Hello Feathered Friends Lovers,

Welcome to #SMaP Show Me A Photo Contest Round 199

We are two days away from the new 2025. We had fantastic year and we will end it with Free Theme. How exciting is that? 🙂

I wish you all a better year, full with joy and laughter. In life we have ups and downs, let the ups be much more than downs. Enjoy the moments with the loved ones, family and friends.

I wish you many more encounters with our feathered friends and keep on making photos to share with us. 🙂

My example photo is of an Eurasian Goldfinch.

ROUND 199

SHOW ME A PICTURE OF BIRD

FREE THEME

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Now is your turn and let me see your photos of birds, but first read carefully the rules below⬇️

Rules

Show me your photo of a bird, following these rules:

• The photo must be your own.
• Post in the community Feathered Friends
• You may add more photos, but you should state which one is your entry, otherwise the first will be taken into account.
• Tell us something about your photo/s.
• Your photo must follow the weekly theme.
• Please put the link of your entry in the comment section of the contest post here.
• Put in the title of your post that this is an entry for the contest. (Optional)
• Use #smap as a tag.

Last, but not least - have fun!

If you create quality post with more images and interesting story about them, making extra effort can give you bigger upvotes and attract curators. Keep that in mind.

📣 UPDATE

Prizes:

Five winners and each winner will receive 2 Hive and 600 Ecency POINTS, thanks to Feathered Friend community, @barbara-oreny and @melinda010100. I am most grateful to the donation of Ecency Points provided from @archontribe by @ervin-lemark. Another 0.1 Hive will drop in your wallet if you are among the winners thanks to @sagarkothari88.

Thanks to @melinda010100 each winner will have 2 Archon.

Each valid entry will receive 60 Ecency Points as a tip!

Another generous donation in the reward pool will add 2 LOH tokens in the winners wallet. Thank you @silversaver888 and Ladies of Hive Community!

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Use the tag #slothbuzz to get support from Sloth.Buzz community.

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Please take you time to visit the blogs of our sponsors and give them some love. We are most grateful for their generosity.

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For those who are not familiar with Ecency POINTS - the ecency.com and its mobile version reward the users with POINTS when post, comment and using Ecency apps. The accumulated points can be used to promote your posts or to be gifted to other users.

📣 UPDATE

A new feature is introduced - Boost+ that allows to use your points to receive delegation. The old Boost is no longer in use and is replaced by the Boost+.

Now Feathered Friends Community begins receiving POINTS when you post in the community, thanks to the initiative created by Ecency. This way the community is earning POINTS and gladly will reward the winners with them.

Another feature introduced by Ecency is tipping from ecency.com. Now you can tip in Hive, Hive dollars or Points when you use ecency.com.

Feathered Friends Community is grateful to all who set the community as beneficiary on their posts. If you like to help the community, you may also donate HP to @hive-106444. Your support will help building higher VP and higher votes on your posts.

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