Bird of the Day, theme 'Waders'

natureOct 9, 20261003,225

Bird of the Day is running the theme Waders, with an alternate theme of Garden Birds. The gallery features wading shorebirds and marsh species: curlews at the ocean edge, egrets and herons in golden-hour silhouettes, and smaller shorebirds like sanderlings and least sandpipers. Specific entries include a Eurasian Curlew standing at the edge of the ocean, a great egret captured hunting in golden-hour light, and a Sanderling eyeing a ladybug on the Lake Huron shoreline. Other submissions show black-winged stilts in Thailand, bar-tailed and black-tailed godwits, royal spoonbills, dunlin, white ibis, and various plovers and lapwings.

Atlantic Birding

@atlanticbirding.bsky.social

🪶 Good Morning, Happy Friday Everyone, we made it! Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is: #Waders; any wading bird Alt. is #GardenBirds; any bird that you might see in your garden - A Eurasian Curlew standing at the edge of the ocean #ECK #birdphotography #birdsofbluesky #naturephotography #Seascape

A Eurasian Curlew standing on barnacle covered rocks at the edge of the sea. The bird is slightly right of centre of the shot, facing left so that its left side can be seen.
It has a very long, downward curved bill, which is brownish. Its plumage on top is a mottled grey-brown with dark streaking throughout, the plumage gets darker towards the back of the bird. Its underbelly is cream coloured and is also dark streaked. It has long greyish legs, which can only be seen to just below the knee in the shot.
The foreground is a dark rock which appears to be one large slab with large crack and crevasses throughout. It is curved rather than sharp, and mostly covered in a thin layer of yellowish barnacles with a few limpets here and there. The background is a calm and out of focus sea with a whitish appearance from the light

1827h ago

llamas in pyjamas #FBPE 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇵🇱 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 🇬🇱 🇵🇦15

Morning a couple of waders from Canada #BirdofTheDay #waders American Avocet and Wilson’s Phalarope

Marjo Slingerland-Boks3

Good morning AB, what a wonderful photo and great themes ✨️Have a fine day and take it easy here 🙏

James Petruzzi3

So for a two-fer I need...a wading bird in my garden? :) (Amazingly, cattle egrets have shown up in my birdbath but that probably doesn't count as they usually wade in golf courses)

karenxues.bsky.social3

Happy Friday! What a beautiful shot. I love how peaceful birds look when they’re just going about their day by the water. Photos like this make me want to slow down, enjoy the little things, and spend more time appreciating nature. Such a lovely way to start the morning!

A-Girl-Called-Ronnie 🇳🇱2

Great pic, AB! Have a wonderful Friday.

alisonwillis1.bsky.social2

Beautiful. One of my absolute favourites 🥰

The Garden Jungle

@thegardenjungle.bsky.social

Here is a Curlew in flight that I took in West Sussex for todays #BirdOfTheDay theme of Waders, a great experience on a day where I came across a flock of these beautiful waders #birds #thegardenjungle #wildlifephotography #birdwatching #shropshire #UKwildlife #birdphotography #canon

1446h ago

Amy Gann

@amygann.bsky.social

The golden hour. An egret in silhouette. For the #birdoftheday theme of #waders #birds #heron #egret #protectnature #EastCoastKin

The golden hour. An egret in silhouette.

The water and sky are filled with a yellow-orange light

1464h ago

𝙲𝙰𝙿𝙴 𝙲𝙾𝙳 𝙿𝙾𝚂𝚃𝙰𝙰𝙷1

You can almost feel the color!

Marjo Slingerland-Boks1

This is so beautiful Amy 💛

Tsarskoe Selo1

'My life with egrets' series 😍 👏

Neil Cameron1

Knew, just knew, you'd have to break one of these out! And rightly so! Gloriously beautiful light yet again, Amy.

Mick Lister1

Beautiful light and a moment of tranquility. Superb Amy 👌

Aintright

@aintright.bsky.social

Lulu the Long-tailed Tit #GardenBirds #BirdOfTheDay #photography #birds

1394h ago

JanD2

Wonderful photo thank you, and what a dear little soul Lulu is

✮ 𝒥𝒶𝓃𝑒 ✮

@janesgallery.bsky.social

@atlanticbirding.bsky.social Alt theme for #BirdOfTheDay #GardenBirds Goldfinch #FinchFriday #BirdPhotography #Birds #Nature #Birding #birdwatching #ECK

1217h ago

HLK 🧛

@hlkfotos.com

Great blue. #BirdOfTheDay #Waders #eck 📷🌿🪶

A photo of a great blue heron (Ardea herodias) perched on a moss-covered branch, its body angled away from the camera while its head turns to look right. Long, shaggy gray plumes drape down its back and chest, and warm golden light catches the cream-colored neck, white face, and dark gray stripe above the bright yellow eye. Its long, dagger-like orange bill points to the right. The background is a blur of green foliage and blue sky.

1177h ago

Neil Cameron1

Just a beautiful image, Heather.

Neil Cameron

@neilcam57.bsky.social

Atlantic Birding’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Waders 4 from Mt Coot-tha Botanical Gardens: * Royal Spoonbill * Little Pied Cormorant * White-faced Heron * Pacific Black Duck #ECK #birds #birdphotography #birdsofbluesky #wildlife #nature #Photography #Nikon #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBlueSky

Royal Spoonbill (Platalea regia) wading in the lake at Mt Coot-tha Botanical Gardens, Toowong, Brisbane.

1106h ago

CrankyGrandma552

Lucky. I've see never seen a spoonbill there

HLK 🧛1

Extremely good photography of extremely good birds!

Kate Boyce-Miles

@kateboycemiles.bsky.social

@atlanticbirding.bsky.social Here is a lapwing standing in the water at Seaton Wetlands in mid September this year. I love lapwings. #Birds 🪶 #birdphotography #birdsofbluesky #wildlife #EastCoastKin #photography #BirdOfTheDay #Waders

A beautiful lapwing wades in reasonably shallow water at the Seaton Wetlands in East Devon (mid September 2026). I like how its reflection is cast in the water. This is the closest I have been to one.

1157h ago

Barrie Cull1

Beautiful photo Kate 👏 I love seeing them too, and a flock of them taking off or landing is a lovely sight.

Barrie Cull

@barrie6.bsky.social

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme chosen by Atlantic Birding is: #Waders; any wading bird Alt. is #GardenBirds; any bird that you might see in your garden I’ve chosen the Alt theme today. I love how those subtle shades of pink, blue, yellow, brown, black and white of the male Chaffinch combine.

A male Chaffinch looks right while standing on a brick wall. It has a blue nape, black and white wing feathers, and subtle shades of pink, brown, yellow and blue in its plumage.

916h ago

Atlantic Birding2

Lovely shot Barrie, underrated bird!

wizard prang2

What an awesome bird & photo. 🩵

Kate Boyce-Miles2

Really pretty and sweet bird, Barrie.

#MyFellowVertebrates1

A good looking fellow there 😻

PacBirds

@pacbirds.bsky.social

A least sandpiper, the smallest shorebird in the world, for the #waders theme of #BirdOfTheDay #birds #nature #photography #ECK

A tiny wader is walking on gravel toward the camera. The bird is mottled brown above and white below, with yellow legs.

984h ago

Dave Meredith

@davemeredith.bsky.social

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Waders. A Sanderling eyeing up a ladybug on the Lake Huron shoreline during autumn migration. #BruceCounty #ECK #photography #TenMinutesFromHome #Velvia #2000s #VintageLens #ManualFocus

795h ago

Neil Cameron2

One of my favourite little seabirds! First time I've ever seen one get its knees wet. They're usually running away from even the slightest wave.

Marjo Slingerland-Boks1

What a wonderful photo ✨️

Mark Simmonds

@markbirdingpinoso.bsky.social

My #birdoftheday #waders is this Black-winged Stilt taken earlier this year in Thailand. #birds #birdphotography #birding

837h ago

Fraggs Photography 📸🦊🦉🦋🦔 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

@fraggenstein.bsky.social

Today’s Alt #BirdOfTheDay theme is #GardenBirds; any bird that you might see in your garden set by @atlanticbirding.bsky.social - Don't see many but always a nice surprise to spot a Greenfinch in the garden 😍 🥰🪶🦉 #birdingwales #ukbirding #ECK

754h ago

David Bradley2

I had a Spoonbill flying along our road a couple of years back...feels like it can't really count...but we do get a heron preying on the frogs in our pond

Martin Sepion

@martinsepion.bsky.social

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is: #Waders; any wading bird #EastCoastKin #birds #photography #nature #wildlife plut-plut-plutt -- klup-klup-klup -- kvit-kvit-kvit -- krit-krit -- kvèt -- kriyu -- buk-buk glouglou -- grrugrrugrru Avocet vocalisations (wikipedia)

665h ago

julielfrost.bsky.social

@julielfrost.bsky.social

A successful hunt for this great egret during the golden hour. #Waders #BirdOfTheDay #Birds #Herons #Wildlife #Nature

A close up of a great egret, its orange bill open with a recent catch. Shot just before sunset, the bird is heavily shadowed and the background water is reddish.

612h ago

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