9/27

Bird o' the Day

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I appreciate the compliments I get on my bird photography. I like to think I’m pretty good at it. But I’m not playing in the same league as the winning photographers in the Bird Photographer of the Year 2026 contest sponsored by Birds on the Brink, a UK-based charity funding bird science and restoration projects. These photographs are good!

I’ll post a few of the winners here, and if you’re of a mind for more you can visit their website.

A northern gannet seems to burst through the sun as it pierces down through the water off the coast of Scotland. Overall winner and Gold in the Birds in the Environment category. | © Henley Spiers / Bird Photographer of the Year
A short-eared owl courses over the salt marshes of British Columbia’s Fraser River Delta. Gold in the Birds in Flight category. | © Ivan Sjogren / Bird Photographer of the Year
Camouflaged against bark and shadow, a fledgling tawny frogmouth stretches its wings in what looks an attempt to protect its other siblings from the water droplets. Gold in the Bird Behaviour category. | © Donald Chin / Bird Photographer of the Year
A swarm of guillemots in Norway. Silver in the Birds in Flight category. | © Alex Pansier / Bird Photographer of the Year
Atlantic puffins on Skomer Island. Silver in the Best Portrait category. | © Volker Widmann / Bird Photographer of the Year

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