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Bird of the Day, theme 'Eating'

natureOct 8, 20261776,865

Today's Bird of the Day is a daily community event with the main theme Crooners, featuring birds singing, and an alternate theme Eating, showing birds with food in their beaks. The gallery highlights songsters at dawn and territorial singers plus feeding scenes, from intimate garden robins and Dunnocks to shorebirds and corvids. Standout posts include a Great Blue Heron with its latest catch, a Cedar Waxwing holding a juniper berry, and a Dunnock caught with a visible puff of breath while singing at dawn. Look for examples of feeding behavior and vocal displays under the #Eating and #Crooners tags to join in.

swandiveswim.bsky.social
@swandiveswim.bsky.social

#Birds Rob @robcrank68.bsky.social says today's #BirdOfTheDay Alt theme is #Eating, birds with food in their beaks. A Great Blue Heron with its latest catch. This bird was quite a successful fisherman, when it was snapping at dragonflies.

A dark grey coloured bird with a large pointed beak, holds a small fish in the tip. The bird's neck is bent in an S shape, its beak pointing downwards.
3045h ago
Gray
@grays.art

Boat-tailed grackle belts (Quiscalus major) on a sandy lake shore CREW pen flint strand lake trails Bonita Springs, Florida 5-19-26 Rob’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #crooners & Alt is #Eating: birds with food in beaks, or singing. #birds #ECK #birding #threewordgenre #nature #singing #photography

Telephoto shot of a male boat-tailed grackle standing on a wet, sandy shoreline. Viewed from a three-quarter profile facing stage-right, he has his head tilted back with his long, slender black beak opened wide in a display call. His neck and chest plumage are dramatically puffed out, catching the light to reveal brilliant, iridescent dark blue and violet tones over his sleek black body. His long, fan-like black tail extends horizontally to his left. The background features the calm, rippling surface of pale water, while sparse green blades of grass sit in the foreground.
20012h ago
Neil Cameron3

"AAANNNNNDDDDD IIIIII WILL ALWAYS LOVVVEEE YYYYOOUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Or words to that effect. Simply a great shot, Gray!

franceflo.bsky.social1

Typical grackle posture , beautiful 😻

Aj d'Wit (Audrey)1

That must be some song it is singing. Super photo. 👍🏼💫

Three Word Genre1

A soloist takes center stage. The lake gets front-row seats. Boat-tailed grackle belts #ThreeWordGenre

Aintright
@aintright.bsky.social

Daphne the Dipper feeding little Dolly #birdoftheday #birds #birdphotography #photography #eating

16812h ago
Dawn Photography1

Beautiful capture Bill 🐦 💜

franceflo.bsky.social1

Beautiful interaction, nature in action 😍

Rosemarie
@roabrams.bsky.social

For today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #crooners, birds singing. #backyardbirding

BlueJay on top of wooden birdhouse singing or squawking
1589h ago
CosmicJohn3

Good morning Rosemarie. Beautiful. I love that study in blue, grey and white against the deep green background.

Frank Hogan3

At Pops as a teenager I had a Bluejay that used to sit in the tree by my window screaming FRANK FRANK FRANK in the early morning hours

Hawkeye Pete1

I hear them more than I see them, happy little singers trilling away. My neighborhood #crooners are Bewick's wrens.

Ellen Timmerman1

Gotta love a Blue Jay

Mark Levine
@marklevinephotos.bsky.social

#BirdOfTheDay | #crooners | #CommonYellowthroat "Oh What a Beautiful Morning", sings the yellowthroat.

A small warbler is perched on a branch that extends from the bottom center to the upper right of the frame. The bird is facing right, head back, mouth open. The yellowthroat has a yellow throat, a black mask, white brow and brown elsewhere.
1667h ago
SeaLevelOslo
@sealeveloslo.bsky.social

Nuthatch #BirdOfTheDay Alt #Eating #birds #Nuthatch

A photo of a nuthatch on a feeder turning around with a sunflower seed in its beek.
1406h ago
The Natural Stone
@thenaturalstone.bsky.social

@robcrank68.bsky.social set today's #BirdOfTheDay theme, #crooners, birds singing. I love the little puff of condensation from this Dunnock's breath in the cold at dawn in my garden this morning. #Birds #Birding #ECK #LincsBirding #UKBirding #Commonbirds #LocalBirding #GardenBirding

A Dunnock, Prunella modularis, stood on a concrete fence post, beak open with a tiny patch of mist coming from its breath. I think technically it's calling rather than singing but close enough for the theme I hope.
14012h ago
obv8.bsky.social1

A Blue De Niro bird? You talkin' to me???

WRD NRD1

I have 5 birds, to include a one-eyed canary and a 20+ year old cockatiel with 1 1/2 wings. My home is never quiet. 🥰

TimBert
@timbert.bsky.social

#BirdOfTheDay #crooners Crooners? Great old word. Here are couple, singing a duet?

1358h ago
Bill Stedman1

Great capture of this duet!

The Garden Jungle
@thegardenjungle.bsky.social

#Crooners (birds singing) is the subject for todays #BirdOfTheDay, so I’ll give you a double treat. A Wren and a Reed Bunting both happily singing #birds #thegardenjungle #wildlifephotography #birdwatching #shropshire #UKwildlife #birdphotography #canon #photography

Wren
13313h ago
Purple Primmy1

I dunno, the one on the left looks more like he's shouting LOL

Aj d'Wit (Audrey)1

Lovely photos. 👍🏼 We need the sound up so I can hear them. 😉

simmcewen.bsky.social
@simmcewen.bsky.social

Song sparrow #Crooners #BirdOfTheDay #Wildlife #NaturePhotography

A color photograph of a song sparrow perched on the tip of a bare piece of wood singing. The background is mostly green with a little yellow and gray, out of focus.
1315h ago
Charlie Ludwig
@chuck4242.bsky.social

A Cedar Waxwing with a juniper berry in its mouth. #Birds #Birding #Wildlife #Nature #Photography #Animals #Photos #Photo #ECK #BirdOfTheDay #Eating

A Cedar Waxwing with a juniper berry in its mouth.
1256h ago
Dave Meredith
@davemeredith.bsky.social

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is # #Crooners. A male Yellow-headed Blackbird proclaiming his territory. #Saskatchewan #ECK #photography #birds #nature #wildlife #Kodachrome #1990s #ManualFocus

12912h ago
JGreenblatt1

Fascinated how bird mark their territory

julielfrost.bsky.social
@julielfrost.bsky.social

A house sparrow with a sunflower seed for today's #BirdOfTheDay theme, #Eating, birds with food in their beaks. #Birds #BirdsOfBluesky #Sparrows #Nature #Wildlife

A house sparrow is perched on a sunflower with a seed in its open bill.
1198h ago
Michael R Photography 🌿
@msriffle.bsky.social

Today's #BirdOfTheDay ALT theme is #Eating. This brown pelican had a beakfull of fish. I stood right next to this pond and filled the frame with this stunning creature. It paid no mind to me as it was busy. #photography #wildlife #ECK #birds #birders #birdsky #conservation #biodiversity #nature

1209h ago
Aj d'Wit (Audrey)1

Wonderful photo. 👌🏼 I think it has its eye on you.

Rain Hayes1

Incredible detail and great pose! I love these birds so much. They seem ungainly at times but I find them quite graceful in their precision and how they handle their giant bodies.

✮ 𝒥𝒶𝓃𝑒 ✮
@janesgallery.bsky.social

@robcrank68.bsky.social #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Crooners (birds singing) Robin belting it out #BirdPhotography #Birds #Nature #Birding #birdwatching #ECK

Robin singing
11112h ago
Neil Cameron1

What a lovely shot, Jane!

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