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#bird #birdphotography 🪶 #crow #crowsofbluesky#crows #crowbro #cawmunity #ThirdEyelidThursday #thirdeyelid
July 3, 2025 at 1:10 PM
drbrianpet.bsky.social
#ThridEyelidThursday!

Female #phainopepla
has her #thirdeyelid up

Look close!👀

#bird #birdphotography 🪶
Females are gray. Males are black. Both have red eyes.
September 25, 2025 at 1:44 PM
drbrianpet.bsky.social
#ThirdEyelidThursday!

Peacock has his #thirdeyelid up

Holy Trinity Bird Sanctuary

#bird #birdphotography 🪶
Look close at the third eyelid to see the veins
October 9, 2025 at 2:09 PM
drbrianpet.bsky.social
#ThirdEyelidThirsday!
#Thursjay!

Mexican #jay has its #thirdeyelid up
and a big mouthful of suet

#bird #birdphotography 🪶

Ash Canyon Bird Sanctuary
Most of the eye is covered with third eyelid.
October 23, 2025 at 2:13 PM
drbrianpet.bsky.social
#ThirdEyelidThursday!
#ThrasherThursday!

Scruffy curve-billed #thrasher
has the #thirdeyelid up

#bird #birdphotography 🪶
#nictitans
Standing on the patio table
September 18, 2025 at 1:59 PM
drbrianpet.bsky.social
#ThirdEyelidThursday!

Gambel's #quail running in my backyard with his #thirdeyelid up😲

#bird #birdphotography
🪶
Long-distance shot, because the quail have been skittish
November 6, 2025 at 2:19 PM
drbrianpet.bsky.social
#ThridEyelidThursday!

Acorn #woodpecker
has #thirdeyelid covering half the eye
and the upper eyelid covering about a quarter

#bird #birdphotography 🪶

Ash Canyon Bird Sanctuary
He is a male. He has blue eyes.
October 23, 2025 at 2:16 PM
drbrianpet.bsky.social
#ThirdeyelidThursday!

Osprey with its #thirdeyelid
partway up

#raptor
#bird #birdphotography

Perching on the
Monterey Bay Aquarium
I went there to look for otters along the near the shore
September 11, 2025 at 2:29 PM
drbrianpet.bsky.social
#ThirdEyelidThursday!

The little yellow-rumped #warbler
has the #thirdeyelid up😲

#bird #birdphotography 🪶
Little bird with a pointy beak (like a flycatcher) has feathers of white, gray, tan, black, and yellow
November 20, 2025 at 2:40 PM
drbrianpet.bsky.social
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Alice Cooper's Hawk Junior's third eyelid is up!😲

#bird #birdofprey #birdphotography 🪶
#raptor
#juvenile
In vetmed we just called it nictitans
July 3, 2025 at 12:54 PM
drbrianpet.bsky.social
#ThirdEyelidThursday!

Mallard #duck
swimming with his
#thirdeyelid up 😲

#bird #birdphotography 🪶
#closeup
It was close. And the lens was extended to 600mm, so...
January 8, 2026 at 3:05 PM
drbrianpet.bsky.social
#ThirdEyelidThursday!

The #thirdeyelid is almost entirely covering the #eye of the curve-billed #thrasher

#bird #birdphotography 🪶
Medium-sized bird with a large, curved beak
September 25, 2025 at 1:40 PM
drbrianpet.bsky.social
#ThirdEyelidThursday!

This is a #duck
and his #thirdeyelid is up!😲

#bird #birdphotography 🪶
I have not consulted with experts, but he looks like a mallard
October 9, 2025 at 2:11 PM
andreapeterson.bsky.social
A crow with reflections on its nictitating membrane at the Edmonds Marina Beach Park

#Birds #Crows #Corvids #ThirdEyelid #Edmonds #PNW #BirdNerd #Photography @myedmondsnews.bsky.social
The profile of a black crow at rest with its nictitating membrane showing and reflections visible in it. The background is a pale yellow bokeh.
March 5, 2026 at 2:12 PM
drbrianpet.bsky.social
#ThirdEyelidThursday!

Female house #finch has her #thirdeyelid up and #gunk on her beak

#bird #birdphotography 🪶
Little brown and tan striped bird.
November 27, 2025 at 2:32 PM
drbrianpet.bsky.social
#ThrasherThursday!
and
#ThirdEyelidThursday!

Curve-billed #thrasher
in a mesquite tree
at the Holy Trinity Bird Sanctuary

See the #thirdeyelid
half-way up

#bird #birdphotography 🪶
Brown bird with a long, curve beak
January 8, 2026 at 3:08 PM
drbrianpet.bsky.social
#ThirdEyelidThursday
meets
#Thursjay!

Mexican #jay at the Ash Canyon Bird Sanctuary has the #thirdeyelid up

#bird #birdphotography 🪶
The jay is blue and gray; the third eyelid is blueish-gray.
October 23, 2025 at 2:09 PM
drbrianpet.bsky.social
#ThirdEyelidThursday!

Scruffy female house finch at the birdbath with the #thirdeyelid up

#bird #birding #birdphotography 🪶
Little brown and tan striped bird with a wet beak
December 4, 2025 at 2:53 PM
drbrianpet.bsky.social
#ThirdeyelidThursday!

Photos when the third eyelid is up

Check out this great-tailed grackle's #eye

#bird #birdphotography 🪶
#thirdeyelid
Look close to see the third eyelid halfway up
July 24, 2025 at 1:39 PM
drbrianpet.bsky.social
#ThirdEyelidThursday!

Peacock walking around
with his #thirdeyelid up 😲

#bird #birdphotography 🪶

Holy Trinity Bird Sanctuary
St David #Arizona
Vibrant feathers of blue and green.
January 8, 2026 at 3:00 PM
drbrianpet.bsky.social
#ThirdEyelidThursday!

Curve-billed #thrasher
has the #thirdeyelid
partly up

#bird #birdphotography 🪶
Gonna peck at that little glob of suet on the bark of the tree
September 25, 2025 at 1:38 PM
drbrianpet.bsky.social
#ThridEyelidThursday!

Look close to see the curve-billed thrasher's #thirdeyelid partway up

#ThrasherThursday!

#bird #birdphotography 🪶
#thrasher
The feathers are scruffy and molting
August 14, 2025 at 11:53 AM
drbrianpet.bsky.social
#Thursjay!

Mexican #jay
about 8 miles from Mexico

Ash Canyon Bird Sanctuary

And the #thirdeyelid is up!
#ThirdEyelidThursday!
Looks like a scrub jay. Perching on a dead agave stalk.
September 25, 2025 at 12:21 PM
drbrianpet.bsky.social
#ThrasherThursday!
#ThirdEyelidThursday!

QP or Post or Reply your #thirdeyelid photos
(because I'm guessing you don't have thrasher photos)

Curve-billed thrasher's third eyelid is up!😲

#bird #birdphotography 🪶
Amazingly, the experts say the curve-billed thrasher does not have the curviest bill of the thrashers
July 3, 2025 at 1:02 PM
drbrianpet.bsky.social
#ThirdEyelidThursday!
#Thursjay

The Mexican jay's #thirdeyelid is halfway up

#bird #birdphotography 🪶
#closeup
Most of the bird is blue, and so is the third eyelid.
August 7, 2025 at 1:25 PM