For #BirdOfTheDay alternative theme #Longtails a Pheasant. Our ponds are freezing over so not much in #Reflections these days. Western PA. #birds #pheasants #birdphotography #wildlife #nature #nikon #EastCoastKin
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This scissor-tailed flycatcher was a delight this past Spring'25 as it normally does not travel this far north.
#BirdOfTheDay #LongTails #Birds #Manitoba #Wildlife
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A black bird with white stripe on its wings and belly perches on the tip of a pine tree in the early morning light. It's long black tail drops down behind it, while in it's beak it holds at least three small male pine cones.
#BirdofTheDay #LongTails #plumescrolling #BirdsofTheFrontRange #Birds
Last June: A black-billed magpie with the male cones off the pine tree in its beak. I have no idea if it eats the cones whole, or pecks them apart to get at the pollen or ... what?
But with a magnificent tail like that, who cares?
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Swallow taking a drink in flight
Long-Tailed tit in flight
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is all about #Reflections and the Alternative is #LongTails
A Swallow reflection & a Long-Tailed Tit, two of my favourite birds to photograph
#BirdsInFlight #birds #photography #EastCoastKin
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A lone Great Blue Heron stands, in shallow water, in the center of the frame and facing to the right side of the image. It's early morning and the bird is silhouetted, his reflection seen in the water below him. The reflection of trees on the water span the top third of the frame.
A Scissor-tailed Flycatcher sits on a strand of barbed wire, his long tail hanging. The bird is facing to his right. A blurry tree is behind him, over his right wing.
Today's #birdoftheday theme is #reflections. The alternative is #longtails. Here's one of each.
#birds #nature #photography
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Grey Wagtail Motacilla cinerea (winter plumage), the Mere, Martin Mere, 30th Oct 2025.
Pied Wagtail Motacilla alba yarrellii (male), near Ellin’s Tower, South Stack, 18th June 2025.
Northern Pintail Anas acuta (drake), The Mere, Martin Mere, 31st Jan 2024.
Common Pheasant Phasianus colchicus (cock bird), bird feeding station, Kear Hide, Martin Mere, 21st Sept 2022.
I’ve chosen the alternative theme for today’s #BirdOfTheDay birds with #LongTails.
Here are my choices. 🪶❤️
#birds #ukbirds #birding
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Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is all about #Reflections and the Alternative is #LongTails @robcrank68.bsky.social
#Eastcoastkin #Wildlifephotography #Annapolis
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Grey & white mockingbird, golden eye lit by the sun, long tail aimed at the camera - TN
Good morning, butterflies
#BirdOfTheDay alternative #LongTails
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And another one for the alt theme #LongTails
A majestic Peafowl for #BirdOfTheDay
🪶 📸📸 🌿🖌️
#Birds #Photography #nature #jungle #safari #EastCoastKin #BirdPhotography
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Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Reflections with the alternative of #LongTails.
Lesser Yellowlegs fishing a tasty cruddy-buddy from a pool on the Anchorage Coastal Wildlife Refuge #Alaska 🪶
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A black and white bird with a very long tail sits on a horizontal wire facing left. Its tail is held at a slightly upward angle, pointing right. It has a black head and black back with white underparts. There is a pale green background.
For today’s #BirdOfTheDay #LongTails theme I have a REALLY long tailed Fork-tailed Flycatcher sitting on a wire in Argentina. #Wildlife #Nature #EastCoastKin #Photography
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A bird with a gray head and chest, brown patterned wings and warm coral flanks is sitting on a notch of bare branches with its dramatically long tail trailing behind. The tail is slightly longer than its entire body. The background is blurred greenery and gray skies.
#BirdoftheDay
#LongTails (alternative)
I just so happen to have a Scissor-Tailed Flycatcher photo that I hadn't gotten around to posting yet. #BrazosBendSP Oct 2025
#birds #originalcontent #photography 📷🪶
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A male Pochard in the turqouise colored water, beak tucked under the wing, the red eye is open, locking to the left. the reflections are strong and nearly the same color like the real bird
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is all about #Reflections and the Alternative is #LongTails
So lets enjoy the winter sun with this male
C. Pochard
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Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is all about #Reflections and the Alternative is #LongTails.
Covering both themes, a male Northern Pintail! #birds #photography #EastCoastKin
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A peacock walking in green grass with its multicolored tail down and dragging in the grass behind him. Its head is in shadow, and there are green leafed trees, a concrete wall, and a yard full of grass in the background.
One of my father's peacocks strutting his stuff in Laveen, Arizona, from my 2010 archives
#Birds #Peacocks #Peafowl #BirdOfTheDay #LongTails #Royal #Colorful #Photography
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A smallish bird with a slate grey back, and black wing tips edged in white. Underneath it's mostly bright yellow with some cream in the middle. It has a long dark tail edges with white. There's a white streak on its head just above the eye. It's standing in shallow water with mud, small twigs and a couple of leaves, facing to the right, and has just lifted its left leg out of the water. Below it is a perfect reflection, even including the eye and white eye stripe.
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Reflections with the alternative of #LongTails. How about this Grey Wagtail (Motacilla cinerea) that manages to combine both?
A regular visitor to Oxford's Lye Valley, it seems to love the mud round the ponds.
@robcrank68.bsky.social #OX3 #birds #UKWildlife 📷
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Shot at Clare Castle Country Park in February 2025 this female mallard with her beautifully patterned light and dark brown plumage is perfectly reflected in the water of the moat
Taken in March 2020 this beautiful little black and white bird is foraging for insects on the roof of an extension to our house. It's tail is as long as it's body and it does indeed wag it !
@robcrank68.bsky.social set today's #BirdOfTheDay theme and it is #Reflections and the alternative is #LongTails
So here's one of each....
Female Mallard and a Pied Wagtail... details in Alt Text
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A close up in a side profile of a male Mallard duck gliding on the water of Easedale Tarn near Grasmere, Cumbria. He is facing the left of the picture. He has a bottle green head, white collar, yellow bill, maroon-brown chest, grey-brown wings, pale grey body, curly black feathers just above the tail. The duck is reflected in the calm water, with a few gentle ripples around him.
Rob's #BirdOfTheDay is all about #Reflections and the Alternative is #LongTails
Also for #MallardMonday
I have chosen a male Mallard duck reflected in the calm waters of Easedale Tarn, Grasmere,Cumbria (March 2025)
#lakedistrict #cumbria #birds #ukwildlife #nature #eastcoastkin #photography
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Photo taken at Forest Farm Nature Reserve - Cardiff - South Wales A drake mallard is a large, male duck with vibrant green iridescent feathers on its head that shine and feel smooth to the touch, like polished metal. It has a dark, ringed neck, a white collar, and a warm, brown chest and body that is soft and feels like velvet or a smooth, furry cloth. The drake's bill is dull yellow-orange, like a ripe tangerine, and its feet and legs are a contrasting, slightly sticky orange-red. When it moves, you may feel a vibration through the ground as it waddles, and if it swims, the water may feel cool and slick against your hand. The sound of its quack is loud and distinct, like a trumpet, though this may not be audible to some individuals with hearing impairments.
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is all about #Reflections and the Alternative is #LongTails set by @robcrank68.bsky.social ~ thought I'd combine it with #MallardMonday 🦆 with a gorgeous peek-a-boo Drake Mallard above still water 🪶🦉 #birdingwales #ukbirding #birds #photography #ukwildlife #EastCoastKin
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Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is all about #Reflections and the Alternative is #LongTails
#EastCoastKin #UrbanNature
#Toronto
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Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Reflections and the alternative is #LongTails. I am going with the alternative long tails and this Blue Crane. #birdphotography #birds
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A white peacock perches gracefully on a thick tree branch, captured in profile. Its head turns to the right while its beautiful, white tail feathers (train) cascade from the center of the composition toward the bottom left corner. Crowning its head is a distinctive crest of delicate feathers. The bird's long, elegant neck flows into a smooth, rounded body. Behind the peacock, a network of tree branches full of green leaves fills the backdrop, all bathed in warm sunlight streaming from the upper right. The backdrop is filled with many other tree branches with green leaves illuminated by the sunlight coming from the top-right.
An Indian peacock perches on the edge of a very thick tree stump with a hole in the middle. The view of the peacock is from the back. Its tail feathers are green with blue eyes at the ends. The train of tail feathers is very long cascading from the top middle to bottom left. The crest of the peacock has deep-blue tips tips and white stems. The head, the neck, and the underparts are also blue. The backdrop is a fence in the back with a ground filled with yellowish dry leaves.
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is all about #Reflections and the Alternative is #LongTails.
I am going with the latter.
The first photo of a #leucistic peacock is a repost. Both photos were taken at the Fountain of Youth Archaeological Park, St. Augustine, Florida in 2009.
#birds #peacocks
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A drake swims in green water. His body and trees from the shore are reflected in the water.
Calmness ✨️
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is all about #Reflections and the alternative is #LongTails 🪶
#birds #birding #MallardMonday #photography #landscape #scape #PhotographersOfBluesky #PhotographersUnited #nature #outdoors #thelittlethings #photohour #EastCoastKin
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Magpie standing on a fence
Bird of the day - 'Long Tails' Magpie on the fence. Galway, Ireland. #BirdOfTheDay #Magpie #Birds #LongTails #Wildlife #Ireland #Nature #EastCoastKin #Photography
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Today's alternative #BirdOfTheDay theme is #LongTails. A male Common Pheasant in a hoarfrost covered meadow at sunrise.
#EastCoastKin #birds #birdphotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #photography #sunrise
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