Happy Thursday 😊

A Northern Lapwing sporting a slick, iridescent jacket, Filey Dams

#BirdOfTheDay #Iridescence #ECK #BirdsOfBlueSky #WildlifePhotography @yorkswildlife.bsky.social

pigeon shining in the sun🫶 #birdoftheday #iridescence #birds #photography #urbanwildlife #wildlifephotography #birdphotography #nature #pigeons #pigeonportrait #pigeonsky

Starlings can imitate car alarms, mobile ringtones and even chainsaws. One kept in captivity learned to mimic a phone and fooled its owner every time. Mozart even kept a pet starling that could sing part of one of his concertos.

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Another photo of the ruby-throated #hummingbird visiting verbena at Legacy Park on Tuesday. #BirdOfTheDay #Iridescence

#GeorgiaBirds #Bloomscrolling

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Iridescence, any bird whose colour changes with light on them.

I often forget that the necks of standard-color Rock Pigeons exhibit iridescence.

#birds #photography #pigeonsky

A European starling (unfortunately an aggressive invasive species) for today's #BirdOfTheDay theme, #Iridescence, any bird whose color changes with light on them.
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Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Iridescence, any bird whose colour changes with light on them. Gotta be a grackle. #Birds 🪶

#BirdOfTheDay theme @robcrank68.bsky.social
#Iridescence & the alt is #Black&White
I have a #TwoFer which actually is a #Threefer because it’s #Corvid time
Magpie
#ThursJay
#BirdPhotography
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#Nature
#ECK

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Iridescence, any bird whose colour changes with light on them. Lapwings fit the bill so here's one in flight...
#lapwing #plover #BirdsInFlight

@robcrank68.bsky.social said "Good morning folks.

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Iridescence, any bird whose colour changes with light on them. The Alt theme is #Black&White bird whose main plumage is Black & White."

#birds #ECK #photography #ukbirding #CanonR7 #birdphototgraphy

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Iridescence, any bird whose colour changes with light on them. The Alt theme is #Black&White bird whose main plumage is Black & White.
The much under appreciated Starling and a Magpie Lark in Melbourne.

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Iridescence, any bird whose colour changes with light on them. The Alt theme is #Black&White bird whose main plumage is Black & White.

#Black&White Downy, Ladder-backed, & Red-headed Woodpeckers, & Yellow-bellied Sapsucker.

All my show offs are from a Kenya trip - Superb Starling, Variable Sunbird, Cape Starling, Hadada Ibis
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Iridescence, any bird whose colour changes with light on them.
#birds #ECK #photography #ukbirding #birdphototgraphy #BirdLife #naturephotography #NatureTherapy

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Iridescence, any bird whose colour changes with light on them. The Alt theme is #Black&White bird whose main plumage is Black & White.

Here’s a beautiful Pigeon flashing its colours and a juvenile Magpie.
#Birds #Pigeons #PigeonSky #Nature #Garden

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme chosen by @robcrank68.bsky.social is #Iridescence
Lilac-breasted rollers are often perched up on acacia in the African scrub. Their lilac, purple and blue feathers shimmer in the sun though dawn and dusk gives then a softer hue.
#birds #safari #africa #eck #wildlife

These were taken in my garden (South England) during one of our many heatwaves this summer.
Stunning colours.

#Magpie
#BirdOfTheDay
#Iridescence

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Iridescence, any bird whose colour changes with light on them. The Alt theme is #Black&White bird whose main plumage is Black & White.

Grackles. Fascinating birds in so many ways! #Iridescence