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Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme from AB is #Contrast: light birds against dark backgrounds or vice versa.

Northern gannet over the moody Atlantic
Brown skua with ice, Antarctica
Light-mantled albatross looking dark, Southern Ocean

#birds #photography #sonyalpha

Per AB @atlanticbirding.bsky.social, today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is:
#Contrast; light birds against dark backgrounds or vice versa
Alt. is #Thrushes; any bird from the thrush family.
#lbis #wadingBird #birds #wildlife #photography #nature #thelittlethings #ECK

AB has chosen today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme of:

#Contrast; light birds against dark backgrounds or vice versa

Alt. is #Thrushes; any bird from the thrush family

Main and ALT entries....
- Little Blue Heron
- Varied Thrush

#birds #ECK #birdphotography #naturephotography #westcoastkin #nature

#BirdoftheDay
#Contrast
Little fellow stopped for an hour long nap on power lines? Yes!

#BirdOfTheDay theme is: #Contrast; light birds against dark backgrounds or vice versa. Here's a Great Blue Heron flying over Corte Madera Creek #Marin #California 🪶

One of my favorite birds of the southwestern United States, phainopeplas usually stand out pretty distinctly against their desert environments – including the #Arizona sky. This one was at McDowell Mountain Regional Park east of #Phoenix. #BirdOfTheDay #Contrast #Birds

I'm seeing two themes for #birdoftheday and this one fits both, me thinks -- #Contrast and #ItsAllWhite
This came about as I was playing with highlights metering to keep this Great Egret from blowing out in the bright sun.
#birds #wildlifephotography #canada

For #BirdOfTheDay #Contrast, do you favor blue-on-orange or gold-on-green?
Eastern Bluebird (Sialia sialis), American Goldfinch (Spinus tristis)

#Contrast is the #BirdOfTheDay theme today

And it seems in response
people are posting a lot of egrets
and black and white photos

So here is my Noir Great Egret
early one winter in Tucson
backlit with the slanted
shadows of palm trees

#Contrast; light birds against dark backgrounds or vice versa.

A Red-winged Blackbird against a pale blue sky.

#BirdOfTheDay #birds 🪶 #Nature #wildlife #photography #nikon #EastCoastKin

Fun #BirdOfTheDay theme of #Contrast, light birds against dark backgrounds or vice versa, set by @atlanticbirding.bsky.social. There's some great photos. (I'm in California so post later than many.) Here's Snowy Egret preening at the Putah Creek Riparian Reserve in Davis, California.

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Contrast; light birds against dark backgrounds or vice versa. Here's a Barred Owl captured in front of a dark forest. #birds