Barely edited nature photos
by a curious, amateur naturalist.
Hope you ❤️ spiders, bugs, birds & flowers!
📸 Daily original photo(s)
📸 Live critters
📸 In-the-field, manual & hand-held
📸 No tripod, studio, stacking, AI, nor burst
📸 Canon, Olympus & Apple eq
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Canada goose family
(Branta canadensis)
on an overcast May 18 day 2026
off Diversey near the Chicago River
Rob & Alan’s #BirdOfTheDay Theme is #Geese, any breed of Geese will do, the Alt Theme is #Robins, please use #ForJanet with Robin photos.
#birds #ECK #threewordgenre #birding #nature #family
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Tomorrow’s Flyday! 🪰 🦅 🐝 🦇 🦋
Post original photos & art of live, self-propelled, flying creatures. 1 or more submissions welcome tagged:
#FlyDay #ECK
Welcome no matter location, nor skill level.
#photography #Art #ArtChallenges #ArtPrompts #bugSky #birds
Questions/comments? @grays.art
Happy FlyDay. We made it!
Monarch butterfly egg
(Danaus plexippus)
on common milkweed & buds
(Asclepias syriaca)
Logan square neighborhood
Chicago, Illinois 6-9-26
🥚 at bottom right.
#flyDay #eck #macro #photography #macroPhotography #nature #art #threewordgenre #bugsky #monarchs #butterflies
Three Mottled Ducks
(Anas fulvigula)
Bonita Springs, Florida 5-7-26
Alan & Rob’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #TheGathering: flocks, colonies, or communal behaviour. The alt is a bird as part of a natural #LivingLandscape
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekWForWater #birds #photography #ECK #threeWordGenre
Yellow-crowned night heron
(Nyctanassa violacea)
Ding Darling national wildlife preserve
Sanibel Island, Florida 5-5-26
Alan & Rob’s #BirdOfTheDay theme celebrates #WorldOceansDay with sea, or river birds. Alt: your bird #GardenFavourites.
#birds #photography #ECK #threeWordGenre #blueskyMonday
Red-bellied woodpecker
(Melanerpes carolinus)
on sand pine branch
(Pinus clausa)
CREW flint pen strand lakes & trails
Bonita Springs, Florida 5-28-26
RoB & Alan’s #BirdOfTheDay Sunday theme is #BranchingOut, any bird standing/sitting on a branch, the Alt Theme is #Gulls, any Gull will do.
#eck
