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@armadillosoft.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyOct 16, 2026, 5:15 AM

Pelican vibrant with sunset
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#OTD 10/15/2013 #birding #birdsOfMastodon #birds #aBirdAday (or more)

This bird is a brown pelican. It does not show much of its brown in the photo. The sunset has burnt its neck and pointy head to a bright yellow. Its long beak is brick red, and it's wearing a grey-purple scarf. Perhaps its wings and back are a very dark brown, but they look reddish to me. The bird is flying toward the left in a darkening sky.
@armadillosoft.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyOct 14, 2026, 5:14 PM

Merlin on the prairie

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#OTD 10/14/2025 #birding #birdsOfMastodon #birds #aBirdAday (or more)

I haven't seen many merlins, and I especially don't recall seeing any merlins in my neighborhood. Ever. Except for this one. It was high up in a tree, but there's something about its face and silhouette that seems to me to be unique. Its face is white and it has a pale grey-black mask around its eyes, with light-grey tracks down the front of the face, starting under the eyes. It has a relatively large very round head and a mottled coat. Behind this bird is a flat blue-ish/purple-ish sky.
@armadillosoft.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyOct 14, 2026, 5:13 AM

Junco on the prairie

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#OTD 2024/10/13 #birding #birdsOfMastodon #birds #aBirdAday (or more)

• We see juncos just about every day we take a walk in our neighborhood. Which is not to say that they are uninteresting birds. It’s just that they are very subtly shaded – black head, delicately etched black wings and tail, and a rusty collar around the shoulders and back of the neck. • • The most striking attribute of juncos is on that is just faintly visible in this photo – the single bright white feather on the edge of one side of its tail. You can see it on the right side of the bird’s tail in this photo.
@armadillosoft.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyOct 12, 2026, 5:12 PM

[Photo of an unhealthy bird that does not look unhealthy]

A sick bird

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#OTD 10/12/2012 #birding #birdsOfMastodon #birds #aBirdAday (or more)

The bird in the photo doesn't look all that unhealthy. Its eye is open and it seems to see us. Its beak is unbroken. Its feathers are not fluffed or disordered. However, the fact that the bird was just sitting on the sand, unmoving, as we approached with our large dog (who was not acting at all aggressively toward the bird, but still...) told us that this bird was not well. We did call the powers that be about the bird, but we do not know what became of the bird.

May contain graphic violence

@armadillosoft.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyOct 11, 2026, 5:11 PM

Animated pygmy nuthatch in my backyard

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#OTD 10/11/2016 #birding #birdsOfMastodon #birds #aBirdAday (or more)

Pygmy nuthatches frequent our back yard, often in fairly large groups. They visit in sixes and sevens. The one in the photo pretty much hung out by itself throughout its time with us. In the shot I've chosen, the bird appears to be dancing along the edge of a grey table-top in from of the redwood uprights of our deck. Its wings are raised and blurred and the feathers of the wings are spread. The right foot of the bird is dipping down below the top of the table. The left foot of the bird may be resting on the table or perhaps it is represented as a yellow smear above the top of the top. The yellow legs/toes are blurred. The bird's lovely blue-and-white head is in focus. The bird's pastel orange belly and side are blurry, as is its tail.
@armadillosoft.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyOct 10, 2026, 3:34 PM

Harrier and kite

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Belated
#OTD 10/9/2026 #birding #birdsOfMastodon #birds #aBirdAday (or more)

It was a very grey day. And I felt like the company I was in did not much appreciate me. The photo is also very grey. There in a single frame is - a grey ghost (a Northern harrier) flying in from the left, and near the center of the frame is a lovely white-and-grey kite perched on a bushy but bare bush atop a drab green hillock. In the background are waves of drab green grass interspersed with barren grey ground below a blotchy grey sky. And yet. A harrier! A kite! Doing what they do best. Eating up the landscape.
@armadillosoft.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyOct 8, 2026, 5:08 PM

Snowy egret with lunch

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Snowy egret doing a jig

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#OTD 10/8/2013 #birding #birdsOfMastodon #birds #aBirdAday (or more)

Whenever we see a gorgeously feathered white bird poking around the tidepools here, it's either a great egret or a snowy egret. If it's a photo from a while ago and we don't see an additional gorgeously feathered white bird of a different size, well for me it's hard to tell what kind of bird I'm looking at. UNLESS I can see the bird's feet. Because if the feet are yellow, that bird is a fan of yellow SNOW (ew. I know. right?) and so then we know that even though there is never snow around here, not to mention yellow snow, that bird with the yellow feet is a SNOWY egret. This one is showing us both of its yellow feet, and its toes are splayed out on the dark rock upon which it is standing. Also, it is showing us the fish it is eating for lunch.And this gorgeously feathered white bird is doing some kind of a joyous dance. Its wings are spread and its yellow feet are up in the air a little. Perhaps it's just coming in for a landing, but it looks like a dance for me. These were both taken on one of those days at Mavericks where everything was as it should be. We are not getting many of those lately.
@armadillosoft.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyOct 7, 2026, 5:07 PM

Wood duck reflecting at Neary Lagoon

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#OTD 10/07/2016 #birding #birdsOfMastodon #birds #aBirdAday (or more)

I have not had many opportunities to photograph wood ducks; am grateful that I got to see this one, as well as his lovely reflection, at Neary Lagoon. He was swimming by with the female, his mate, I assume. The male is a striking, deep-blue-colored duck with an oval patch of gold outlined with elegant white slashes at its midsection. His beak is a bright deep orange, with a white slash and a black tip. His eye is bright red. He's got white slashes around his neck and pointing up to his eye. The reflection in the water shows all these as well as the weeds we don't see in the frame.
@armadillosoft.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyOct 6, 2026, 5:06 PM

Acorn woodpecker all upside down at the food bank

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#OTD 10/6/2018 #birding #birdsOfMastodon #birds #aBirdAday (or more)

In the photo we see the substantial trunk of a bare tree and two of its thick branches, all three pockmarked with a huge number of storage holes for acorns. At the very bottom left of the photograph, we see a little male acorn woodpecker, upside down, attached to one of the branches. We know that it is male because it is wearing a bright red cap.
@armadillosoft.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyOct 5, 2026, 5:05 PM

Cormorants silhouetted

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#OTD 10/5/2013 #birding #birdsOfMastodon #birds #aBirdAday (or more)

We see cormorants pretty much every time we go to Mavericks. They are not showy birds. When they fly, it looks like they are working hard to make progress. Their wings move slowly up and down. Their plump bodies move forward jerkily. In this photo, we see two cormorants in flight. Their bodies are silhouetted against the darkening sky. Their wings are blurred because at the time, I did not have a fancy camera and my camera too had to work hard to deal with the darkening sky.
@armadillosoft.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyOct 4, 2026, 5:04 PM

Scrubjay posing

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#OTD 10/4/2025 #birding #birdsOfMastodon #birds #aBirdAday (or more)

The scrubjay in the photo is looking right at me from its left eye. Its beak is facing to the left. It has a beautiful sky-blue head, wears a small (Zero-style), dark-blue mask over its eye, has a dashing white eyebrow, white chest mottled with a little blue, and a white tail tipped with blue. The bird is wedged between two thin, light-colored twigs and is holding on to them, one claw wrapped around each twig. The bird is leaning against the twig that curves up and away from the bird's left side. The other twig is curving away from the bird's right side and intersects with a third elegantly curved twig. A thin, branching branch is leaning in toward the bird from the left side. A very pale blue sky forms the background.
@armadillosoft.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyOct 3, 2026, 5:03 PM

Hummingbird and no more.

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#OTD 10/3/2024 #birding #birdsOfMastodon #birds #aBirdAday (or more)

Just one perfect bright sparkling green hummingbird in a solid sky blue sky. Enough is as good as a feast, right?
@armadillosoft.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyOct 2, 2026, 5:02 PM

Looking down (in a positive way) on a juvenile red-tailed hawk

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#OTD 10/2/2017 #birding #birdsOfMastodon #birds #aBirdAday (or more)

At Hawk's Hill, the juvenile red-tailed hawks fly underneath you as you scan the horizon for birds. We know they are juveniles because their tails show no sign of the red coloration of adult red-tailed hawks. In this photo, we see the entire length of the top side of the bird - beak to brown head to lovely brown tail (with bright white edging), its stippled brown wings both extended and the "fingers" spread. This child is full-on riding that wind! We also see the blurry contours of the land and vegetation below.
@armadillosoft.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyOct 1, 2026, 5:01 PM

Hummingbird sticking its tongue out (not at us)

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#OTD 10/1/2015 #birding #birdsOfMastodon #birds #aBirdAday (or more)

Anna's hummingbird - probably a female - sitting on a bare patch of a bottlebrush. To the far left of the bird is a bottlebrush flower. Perhaps that is why the bird's tongue is fully extended and is arching toward the flower. We can nearly see where the tongue attaches in the inside of the bird's mouth. Behind the bird are a number of bottlebrush branches with leaves extending in many directions.
@armadillosoft.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gySep 30, 2026, 4:30 PM

Family of sandhill cranes in Kissimmee Florida

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#OTD 9/30/2019 #birding #birdsOfMastodon #birds #aBirdAday (or more)

In the photo are 4 sandhill cranes, heads-down, feeding on grass. The bird on the right is wearing blue armbands, so I reported it to the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission. Got this reply: "Cranes are trying to eke out a living among us in urbanized areas, so we are color-banding &/or attaching a radio-transmitter to a few throughout central Florida to help us understand how they are using developed habitats. This crane is part of our study, we banded it on 7/11/19; it’s a female & she’s missing her left eye!"
@armadillosoft.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gySep 30, 2026, 4:30 PM

Osprey rated 10 by the lamppost

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#OTD 9/30/2019 #birding #birdsOfMastodon #birds #aBirdAday (or more)

I photographed this osprey at the Lake Marian Paradise. The osprey is standing facing left atop a post with its tail overhanging a lamp attached to the right side of the post. On the post itself is a tag with the number 8 on it. But the 8 is looking weathered and the tag with the number 10 on the lampshade itself is clearly the judges' final ruling. And we agree. This is a fine specimen of an osprey. The top of its head is bright white, as is the lower part of its face and the white outlines the bird's breast all the way down to its very sturdy-looking yellow feet. The bird wears a brown mask around its eyes and its down-curved beak looks powerful. The wind has ruffled the bird's breast feathers but the osprey is standing firm. Its brown wings are folded and its tail is aiming downward. Its left eye is yellowish and is looking at me as if to let me know it sees me but it knows I pose no threat.
@armadillosoft.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gySep 30, 2026, 4:30 PM

Grackle telling a snail kite to get off its lawn

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#OTD 9/30/19 #birds #birding #birdsOfMastodon #aBirdAday (or more)

In this photograph taken at the Joe Overstreet Boat Landing, a boat-tailed grackle, its mouth wide open, is letting a snail kite know exactly how miffed it is that the kite is on the piling in front of it. The kite seems to be ignoring the grackle. The water behind the two birds is a blue-grey blur.
@armadillosoft.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gySep 29, 2026, 4:29 PM

Lesser goldfinch fitting in with the dead weeds on the prairie

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#OTD 9/29/2024 #birding #birdsOfMastodon #birds #aBirdAday (or more)

In the photo, we see a stand of very dry-looking - Queen Anne's lace?, maybe - weeds, about 2 1/2 feet tall. Perched with its feet clutched around one of the stems in the middle of this congregation, we see a lesser goldfinch. Its back is to us, but its beak is facing to the left, so we can clearly see the bird's left eye and the left side of its beak. The black-and-white embellishments on the feathers of the bird's yellowish back provide camouflage - they make the bird look like the droopy leaves on the sides of the stems. The bird's yellow head helps it blend in to the blurry background of the prairie.
@armadillosoft.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gySep 28, 2026, 4:28 PM

Juvenile sharp-shinned hawk

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#OTD 9/28/2017 #birding #birdsOfMastodon #birds #aBirdAday (or more)

Just like us to plan a trip up to Hawk Hill during Fleet Week. Not only can't you get up to the hill, but the traffic stymies all movement and also, the noise of the planes must affect the birds. In any case, it's not often that I see a sharp-shinned hawk. This is not a great photo of one, but you can see its lovely droop wings and its long tail.
@armadillosoft.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gySep 27, 2026, 4:27 PM

Baleful great horned owl looking down on us

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#OTD 9/27/2013 #birding #birdsOfMastodon #birds #aBirdAday (or more)

In the good old days before we had to take the trees out of the back yard, the birds would sit high in their branches and look way, way down on us. Given that it was dark, this owl was far away, and I did not yet have my magical telephoto, this is not the worst photo in my library. At least the camera is as focused on the owl's yellow eyes as its eyes are focused on us. Also, its bright white bib stands out nicely. It's a great horned owl, by the way. We can clearly see the horns.
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