Mute Swans - like so many others in Brooklyn - will eagerly throw down for good real estate. This guy was loudly charging a rival in Prospect Park Lake, which typically hosts only one breeding pair. #WingsOpenNotFlying #BirdOfTheDay #Birds

My #BestBeaks submission for #BirdOfTheDay is this Great Blue Heron. Yes, that’s a tongue. #Birds

My #Airborne #Seabird for #BirdOfTheDay is a gull of uncertain species, photographed in the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge with the shutter too slow.

Here are two little #Borb for #BirdOfTheDay - a male Northern Cardinal his White-Throated Sparrow buddy. #Birds

My #BirdOfTheDay for #Divers is an osprey who came up empty-taloned somewhere in British Columbia. #Birds

An osprey hovers while searching for fish in Greenport, NY.
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My #LightAndShadow #BirdOfTheDay is a Northern Mockingbird alighting from a post in Greenport, NY. #Birds

My #elegant bird for #birdoftheday is an unlikely one: a Common Grackle displaying its iridescence while bathing. #birds

A Northern Mockingbird takes flight with an Osmanthus berry. Juveniles can be hard to identify because of the heavily speckled breast, but the white underwing patches give it away. Greenport, NY. #birds

Osprey soaring over the North Fork of Long Island. #birds

Ruby-Throated Hummingbird feeding from Coral Honeysuckle at 1/4000 of a second in Greenport, Long Island. #birds

These birds were willing to sit for portraits in Prospect Park, Brooklyn recently: Two Common Yellowthroats, a Gray Catbird and an Ovenbird. #birds

American Robin, Brooklyn #addBirder