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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 ;-)
This dove was nesting in a tree outside the hotel, and her nest was about chest high to me. She was so sweet and calm as I photographed her.
A cattle egret carrying nesting material into a tree full of egret nests in the Ria Formosa National Park.
Psalm 62:8
Trust in him at all times, you people; pour out your hearts to him, for God is our refuge.
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.
Took this shot 15days ago inside a railway shelter whilst standing on a bench with my arms above my head...............went back yesterday and 2chicks are now peeping out, will post a couple of them tomorrow :-)
Do wooden ducks lay stone eggs? This duck decoy is nestled next to a shrub in my apartment complex and stones have been placed next to it. Very strange.
Nesting platforms in the 'open' enclosure in the bird park near Bugibba have all been adopted by spoonbills. I couldn't be certain but I think there were eggs in at least one of the nests.These are African spoonbills (pink faces) that are not listed on Maltese bird lists and certainly not as breeders. It will be interesting to see if they manage to colonise using the bird park as a base.
Little Grebe getting on its nest with eggs , hidden behind the growing reeds . Captured from a hide on the Fowlmere reserve using a Canon 7D with a 300mm lens .
In mating plumage, a great blue heron delivers nesting material to its mate at the Viera Wetlands in Viera, Florida.
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Dawlish, a little town on the Devon coast, is famous for its black swans, introduced from Western Australia about 100 years ago.
Anna's hummingbird (Calypte anna) is a medium-sized stocky hummingbird native to the west coast of North America. This bird was named after Anna Masséna, Duchess of Rivoli. In the early 20th century, Anna's hummingbird bred only in northern Baja California and southern California. The transplanting of exotic ornamental plants in residential areas throughout the Pacific coast and inland deserts provided expanded nectar and nesting sites, and the species was able to expand its breeding range greatly.
Anna's hummingbird is 3.9 to 4.3 in (9.9 to 10.9 cm) long. It has an iridescent bronze-green back, a pale grey chest and belly, and green flanks. Its bill is long, straight and slender. The adult male has an iridescent crimson-red derived from magenta to a reddish-pink crown and gorget, which can look dull brown or gray without direct sunlight and a dark, slightly forked tail. Female Anna's hummingbirds also have iridescent red gorgets, though they are usually smaller and less brilliant than the males'. Anna's is the only North American hummingbird species with a red crown. Females and juvenile males have a dull green crown, a grey throat with or without some red iridescence, a grey chest and belly, and a dark, rounded tail with white tips on the outer feathers.
These birds feed on nectar from flowers using a long extendable tongue. They also consume small insects and other arthropods caught in flight or gleaned from vegetation. A PBS documentary shows how Anna's hummingbirds eat flying insects. They aim for the flying insect, then open their beaks very wide. That technique has a greater success rate than trying to aim the end of a long beak at the insect. On rare occasions, bees and wasps may become impaled on the bill of an Anna's hummingbird, causing the bird to starve to death.
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