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A colourful mix of blue, yellow, white and green makes the blue tit one of our most attractive and most recognisable garden visitors.Blue tits nest in crevices in all sorts of surfaces. This includes tree trunks and wallsBlue Tits nested in non-excavated holes with narrow openings, typically in live trees, which reduced both the risk of nest predation and of nest soaking.
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 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.
..for many days, while Dad stands guard, the Mother duck will hunt for the perfect spot in the marsh for her nest.
'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.