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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.
This bald eagle jettisoned some nesting material it had in it's talons just before arriving at it's nest in Indian River County near Vero Beach, Florida.
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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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A couple of weeks ago we spent a wonderful weekend on the Bellarine Peninsula in a fabulous original 1960s Barwon Heads beach shack.
We were lucky enough to see a pair of beautiful white faced Heron's nesting in the tree next door!
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.
From Audubon
On the southeastern coastal plain, the Tricolored Heron is a characteristic bird of quiet shallow waters. Strikingly slender, with long bill, neck, and legs, it is often seen wading belly-deep in coastal lagoons. Although it is solitary in its feeding, it is sociable in nesting, often in very large colonies with various other herons and egrets. Formerly known as Louisiana Heron.
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Some of you a bit west, say in Texas and Oklahoma, may be used to seeing scissor-tailed flycatchers. For Indiana, they are a rare visitor--rarer still to find one nesting! This bird is about 20 minutes from my home, but birders from all over the state have come to see it. Yesterday it would leave the nest for varying lengths of time, then return to and stay in the nest (nest not in photo). There have been sightings of a male, but no documentary photos. This photo was shot at quite a distance, hand held, and highly cropped.
This photo was taken at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson, Arizona.
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This is a Common loon nesting on a small island in the middle of a New Hampshire lake. The legs on loons are positioned far back on their bodies, making them excellent swimmers and divers, but making them less mobile and slower on land. Hence they typically nest on the water’s edge, often on isolated, quiet lakes using materials that are readily available, like grass, leaves, and twigs. Loons usually lay 1-2 eggs, and both parents share incubation duties. The nesting period is sensitive to disturbances from humans or predators that can lead to nest abandonment. This photo was shot from a safe distance with a telephoto lens and then cropped.