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Clapper Rails only nest in thick cordgrass and their nests have to rise and fall with the tide. Because the cordgrass in the marsh is not adequately healthy, artificial floating nests are provided with covers so that predators cannot easily take the eggs or chicks.
Swan(s) breeding in the bed of the river Wien in the Vienna inner city! It'd exciting watching them because the place is often in flood! Thus the municipial administration has circumwallated the nest by cement blocks which withstood up to the time being.
At this time of year it's part of the pair bonding process and a practical exercise to build a strong and stormproof nest. Herons don't muck about with tiny twigs. The parent that is not sitting on eggs relentlessly brings back huge sticks and ritually passes them to the sitting partner.
Nest shared by American Robin and Mourning Dove. It appeared that the dove built its stick platform, the robin built its grass-and-mud nest on top, and they both laid eggs in it and occupied it together! Unfortunately, the robin egg did not hatch, and the dove chicks did not survive.
Blue tit repeatedly tapping the entrance to the nest box. I assume this is the hen-bird's survey of the property whereby she ensures that it is not damp, leaky or vulnerable to attack.
Still, this does not explain why she had to chip pieces away from the entrance hole of the 'correct' size on a perfectly sound nest-box.
This is the Nuclear Emergency Search Team helicopter buzzing my house, yet again. It's a weekly event actually, living outside of Washington, DC. They sometimes fly over ships in the Chesapeake Bay on their way to Baltimore. Not sure if this is what was involved in the recent 'radiation detection' against Muslims in the US...
Weaverbirds build a big apartment house of nests, usually on acacia trees and sometimes even on telephone poles. Next time you see such a beautiful tree with big huge nests made by weaverbirds, and you see knee high dried grass underneath, STAY AWAY !!!
Apparently, in this thick grass live the yellow cape cobras.
A cape cobra is the smallest, non-spitting true cobra in Africa but it has the most toxic venom. It is extremely agile, easily climbing acacia trees to raid weaver birds' nests...
During the evening sundowner tour, the guide told us about the waeaverbirds' nests and the cape cobras underneath. I turned to stone when I heard that. How STUPID could I be !!!!!!
This hummingbird decided to build her nest on our back porch. So, now, whenever I go outside I am in fear of being divebombed! There is one egg in the nest but I've read that hummingbirds often lay two so I'll keep checking. I think it's an Anna's Hummingbird which is the most common species around here. They're year-round residents and love all the feeders that our landlord keeps out.
We've put in a webcam and have started live streaming. The 2 eggs *should* hatch around 4/16 or so. You can see the live stream here: www.ustream.tv/channel/california-hummingbird
The nest tree is a rangy Monterey Pine in the midst of a residential home owners' community along a controlled tidal flow inlet that meanders along the back of the homes. Quite a few other water birds to be seen, including Double-crested Cormorant. The Egret colony consists of both Great Egrets - seen in all these shots - and Snowy Egrets. At the peak of the nesting season, which runs March to June, there are in the neighborhood of 100+ birds in this tree!!!
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
"Eagle's Nest," the William K. Vanderbilt (1878-1944) mansion in Centerport, NY (on Long Island), which now operates as a museum and planetarium. It's actually fairly modest as far as Vanderbilt mansions go.
Skimmer nests on Deveaux Bank - it seems a Boat-tailed Grackle had disturbed the skimmers and many took flight.
Deveaux Bank, South Carolina
We spotted this yellow warbler nest at Big Stone National Wildlife Refuge in Minnesota.
Photo by Mike Budd/USFWS.
In March 2023, Harris Center volunteers, interns, and staff worked together to construct kestrel nest boxes in the barn of a Harris Center friend. Later, these boxes were installed in 11 towns throughout the Monadnock Region.
Photo: Mark Ellingwood
Like other sunbirds, they are small in size, feeding mainly on nectar but sometimes take insects, particularly when feeding young. They can hover for short durations but usually perch to feed. They build a hanging pouch nest made up of cobwebs, lichens and plant material. Males are brightly coloured but females are olive above and yellow to buff below.
Looking for all the world like two benign hornets, Grand Central trains on platforms 7 and 8 at London's Kings Cross Station
Cape Weaver (male). Male Weaver birds build kidney shaped nests by weaving together grass and strips of vegetation. The nests are suspended upside down from the end of tree branches or reeds. The male will build several nests in an area with a female occupying each one.