Todayβs #BirdOfTheDay #UrbanBirds: snow sparrow and semipalmated sandpiper from #Utqiagvik

Todayβs #BirdOfTheDay #UrbanBirds: snow sparrow and semipalmated sandpiper from #Utqiagvik
Serpent Eagle (spilornis cheela) from #Wilpattu NP, Sri Lanka.
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Brown - any bird with brown in its plumage.
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Green, any birds or backgrounds that have green in them. This molting #AmericanGoldfinch was busy eating from seed pods along the trail (Concord, Massachusetts - 9/2/26) πππ
#birds #finches #ECK #ColorADay #GreenSat #photography #NikonP950 @robcrank68.bsky.social
Loved seeing colorful autumn leaves against a blue sky! There's a small #Yellow-rumpedWarbler in the center of the photo, which is what I was watching when taking this photo. (Concord, Massachusetts - 10/5/26) π€©π¦π
#Scape #ForestFriday #ECK #birds #FeatheredFriday #naturephotography #NikonP950
Hoping this posts as I've been having account issues. Here's a female #HairyWoodpecker that I heard drumming, then spotted high up in a tree next to the Concord River (Concord, Massachusetts - 10/5/26) ππ€πͺΆ
#birds #WoodpeckerWednesday #nature #BirdPhotography #NikonP950 #ECK
It was foggy when I got to the refuge, but there was a clear blue sky when I stopped at my favorite spot along the river (Great Meadows NWR, Concord, Mass. - 10/5/26) π€©π
#ColorADay #BlueTue #ECK #ConcordRiver #landscape #reflections #peaceful #photography #NikonP950
On the other side of the trail from the heron I posted, there were late wildflowers blooming and the marsh was showing some early fall colors (Assabet River NWR, Maynard, Massachusetts - 9/23/26) πππ²
#ColorADay #BlueTue #ECK #Autumn #marsh #landscape #tranquil #photography #NikonP950
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #EFG, birds with a 1st name beginning with any of those letters. This #GreatBlueHeron was standing silently in the sunlit marsh at Assabet River NWR (Maynard, Mass. - 9/23/26) π€©ππ
#birds #herons #nature #ECK #BirdPhotography #NikonP950 @robcrank68.bsky.social
I took a walk over to the #GristMillPond and found that most of the foliage hadn't changed color yet, but I loved this tranquil scene looking out across the pond (Sudbury, MA - 9/24/26) π€©ππ
#Scape #ECK #pondscape #reflections #photography #NikonP950 #WaysideInnHistoricDistrict #Massachusetts
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Redheads, any bird with red on its head/beak. The feather details on this male #NorthernCardinal were enhanced by the late afternoon sunlight (Norfolk, Massachusetts - March 2025) πβ€οΈπͺΆ
#birds #Cardinalidae #ECK #BirdPhotography #NikonP950 @robcrank68.bsky.social
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #LightAndShadow, a bird capture with both. The alt is #FallBirds, an Autumn/Fall bird capture. Here's a male #DownyWoodpecker against colorful fall leaves (Norfolk, Mass. - 10/19/24) ππ€π
#birds #woodpeckers #nature #ECK #GoldenHour #BirdPhotography #NikonP950
Todayβs #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Herons&Egrets. Through a gap in the trees, I spotted this #GreatBlueHeron on a pile of branches on the other side of the Concord River (Concord, Massachusetts - 9/3/26) π€©ππͺΆ
#birds #herons #ECK #BlueSkyMonday #birdphotography #NikonP950 @atlanticbirding.bsky.social
I walked down a small side trail that leads over to the edge of the #ConcordRiver and found this pretty, peaceful scene (Concord, Massachusetts - 8/29/26) π€©ππ
#Stunday #SilentSunday #ECK #river #reflections #landscape #summer #photography #NikonP950