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This bee is best known for the habit of cutting semi circles from leaf's with the large jaws to make sausage-shaped cells in their cavities from the leaf segments. Can be seen and found in habitats such as gardens, parks etc from May-August.
The central black 'anchor' mark on the face would help show that this species is a common wasp. This is the wasp that will readily enter houses and can be found in various habitats such as gardens and parks. Just goes to show that even insects like to have a clean to help stay in shape as seen here. A typical cavity nester that will nest in aerial situations and in the ground. Seen from mid March to mid November.
A female Downy who very briefly stopped from excavating a nesting cavity.
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Tel un Petit duc maculé, cette Chouette rayée a choisi cette cavité pour se reposer pendant la journée et faire un brin de toilette.
Just like an Eastern Screech Owl this Barred Owl chose this cavity for the day to rest and preen itself.
Merci Sylvain...
Chouette rayée
Barred Owl
Strix Varia
Grand merci pour votre visite, vos commentaires et vos favoris. Je les apprécie sincèrement.
Many thanks for your visit, your comments and favorites, I appreciate them deeply!
Hou hou hou-hou
Hou hou hou-houââa
J'ai eu le privilège, avec mon ami Sylvain, d'entendre la délicieuse mélodie de cette Chouette rayée. Vous la voyez ici en plein chant la gorge gonflée. Elle s'est avancée un peu plus sur les abords de la cavité pour nous offrir son air harmonieux et puissant. Doux bonheur !
What a privilege to hear this Barred Owl singing powerfully its aria with my friend Sylvain. You can see here that its neck is all puffed up from the singing. It moved forward of the cavity to offer its most beautiful and harmonious song.
Chouette rayée
Barred Owl
Stix varia
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Mother Nature creates perfect teeth with these icicle-covered branches at the shore of Lake Ontario.
Barn Owl - Tyto Alba
Like most owls, the barn owl is nocturnal, relying on its acute sense of hearing when hunting in complete darkness. It often becomes active shortly before dusk and can sometimes be seen during the day when relocating from one roosting site to another. In Britain, on various Pacific Islands and perhaps elsewhere, it sometimes hunts by day. This practice may depend on whether the owl is mobbed by other birds if it emerges in daylight. However, in Britain, some birds continue to hunt by day even when mobbed by such birds as magpies, rooks and black-headed gulls, such diurnal activity possibly occurring when the previous night has been wet making hunting difficult. By contrast, in southern Europe and the tropics, the birds seem to be almost exclusively nocturnal, with the few birds that hunt by day being severely mobbed.
Barn owls are not particularly territorial but have a home range inside which they forage. For males in Scotland this has a radius of about 1 km (0.6 mi) from the nest site and an average size of about 300 hectares. Female home ranges largely coincide with that of their mates. Outside the breeding season, males and females usually roost separately, each one having about three favoured sites in which to conceal themselves by day, and which are also visited for short periods during the night. Roosting sites include holes in trees, fissures in cliffs, disused buildings, chimneys and haysheds and are often small in comparison to nesting sites. As the breeding season approaches, the birds move back to the vicinity of the chosen nest to roost.
Once a pair-bond has been formed, the male will make short flights at dusk around the nesting and roosting sites and then longer circuits to establish a home range. When he is later joined by the female, there is much chasing, turning and twisting in flight, and frequent screeches, the male's being high-pitched and tremulous and the female's lower and harsher. At later stages of courtship, the male emerges at dusk, climbs high into the sky and then swoops back to the vicinity of the female at speed. He then sets off to forage. The female meanwhile sits in an eminent position and preens, returning to the nest a minute or two before the male arrives with food for her. Such feeding behaviour of the female by the male is common, helps build the pair-bond and increases the female's fitness before egg-laying commences.
Barn owls are cavity nesters. They choose holes in trees, fissures in cliff faces, the large nests of other birds such as the hamerkop (Scopus umbretta) and, particularly in Europe and North America, old buildings such as farm sheds and church towers. Buildings are preferred to trees in wetter climates in the British Isles and provide better protection for fledglings from inclement weather. Trees tend to be in open habitats rather than in the middle of woodland and nest holes tend to be higher in North America than in Europe because of possible predation.
This bird has suffered declines through the 20th century and is thought to have been adversely affected by organochlorine pesticides such as DDT in the 1950s and '60s.
Nocturnal birds like the barn owl are poorly monitored by the Breeding Bird Survey and, subject to this caveat, numbers may have increased between 1995-2008.
Barn owls are a Schedule 1 and 9 species.
Population:
UK breeding:
4,000 pairs
Europe:
110-220,000 pairs
Bien cachée au fond de sa cavité pendant la journée le deuxième bébé Chouette rayée se montra aux abords de la cavité alors que nous nous apprêtions à quitter.
Well hidden in the cavity during the day (we thought it had already left) this second owlet appeared around the cavity as we were leaving.
Chouette rayée - Juvénile
Barred Owl - Juvenile
Stix varia
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Two adorable raccoon kits peeking out of a tree cavity. Baby raccoons are up there on the top of the list for the cutest babies in my opinion!
* Le Gardeur, Québec, Canada *
• Formerly the rural parish of Saint-Paul-l'Ermite established in 1856 and former town located 35 km east of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Le Gardeur is now a district of the city of Repentigny.
• Anciennement la paroisse rurale de Saint-Paul-l'Ermite fondée en 1856 et ancienne ville située à 35 km à l'est de Montréal, Québec, Canada. Le Gardeur est maintenant un quartier de la ville de Repentigny.
• Anteriormente la parroquia rural de St. Paul el Ermitaño fundada en 1856 y antigua ciudad situada a 35 km al este de Montreal, Quebec, Canadá. Le Gardeur es ahora un distrito de la ciudad de Repentigny.
Red-bellied Woodpecker creating a nesting cavity high in Shagbark Hickory tree. The woods rattle from the activity.
Common and abundant permanent resident.
Snow Bunting - Plectrophenax Nivalis
Snow buntings are large buntings, with striking 'snowy' plumages. Males in summer have all white heads and underparts contrasting with a black mantle and wing tips. Females are a more mottled above. In autumn and winter birds develop a sandy/buff wash to their plumage and males have more mottled upperparts.
Globally, they breed around the arctic from Scandinavia to Alaska, Canada and Greenland and migrate south in winter. They are a scarce breeding species in the UK, in Scotland, making them an Amber List species. They are more widespread in winter in the north and east when residents are joined by continental birds.
They are listed under Schedule 1 of the Wildlife & Countryside Act.
The snow bunting lives in very high latitudes in the Arctic tundra. There is no apparent limit to its northern range, while the southern range is limited by the duration of daylight, which influences their reproductive activity. This species is found in the high Arctic tundra of North America, Ellesmere Island, Iceland, higher mountains of Scotland, Norway, Russia, North Greenland, Siberia, Novaya Zemlya, and Franz Josef Land. During the winter, this bird migrates to the circumglobal northern temperate zone including the south of Canada, north of the United States, north of Germany, Poland, Ukraine, and east to central Asia. During the last ice age, the snow bunting was widespread throughout continental Europe.
During the breeding period the snow bunting looks for rocky habitats in the Arctic Since the vegetation in the tundra is low growing, this bird and its nestlings are exposed to predators, and in order to ensure the survival of its offspring, the snow bunting nests in cavities in order to protect the nestlings from any threat. During this period, buntings also look for a habitat rich in vegetation such as wet sedge meadows and areas rich in dryas and lichens. In the winter, they look for open habitats such as farms and fields where they feed on seeds in the ground.
Population:
UK breeding:
60 pairs
UK wintering:
10,000-15,000 birds
Sparrows inspecting a branch cavity.
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A rock face pitted and colored by a near constant flow of water.
Thanks to [https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050464@N06] I now know this is a copper stain which makes sense as they do a lot of copper mining in this area.
This delightful little male downy woodpecker just recently left the nest cavity that had been his home since hatching out earlier in the spring. At this stage in life he's still very timid and darts away at the first sign of danger, including any other approaching birds but he'll quickly learn that cardinals and blue jays don't pose any real problem. That red cap will disappear and a new red spot will show up at the back of his head as he ages into an adult.
This little guy was sunning himself in the same exact spot I saw him last year! It was so cute to see him in the heart shaped cavity.
A surprise encounter on a recent trip up to the Sierra’s. I was busy shooting some landscapes when I saw this guy leave this cavity. Grabbed my big lens and got some great shots of both the male and female. This guy completed my California woodpecker list.
Nuthatch - Sitta europaea
The Eurasian nuthatch or wood nuthatch (Sitta europaea) is a small passerine bird found throughout temperate Asia and in Europe, where its name is the nuthatch. Like other nuthatches, it is a short-tailed bird with a long bill, blue-grey upperparts and a black eye-stripe. It is a vocal bird with a repeated loud dwip call. There are more than 20 subspecies in three main groups; birds in the west of the range have orange-buff underparts and a white throat, those in Russia have whitish underparts, and those in the Far East have a similar appearance to European birds, but lack the white throat.
The preferred habitat is mature deciduous or mixed woodland with large, old trees, preferably oak. Pairs hold permanent territories, and nest in tree holes, usually old woodpecker nests, but sometimes natural cavities. If the entrance to the hole is too large, the female plasters it with mud to reduce its size, and often coats the inside of the cavity too. The 6–9 red-speckled white eggs are laid on a deep base of pine or other wood chips.
The Eurasian nuthatch eats mainly insects, particularly caterpillars and beetles, although in autumn and winter its diet is supplemented with nuts and seeds. The young are fed mainly on insects, with some seeds, food items mainly being found on tree trunks and large branches. The nuthatch can forage when descending trees head first, as well as when climbing. It readily visits bird tables, eating fatty man-made food items as well as seeds. It is an inveterate hoarder, storing food year-round. Its main natural predator is the Eurasian sparrowhawk.
It breeds throughout England and Wales and has recently began to breed in southern Scotland. It is a resident, with birds seldom travelling far from the woods where they hatch.
Population:
UK breeding:
220,000 territories
I had the recent pleasure to spend some time on the Pacific coast of Oaxaca , Mexico....a daily walk in a park near to my hotel yielded a load of new and wonderful bird species. Including this VERY TINY Pygmy Owl...even better , it was nesting in a cavity of a palm tree , and it showed itself quite willingly. My first time seeing and photographing this tiny tropical version of its cousin the Northern Pygmy Owl. I spent a few minutes with it, observed it moving about the park , barely able to see it when it landed on various perches! This little owl measures maybe 6 inches in length and weighs very little!!! Amazing little one isnt it!!!
A European Starling (Sturnus vulgaris) brings food to its young in a nest cavity of an old tree tree on the edge of the Great Sandhills south of Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada.
1 June, 2011.
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La Fuentona de Muriel, Cabrejas del Pinar, Soria, Castilla y León, España.
La Fuentona es un manantial natural que da lugar al nacimiento del río Abión, en la provincia de Soria (comunidad de Castilla y León, España). El conjunto de la surgencia y su entorno natural fue declarado monumento natural el 12 de noviembre de 1998 mediante el decreto 238/1998.1 Está situado en los términos municipales de Cabrejas del Pinar y Muriel de la Fuente.
Las características especiales de este espacio natural que le confieren un valor diferencial y han hecho de él objeto de protección son:
Ejemplo de acuífero y surgencia acompañado de pequeñas fuentes dentro de un sistema hidrológico.
Conserva comunidades faunísticas de singular rareza, que constituyen inapreciables muestras de material genético en extremo peligro de desaparición.
Mantener unas formaciones geológicas y geomorfológicas propias, como son los sistemas y complejos kársticos, formando parte del más extenso de los existentes en su ámbito territorial.
El Monumento Natural de la Fuentona es uno de los seis monumentos naturales existentes en la Comunidad de Castilla y León. Se ubica en el término municipal de Cabrejas del Pinar, en las proximidades de Muriel de la Fuente, en la provincia de Soria.
Está constituido por un conjunto de barrancos y desfiladeros flanqueados por impresionantes formaciones rocosas de origen calizo y conformados en los alrededores del río Abión. El nacimiento de este río ocurre en el lugar conocido como “La Fuentona de Muriel”. Se trata de una surgencia de aguas subterráneas que después de recorrer multitud de cavidades rocosas salen al exterior para configurar en su recorrido multitud de rincones en los que la naturaleza se aprecia en toda su plenitud.
La Fuentona de Muriel, enclave principal del Monumento Natura, es el drenaje natural del acuífero de la Sierra de Cabrejas el cual está constituido por rocas kársticas en las que el agua a lo largo de los años ha creado infinidad de grutas y cavernas cubiertas de agua en todo o en parte.
La Fuentona is a natural spring that gives rise to the source of the Abión river, in the province of Soria (community of Castilla y León, Spain). The set of the upwelling and its natural environment was declared a natural monument on November 12, 1998 by decree 238/1998.1 It is located in the municipalities of Cabrejas del Pinar and Muriel de la Fuente.
The special characteristics of this natural space that give it a differential value and have made it an object of protection are:
Example of an aquifer and upwelling accompanied by small sources within a hydrological system.
It conserves faunal communities of singular rarity, which constitute invaluable samples of genetic material in extreme danger of disappearance.
Maintain its own geological and geomorphological formations, such as karst systems and complexes, forming part of the most extensive of those existing in its territorial area.
The Fuentona Natural Monument is one of the six existing natural monuments in the Community of Castilla y León. It is located in the municipality of Cabrejas del Pinar, near Muriel de la Fuente, in the province of Soria.
It is made up of a set of ravines and gorges flanked by impressive limestone rock formations and formed around the Abión River. The source of this river occurs in the place known as “La Fuentona de Muriel”. It is about an upwelling of underground water that, after traveling through a multitude of rocky cavities, goes outside to configure a multitude of corners in which nature is appreciated in all its fullness.
The Fuentona de Muriel, the main enclave of the Natura Monument, is the natural drainage of the aquifer of the Sierra de Cabrejas which is made up of karst rocks in which the water over the years has created countless caves and caverns covered with water. in whole or in part.
Little Owl - Athena noctua (M)
The little owl (Athene noctua) is a bird that inhabits much of the temperate and warmer parts of Europe, Asia east to Korea, and north Africa. It was introduced into Britain at the end of the nineteenth century and into the South Island of New Zealand in the early twentieth century.
This owl is a cavity nester and a clutch of about four eggs is laid in spring. The female does the incubation and the male brings food to the nest, first for the female and later for the newly hatched young. As the chicks grow, both parents hunt and bring them food, and the chicks leave the nest at about seven weeks of age.
The distribution is widespread across Europe, Asia and North Africa. Its range in Eurasia extends from the Iberian Peninsula and Denmark eastwards to China and southwards to the Himalayas. In Africa it is present from Mauritania to Egypt, the Red Sea and Arabia. The bird has been introduced to New Zealand, and to the United Kingdom, where it has spread across much of England and the whole of Wales.
This is a sedentary species which is found in open countryside in a great range of habitats. These include agricultural land with hedgerows and trees, orchards, woodland verges, parks and gardens, as well as steppes and stony semi-deserts. It is also present in treeless areas such as dunes, and in the vicinity of ruins, quarries and rocky outcrops. It sometimes ventures into villages and suburbs. In the United Kingdom it is chiefly a bird of the lowlands, and usually occurs below 500 m (1,600 ft).
In continental Europe and Asia it may be found at much higher elevations; one individual was recorded from 3,600 m (12,000 ft) in Tibet.
The little owl is territorial, the male normally remaining in one territory for life. However the boundaries may expand and contract, being largest in the courtship season in spring. The home range, in which the bird actually hunts for food, varies with the type of habitat and time of year. Little owls with home-ranges that incorporate a high diversity of habitats are much smaller (< 2 ha) than those which breed in monotonous farmland (with home-ranges over 12 ha).
The little owl is partly diurnal and often perches boldly and prominently during the day. If living in an area with a large amount of human activity, little owls may grow used to humans and will remain on their perch, often in full view, while people are around. The little owl has a life expectancy of about sixteen years. However, many birds do not reach maturity; severe winters can take their toll and some birds are killed by road vehicles at night, so the average lifespan may be on the order of three years.
Breeding Bird Survey data suggest that little owl numbers are declining, with the UK population estimated to be down by 24 per cent between 1995 and 2008.
UK breeding:
5,700 pairs
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This Northern Flicker is looking out from a cavity that it had been busy excavating as a nest site (see this photo of it at work www.flickr.com/photos/luminouscompositions/51498454866/in... and another view of it at the cavity entrance www.flickr.com/photos/luminouscompositions/51499171034/in... ). This is a male intergrade (between the red-shafted and yellow-shafted forms), recognized by its red malar stripe and red nape patch. This individual was seen near the Bow River in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Chestnut Teals look beautiful floating on the water and that's where I'm used to photograph them. I came upon this male when he was inspecting a cavity in a dead tree some 3 meters above the ground. That's what the Wood Ducks usually do when looking for a suitable nesting site. I wonder what he had in mind.
This little guy was sunning himself in the same exact spot I saw him last year! It was so cute to see him in the heart shaped cavity.
"Barn Owls nest and roost in cavities, abandoned barns and other buildings, and dense trees. At night, Barn Owls hunt by flying low, back and forth over open habitats, searching for small rodents primarily by sound. Up to 46 different races of the Barn Owl have been described worldwide. The North American form is the largest, weighing more than twice as much as the smallest race from the Galapagos Islands. Barn Owl females are somewhat showier than males. She has a more reddish and more heavily spotted chest. The spots may indicate the quality of the female. Heavily spotted females get fewer parasitic flies and may be more resistant to parasites and diseases. The spots may also stimulate the male to help more at the nest. In an experiment where some females’ spots were removed, their mates fed their nestlings less often than for females whose spots were left alone. The Barn Owl has excellent low-light vision, and can easily find prey at night by sight. But its ability to locate prey by sound alone is the best of any animal that has ever been tested." Information from the All About Birds website, www.allaboutbirds.org, © Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
"Skałki PIEKŁO pod Niekłaniem" reserve - the Stąporków Forest District. My wife and I went on this trip spontaneously, it's only 50 km. We arrived at the parking lot in the late afternoon. You still had to walk with a backpack and a tripod about 3 km to the place of the reserve, which for me (after the collapse) was quite a challenge. In the slowly falling dusk, in the middle of the forest, majestic rocks, approx. 150 m long and 7 m high, have emerged. Established in the early Jurassic period about 200 million years ago, it was then a coastal zone of the shallow sea covering the present Świętokrzyskie Mountains. We were on our way back when it was getting dark and rain was falling - but it was worth it.
Hitech ND 0.9 ( x8 ) GRAD SOFT (85x110) .
Cavity Inspector - Female Great-horned Owl inspecting a tree cavity (I believe the tree is some type of walnut). While these owls didn't end up selecting this cavity for a nest, it was a treat to observe and capture this image, thanks to my buddy who puts in a lot of work observing and photographing this species among other owls.
Species: Great-horned Owl (Bubo virginianus)
Location: Northern California, CA, USA
Equipment: Canon EOS R7 + RF 100-500mm IS
Settings: 1/5s, ISO: 2500, f/7.1 @800mm EFL, On Tripod, Remote Release
Tree swallows (Tachycineta bicolor - Hirundinidae) at their nest in a cavity in a branch of a poplar tree (Populus deltoides, - Salicaceae).
Uihlein Waterfowl Production Area,
Leopold Wetland Management District
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Waukau, Winnebago County, Wisconsin
AP210339m
Even though the Northern Flicker as a species is not particularly heavy, weighing some 130 grams (less than 5 oz) on average, it is nevertheless a substantial bird {as I have appreciated while holding them during banding}. An indication of that heft comes from the size of the nest cavity, which is about 10 cm (4 in) in diameter. The compact sturdiness of a Northern Flicker stands it well in winter, when the primary diet of insects (especially ants and ant larvae) is mainly replaced by berries and seeds. This image shows both the red malar stripes of a male — in this case of the intergrade form (although the red nape is not visible, this is the same individual as here: www.flickr.com/photos/luminouscompositions/51498454866/in... ).
This Northern Flicker was removing dried grasses from a cavity, apparently in preparation for nesting. This intriguing behaviour was witnessed in Carburn Park, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The bird doing some ‘housework’ here is a male of the red-shafted form.
Black-bellied Whistling Duck nesting in tree cavity - I learned that Black-bellied Whistling ducks are cavity nesters. I also watched a changing of the guard as the pair switched spots on the nest.
This photo, and my last post are both images from a Screamin'Sicilian pizza box. I blacked out everything but the teeth and the lines. HSS!
Australian Capital Territory
From eBird: Large white cockatoo with a spectacular plumed yellow crest and dark bill. Often erects its crest immediately upon landing. Occurs in a wide variety of woodland habitats, including urban parks and gardens. Calls include extremely loud harsh screeches lacking any musical quality whatsoever. Commonest call, both in flight and when perched, is a very harsh grating note. When perched, vocabulary more diverse, with most notes having similar tonal quality to flight call, combined with nasal squeals and squawks.
We were on the hunt for Gang Gang and Glossy-Black Cockatoos when we came upon this Sulphur-crested Cockatoo at her nest hole. Although the bird flew in and out several times with food, we didn't get to see her feed the chicks as they stayed hidden in the nest cavity.
A male Wood Duck seems all puffed up - standing on some wood running through a mangrove swamp.
A detailed view of his webbed feet is evident here - revealing the claws that allow the Wood Duck to climb through the wooden labyrinth that is a mangrove swamp.
Wood Ducks were almost eliminated by the end of the 19th century due to hunting and loss of habitat, they nest in cavities. Their numbers have since stabilized.
They are unlike other ducks where they live. Audubon states: "Beautiful and unique, this duck of woodland ponds and river swamps has no close relatives, except for the Mandarin Duck of eastern Asia."
With the naked eye - this duck looked like a patch of color through the mangrove roots, if you stood in one specific spot - otherwise, it wasn't visible. Given the APS sensor in use, this was shot at around 900mm through a small opening in the roots. Due to the marvel of modern camera, lenses, extenders, etc., I was able to hand hold the rig and get this clear photo. Except for some long exposures I no longer use a tri or mono pod.