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Taken at Centre Parcs, Elveden.
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A quick record shot when I spotted this Bald Eagle hauling newly cut hay to it's nest. It seems late to be putting a nest together but perhaps the first eggs failed and they are making another try at it.
This bird is nesting inside a multiflora rose bush with a lot of sharp thorns.
What a smart little bird!
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Yeah, it was hard getting my little birdie in and out of that nest! Sharp sharp thorns!
..for many days, while Dad stands guard, the Mother duck will hunt for the perfect spot in the marsh for her nest.
"Shame on the Moon" is a song written by Rodney Crowell and first recorded for his eponymous 1981 album. It was subsequently covered by Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band, as the lead single from their 1982 album The Distance. Glenn Frey joins Seger on background harmony vocals on the song. The song spent four weeks at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 pop singles chart and topped the adult contemporary chart. The song also went to number 15 on the country chart in early 1983, marking Seger's only Top 40 entry on that chart.
This Swan chose to build in an incredibly precarious position, on a tiny channel braiding island. One period of heavy rain and its nest with eggs would be gone. I never got back to see how they did as it was Covid time.
'a new home' make take three or four days to build with spiders silk being the key to holding all those different materials together....their eggs are so tiny that it takes at least one hundred to make an omelet...the largest humming bird lays an egg weighing 1.4 grams (smallest .4) with a large chicken egg weighting forty times that....
Taken this January at the Audubon Rookery in Venice, Florida. Since anhingas do not have water proof feathers, they are often found on a perch drying their wings after diving for prey.
From a short walk in the area at the northern end of Lake Flynder near Vinderup, Denmark - April 30, 2021.
ODC- Nest/Nesting
I have a family of House Sparrows nesting in the pipes outside of the garage loft. You can see the straw hanging down from underneath. They do this every year.
This was taken with my 180MM macro lens so it is really a fine lens for distance also... The nesting boxes are high up on these old snags in the wetlands so that in the winter they will be above the water that floods the area...
Do you see what I see? It was harder to get this shot than I would have thought. I could have used an even bigger zoom lens, and well traffic. This mourning dove is still resting here upon my last drive by. I wonder what she thinks of all the bright green lights every so often.
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Galah
Scientific Name:Eolophus roseicapillus
Description: The Galah can be easily identified by its rose-pink head, neck and underparts, with paler pink crown, and grey back, wings and undertail. Birds from the west of Australia have comparatively paler plumage. Galahs have a bouncing acrobatic flight, but spend much of the day sheltering from heat in the foliage of trees and shrubs. Huge noisy flocks of birds congregate and roost together at night.
Similar species: The Galah is generally unmistakable, but in flight may resemble aGang-gang Cockatoo in shape.
Distribution: The Galah is one of the most abundant and familiar of the Australian parrots, occurring over most of Australia, including some offshore islands.
Habitat: The Galah is found in large flocks in a variety of timbered habitats, usually near water.
Feeding: Galahs form huge, noisy flocks which feed on seeds, mostly from the ground. Seeds of grasses and cultivated crops are eaten, making these birds agricultural pests in some areas. Birds may travel large distances in search of favourable feeding grounds.
Breeding: Galahs form permanent pair bonds, although a bird will take a new partner if the other one dies. The nest is a tree hollow or similar location, lined with leaves. Both sexes incubate the eggs and care for the young. There is high chick mortality in Galahs, with up to 50 % of chicks dying in the first six months. Galahs have been recorded breeding with other members of the cockatoo family, both in the wild and captivity. These include the Sulphur-crested Cockatoo, C. galerita.
Calls: The voice is a distinctive high-pitched screech, 'chi-chi'.
Minimum Size: 35cm
Maximum Size: 36cm
Average size: 36cm
Average weight: 337g
Breeding season: February to July in the north; July to December in the south
Clutch Size: 3 to 4
(Source: www.birdsinbackyards.net)
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No, I'm not pregnant!! I'm just really into playing with textures! Until this weekend, I was a one-layer {at a time} girl! I think this shot was edited with five or six layers!!! The original is in my comments.
I'm off to comment!!!! Sorry you haven't heard from me today... I got carried away in Texture-ville!! ( "
Textures: Kim Klassen, SkeletalMess, Ash Imagery.