Helen says BOTD is divers or any bird staring at you.
Here is a favorite diver that also gives a stare!
...It appears it wants to tell us something.

"HEY! This a PRIVATE beach! Get Lost!"

...ok, maybe not a favorite 😬
#TheDivers #BirdOfTheDay #BirdStare 🪶 #photography #birds

#TheDivers
#ECK
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For todays #BirdOfTheDay theme #TheDivers and Alt theme: #BirdStare I give you
Great Crested Grebe, Little Grebe (Honest it is) Gannett and a Puffin

#Nature #Wildlife @rspb.bsky.social #EastCoastKin #ThePhotoHour #Birds

#BirdOfTheDay #thedivers
Pelican at the point of impact with the Gulf of Mexico.

#bird #birds #birding #birdwatching #naturephotography

@helenbennett.bsky.social has set today's #BirdOfTheDay to #TheDivers.

The anhingas always seem to be posing for me when they are done diving. 😁

#Photography #Birds #Anhingas

Mergansers are divers. Here's a female with a lot of babies. They may all be hers, but female mergansers commonly care for other merganser's young.
#BirdOfTheDay #TheDivers

#BirdOfTheDay #TheDivers
Bald eagle dipping in a Yellowstone River side channel in Livingston MT

Head Bangers

I'm not a birder, but I'm amused by their behaviour and captivated by their beauty.
@helenbennett.bsky.social
#BirdOfTheDay is #TheDivers 🪶 #Scape #Nature

Goff's Caye, Belize 🇧🇿

#Photography #OriginalContent #Landscape #G+Circle #ECK #WestCoastKin #travel #UnBelizeable #Belize

For #TheDivers here’s a Black-bellied Whistling Duck from Audubon Park, New Orleans, Louisiana #BirdOfTheDay #birds

According to Helen Bennett @helenbennett.bsky.social, let’s celebrate #TheDivers for #BirdOfTheDay today, so here are three duck butts. #Photography 🪶

📷: Nikon D850 w/Tamron 150-600mm

My favourite of #TheDivers: the Great Crested Grebe.
Helen’s #BirdOfTheDay 🪶

For #BirdOfTheDay #TheDivers, this adorable Pied-billed Grebe right after surfacing from a dive with...something in its beak.

#BirdOfTheDay theme #TheDivers
Now you see 'em; now you don't.

Merganser(?) and Buffleheads near Memphis.
January 12, 2019

For #BirdOfTheDay theme #Thedivers A Pied Billed Grebe that was kind enough to pose before heading back under the water #Birds #Wildlife #Nature #EastCoastKin #Photography #Birding #NaturePhotography

Per Helen - “Good morning

Let’s celebrate #TheDivers for #BirdOfTheDay today 🪶

Alt theme: #BirdStare Any bird captured staring right back at you!

Happy Thursday everyone! 😊🕊️👋

#Birds “

I’ll go with the Alt theme
A young Cooper’s hawk soaking its talons 😄

An osprey perches above a pond at a nature area in Longmont, Colorado.

#BirdOfTheDay #TheDivers #BirdStare #bird #birdphotography #ECK #birds #photography #birdsofbluesky #BirdsSeenln2026 #nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography

I immediately thought of this #cormorant for the #BirdoftheDay theme #TheDivers. "They have less preen oil than other birds, so their feathers can get soaked rather than shedding water like a duck’s," probably making it easier for them to "hunt underwater with agility and speed,"says Cornell Lab.