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Bird of the Day, theme 'Birds In Their Element'

natureJun 22, 202622610,587

Today's Bird of the Day is a daily prompt titled Birds In Their Element, inviting photos and artwork that show birds thriving within their natural habitats. Submissions lean toward wildlife photography with a smattering of traditional drawings and field sketches, emphasizing action shots, habitat scenes, and backlit plumage studies. Standout entries include Atlantic puffins arriving ashore with bills full of sand eels, a great blue heron repeatedly dropping and retrieving a large fish, and an Anna's hummingbird feeding on native hummingbird sage. Look for backlit feather studies under the alternate theme #FeatherAndLight and tag contributions #BirdsInTheirElement.

Nature, Preserved
@simonecannon.bsky.social

An Atlantic Puffin with a successful haul of fish for today's lunch, Dyrhólaey, located in southern Iceland near the village of Vík #birdoftheday #BirdsInTheirElement #birdphotography #naturephotography

134445d ago
Awatha2

How do puffins arrange the fish so neatly?

sudden-bowsprit.bsky.social2

It should have been us @mitildide.bsky.social

Betty Cracker of Florida
@bettycrackerfl.bsky.social

Atlantic #Puffins enjoying their grassy, windblown nesting site on an eastern fjord in Iceland for today’s #BirdoftheDay theme: #BirdsinTheirElement. 🪶

75145d ago
Poison Pen 62✌🏼3

I saw them a couple years ago! My favorite!

PJ 🇮🇪☘️
@knotweed-ireland.bsky.social

Bird Of The Day (Feathers & Light) Coy Magpie showing its beautiful feather colours... Co. Galway, Ireland. #Feathers&Light #Magpie #BirdOfTheDay #Birds #Wildlife #Ireland #Nature #ECK #Photography #NaturePhotography #BirdPhotography #PhotographyIsArt

Magpie showing its beautiful feather colours in the garden today. iridescent blue feathers.
49145d ago
Canrugger2

And its cousin living in Banff, Alberta, Canada

Alan H
@alan678.bsky.social

Good morning. Today’s #BirdOfTheDay themes are, #BirdsInTheirElement, Focusing on birds thriving within their habitat. The alt is #Feather&Light, showing the beauty of plumage in natural light. #birds #photography #ECK

A sedge warbler perches sideways on a thick green stem, bathed in warm golden light. Its buff-brown plumage, pale underparts and distinctive creamy eyebrow stripe are sharply defined as it stretches its pointed bill upwards towards a cluster of seed heads overhead. The bird’s posture is alert and inquisitive, giving the impression it is carefully inspecting its surroundings or searching for insects. Intersecting stems frame the scene naturally, while a smooth blue-grey background melts into soft bokeh, allowing the delicate detail and character of the sedge warbler to stand out. The overall image conveys a quiet, intimate moment within a wetland habitat.
34545d ago
Mark Simmonds23

Calandra Lark in the steppe near Pinoso for #birdsintheirelement #birdoftheday

Frank19

#BirdsInTheirElement Little Bee-Eater in Arusha Nationalpark, Tanzania. #HabariNzuri #BirdOfTheDay 🪶

Marjo Slingerland-Boks2

Good morning Alan, this is a gorgeous photo and wonderful playing with light 💛have a fine day and stay cool on your walk with Sam

Den 🇮🇪2

Good morning Alan, a beautiful capture to start the day. 👌 Hope you can stay cool today, looks like another hot one (or maybe you're always cool 😉).

Rob Crank Photography2

Great themes and capture Alan.

Helena Ludwig 🇪🇺🇦🇹🎶📸2

Good morning Alan! What especially wonderful themes on this Monday! Have a good start into the new week! Cute little Bird you captured so lovely. 🤩👍🏻

Kort Duce
@kortduce.bsky.social

A great blue heron hunts along St. Vrain Creek at a nature area in Longmont, Colorado. #BirdOfTheDay #BirdsInTheirElement #Feather&Light #bird #birdphotography #ECK #birds #BirdsSeenln2026 #nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography

Photo by Kort Duce A great blue heron hunts along St. Vrain Creek at a nature area in Longmont, Colorado. In this horizontal color photograph, one looks across and upstream at the lush green bank of a creek. A great blue heron stands just left of center in the frame, shown in left profile with its neck extended and head tilted downward as it searches the water for fish. The creek flows diagonally through the scene from the middle left edge of the frame toward the lower right corner. In the upper right portion of the photograph, a large fallen log rests along the bank, slowly returning its nutrients to the ecosystem. A shaft of sunlight filters through the vegetation, backlighting patches of grass and causing them to glow against the surrounding greenery. This quiet and beautiful moment captures a great blue heron in its natural habitat, an environment that is vital to its survival.
30844d ago
gigimlet.bsky.social2

Beautiful photo and lovely light

Yvonne Redknap
@yredknap.bsky.social

For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme #BirdsInTheirElement, I have a blue heron slowly wading along the edge of a pond, looking for breakfast. #Photography #Birds #ECK

25445d ago
Aintright
@aintright.bsky.social

Walter the Wren #BirdOfTheDay #BirdsInTheirElement #Photography #Birds #ECK

19945d ago
TimBert2

Great capture of feather texture in this image!

Fraggs Photography 📸🦊🦉🦋🦔 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
@fraggenstein.bsky.social

Today's #BirdofTheDay theme is #BirdsInTheirElement set by @alan678.bsky.social - up early this morning to pay a visit to Forest Farm NR ~ South Wales to watch the new Juvenile Kingfishers 😍 🪶🦉 #birdingWales #ukbirding #birdphotography #ECK #ukwildlife #naturephotography #naturetherapy #kingfishers

16844d ago
ronm123photo
@ronm123photo.bsky.social

Going with this magnificent white-tailed eagle (sea eagle) from last Wednesday morning for #ShareMondays2026 #BirdOfTheDay #BirdsInTheirElement #Feather&Light #birds #photography #birdwatching #birdphotography #whitetailedeagle #eagle

A white-tailed eagle (sea eagle) flying down to the sea at speed with its legs and talons outstretched as it dives in the hunt for fish. To quote BBC Country File: A white tailed eagle weighs as much as house cat, has a wingspan the size of an average door and can hit 100 miles per hour when hunting! They truly are magnificent birds!
13945d ago
Cheech2

Out of curiosity if you don't mind me asking. What was your metadata. I'm still a new bird photographer. Did you shoot from a tripod etc? Hope it's okay to ask? Again stunning photo. Can only dream of getting such a capture.

Atlantic Birding
@atlanticbirding.bsky.social

🪶 Alan has chosen #BirdsInTheirElement for today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme. Alt. is #Feathers&Light I have a Herring Gull thriving on the sea shore with a tasty bit of crab breakfast #birds #birdsofbluesky #birdphotography #ECK #irishbirding #naturephotography #sea #crab #gulls

A Herring Gull floating in a Rock pool with a crab in its beak. The bird is in side profile, looking right with its right side showing. It is backlit by the morning sunshine, casting a shadow along its body and a reflection in the still water of the rock pool. The crab is caught by the claw and dangling below the bird
14045d ago
The Garden Jungle
@thegardenjungle.bsky.social

Here’s one for the great theme of #BirdOfTheDay which is #BirdsInTheirElement, here is an Oystercatcher by the sea in the Isles of Scilly #birds #thegardenjungle #wildlifephotography #birdwatching #shropshire #UKwildlife #birdphotography #canon #photography

Oystercatcher
13145d ago
Connect2Nature 🇨🇦
@invisitech.bsky.social

#Connect2Nature #Birds Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BirdsInTheirElement. This Great Blue Heron was just done fishing in a marsh that I walk by regularly. While I live in the city, I'm grateful that there are many spaces like this literally a 5 minute drive away. #Nature #Photography

A Great Blue Heron taking off from a marshy pond.
12345d ago
JBC
@johnbcaddell.bsky.social

these acorn #woodpeckers are definitely #BirdsInTheirElement #BirdOfTheDay #birds

a mated pair of acorn woodpeckers stocking up a dead tree trunk for winter.
12944d ago
Dave Meredith
@davemeredith.bsky.social

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BirdsInTheirElement. A Common Swift in flight over south #Cheshire in the early #1990s #ECK #photography #birds #nature #wildlife #Kodachrome #ManualFocus #ManualExposure

10345d ago
Kevin Wertman
@kevin.wertman.org

Alan set today's #BirdOfTheDay as #BirdsInTheirElement. I watched this heron trying to eat this big fish, and it kept dropping it and picking it back up. The stork lurked around attempting to steal it which was fun to watch. Just another day at the wetlands 😀 #Photography #Birds #Herons #Storks

A heron stands in shallow water with a large fish dangling from its beak. Just behind it lurks a large wood stork with its bill open and the tips are in the water. Both are reflected in the rippled water in the foreground. Surroundings are mostly rippled water with hints of grass and reeds growing.
9845d ago
Kevin Wertman10

Thought I'd add a few more shots of this encounter which I really got a kick out of watching. Wish I had gotten it better in the frame. 🙂 #BirdOfTheDay #BirdsInTheirElement #Photography #Herons #Storks #Birds

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