Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #TantalisingTextures, smooth soft feathers of any bird contrasted with rough hard surfaces. Here's a fluffy American robin perched on the rough-grained trunk of a fallen tree. 🪶 #birds #birding #nature #wildlife #photography #birdphotography #WingedWednesday

#BirdOfTheDay alt today is #BlueSky. I'd love to see a blue sky outside but right now it's yellow with wildfire smoke - so I'm casting back to a bright, cold day in January, and this mockingbird. 🪶 #birds #birding #nature #wildlife #photography #birdphotography #FeatheredFriday #Flyday

Happy Friday! Here's a blue jay for #BirdOfTheDay theme #Corvidae. 🪶 #birds #birding #nature #wildlife #photography #birdphotography #backyardbirds #FeatheredFriday #Flyday

For today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme, #AmongTheRipples (birds on water), here's a wood duck, making just a few small ripples. 🪶 #birds #birding #nature #wildlife #photography #birdphotography #Quiet #BlueskyArtShow #Stunday

#BirdOfTheDay alt theme is #BirdsILove, birds you love to see. The Osprey is my spark bird and these days I see them far more often than kiddo me could've dreamed of... (See Alt text for the heartwarming story 😆) 🪶 #birds #birding #nature #wildlife #photography #birdphotography #WingedWednesday

#BirdOfTheDay theme is #Lifer, captures of the last new to you bird you’ve seen. Two lifers for me during NYC's hectic spring warbler season this year: worm-eating warbler and Wilson's warbler. 🪶 #birds #birding #nature #wildlife #photography #birdphotography #WingedWednesday #WarblerWednesday

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Orange, any bird with any shade of orange on it. This year, I learned that a Baltimore oriole from below looks a lot like a mango with a head and tail 😂 🪶 #birds #birding #nature #wildlife #photography #birdphotography #WingedWednesday

For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme, #Ebony&Ivory, here's an Eastern kingbird surveying its domain. 🪶 #birds #birding #nature #wildlife #photography #birdphotography #stunday

Today's #BirdOfTheDay alt theme is #peekaboo. Here's a magnolia warbler, checking that I definitely haven't seen it hiding behind this leaf. 🪶 #birds #birding #nature #wildlife #photography #birdphotography #SmallBirdSaturday

Here's a red-tailed hawk swooping in for today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme, #WildMotion. 🪶 #birds #birding #nature #wildlife #photography #birdphotography #BlueskyArtShow #wide #hawk

For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme, #quackers, here are three mallard drakes, one of whom has something important to say. 🪶 #birds #birding #nature #wildlife #photography #birdphotography #duck #FeatheredFriday #Flyday

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #QuietReflection, birds paused in thought. Here's an American robin pondering life, the universe, and everything. 🪶 #birds #birding #nature #wildlife #photography #birdphotography #backyardbirds #Thrushday

Here's a black-crowned night heron, owner of the most striking red eyes, for today's #BirdOfTheDay theme, #RedBeakFeetEyes 🪶 #birds #birding #nature #wildlife #photography #birdphotography #heron #WingedWednesday #WaderWednesday

For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme, #TheArtOfSurvival, birds finding food, avoiding predators, enduring weather or raising young, here's a mother wood duck guiding her chick through the reeds. 🪶 #birds #birding #nature #wildlife #photography #birdphotography #duck #Twosday #TalonTuesday

For #BirdOfTheDay #BestOfJune26, here's another shot of the beautiful red-tailed hawk I met earlier this month. 🪶 #birds #birding #hawk #raptor #nature #wildlife #photography #birdphotography #BlueskyMonday

For #BirdOfTheDay theme #Rotund, here's a Cooper's hawk looking strangely spherical. 🪶 #birds #birding #hawk #nature #wildlife #photography #birdphotography

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #GreyDay any bird with grey in its plumage and the alt is #ShowingOff. Here's a gray catbird, posing. 🪶 #birds #birding #backyardbirds #nature #wildlife #photography #birdphotography #FeatheredFriday #Flyday #gray #grey

Today's #BirdOfTheDay alt theme is #Food, any bird with food in its beak or feet. Here's an American robin with at least one hungry mouth to feed. 🪶 #birds #birding #backyardbirds #nature #wildlife #photography #birdphotography #Thrushday

For #BirdOfTheDay theme #LittleBrownBirds, here's a Swainson's thrush, a bird I usually see trying to blend into a brown background - this time it's only partially successful at hiding in green leaves 😂 🪶 #birds #birding #backyardbirds #nature #wildlife #photography #birdphotography #Thrushday

For #BirdOfTheDay alt theme #Birds&Bokeh, bird portraits with a blurry background or foreground, here's a photo of an artistic mourning dove who seems to be posing in front of an impressionist painting. 🪶 #birds #birding #backyardbirds #nature #wildlife #photography #birdphotography #WingedWednesday

Today's #BirdOfTheDay alt theme is #White, birds with mainly white plumage. Here's a great egret curving its neck in anticipation of spearing a fish, with a black-crowned night heron lurking in the background. 🪶 #birds #birding #heron #egret #nature #wildlife #photography #birdphotography #Twosday

The #BirdOfTheDay alt theme today is #Passerine, the scientific name for the order comprising the families #birb and #borb. 😂 Here's one of my favs, a common yellowthroat. 🪶 #birds #birding #backyardbirds #nature #wildlife #photography #birdphotography #warbler

For #BirdOfTheDay, here's a young red-tailed hawk, almost full-grown but still sporting the stripey tail these #raptors have as juveniles. 🪶 #birds #birding #hawk #nature #wildlife #photography #birdphotography

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #OutForAWalk. Despite its name and appearance, the Northern waterthrush is a warbler. Unlike its colorful tree-dwelling relatives, it is happiest rambling by a forest stream. 🪶 #birds #birding #nature #wildlife #photography #birdphotography #FeatheredFriday #Flyday

The #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Black, birds with mainly black plumage, and the alt is #moments. Here's a red-winged blackbird having a moment. 🪶 #birds #birding #backyardbirds #nature #wildlife #photography #birdphotography

Today's #BirdOfTheDay alt theme is #MultiColour. Here's a Northern flicker perched beside its cavity nest in a plane tree; if you look closely, you can see a baby peering out of the hole. 🪶 #birds #birding #backyardbirds #nature #wildlife #photography #birdphotography #multicolor #WingedWednesday

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #LongLegs, bird with long legs. Here's a great egret, using its long legs to wade in shallow lake water, looking for fish. 🪶 #birds #birding #nature #wildlife #photography #birdphotography #WingedWednesday #WaderWednesday

For #BirdOfTheDay theme #InFlight (and partial credit for alt theme #blurbirds), here's an osprey flapping off with its lunch. 🪶 #birds #birding #backyardbirds #nature #wildlife #photography #birdphotography

For the #birdoftheday theme of #yourchoice and #MallardMonday, I'm starting the week with an optimistic-looking mallard! (He was optimistic that I had snacks for him; he was sadly disappointed 😂) 🪶 #birds #birding #nature #duck #wildlife #photography #birdphotography

Here's a mute swan expressing its displeasure to a trespassing Canada goose for today’s #BirdOfTheDay alt theme is #swans. 🪶 #birds #birding #nature #wildlife #photography #birdphotography #Stunday #Swanday