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We just had 3 spruce trees planted in our yard....In one of the trees was an abandoned robin's nest. Our landscaper, who owns a tree farm, had watched a pair of robins build the nest and raise their brood. He waited til all the chicks were grown before he dug up the tree and moved it to our house.
Unidentified nest exposed now the leaves have all gone on the Small-leaved Elm. Nest only about three inches. Maybe a tit?
Ravaged by some predator, likely a scrub jay. Here is a link to the nest while under construction.
The bushtits may build another nest these season, or wait until next year.
Unidentified nest exposed now the leaves have all gone on the Small-leaved Elm. Nest only about three inches. Maybe a tit?
I have a healthy regard for creatures the bite and usually stay away from them but I could not resist getting up close to a hornet's nest with the IXUS in its digital macro mode. The narrow focus area has just missed the insects (by the width of a feeler) but the image is interesting enough to upload it today. They look as if they are playing hide and seek.
Canon IXUS 75
f/2.8
1/160 sec
ISO 80
Taken near the end of July with my work camera. Lit with the internal LED only.
This a Hornets nest I was called out to remove, as it was built over the doorway of a childs play room.
Hornets unfortunetly have a bit of a fearsome reputation and I think it's rather undeserved, when compared to their much more agressive smaller cousins, the common wasp.
Many wasps will readily sting, even for approaching their nests, whereas hornets are generally much more placid and largely ignorant of anyone near their nests.
I took photos of this one, as it's very unusual to see the cell structure inside the nest, without physically breaking through the outer skin of the nest, which is made from a mixture of chewed dead wood (typically from untreated sheds and fencepanels) and saliva.
If you look carefully, you can see tiny eggs glued into the cells, which will grow into larvae, then full adults.
Unlike bees nests, wasps and hornets do not ever produce honey - the cell structure is only ever used as a nursery chamber for future generations.
It's not always easy to distinguish a hornets nest form a wasps nest without seeing the hosts, but the outer skin of a hornets nest is usually more yellow than the typical grey of a wasps nest.
Size is no indication either - the largest wasps nest ever found was discovered in a barn in New Zealand and measured approximately 12 feet by 6 feet!
These nests were collected over years, from cut-down trees, blown out of trees, etc. Now I'm giving them back to nature...
The Tigers Nest is located 500 meters up the mountain on the edge of cliff.
The Tigers Nest is a prominent Himalayan Buddhist sacred site and temple complex, located in the cliffside of the upper Paro valley, in Bhutan. A temple complex was first built in 1692, around the Taktsang Senge Samdup (stag tshang seng ge bsam grub) cave where Guru Padmasambhava is said to have meditated for three years, three months, three weeks, three days and three hours in the 8th century. Padmasambhava is credited with introducing Buddhism to Bhutan
Wide angle shot of the hummingbird nest on our back porch. We have two webcams set up (white cord and black cord) but only one can stream at a time. Live stream here: www.ustream.tv/channel/california-hummingbird
Well, I shot a roll of *film* this morning. We'll have to wait for the processing, to see if I got anything.
It was fun watching those ravens through that big lens - almost as good as a spotting scope. I was out there about an hour and they never left the nest unattended for more than a minute or two, and even then they were perched on a roof directly across the street.
In spite of the busy traffic on that corner (a school crossing, a MUNI stop, and it was during the morning commute) they noticed me right away. One of them would swoop down to check me out, then go harass some pigeons. Once, after they had both been sitting on the roof above me, one of them came at me, squawking - as I watched him, I noticed out of the corner of my eye, the other one flew to the nest.
I chatted with quite a few of the commuters, dogwalkers, and other neighborhood residents. Only one of them had a clue what I was looking at. she told me about another raven nest a few blocks away (which I'm planning to check out.)
Ravens in the wild like nesting on cliff ledges, and this is a pretty good substitute. They usually lay 3 to 7 eggs, which will incubate for about 20 days. The young leave the nest after 4-7 weeks. If this pair is successful, we should see feeding behavior next month and fledglings in June.
Dipper nest on a soily bankside that seems more suitable for Kingfishers.
I walked past this, only to be summoned back by The Mrs....
We sat & watched them feed & build, & she explained that I should pay more attention in future.
A piece of wall in our garden fell off uncovering this nest. The Ants moved all the eggs (there were more than this before I got the camera) in about 3 minutes.
female returning to feed the young
Olive-backed Sunbird nesting process
The nest building process is done entirely by the female.
The nest can take anywhere from 4 days to 2 weeks to construct depending on the availability of nesting materials and how hardworking is the female.
Once the nest is fully completed and she is totally satisfied with it. She will contact her mate and inform him of the completion of their home. He would probably take a look that its construction conformed to specifications (ISO99000SB). Once everthing goes well, they will kick start the mating process Just how often and intense is the mating is anyone's guess, but I'm sure they have a great time together.
She would return to lay her fertilised eggs(1 or 2) about a week later. The incupation would take another week to complete. She would leave the nest to take short meal and toilet breaks in between, sometimes to socialise with friends and also to gossip about other sunbird couples.....I think they do complaint a little about we taking their photos without their prior approval.
Once the chicks have hatched, she would quickly make contact with her husband and both of them would take turns to feed the youngs until they are ready to fledge in about 2 to 3 weeks.
They kiss each other goodbye and fly separate ways(may not be true)
End of nesting....Crimson Sunbird nest :
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Nest of a Pale-legged Hornero, Furnarius leucopis in the Ovenbird Family. Made of mud.
Arenillas Ecological Reserve, El Oro Province, Ecuador.
©bryanjsmith.
On the Eagle Lake Trail, Eagles Nest Mountain dominates the view. Here yellow wild flowers and green Aspens offer a lovely foreground for the mountain.
One of the two White-browed Woodswallow nests in this area that are still active. You can see how hard it would be to find the nest if the parent chose not to fly to it!
This nest has two chicks, a dominant one who lived in the shady spot under the bark and a dominated one who suffered badly in the full midday sun. Not sure which of the two we can see here.
The adults spend their time feeding and removing fecal sacs but don't seem to sit in the nest in the daytime. Not sure what happens at night, I assume they sit then to keep chicks warm and have quality time with them.
My co-worker pointed this out at lunch today. Lucky it is winter and wasps are hibernating. That hole looks awfully big. Does anyone know if birds "borrow" wasp nests??
Red-shouldered hawk nest on the BMC Software campus in Houston, Texas, Spring 2003.
Preparing to fly away. Eventually.
One Osprey arriving at the nest and joining a second Osprey in the nest at San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary.
O Governo do Distrito Federal (GDF), por meio da Secretaria de Saúde, começa a vacinar profissionais da educação nesta quinta-feira (20). A informação foi divulgada em entrevista coletiva no Palácio do Buriti, na tarde desta segunda-feira (17). Há expectativas de que esse processo seja, inclusive, antecipado, caso as novas doses de vacinas para o DF esta semana cheguem antes da data prevista. Na foto Weligton Moraes, secretario de comunicação do DF. Foto Joel Rodrigues / Agência Brasília
The Tigers Nest is located 500 meters up the mountain on the edge of cliff.
The Tigers Nest is a prominent Himalayan Buddhist sacred site and temple complex, located in the cliffside of the upper Paro valley, in Bhutan. A temple complex was first built in 1692, around the Taktsang Senge Samdup (stag tshang seng ge bsam grub) cave where Guru Padmasambhava is said to have meditated for three years, three months, three weeks, three days and three hours in the 8th century. Padmasambhava is credited with introducing Buddhism to Bhutan
"The Badi' Palace was constructed within the Qasba of Marrakech during the reign of the Sa'did ruler Ahmad b. Muhammad al-Shaykh al-Mansur (r. 1578-1603). Once known as "the Incomparable," the palace's symmetrical plan consists of chambers and pavilions arranged around a large central courtyard. Water and vegetation are the dominant elements in this central space; four gardens flank the rectangular pool that forms the central axis of the courtyard. The palace was constructed of brick and richly decorated with glazed tile revetment, marble columns, carved stucco, and carved wooden ceilings. In the late seventeenth century the 'Alawid ruler Moulay Isma'il ordered the destruction of the palace, and today its ruined walls, pavilions, and pools suggest its former grandeur."archnet.org/library/sites/one-site.tcl?site_id=4467