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Bird of the Day, theme 'Its All White'

natureSep 2, 20261253,807

Today's Bird of the Day theme is Its All White, asking contributors to feature birds whose main plumage is white; the alternative theme is Red Heads. Photographers and birders are posting natural-history images in soft light and wetland settings, emphasizing egrets, swans, and other white-plumaged species alongside a few red-headed alternatives. Notable posts include a great egret hunting along a river at sunrise, a pair of swans with the male on alert at Frensham Pond, and a sulphur-crested cockatoo caught in a patch of light.

Alan H
@alan678.bsky.social

For Rob’s alt #RedHeads I’m going with a Goldfinch. Walking Sam now but will be back to help my mate with #BirdOfTheDay #birds #photography #ColorADay #RedWed #ECK

A close-up portrait of a European Goldfinch perched on a leafy branch, showing its distinctive red face, black-and-white head, warm buff-brown body and striking yellow wing bars. The bird looks alertly to the right against a dark, softly blurred background.
3016h ago
Rina1

Beautiful capture, Alan 😍😍 Enjoy your walk with Sam 🤗🫶

Rob Crank Photography
@robcrank68.bsky.social

Good morning folks. Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #ItsAllWhite, birds main colour is White. The Alt theme is #RedHeads, birds with heads that are any shade of Red. #birds #ECK #naturephotography #CanonR5mkii #photography #ukbirding #birdphotography #BirdLife @wwtworldwide.bsky.social #White #Red

A Great Egret in flight at WWT Martin Mere.
2188h ago
Spoonbill Reducks9

Low tide at Canada Bay, in Wangal Country (Sydney's Inner West) Great Egret and a Royal Spoonbill foraging. #BirdOfTheDay #Birds #ItsAllWhite 🪶

Atlantic Birding3

Nice shots & themes Rob, the Pochard is incredible

Marjo Slingerland-Boks2

Good morning Rob, what a wonderful themes for today and lovely photos. ✨️🤍

Rina2

Good morning Rob, great set and themes. Thank you 😊

Barrie Cull2

A lovely selection of photos Rob 🙂 and a great theme.

DeHortOp2

Goodmorning Rob, nice choices and pictures 🤍♥️

Amy Gann
@amygann.bsky.social

In the shadows of trees along the river, a great egret searches the water for prey. The light of the rising sun is starting to hit its feathers. For the #birdoftheday theme of #itsallwhite #birds #egret #protectnature #EastCoastKin

A great egret lifts one foot from the water. A second egret is flying out of frame and a great blue heron is barely visible in the background
2175h ago
John1

Nice picture and setting 👌

Rina1

Great shot as always, Amy 👏👏

Aj d'Wit (Audrey)1

Lovely photo, Amy. 👌🏼 I like the way that you have captured the foot coming out of the water. 👍🏼

Rina
@rina2012.bsky.social

Serene solitude 🦢 "Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #ItsAllWhite, The Alt theme is #RedHeads" #birds #BirdsSeenIn2026 #Germany #wildlife #photography #nature #thelittlethings #ECK #SwanDay

A white mute swan is swimming on dark water. The bird is seen in profile, surrounded by green leaves in the foreground, which partially frame the subject. The light falls gently on the white plumage and highlights the orange-red beak with its black knob. The background lies in deep shadow
1556h ago
Alan H1

An intimate insight captured wonderfully Rina. So so good. Love the shot and setting. 😍😍🫶🏼

🩷🕊 Sara Flacci1

How beautiful 🤍 This photo is as elegant as the swan, with its graceful posture 🦢💫💐

Kis Brink1

Beautiful shot. I never quite associate swans with serenity but in that setting I could see it .

TARA SMITHSON -Wildlife & Nature Photographer 📸1

Amazing. Beautiful 3 layers of depth Rina. 🦢

Atlantic Birding
@atlanticbirding.bsky.social

🪶 Rob has picked #ItsAllWhite as today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme; bird with white plumage. Alternative is #RedHeads I have a Cattle Egret on a rock against a green background #birdphotography #ECK #birds #photography #birdsofbluesky #nature

A Cattle Egret perched on the top of a large rock. The bird is centre of frame, looking left so that its left side is showing. Its neck is tucked into its body, giving it a short, company shape. It has a short, yellow bill and white plumage all over, there are hints of orange around its crown and neck. Its legs are long and black. The sunshine is coming in from the right and behind the bird, giving a slightly backlit appearance. The top of the rock the bird is on is in the foreground, peaking out and the background is out of focus green grass
1488h ago
Barrie Cull2

I love that bright green background AB. Lovely photo 🙂

Alan H1

Fabulous shot AB. Boy it pops against the green.

Mike Melton
@mikemelton.bsky.social

I think the Slaty Flowerpiercer is an appropriate #birdoftheday for #FlowerPower #birds These birds puncture the base of flowers with their hooked bill and lick up nectar with their tongue. #CostaRica

A small dark gray bird feeds from a bright pink flower against a softly blurred green background.
1299h ago
Karen M1

Your photos are so amazing, and the added info is interesting. 😍

Marjo Slingerland-Boks
@marjosl.eurosky.social

Rob @robcrank68.bsky.social have set the themes for #BirdOfTheDay today on #ItsAllWhite or the alt #RedHeads #ECK #Birds #mobilephonephotography Here is the beautiful swan where I have a earlier post a photo from.

Lovely swan gliding through the water where the clouds in are reflected from the sky.
1147h ago
Graham Jones1

Beautiful image and the reflection is perfect Mar.

Alan H1

What’s fabulous shot Mar. Perfect. 🤩 😘

Tony Ramsden
@tramo.bsky.social

@robcrank68.bsky.social #BirdOfTheDay #ItsAllWhite #Birds #Photography Albino Blackbird

1048h ago
alisonwillis1.bsky.social3

How interesting, I've seen leucistic birds with lots of white but never all white. Fab shot.

sandy b.1

A gorgeous little oddity! Lovely shot✨

Kis Brink1

Nice. Given the number of blackbirds in my area I'd like the odds of seeing a white one. If only probability worked that way...

Thea (Learn Birds)1

True albinos are so rare in Blackbirds. Most "white" ones are leucistic with some pigment left somewhere. Either way striking to see against the berries this time of year.

Aj d'Wit (Audrey)
@audjde.bsky.social

The only white bird I have photos of is this #Sulphur-CrestedCockatoo who came to visit one afternoon with some sad news ... but that's another story. Think he'll do for Rob's #BirdOfTheDay theme: #ItsAllWhite (bird's main colour is white) #ECK #Australia #Birds #Joel'sStory

A big white bird sits on a backyard clothesline. The bird is all white, with a black beak, black eyes, a yellow crest, and pale yellow underparts on his tail feathers. He is facing left. (The Sulphur-crested Cockatoo is a large white cockatoo. It has a dark grey-black bill, a distinctive sulphur-yellow crest and a yellow wash on the underside of the wings. Sexes are similar, although the female can be separated at close range by its red-brown eye (darker brown in the male). This is a noisy and conspicuous cockatoo, both at rest and in flight. Young Sulphur-crested Cockatoos resemble the adults.)
1086h ago
TARA SMITHSON -Wildlife & Nature Photographer 📸2

Nothing more Aussie than a cockatoo on a Hills hoist. 🫶🕊

Marjo Slingerland-Boks1

Ohhh this is just so lovely and beautiful Audrey 🤍😍

Aintright
@aintright.bsky.social

Gayle the Gannet #ItsAllWhite #BirdOfTheDay #birds #wildlifephotography #birdwatching #UKwildlife #birdphotography #photography

965h ago
Tom1

Mhhm 😋 That looks like a nice little painting in creamy 🍦 pastel colo(u)rs

Neil Cameron1

What a beautiful shot. I always love how Gannets are one of those birds where, much like Guillemots, the feathers are so incredibly smooth.

Gray
@grays.art

Red-headed woodpecker impression (Melanerpes erythrocephalus) vs. a blue sky CREW pen flint strand Bonita Springs, Florida 4-13-26 Rob’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is birds with white plumage: #ItsAllWhite. Alt is #RedHeads, & feeling alternative. #colorADay #redWed #ECK #birds #birding #threeWordGenre

A close-up shot of a Red-headed Woodpecker perched profile-view on a weathered, bare tree branch that extends diagonally from the lower right. The bird features a vibrant, fully solid crimson-red head, neck, and throat, contrasting sharply with a clean, stark white underbelly and bold black and white wings. The background is a solid, cloudless vivid blue sky, creating a clean look that highlights the striking colors of the bird.
777h ago
Aj d'Wit (Audrey)1

This is a beautiful bird. Great photo, Gray. 👍🏼

Dave Meredith
@davemeredith.bsky.social

Today's alternative #BirdOfTheDay theme is #RedHeads. A male Redpoll on a snow drift at -30°C. Also a post for #ColourADay #RedWed #Saskatchewan #ECK #photography #birds #nature #wildlife #Kodachrome #1990s #ManualFocus #ColorADay

708h ago
Neil Cameron
@neilcam57.bsky.social

Rob Crank Photography's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #ItsAllWhite Easy peasy with a Sulphur-crested Cockatoo in a patch of light in the shadow. #ECK #birds #birdphotography #birdsofbluesky #wildlife #nature #Photography #Nikon #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBlueSky

Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (Cacatua galerita) foraging on the ground in a patch of light in the shadow.
585h ago
Marjo Slingerland-Boks1

What a beauty in this light ✨️ 🤍

TARA SMITHSON -Wildlife & Nature Photographer 📸
@tarasmithson.bsky.social

Spoonbills are one of my favourite birds ever. They remind me of Big Bird. Except white instead of yellow. 🐥 #ItsAllWhite #BirdOfTheDay #Birds #BirdPhotography #NaturePhotography

A detailed, sharp profile photograph capturing the head and neck of a Royal Spoonbill in crisp lateral profile, facing left against a dark, softly blurred background. The white plumage of its crest and neck is clearly textured, leading to its dark, bare facial skin which accentuates a striking red eye with a yellow-orange orbital ring (that looks like a yellow eyebrow) . Its characteristic long, black-spotted spoon-shaped bill extends horizontally across the left side of the frame. The lighting is bright, highlighting the details of the bill and plumage.
558h ago
Amy Gann1

Gorgeous shot! When I lived in NM one ended up there for a couple of days. Sadly, I didnt get to see it! So glad you get to so you can share with the rest of us!

Emma1

I do love spoonbills! They are hilarious when they fly! I was driving my car under one that happened to be flying overhead along the road, everytime it adjusted course, it’s head & neck would zigzag first, then the body would follow 😆

Rina1

Great portrait shot, Tara 👏

Michael R Photography 🌿
@msriffle.bsky.social

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #ItsAllWhite, where white is the birds main color. I made many images of this beautiful snowy egret on an early morning at our local wildlife refuge. #photography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #ECK #birds #Birdsky #birders #birdsinflight #NikonZ8 #conservation

573h ago
Mark Brandriss1

Great photo, really highlights the golden slippers.

Aj d'Wit (Audrey)1

Looks like angel wings on the Egret (if there is such as thing as angels). Majestic bird, and photo. 👌

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