Bird of the Day, theme 'Rotund'

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Bird of the Day is a daily community event; today's theme is Rotund, spotlighting birds that look plump, with an alternate theme of #BlueSkies. Entries focus on close-up nature and bird photography showing puffed or chubby birds, from frosty fluffed-up robins to chunky waterbirds. Standouts include a rotund European Robin credited to digestive biscuits and Cheshire cheese, a Meadow Pipit fledgling perched on rusty barbed wire, and a juvenile Satin Bowerbird portrait from Canberra. Also in the gallery are Anna's hummingbird, an American Bittern described as very rotund, a tree swallow in morning light, juvenile blackbird, chaffinch, dunnock, and a flame robin on a frosty morning.

PJ 🇮🇪☘️

@knotweed-ireland.bsky.social

Bird Of The Day (Rotund) Round Robin... Co. Galway, Ireland. #Rotund #Robin #BirdOfTheDay #Birds #Wildlife #Ireland #Nature #ECK #Photography #NaturePhotography #BirdPhotography #PhotographyIsArt

7535h ago

Greg1

Was going to comment on the size of its lunch box 😅 but its name says it all. Great shot PJ.

Graham Jones1

Ah, well, if you want rotund, the Robin is yer man or rather yer bird. 😀

Jessica Ramey-Gillam1

What lovely feathers to be. Yesterday, while weeding my backyard, one Mr. Robin followed me everywhere for over 2hrs. Not more than 6" away if I stopped, he stopped. When I sang or spoke to him ? He looked at me intently with his head cocked. Do think a friend be made or he saw an easy worm❣️

Rev. C.P. Johnson1

Beautiful! I have a few yard robins I see every morning and after the rain. Here's the chipmunk of the day 😆: bsky.app/profile/unic...

Rina

@rina2012.bsky.social

Wishing you a beautiful day 🫶🐞 #BlueSkyArtShow #macro #PollinatorWeek #BugSky #ladybirds #photography #nature #wildlife #MacroMonday #ECK

Close-up of a ladybird on a white flower

3408h ago

DreamWave Ambient2

Absolutely beautiful! 🐞 Nature always has a way of bringing peace. Thank you for sharing. 🌿💚

Alan H1

Such a fabulous capture Rina. Rather than relying on dramatic colour, you’ve created impact through contrast, composition and light. What stands out most is the way the ladybird becomes a jewel against the soft, creamy-white petals. Next level photography. ❤️🤗🫶🏼

Sabine Shutterbug1

To you too, Rina! 🫶

GirlRebuilt 🇨🇦🇧🇧1

Wonderful, Rina! Wishing you a beautiful day too. 🫶

Marjo Slingerland-Boks1

Ohhh wow dear Rina this is so lovely and beautiful 😍 Have a lovely day and weekend and stay cool✨️🙏

Wild🌻Flower1

🐞 so sweet they are!

BelleAB

@belleab.bsky.social

Happy Saturday ~ Here are some #macro shots for the #BlueSkyArtShow 🌺🌼🌸🌹 #flowers #plants #gardens #bloomscrolling #hibiscus #chenilleplant #rose #aster #photography

2749h ago

Linda Oswald2

The colors are amazing. Thanks for sharing.

Alan H1

All beautiful but I love the rose very much Belle. 👌🏼😍

Mary1

Beautiful flowers Belle! Happy Saturday! 🩷

Bernard Doucette1

Wonderful shots, Belle! Have a great Saturday!

Gray

@grays.art

Pure Green Sweat Bee (Augochlora pura) on poisonous Hemp Dogbane flower (Apocynum cannabinum) yesterday in Chagrin Falls, Ohio (suburban Cleveland) 6-26-26 #Native #bees are favorite subjects. #BlueSkyArtShow #macro #insects #ColorADay #GreenSat #green #eck #bugsky #nature #pollinatorweek #art

23210h ago

Kristin Wyatt2

Gorgeous! They are so hard to get a shot that isn't blurry.

NanLeah1

Absolutely stunning, Gray. I love all of the greens playing in your photo. What a beautiful sweat bee.🙏

Marjo Slingerland-Boks1

What a wonderful photo Gray✨️

gray, spelled g r a y1

Wonderful! This should be a picture in a storybook.

Mike Saunders 🇺🇦1

YAAAAAAAASSSS!!!! 🔥🔥🔥 Such a fantastic shot, Gray! I was reading in your profile that you don't do stacking. How do you get such good DoF without stacking? I prefer not to stack but DoF seems just razor thin the majority of the time.

Rob Crank Photography

@robcrank68.bsky.social

Good morning folks. Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Rotund, birds looking rather plump, the Alt theme is #BlueSkies, birds were you can see Blue Skies. #birds #ECK #photography #ukbirding #CanonR5mkii @rspb.bsky.social #birdphotography #naturetherapy #PhotographyIsArt #naturephotography #BirdLife

Karl Kittiwake was always sleeping with one eye open, because he was often subjected to bullying due to him being more rotund that the other Kittiwakes. Now don't let his size put you off because he's always in the gym, that said he also loves his food too.
And this is where the issues lies because he wouldn't just order one portion for himself when he visited the takeaway's, he would order at least two portions because he always says he's still growing. Now he was right in one sense but it wasn't the one he wanted you to believe it was, he was making it very hard to build his nests on the cliff edges because he was more likely to roll off the edge.

Captured at the Farne Islands.

2067h ago

Atlantic Birding3

Nice shots Rob; love the winking Kittiwake

Sparty®3

Cracking captures Rob. Loving Martin's story. Flying Squad 😂😂😂

alisonwillis1.bsky.social2

Love your Moorhen photo. "FIBFA" 😆

SaraG2

Delightful set and Alt text, Rob!!

Rina2

Great set and themes, Rob! Thank you 😊

Neil Cameron2

Ooooo timely with my new Satin Bowerbird models! Terrific images BTW, Rob. And I love the Kittiwake and Moorhen shots. We won't mention the bloody Puffin!

Amy Gann

@amygann.bsky.social

The first light of day strikes a tree swallow as it tries to warm up on a cold morning. For the #birdoftheday theme of #rotund #birds #treeswallow #swallow #protectnature #EastCoastKin

A tree swallow on a cool morning. The sun is rising giving its blue feathers a bit of iridescent glow

1525h ago

Grumpy 💙 European 🪶2

That's a nice one! A cold morning is something we really would need right now…

JDubLow 🚫👑🐸2

This photo has everything: Great pose, great lighting, amazing attitude!! Yet another wonderful shot, Amy! 😊

Marjo Slingerland-Boks1

Ohhh wow Amy this is so wonderful and beautiful 😍

Gray1

Wonderful, and lovely, Amy 😻

LaffingKat1

Beautiful shot! I love that light!

Michael R Photography 🌿

@msriffle.bsky.social

Today's #BlueskyArtShow theme is #macro. I call these stunning little mushrooms my darjeelings because I have a hard time remembering their real common name, fragile dapperlings. Like me, they love rain. #photography #minilandscape #ECK #mycology #fungi #FungiFriends #mushrooms #nature #NikonZ8

1464h ago

Emma1

wow these are the most stunning mushrooms i have ever seen, fabulous photo michael

Eliz PhotoClique1

So delicate... Just lovely 🤗

Aj d'Wit (Audrey)1

Now aren’t these delicate beauties? Beautiful photo, Michael. 😍

M. Daniel Smith (mdanielsmith.com)1

Moisten my mind with images divine in depth of colors upon ebony displayed. One's eye drawn to the soft parade of textures, colors, scents, and tones.... Here is where each moment spent will reflect in waves of peacefulness, resonating throughout your day.

Connect2Nature 🇨🇦

@invisitech.bsky.social

#Connect2Nature #Birds #BirdoftheDay This #Rotund little Junco is puffed up to deal with winter weather. This one was spotted on a hike. Last winter, my feeder was deluged with Juncos.

A Junco puffed up to deal with the winter weather.

1512h ago

ML Porter2

I've had them come every winter here for the last 10 years here in N/W Ohio

Ela Schneider1

Puffed but cute. Great photo 😍

🇨🇦SKEETERS🏳️‍🌈1

I haven't been lucky to see a bird like this one. Thanks for posting this.

ibnturab.bsky.social1

!!!!! هذا خلق الله فأروني ماذا خلق الذين من دونه وربك ما شاء ويختار ما كان لهم الخيرة سبحان الله وتعالى عمّا يشركون

Mimi1

They're our favorite winter feeder birds, too!

Marjo Slingerland-Boks

@marjosl.eurosky.social

Surrounded by geese last year in the Oostvaarders Plassen for @robcrank68.bsky.social #BirdOfTheDay them #BlueSky #ECK #Birds #Oostvaardersplassen

1244h ago

Graham Jones1

Oh, what a wonderful sight, Mar and the sound must have been magnificent.

Gray1

Wow 🤩 Lovely active landscape, Marjo 😻

Alan H

@alan678.bsky.social

Another for #PollinatorWeek and one for #BlueSkyArtShow #Macro #NaturePhotography #Photography #Butterfly #BloomScrolling #ECK #ColorADay #GreenSat

A vibrant red admiral butterfly rests side-on atop a cluster of bright yellow ragwort flowers, its wings held partly open to reveal bold orange-red bands against velvety black, punctuated by crisp white spots near the tips. Fine black-and-white antennae extend forward as it feeds among the golden blooms, while unopened flower buds and fresh blossoms frame the scene. The butterfly is sharply focused, with intricate detail visible in its body, legs, and wing scales, standing out beautifully against a smooth, softly blurred green background that gives the image a bright, summery feel.

1082h ago

Dave Meredith

@davemeredith.bsky.social

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Rotund. A rotund European Robin courtesy of digestive biscuits and #Cheshire cheese. #ForJanet #ECK #photography #birds #nature #wildlife #Kodachrome #1980s #ManualFocus

A European Robin perched on a thin branch with buds on in spring.

1156h ago

雪乃しずく（shizukuxuenai）1

Wow, what an adorable rotund Robin 🐦💕 So lovely photo, Dave 🥰

Dennis Waldron

@wphoto.bsky.social

An American Bittern looking very #Rotund in this image from the archives. #bittern #BirdOfTheDay #birds #nature #photography #birdphotography

813h ago

Kort Duce

@kortduce.bsky.social

A Say's phoebe fledgling squawks for its parents at a nature area in Longmont, Colorado. #BirdOfTheDay #Rotund #bird #birdphotography #ECK #birds #photography #phoebe #phoebes #BirdsSeenln2026 #nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography

Photo by Kort Duce

A Say's phoebe fledgling squawks for its parents at a nature area in Longmont, Colorado.

In this vertical color photograph, a young Say's phoebe faces the camera with its beak wide open while perched on a weathered dead branch. The branch enters the frame from the lower right before immediately splitting into upper and lower forks that angle gracefully across the composition.

Perched on the upper fork, the fledgling calls loudly as it waits for its parents to return with its next meal. Its soft, fluffy juvenile plumage and expressive pose create a charming portrait, capturing both the vulnerability and determination of a young phoebe learning to fend for itself.

1002h ago

Joanie1

I adore phoebes! I was fortunate to watch a nest building thru fledging all from my living room window. They’re such cheerful little birds! Fantastic photo!!! Hope y’all are not broiling there.

Katherine Mancuso

@katherinemancuso.bsky.social

Homebody 🐌 #BlueSkyArtShow #Macro #BNWmacro

851h ago

Neil Cameron

@neilcam57.bsky.social

Juvenile Satin Bowerbird (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus) portrait, this time from this morning (Saturday) here in Waramanga, Canberra #ECK #ColorADay #GreenSat #birds #birdphotography #birdsofbluesky #Photography #Nikon #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBlueSky #BlueSkyArtShow #wildlife

The vibrant purple eye of a Satin Bowerbird is shown in a beige rimmed face with a black beak and a patterned chest. The bird is in amongst dark foliage and dark blue/black berries. The bird has remnants of what it has been eating on its black beak.

859h ago

Grumpy 💙 European 🪶2

You have birds with a blue iris? Gosh. You really should ask the tourism board for funding. Also a great shot and composition.

Rob Crank Photography1

Beautiful close up capture Neil.

Helena Ludwig 🇪🇺🇦🇹🎶📸1

He certainly knows how beautiful he is with his gorgeous blue eyes! Fantastic, Neil!

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Bird of the Day, theme 'Rotund'

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