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a Sagittarian serpent bird
#Raptors #BirdOfTheDay #WingedWednesday #birds
a Secretary bird (Sagittarius serpentarius) is a bird of prey with the body of a raptor and the legs of a crane. monogamous birds, they will grow to 4' and look pretty much like each other. they nest in the tops of trees but hunt and catch prey on the ground, usually by stomping the poor rodent, reptile, or whatever to death. I can imagine a video of it doing that and choreographed with a ZZ Top type fiddler playing a buck dancing tune.
September 23, 2026 at 8:31 PM
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#WingedWednesday #WaterWednesday
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Great Blue Heron
September 23, 2026 at 2:44 PM
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Juvenile Great Blue Heron practicing its hunting skills at Bombay Hook NWR.

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High key Photo of a Great Blue Heron making droplets while trying to hunt for food in the shallow pond
September 23, 2026 at 2:14 PM
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#WingedWednesday
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Two gulls flying from the Atlantic Ocean and now over the Indian River Inlet in Delaware
September 23, 2026 at 12:24 AM
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#WingedWednesday #WaderWednesday #WaterWednesday a juvenile Great Blue Heron practicing its hunting skills. Looks pretty good to me 😊
Bombay Hook NWR, 5 September 2026
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Photo of a Great Blue Heron practicing its beak spear in shallow water
September 16, 2026 at 2:46 PM
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#WingedWednesday
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The Great Blue Heron had been sitting on the fence railing then suddenly started to take off. Bombay Hook NWR 9/13/26
September 16, 2026 at 12:33 AM
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An Eastern Tiger Swallowtail #Butterfly for #WingedWednesday
Taken at Mt Cuba Center, 6 September 2026
It's the absolute best place I know in Delaware for native plants and all the pollinators one could hope for. An insane amount of butterflies

#ECK #photography #insects #wildflowers #nativePlants
Photo of a very large, yellow and black butterfly among a bunch of very small, pink wildflower blooms. The bottom of the butterfly has bright patches of blue and turquoise with a tiny bit of orange
September 10, 2026 at 12:25 AM
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Ruffled Seagull

#BirdOfTheDay #RSTU #Seagull #WingedWednesday #birds #photography #ECK #EastCoastKin #nature #WaterWednesday #photographersofbluesky #BlueSkyphotography
September 9, 2026 at 9:26 PM
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a Steller's Jay
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Steller's Jay perched on pine.
September 9, 2026 at 9:19 PM
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#mallard
#bathtime
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This Mallard was enjoying a very thorough bath in the Hudson earlier this Summer
September 9, 2026 at 2:50 PM
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A Snowy Egret
Bombay Hook NWR, 5 September 2026
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Black and white photo of a Snowy Egret strolling through a shallow pond
September 9, 2026 at 2:38 PM
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As you know, I love a #raven! 🖤 Here are a beautiful shiny pair that entertained us while I was on a zoom call, parked up at the Stephan G Stephansson memorial near Varmahlíð. Nothing for scale, but when they first landed near the car they were impressively big! 🐦‍⬛ #WingedWednesday #birds #Iceland
Two large black shiny ravens seen from side-on on a rocky outcrop, with their backs to each other and probably just over a metre between them. A large mountain looms behind them in the background, slightly blued by distance. The sky is clear blue
September 2, 2026 at 2:38 PM
blathin384.bsky.social
For #WingedWednesday

Another one of the Hummingbird Clearwing
Bombay Hook NWR
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Photo of a hummingbird Clearwing, a type of moth, buzzing around a pink thistle blooms against. There's another wilted thistle bloom to the right of the frame, the background is bright green and out of focus.
September 2, 2026 at 2:06 PM
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Good Morning ☀️

Rob picked today's #BirdOfTheDay theme. It's #ItsAllWhite, birds main colour is White.

Snowy Egrets from Bombay Hook NWR

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Black and white photo of 2 Snowy Egrets on a muddy pile during low tide. The bird in the front can be fully seen. The second one is behind the first and only it's lower body and legs are visible
September 2, 2026 at 12:26 PM
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a very colorful #bird with a #Yellow breast for #BirdOfTheDay
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Golden-breasted Starling (Lamprotornis regius) also known as the Royal Starling
August 27, 2026 at 4:19 AM
blathin384.bsky.social
Happy #WingedWednesday

This Eastern Kingbird looks more like a torpedo taking off 🤭🤭

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Photo shows a Eastern Kingbird taking off from the top of an evergreen tree (might be a juniper tree)
August 26, 2026 at 10:16 PM
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A Green Heron for #WingedWednesday #WaderWednesday #WaterWednesday #ECK #photography #birds
Photo shows a Green Heron walking slowly over and old exposed wood stump remnant in a pond. The water surface is covered in what seems to be duck cress or some other algae bloom.
August 26, 2026 at 4:25 PM
blathin384.bsky.social
#WingedWednesday

Now those are some wings of a certain size 😆
Small fights or arguments broke out over who gets to occupy the dead tree. The cormorants didn't care one whit... but the #egrets, well they had words or croaks rather.

Bombay Hook NWR, Delaware

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Photo shows a dead tree. On the tree 2 Double-crested Cormorant Le are sitting on it and it really only shows their silhouettes. Then there are 2 Great Egrets with their wings open as they were arguing over the landing spots on the same tree.
August 19, 2026 at 9:27 PM
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Snowy Egret in solitude

Bombay Hook NWR, 15 August 2026

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Photo of a Snowy Egret strolling through the pond in the early morning
August 19, 2026 at 3:35 PM
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Black Swan
#WeekFforFilm #AlphabetChallenge #WingedWednesday
#RedWed #ColorADay #swans #birds

the film thing is rather fun.
a Black Swan (Cygnus atratus) with a white band across its red beak
August 13, 2026 at 12:24 AM
blathin384.bsky.social
#WingedWednesday #WaderWednesday #WaterWednesday

A Snowy Egret and its #reflection from last Friday in Bombay Hook NWR.

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Photo of a Snowy Egret in smooth water casting its own reflection onto the surface. Some tiny ripples are visible in the reflection (the bird moved super slowly just before)
August 12, 2026 at 2:21 PM
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Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #NoBranchWood, birds on wooden things that aren't trees. I've just been to Sweden, where jackdaws seem to be everywhere, including on this wooden picnic table, eyeing an ice cream pot. 🪶 #birds #birding #nature #wildlife #photography #birdphotography
#WingedWednesday
A jackdaw standing on a wooden picnic table, next to a cardboard ice cream pot with a spoon in it.
August 12, 2026 at 7:39 AM
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#WingedWednesday
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#geese
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There’s one overachiever in every crowd. Geoff Canada Goose is showing off his Wings. The rest of the group seems unimpressed.
August 12, 2026 at 2:11 AM
blathin384.bsky.social
#WingedWednesday #WaderWednesday #WaterWednesday

All of the above for the image below 👇🏻
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Photo of a section of a pond with dead tree remains poking out of the water. Those remnants are perched for several Snowy Egret and Great Egret in various stages of activity. One is landing others are preening and a few just chilling out.
August 5, 2026 at 3:18 PM
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#BirdOfTheDay today is #MultiColour (or #MultiColor). Magnolia warblers are one of my favorite spring visitors. This was the best photo I was able to get of one this year - a bit fuzzy but those colors stand out ✨ 🪶 #birds #birding #nature #wildlife #photography #birdphotography
#WingedWednesday
Side view of a magnolia warbler perched on a branch amid a tangle of other branches and green foliage
July 29, 2026 at 1:37 PM