Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is: #UnusualPlaces any bird that turns up in a place where you wouldn't normally expect to see it! For me it was this Reed Bunting way out on a beach! (more in Alt text) 🪶📷 Alt: #SereneBirdScene bird images that have a peaceful and calm mood. Happy Sunday! 🕊️

A photograph of a heavily streaked brown female Reed Bunting seen in side profile as she searches for food (mainly flies) on a pile of seaweed. The bird is surrounded by seaweed that blurs into the distance with buff white tones from the sand in to the distance. A fly can be seen out of focus flying in front of her on the right hand side. It is not completely uncommon to see a reed bunting near a beach. Reed Buntings in the UK normally live in wetlands, marshes, and damp farmland, but can be found in and around coastal habitats like salt marshes and grassy sand dunes often adjacent to beaches. What seemed unusual though was to see this bird away from the shore, any tall vegetation, dunes or marshes but instead was half way down a sandy beach, almost to the ocean waves at low tide. She was very well camouflaged I nearly didn't see her!