Today's Bird of the Day theme is The Divers with an alternate theme BirdStare, a daily community prompt set by Helen Bennett. The gallery features diving and surface-foraging scenes plus direct eye-contact portraits, including a kingfisher caught mid-dive, a western grebe holding a tiny fish, and a cormorant drying its wings after a plunge. Other standout entries show a great crested grebe with a chick on its back, an anhinga that swims submerged to spear fish, and several staring birds such as a robin and a ruby-throated hummingbird locking eyes with the camera. Look for sea and freshwater divers, dabbling and diving ducks, and close-up "stare" portraits under the hashtags #TheDivers and #BirdStare.
