Bird Of The Day, theme 'FeathersInFoliage', alt 'CormorantOrHeron'
Alan selected 'FeathersInFoliage' as today's Bird Of The Day prompt, with 'CormorantOrHeron' as the alternate theme. Submissions include a portrait emphasizing a leafy background, a Scarlett Honeyeater photograph blending into flowers, and long-range images of a Great Blue Heron rookery where at least 19 nests were visible. The prompt is a daily call for photographers and artists to post birds pictured in or near vegetation or to focus specifically on cormorants and herons. The themes spotlight concealment, nesting behavior, and compositional use of foliage, making them useful for birders, nature photographers, and for practicing descriptive alt text.
Striped cuckoo (Tapera naevia) chicks utilize specialized, cryptic plumage that mimics the texture and color of pinecones for camouflage. #birds
Andy & Thunder 🇨🇦36Full-grown pine cone next to it's baby brother
Beepleton ♡23For a moment I thought this was a tolbunt polish chicken 😂 that’s some impressive camouflage!
MarcZ11So does this Barred Owl #PNW
peyre.bsky.social10I could get more into this if cuckoos weren't such bastards.
Sero9"Why am I looking at two pineco- HOLY SHIT IT'S A BIRD!' ^ my brain
Deby Tingley8This is awesome. I thought the text was going to be about why that pinecone had another pinecone growing out of it.
Matt Quinlivan 6I think the birds are here to stop us from taking this incredible planet for granted. They're extraordinary.
Zoë5This bird is smarter than me.
Evolved (Evo)5Wow!....It's like!...it's like Nature has eyes and has been looking at itself!!
Lotus5I've never seen this before
Robin Sevakis5That's a ready-to-go Pokemon design
MetaVulture4That's is an amazing and adorable birb. 12/10 birb.
Ceramic Sculptor/printmaker4Nature is so incredible! I appreciate it and I think most people do but billionaires building 64 mile AI Data Centers need to really think twice about the destruction to the environment from these centers. They will destroy eco systems— especially the one in Utah near Salt Lake
themolluskk4That's a real life Pokémon
OompaLoompaHair524Why aren’t there more in my country?
Jay3I had to look twice and double check while scrolling, there's really not just multiple pine cones?? What a great camouflage.
usetob-cowby.bsky.social2Until I saw the beak, three pinecone's.
ANTIFA752To the squirrels surprise 🤣
Peter's Legacy2I realize more and more that birds have hundreds of evolved survival strategies. It's stunning. Now if they can just survive humans. Perhaps they'll find a strategy to make enough ecological Jenga pieces extinct in order to collapse the human species. A different silent spring.
Rampant Collide | Beige Nèige 米色•那个2Instinct seems to point at this being some sort of intelligent design. How much trial and error & evolution had to happen for this to get that specialized?
Good morning. Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #FeathersInFoliage any bird pictured in or near foliage. The alt theme is #CormorantOrHeron either or. I’ve went with a rainy day Goldfinch. Good luck. #birds #photography #ECK
George Harris20Well, if reeds count as foliage, here's a swan nesting. #birdoftheday
eeeefarm.bsky.social12#BirdOfTheDay #FeathersInFoliage Cedar Waxwing, Great Blue Heron, Green Heron, Female Hummingbird.
fozziefotos.eurosky.social2I always like when the bird puts the effort in to be colour coordinated with their surroundings for our photos. Lovely pic 😍
Gen Existential Crisis2Your goldfinches look a lot different than my goldfinches. Very cool. 📷👊🏻
The Doctor (0/6 - Commissions open)2Such a pretty capture. Great job Alan.
Helena Ludwig 🇪🇺🇦🇹🎶📸2Good morning Alan! 👋🏻☕️ Fantastic themes, thank you. 😃
