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Song Sparrows are nesting at all my favorite sparrow spots. The old machinery made a nice singing perch.
'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....
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...
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!
This photo was taken at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson, Arizona.
If you want to learn more about Anna's hummingbirds
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