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Bird of the Day, theme 'Frightful Feathers'

natureOct 30, 20261352,944

A grackle on pale, spiderwebbed branches with its nictitating membrane up gave a literal spooky pose. Others read the brief as menace: a Common Buzzard stared down as it approached. Some took gothic settings, a Common Woodpigeon perched on a mossy gravestone evoked cemetery eeriness. It asked for eerie, mysterious or spooky birds.

Walter the Wren shouting at the neighbours as usual.
@aintright.bsky.social191
Common Buzzard
@thegardenjungle.bsky.social138
theme @helenbennett.bsky.social - eerie, mysterious or spooky birds 😳🫣
@janesgallery.bsky.social126
A Sparrowhawk close up shot. The is visible from the breast up and takes up the shot bottom to centre of the shot. It is facing and looking directly at the camera with both yellow eyes staring. The bird has a grey, hooked beak with a yellow cere and bright yellow eyes with large black pupils. Its head is brown and neck, breast, belly and underparts are a creamish white with heavy brown barring. To the right of the bird there is a thin branch in the foreground covered with black leaves, with small branches visible to the left. The background is a white grey sky
@atlanticbirding.bsky.social114
My has to be this Lesser Adjutant taken in Vietnam last year. Certainly won’t win any beauty contests!
@markbirdingpinoso.bsky.social104
Little Wattlebird (Anthochaera chrysoptera) perched in a tree, Parrearra, Queensland. Bird is facing the viewer, but with it's head turned to the right.
@neilcam57.bsky.social86
Today's alternative theme is . The most regularly seen species for the 18 years we've lived here is the Black-capped Chickadee.
@davemeredith.bsky.social96
A grackle stands on pale branches that are covered with spiderwebs. The bird's nictitating membrane is covering its eye
@amygann.bsky.social86
I love visiting ponds and lakes so the birds I see most often are ducks. They often appear on my photos when I may be taking photos of something else.
@laurette1.bsky.social62
Who you calling frightful? A Lappet-faced vulture lurks in the shadows... For the theme of by @helenbennett.bsky.social
@taminf.bsky.social62
Carrion Crow on a gravestone counts as a for @helenbennett.bsky.social’s Halloween themes: , eerie, mysterious, or spooky bird and , the bird seen most often! @
@emyr-wyn.bsky.social58
A close-up photograph of a short-eared owl perched on a branch, partially framed by bare twigs. The owl is looking slightly to the side with large, piercing yellow eyes surrounded by dark, mask-like feather patches. Its plumage is a mottled mix of tawny brown and cream, blending into the soft, warm-toned background of dry foliage.
@alisonwillis1.bsky.social52
A barn owl flying straight towards me with its wings wide open in a bit of an L shape against a dark black and green background.
@ronm123photo.bsky.social45
Turkey Vulture on what’s, in my mind, a very fitting kind of perch—old, gnarled, very dead wood…cold-intolerant…northwestern populations winter in South America
@lindaking78.bsky.social45
Today's theme, set by @helenbennett.bsky.social, is - any eerie, mysterious, or spooky birds! White Backed Vulture, Tanzania 🪶
@splphoto.bsky.social38
is the theme today. White-tailed Kite with those spooky red eyes....
@supertamtam.bsky.social36
A action shot of a small raptor, an Nankeen kestrel, captured mid-flight as it descends towards bare tree branches. The kestrel faces right with its beak open and yellow talons extended downward, ready to perch. Its wings are fully arched upward and forward, revealing pale, speckled underfeathers, while its tail is fanned wide, displaying a distinctive reddish-brown pattern edged with a black band and white tips. The background features a soft, overcast grey sky with out-of-focus, silhouetted branches.
@tarasmithson.bsky.social37
Today's ALT theme is . Brown pelicans are right up there.
@msriffle.bsky.social43
I've gone for Helen's Alt today: - the birds you see most often! The Robin wins hands down! Have a good day folks .bsky.social .scotland.bsky.social
@jcsctoan.bsky.social33
strikes a pose
@tomfinnerty.bsky.social34
Say what you will, this is a Count Duckula is the dread of the avian world...
@briancondra.bsky.social36
theme of set by @helenbennett.bsky.social It seems wrong that something as cute as an can be associated with bad things. I suppose the night was a lot more frig
@rickybirdman.bsky.social35
Crows are gathering on and around a secluded electrical transmission tower. The photographed steel, conductors, insulators and crows are set against a gray sky and sparse clouds. At the base of the tower mature trees twenty to forty feet tall provide a measure for the height of the transmission lines.
@0neof8bn.bsky.social31
A spooooky black and white image of the face and upper body of a black crow with its "third eyelid" (nictitating membrane) closed, making its eye a veinous cloudy light blue colour.
@stevewaycott.bsky.social30
I've posted this before, but this shot of a normally fluffy or regal Snowy Owl fits today's theme of .
@invisitech.bsky.social34
Powerful Owl
@gdrosser.bsky.social32
Helen’s Halloween spirit theme - any eerie, mysterious, or spooky birds! That seems an apt description of the Cormorant, especially with its scale-like feathers
@dbminshall.bsky.social28
Close-up of a female sparrowhawk#s face, mostly in the shade, just her eye in sunlight.
@hummingbird-the.bsky.social29
Helen's today is I think this looks particularly spooky in this photo 👻
@onlyme56.bsky.social28
Helen's theme for is .
@saffacheech.bsky.social31

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