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@helenaludwig.bsky.social

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme by @atlanticbirding.bsky.social:
#BrownBirds - any bird with mostly brown plumage.

Yesterday I captured this young blackbird in the garden. Look at the tongue!
🫠🫶🏼🐦‍⬛

#brown #birds #blackbird #OpenBeak #vogel #Amsel #BirdPhotography #BirdLife #ECK #wildlife #nature

October 25, 2026 at 8:26 AM

Eric Meeks Photography

@ericmeeks.bsky.social

For #BirdOfTheDay alt theme #openbeak a pair of singing spoonbills #Birds #Wildlife #Nature #EastCoastKin #Photography #Birding #NaturePhotography #BirdPhotography #PhotographyIsArt

March 25, 2026 at 1:24 PM

Eric Meeks Photography

@ericmeeks.bsky.social

One more for today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme #openbeak Here's feeding time #birds #photography #EastCoastKin

February 2, 2026 at 9:38 PM

Eric Meeks Photography

@ericmeeks.bsky.social

From a few hours ago #BirdOfTheDay theme #openbeak Here's a baby dinosaur #birds #photography #EastCoastKin

February 2, 2026 at 9:16 PM

Eric Meeks Photography

@ericmeeks.bsky.social

For today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme #openbeak Here's a pair of Spoonbills in love #birds #photography #EastCoastKin

February 2, 2026 at 2:41 PM

Paul’s Pics

@paulspics.bsky.social

Female Red-winged Blackbird

#BirdOfTheDay #OpenBeak
#Birds #Photography

March 25, 2026 at 4:05 PM

Madhusudan 🦉 Katti

@leafwarbler.myatproto.social

I met this Southern Yellow-Billed Hornbill on a warm day in Pilanesberg, sitting in partial shade on a bare branch, gaping at the world with an #OpenBeak. #BirdOfTheDay

A large bird with mottled black and white plumage, a robust long tail, and a large curved translucent yellow beak, is sitting on the leafless branch of a tree. Its large beak is open. The sky is blue behind the bird.

March 25, 2026 at 7:38 PM

diddlydog.bsky.social

@diddlydog.bsky.social

Yellowhammer, Robin,Greenfinch, Redwing.
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #OpenBeak, any bird with its beak open, the Alt Theme is #Gulls, any Gull will do.

#birdoftheday #birds #eck #photography #openbeak

March 25, 2026 at 9:11 AM

diddlydog.bsky.social

@diddlydog.bsky.social

Hooded Crow, Meadow Pipit, Yellowhammer, Little Egret
#BirdOfTheDay theme is #openbeak birds with beak open. #birds #photography #EastCoastKin

February 2, 2026 at 10:16 AM

Peter Repetti

@monstera999.bsky.social

Great Blue Heron on a post, mid-yawn, showing off its vivid orange gape that you don't see when the beak is closed.

Even dinosaurs need to stretch. Durham, NC.

#BirdOfTheDay #OpenBeak #GBHE #birding

Great Blue Heron perched on a wooden post, bill open wide revealing a vivid orange-red gape and interior. Blue-gray plumage with shaggy breast feathers, backlit by soft green bokeh with sparkling highlights. Wispy feather filaments visible near the bill.

March 25, 2026 at 11:54 AM

Ross Bennett

@bennett23ross80.bsky.social

@alan678.bsky.social theme for #BirdOfTheDay is #OpenBeak, birds with beaks open, the Alt theme is #OpenWings, birds with wings out.

So I think I’m 2 for 2 with today’s theme with this photo of a juvenile Great Tit

#birds #birding #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #EastCoastKin #BirdLife

February 2, 2026 at 4:49 PM

Jan

@mormorjan.bsky.social

#BirdoftheDay #openbeak #kingfisher #artyear #eastcoastkin #SmArtist

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March 25, 2026 at 9:18 AM

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@allanwithll.bsky.social

Lovely set of images for your #BirdOfTheDay theme Rob. I claim my bonus point with this image of a Gull with its #OpenBeak, squawking after it dropped some food.
#Gulls
#Birds
#BirdingScotland
#BirdTherapy
#NatureCantWait
#StateofNature2023
#UkWildlife
#wildlifephotography
#EastCoastKin

March 25, 2026 at 1:08 PM

Chriss Pagani Art

@chrisspagani.com

Breakfast Shuffle...

The alt tags have the story.

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #OpenBeak and there are more than one here.

And the Steller's Jays' evil plan...
#birds #nature #photography

Hungry Red-winged blackbirds are first arrivals to breakfast, open beaks being stuffed with seeds. Off camera, a dozen Eurasian collared doves peck at the ground.

Suddenly, a loud cry pierced the air - squawks from the trees screamed 'a predator is coming!'

In that moment, transformed into a blur of motion and the roar of frantic wings, the blackbirds and doves disappeared into the trees.

The world was silent. For a moment...

The silence was broken by the arrival of two Steller's Jays who, fearless, began consuming the seeds that only a moment before had been in the grasp of the blackbirds.

Their faux bravery revealed the truth: There had never been any danger. No predator was lurking, ready to pounce. The alert call was a ruse.

Ever the tricksters, the Steller's Jays had called danger in order to steal breakfast from the blackbirds and doves.

The taste of victory was sweet.

Photographed 1 February 2026, north Oregon coast. Panasonic Lumix DC-G9.

February 2, 2026 at 4:22 PM

jocelyngould.bsky.social

@jocelyngould.bsky.social

Here are my choices for today’s #BirdOfTheDay themes #OpenBeak, and #Gulls. 🪶❤️

#birds #ukbirds #birding

European Stonechat Saxicola rubicola (female) near Gordon Taylor Hide, Martin Mere, 1st May 2024.

Black-tailed Godwit Limosa limosa (summer plumage), The Mere, Martin Mere, 10th April 2024.

Black-tailed Godwit Limosa limosa (summer plumage), The Mere, Martin Mere, 14th March 2026.

Black-headed Gull Chroicocephalus ridibundus (moulting into summer plumage) pair, The Mere, Martin Mere, 8th March 2025.

March 25, 2026 at 8:47 AM

jocelyngould.bsky.social

@jocelyngould.bsky.social

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #openbeak birds with beak open. The alt is #openwings birds with wings out.

I’ve gone with both themes today. 🪶❤️

#birds #ukbirds #birding

Northern Lapwings Vanellus vanellus, Woodend Marsh, Gordon Taylor, Martin Mere, 4th Sept 2024.

Fighting Black-tailed Godwit Limosa limosa, The Mere, Martin Mere, 13th Feb 2025.

Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis, back mere, Burton Mere Wetlands, 14th Aug 2024.

February 2, 2026 at 10:05 AM

Chris

@nigrochris.bsky.social

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #OpenBeak

Great Blue Heron in Colorado

#birds

February 2, 2026 at 3:13 PM

Christina Evans

@christinae.bsky.social

Carolina Wren (Thryothorus ludovicianus) feeding their fledgling in the backyard. This photo was published in the ABA's Birding magazine November 2020 print and online issue, in an article about bird duetting. For #BirdoftheDay theme #OpenBeak
#birds #naturephotography #Florida

A fledgling Carolina Wren with a wide open beak anxious to be fed is perched on a diagonal lichen-covered branch which runs from the bottom right corner to the middle left of the frame. It is brown bird with a light, warm cream breast and belly, a light eyebrow stripe and dark eye and sits in the bottom left of the frame facing forward, head a little to the right. An out-of focus adult wren sits on the same branch above it, facing away from the viewer (butt view!) reaching down with their beak to feed its young. The darker brown adult bird, with a russet breast and belly, has its pinkish legs spread apart and its horizontally-striped tail points up to the top right of the frame. The background is very dark green at the top and becomes lighter green at the bottom.

March 26, 2026 at 3:01 AM

Mr-Write

@mr-write.bsky.social

‪Good morning friends. From @robcrank68.bsky.social‬ today's #BirdOfTheDay is #OpenBeak, any bird with its beak open. The alt is #Gulls.

Male Northern Cardinal from December.

#birdphotography #birds #photography