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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.
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.
It's that time again.. lots of wood storks nesting in Wakodahatchee wetlands. They seem to like building nests on crab apple trees.
Delray Beach, Florida
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.
Deux pygargues à tête blanche au nid.
Ils nichent entre février et avril.
J'ai quand même été surprise de les voir. Il faisait -25C ce matin.
Two bald eagles nesting. Their reproduction period last from February to April.
I was surprise to see them in their nest. We had -25C early this morning.
This photo was taken at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson, Arizona.
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The birds fly out (usually to sea, but this looked dry, so likely from the land) and collect nesting material, then fly back and sometimes walk the rest of the way up to their nests, as this bird was doing. The males normally collect the nesting material, so this is probably a male. He looks very determined!
La Jolla, California
March 10, 2025
The blue tits have been so busy today taking in as assortment of nesting material. They are not bothered by me standing at a distance with my telephoto lense.
...."I see you" Mama Loon sees everything. Her two babies are due to hatch on the 29th of June, I'm excited. Very difficult to catch focus with all the reeds on a moving kayak. I guess rodeo is good practise for me. As long as you keep moving she will remain on her nest. She has that do not disturb look.
The male selects the nest site. Loons can’t walk well on land, so nests are built close to a bank, often with a steep dropoff that allows the bird to approach the nest from underwater.
Male and female build the nest together over the course of a week in May or early June, making a mound out of dead plant materials such as sedges and marsh grasses that grow along the lake’s edge. Then one of the loons crawls on top of the mound and shapes the interior to the contours of its body. The finished nest is about 22 inches wide and looks like a clump of dead grasses by the edge of the water.
People have asked me about the nests but I won't dare tell them where they are located. I don't want anyone bothering them, it is bad enough speedboats zoom by. What happens in the Loon nest stays in the Loon nest ;-)