I believe this is a juvenile snowy egret with a Tri colored heron. Correct me if I’m wrong. #BirdOfTheDay #CHE

For today’s #BirdOfTheDay, here’s a great blue heron doing his best to ignore me. #Screenfillers #herons

I think this Great Egret photographed at Bombay Hook NWR exemplifies both themes for today. #MomentsOfMajesty #PerfectPoise #BirdOfTheDay

The loudmouth of the neighborhood. #OpenBeaks #BirdOfTheDay #bluejay

A little chickadee shoots me the moon. #ButtShotts #BirdOfTheDay #Birds

A Downey woodpecker on a dogwood branch is today’s #BirdOfTheDay. #EbonyAndIvory

I believe this is a non-breeding male Northern Shoveler. #Quackers #BirdOfTheDay #Ducks

An Eastern Bluebird pauses on a fence post in #QuietReflection. #BirdOfTheDay #Birds #Bluebird

A common gallinule or moorhen fits the “bill” for today’s #BirdOfTheDay. #RedBeak

The food chain. This hooded merganser caught a crab for dinner. #TheArtOfSurvival #SurvivalOfTheFittest #BirdOfTheDay #Birds

A red-winged blackbird perched atop a bird house. #Black #BirdOfTheDay

A great blue heron searching for fish. #BirdOfTheDay #LongLegs

An osprey passes by overhead for today’s #BirdOfTheDay, #InFlight.

A great blue heron waits patiently for fish at the foot of a small dam on the creek. #SilentPresence #BirdOfTheDay #birds

A mute swan in the lake of our city park. #PreenersAndScratchers #BirdOfTheDay #Birds

A white throated sparrow perching on our birdbath. From this angle, his head #Stripes are clearly visible. #BirdOfTheDay #birds

A male yellow warbler #BranchingOut at Bombay Hook NWR in Delaware. #BirdOfTheDay #Birds

A mockingbird lands in the balcony railing of our condo at the Outer Banks. #BorrowedPlaces #BirdOfTheDay

This female Eastern Bluebird has an insect she’s taking back to the nesting box at Antietam Battlefield in Maryland. #BirdOfTheDay #FoodInBeaks #Bluebird #Birds

A white ibis wades in shallow water. #BirdOfTheDay #Reflections #Birds

Catbird taking a bath. #BusyBirds #BirdOfTheDay

Here’s a male Hooded Merganser for today’s #BirdOfTheDay. #Anatidae

Trying to combine today’s #BirdOfTheDay categories with this close up of a mourning dove. #Columbidae #HeadShots

A white-throated sparrow scrounging for fallen seed beneath the feeders in our backyard. #Grassland #BirdOfTheDay

Brown pelicans flying low above the Atlantic Ocean looking for fish. #WingsWideOpen #Birds

A downy woodpecker devouring the suet in our feeder. #BirdOfTheDay #Feeders #birds

The #BirdOfTheDay theme is #FeathersInFoliage or #HeronOrCormorant, so here’s a twofer—great blue heron in the leaves. Taken at Bombay Hook NWR in DE. #birds

Pedestrians have the right-of-way. A great blue heron strolls along the road in Bombay Hook NWR. #WadersOuttaWater #Birds

Female Eastern Bluebird on a fence post. Her colors aren’t as showy as her mate’s, but I think she’s lovely. #FeatheredFemmes #BirdOfTheDay #bluebirds

#BirdOfTheDay is #EFGH, so here’s an Egret (snowy), Finch (house), Grosbeak (blue), and Hummingbird (Ruby throated). #birds