Share Your Best Photo of the Day

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14 hours ago, Aidan B said:

My best ever White-throated Swift shot!!!

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This is AWESOME! A very difficult bird to photograph!

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14 hours ago, IKLland said:

Here is something a little different 

You should post this one in Birdscapes also.

[smskelton]

Little Egret, Garden Coast, South Africa

[Trevor L.]

https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/407418731

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Butter Butt-posing and showing off a bit of it's yellow crown in our backyard today.

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This Painted Bunting has been coming around for the last few days but not sticking around for photos until today. He stuck around today and shared a little breakfast with a few Chipping Sparrows.

[Johnd]

 

[IKLland]

8 hours ago, Clip said:

You should post this one in Birdscapes also.

I did

[IKLland]

9 hours ago, Tim Emmerzaal said:

Another Great Cormorant

 

https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/407507071

 

Nice shot!

[IKLland]

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[Aidan B]

https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/407636241

https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/407636191

[floraphile]

[xpoetmarcr]

[IKLland]

7 minutes ago, xpoetmarcr said:

Beautiful!

[hbvol50]

[Jodi Nielson]

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13 hours ago, IKLland said:

I did

I saw that right after I posted the message.?

[smskelton]

To me, this Hepatic Tanager is an interesting picture, because it illustrates the conflict about taking pictures in the bright sunlight.  While colors are bright and vivid, you also get shadows.  As you can see, this picture was taken in the middle of the day by the way the shadow sits on the bird.  On the other hand, this was taken in Patagonia, Az during our travels and I was having a hard time believing that I had a Hepatic Tanager in my viewfinder.

[dragon49]

Nothing very special about this iPhone picture of a parking lot Boat-tailed Grackle standing in a puddle, but it does quality as my best photo of the day and I want to contribute something:

[Avery]

17 hours ago, hbvol50 said:

Nice, you got it!

[BlueJay]

There were hundreds of these guys in Texas!

https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/407906621

[neilpa]

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[Johnd]

6 hours ago, BlueJay said:

There were hundreds of these guys in Texas!

https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/407906621

Estero Llano Grande State park is a great spot.

 

[Tim Emmerzaal]

I was lucky to spot a flock of long-tailed tits that were not spooked by my presence! It took many shots with branches in front of their face to get this one, but sometimes you have to get lucky, I guess. Next time I will get a better shot (background) of these little balls of fluff!

 

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[smskelton]

The Sunderland Wash in Catalina State Park in Tucson is a watercourse that comes out of the Catalina Mountains.  A Hohokam village existed on the hillsides just above the wash from around 500 to 1150.  They were farmers and used the flat area next to the wash, about 500 yards wide, for farming crops.  After the culture dispersed a Spanish family named Romero inhabited the land and raised cattle.  Now the ruins of the village, and the Romero family "ranch" are an attraction that visitors can tour with information plaques to tell about the history.  The flat area by the wash is overgrown with trees and foliage now and in some areas it is nearly impassable.  Sometimes, I take my camera and quietly try to negotiate the overgrown area to see what is there.  That is when I found this female Northern Cardinal.