Bird Of The Day, theme 'FeathersInFoliage', alt 'CormorantOrHeron'

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The Daily Bird Of The Day prompt picked FeathersInFoliage as the main theme and CormorantOrHeron as the alternate, asking photographers to share birds in foliage or images of cormorants and herons. Sample submissions include a Scarlett Honeyeater photographed blending into flowers, a Yellow Warbler shot amid leaves, and a Great Blue Heron rookery with at least 19 visible nests. Another submission documents a cormorant using its tail as a brake when landing on water, highlighting how the themes encourage photos of camouflage, nesting density, and distinctive behaviors useful for identification and study.

Alan H

@alan678.bsky.social

Good morning. Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #FeathersInFoliage any bird pictured in or near foliage. The alt theme is #CormorantOrHeron either or. I’ve went with a rainy day Goldfinch. Good luck. #birds #photography #ECK

A European goldfinch perches on rain-damp reddish-brown branches among fresh green leaves and buds. Its red face, black-and-white head, pale body, and yellow wing flash stand out against the dark, blurred background, while tiny raindrops and wet foliage give the scene a soft, spring shower atmosphere.

4087h ago

George Harris14

Well, if reeds count as foliage, here's a swan nesting. #birdoftheday

eeeefarm.bsky.social6

#BirdOfTheDay #FeathersInFoliage Cedar Waxwing, Great Blue Heron, Green Heron, Female Hummingbird.

The Doctor (0/6 - Commissions open)2

Such a pretty capture. Great job Alan.

Helena Ludwig 🇪🇺🇦🇹🎶📸2

Good morning Alan! 👋🏻☕️ Fantastic themes, thank you. 😃

AlinaHagen 🌊🎨📸

@alinagrafik.eurosky.social

#ForestFriday #Scape #Abstractia #Texture #ClassicMono Oak trees and poison oak along the trail. #EastCoastKin #ECK #LandscapePhotography #OakTrees #PoisonOak #Hiking #WestCoastKin

Black and white image looking up a high slope covered with rocks and poison oak at the twisted oak trees above, enveloped in fog which helps define the layers of trees and foreground. Perimeter trail of Cerro San Luis mountain in San Luis Obispo, California

21911h ago

betsy cooley

@betsycooley.bsky.social

This afternoon at Berkeley Aquatic Park, a Great Egret was traversing the lagoon looking for dinner. It walked across some concrete jutting into the water rather than go around it, so was very close. It was late afternoon and the sun was facing me. #birds #nature #eck #eastcoastkin

Large white shorebird walking across concrete next to bay.

12812h ago

Karen Zack5

What a great photo! It looks so close and unbothered!

Robyn

@handcranked.bsky.social

"Walk On By" From my #OM-3 handheld long exposure experiments at UC Berkeley. #HumansOfBlueSky #UrbanGaze #SensoryArt #motion #AlphabetChallenge #WeekSForSongs #ClassicMono #ECK #EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited

A black & white photo of a building with a round main section with a blurred person on a scooter and a pedestrian passing by in the street below. There's a large tree to the left of the round part of the building and some smaller trees to the right. There are tree branches at the top of the photo in the foreground.

11610h ago

Mairead D

@maireadd100.bsky.social

#Photography #ECK #BloomScrolling #FlowersonFriday #Macro #AlphabetChallenge #WeekSforSongs #Daisy Daisy by Switchfoot

A close-up view of a cluster of pink and white double-flowering English Daisies.

912h ago

Dave Meredith

@davemeredith.bsky.social

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #FeathersInFoliage with the alternative #CormorantOrHeron. A Grey Heron in foliage in south #Cheshire, England. #ECK #photography #birds #nature #wildlife #Kodachrome #1990s #ManualFocusLens

1013h ago

eddiephotos.bsky.social

@eddiephotos.bsky.social

#BirdOfTheDay A beautiful Male Blackcap captured along our country lane's. One of our most beautiful songster birds to hear in the spring time.

813h ago

Rob Crank Photography

@robcrank68.bsky.social

Good morning folks. It's @alan678.bsky.social #BirdOfTheDay today and he has chosen #FeathersInFoliage, any bird pictured in or near foliage. His Alt Theme is #CormorantOrHeron, either or. Alt Txt for Love Stories. #birds #photography #ECK #CanonR5mkii @rspb.bsky.social #ukbirding #birdphotography

Percy Puffin had spotted the Paparazzi before they spotted him and started to work his way down the invisible steps, like people sometimes do behind their sofas.
But alas he wasn't quick enough to stop a few snaps being taken, this was bad for Percy because he was just coming out of his lovers burrow.
And he knew it wouldn't be long before his beloved wifey 'Peri Puffin' (yes I know it makes her sound like an evening meal 😂) found out once the story hit the front page of the Birdloids.
The moral of the story is if you don't want to get burned don't play with matches or away from home.

Captured at The Farne Islands.

752h ago

Michael R Photography 🌿

@msriffle.bsky.social

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #FeathersInFoliage. This great egret was photographed a week ago at our local wildlife refuge. This seagrass grows in the shallows of the Gulf of Mexico where it was feeding. #photography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #ECK #birds #egrets #birdsinflight #Nikon #Z8

672h ago

Anna Quent

@annaquent.bsky.social

@alan678.bsky.social hat für den heutigen #BirdOfTheDay das Thema #FeathersInFoliage Vögel zwischen Blattwerk. Hier ein junger Stieglitz, noch ohne Färbung am Kopfgefieder.

Junger Stieglitz zwischen dem Laub einer Linde, ausgerichtet zur linken Bildseite. Das Gefieder ist graubraun, mit gelben Federn am Seitengefieder.
Die typische rot, weiß schwarze Gesichtsmaske ist noch nicht ausgebildet.

712h ago

toritori

@toritorihkd.bsky.social

This little oddball among the woodpecker family is a Eurasian Wryneck. It doesn’t even excavate its own nest holes… 😅🪶 #キツツキん曜日はキツツキらしからぬアリスイ。「ゲラ」の称号すら貰えないけど立派なキツツキ科なんです！😭 #nature #photography #animals #wildlife #EurasianWryneck #アリスイ #birds #野鳥

694h ago

Jamie Glass

@jglass8.bsky.social

“Sometimes I think it's a shame When I get feelin' better when I'm feelin' no pain Sundown, you'd better take care” - Gordon Lightfoot #Sundown #sunset #photography #ECK #EastCoastKin #AlphabetChallenge #WeekSforSongs #scape #landscape #lyrics #PhotographersOfBluesky

599h ago

Neil Cameron

@neilcam57.bsky.social

#BirdofTheDay theme of #FeathersInFoliage is this Rainbow Lorikeet (Trichoglossus moluccanus) cheekily peeking from a bottlebrush at Toowong #Australia. Oh let's do the Alt #CormorantOrHeron as well with some GBH, Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias), Mud Lake #Ottawa #Canada #birds #photography #ECK

Green, red, yellow, and blue bird with blue head, and red eyes and beak peeks out of the foliage of tree with red flowers.

666h ago

PJ 🇮🇪☘️

@knotweed-ireland.bsky.social

Bird of The Day - (Feathers In Foliage) Blue Tit perched in a tree... Co. Galway, Ireland. #FeathersInFoliage #BirdOfTheDay #BlueTit #Birds #Wildlife #Ireland #Nature #ECK #Photography #NaturePhotography #BirdPhotography #PhotographyIsArt

654h ago

AnnaLois

@annalois36.bsky.social

Channelling the Drama for #ForestFriday and #ClassicMono #EastCoastKin #photography #ECK #DudmastonHall #tree #clouds #Shropshire (iPhone camera)

For today's #ForestFriday I've chosen a peculiar scene, which I took in the grounds of Dudmaston Hall. There was a dramatic dead tree with its bare branches outstretched like a singer on stage which contrasted with the cloud gilled sky above and the leaf-filled trees surrounding it. Used a monochrome filter to ramp up the drama.

There were some lovely looking wooded areas but I didn't have the time capacity that day to explore them - will have to return!

596h ago

Alan H3

Mean and moody. The contrast is phenomenal AnnaLois. Love this. 👌🏼😍

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