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...."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 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.
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.
An ‘alae ‘ula constructs a nesting site in marsh embankment vegetation. The ‘alae ‘ula is an endangered, Hawaiian endemic subspecies of the common moorhen or gallinule. In Hawaiian mythology, the red shield is the result of scorching received while bringing fire from deities to humans.
Osprey is on the move to refurbish its' nest site.. in Central Park - Roseville, Minnesota.
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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.
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.
For three years in a row I've gotten a Sage Thrasher at the Maddalena Preserve in Sierra Valley...it must be their 'nesting site' and there are also so many beautiful perching posts throughout the valley for birds to pick from!
Today there is a ceremony for my neighbour, who passed away last Saturday. Only a limited number of relatives will be able to attend, due to Corona measures.
Rest in peace, my friend.
photo by Pieter Lommerse
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.
Where to see a heronry..The sight of a grey heron standing in solitary siege on rivers and waterways is one that is as familiar as it is bewitching. Yet for around three months of the year from February these distinctive-looking birds, with their crests, dagger bills and stilt-like legs come together to breed. A heronry is somewhere herons have nested for many generations and on certain Wildlife Trust reserves it’s possible to catch a rare glimpse of up to 40 nests teetering in the tree-tops at any one time