #SingersAndWingers, songbirds with one or more wings open. Here's a young Northern house wren singing and flapping to be fed from a couple of weeks ago in the mountains.

"It's #twosday!" "I'm outta here." #birds #finches

I reckon this red-tailed hawk sitting in our eucalyptus tree a few years back demonstrated both of today's #BirdOfTheDay themes, #PerfectPoise and #MomentsOfMajesty.

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #ButtShotts, so here's the south end of a north-facing red-tailed hawk.

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #AmongTheRipples. Here's an American coot feeding a little 'un, last weekend. This lake is currently under threat from the Summit fire, which is 2,690 acres and 15% contained, per a report 30 minutes ago.

I saw a verdin with nesting material this morning. Then I spotted the nest. They build a sphere, like their African cousins. It can be a nest or just protection against the heat or cold. Some build several a year, apparently. #birds #verdin #nest #nesting

It's #SmallBirdSaturday. We have a family of verdins living somewhere in the yard. This one looks like it's wearing a red tiara.

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #UpAndDown - birds looking up or down. Here's a Cooper's hawk keeping an eye on the small birds hiding in the brush below it.

The alt #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Contortionist, and who better than the trickster raven to get bent out of shape.

For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme, it's #BathTime for this Cooper's hawk. We used to put rocks in the dish to stop the ravens turning it over. They're ravens, so they just moved the rocks.

It's #wrensday! I spotted this Northern house wren up in the mountains this past weekend.

For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme we have to go back to mid-April for my most recent #lifer, a green-tailed towhee.

For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme, #orange, here's a house finch eating breakfast.

I spent the morning in the San Gabriel mountains yesterday and encountered this #cutie, a Lodgepole #chipmunk. Well, lots of them, actually. They're very particular about where they live, in terms of geography and altitude, I discovered.

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Cutie, and I nominate this verdin.

Today's #BirdOfTheDay alt theme is #Peekaboo.

We've been seeing Western tiger swallowtail butterflies in the yard recently. I caught this one on the mulberry tree. #butterfly #swallowtail #nature

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay alt theme is #SunriseSunset. Last night I stalked the great horned owl family, who come out just after sunset. I managed to get pretty close to one of the juveniles, who came and sat in front of the neighbor's garage on our shared fence.

For today's #BirdoftheDay theme, #Redbeakfeeteyes, a Cooper's hawk at sunrise.

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #TheArtOfSurvival.

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BestOfJune26. I got more than a handful of nice shots of the local juvenile great horned owl twins just after sunset on the 17th. This one was very close - I had to zoom out slightly to fit it in the frame.

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay alt theme is #LightAsAFeather. "I'll be the judge of that," says this dove.

Today's alt #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BlueSkies. I had to make a quick U-turn yesterday afternoon when I spotted this juvenile red-tailed hawk at the side of the road guarding its squirrel snack from two ravens. It eventually flew off.

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #GreyDay. Murder chicken.

The alt #BirdOfTheDay theme is #ShowingOff. Peacocks roam the streets in at least one L.A. neighborhood, but I caught this one at a now defunct big cat sanctuary in Mojave nearly 10 years ago.

For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme, #LittleBrownBirds, an American pipit ponders a world of dirt.

Today's main #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Birds&Buds, any bird capture with flowers in the frame.

Today's alt #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Birds&Bokeh.