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She thought I didn't see her as my kayak rocked by waves sailed past her at a respectful distance, and I was happy to let her think so because I'm just as anxious as this female Common Loon to see her hatch out healthy babies. Even though I'm always hopeful, she may not be able to. Where she built her nest (unbeknownst to her) it is not on permanent shoreline and a nasty wind or speed boat will cause it to leave like a floating island and she will abandon the nest. This unusual breakage for this small lake is from high powered speed boats causing huge wakes against the shoreline.
Eagle Nest, Arizona was the 'station too far' for me, on my first visit to the area last winter. I had naively attempted to navigate the BNSF access road from near Williams, through to Crookton in one day. After almost rolling my rental on a cinder access road near East Eagle Nest, I had given up and left with no photos at the classic location to show for my efforts.
This year I returned with better situational awareness of the geography, roads, and photo angles, in additional to a rental vehicle better suited to the terrain.
One of two empty unit tank trains at the back of 'the morning fleet' east out of Needles speeds through Eagle Nest, on one of the massive fills that characterize the Crookton Cutoff. High sun position, and the flat black tank cars detract from this image somewhat, but I was pleased nonetheless to finally have an Eagle Nest shot in my album.
I found this on the ground. It must have fallen from a nearby roof overhang. A paper wasp nest, no longer in use.
Thanks for looking. Isn't God a great designer?
It's that time of year. I hope the white squirrel I've been following has babies this year!
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Clockwise from top left: Yellow-breasted Chat, Brown Thrasher, Bell's Vireo, Dickcissel, Gray Catbird, Red-winged Blackbird
My last photo group outing was something a little different- we shadowed a biologist as she visited nests in Illinois' Pyramid State Park where she is monitoring them. She has located more than 60 nests, and we visited perhaps a dozen. Some had been depredated and the eggs were gone, but she also found some new ones and additional eggs in previously-located nests. It was a cool experience, and helped me to appeciate how resilient birds have to be: the eggs and chicks were removed and documented (note marks on some eggs) and then returned and re-hidden. We carefully returned the vegetation to its original position and made sure to leave in a different direction than that from which we came in the hope that predators would not track our scent back to the sites.
Photos mostly via iPhone
These two Ospreys were in the process of building their nest on the grounds of Fort Pickens on the West end of Pensacola Beach Florida as I captured this shot.
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A HUGE thank you to @Di Barton who mentioned that her clip on lenses were nested together, so I went back to look and so were mine!!.... now I’m wondering how it changed the pictures- did the wide increase the magnification? More experimentation later
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The nest is empty, the eggs gone, only some feathers and straw left now, seems colder...
Easter Monday…
Happy to have some of the child still in my heart and mind!
LOL. Have a good one, enjoy the chocolate (+;~)
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Red Shouldered Hawk building a nest. I would've thought it a little late in the season, but what do I know?
From All About Birds: "NEST DESCRIPTION
Both male and female help build the remarkable hanging nest, a process that may go on for a month or more. The nest hangs up to a foot below its anchor point and has a hole in the side near the top that leads down into the nest bowl. The adults make a stretchy sac using spider webs and plant material, sometimes stretching the nest downward by sitting in it while it’s still under construction. They add insulating material such as feathers, fur, and downy plant matter and camouflage the outside with bits taken from nearby plants, including the tree the nest is built in. While the nest is active all the adults associated with it (the breeding pair plus helpers) sleep in it. The pair typically reuses the nest for its second brood of the season."
Just look where our Robin is nesting!!!😀
In our shed , top step of the ladder, behind my hubbys garden jacket.
Tucked away warm and safe.!
As you can see there are 5 eggs in the nest, made our day "hurray"😃
Well done Mrs. Robin.
Nest image and journal page collaged and printed atc size, then embellished with egg images and organza bow.
This was 1 of 2 atcs for the Graphicus Guild ATC Swap for March 2008 - Nature.
I always love to watch the weaver birds in the big aviary at our zoo. They are very active at the moment as they are building their sophisticated nests. Several trees in the aviary are full of these nest, a quite impressive sight. The weaver bird in this photo is a female chestnut-and-black weaver.
This nest was so small I would never have found it if a friend hadn't pointed it out to me. It was high up in a tree hidden behind a lot of branches and the wind was blowing, making for a challenging shot indeed.
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Both eagles were briefly in the nest on this afternoon (while I was there at least). Sometimes it is hard to leave a place. This was definitely one of those times.
We found a new pair of Bald Eagles making a nest nearby. This is going to be a great place to shoot! I hope they keep building here!
embroidery on linen blend 10.5x11.5"; SOLD
I like stitching nests from all the embroidery pieces that end up in my bowl, many are too small to rewind on their cards, (most often, I'm just too lazy) or too long to throw away
My third try at this nest, finally a better view.
Osprey facts:
Nests on artificial platforms, especially in a pair's first season, are relatively small—less than 2.5 feet in diameter and 3–6 inches deep. After generations of adding to the nest year after year, Ospreys can end up with nests 10–13 feet deep and 3–6 feet in diameter—easily big enough for a human to sit in.
Ospreys build large nests which can weight up to 200 lbs. They use sticks, grass, muck, seaweed, eelgrass, reeds, and often trash to build up their nests. Today, the estimated size of the population is above 650 nesting pairs (Wurst and Clark 2020).