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Not my usual thing ... but I've had a grouchy, unwilling model lately. :) This tiny bird's nest is smaller than my thumbnail - I made it out of moss. It's resting on a vintage French book page, with some tiny twigs and a teeny feather ... that gold bokeh is a golden wing. :) I would have liked a deeper dof in hindsight, but Little Miss A insisted it was tea party time. In honor of my "nesting" instinct with this little bub in my tummy.
The Red-naped Sapsucker is prone to hybridization with the Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (S. varius), however this bird shows the classic features of a Red-naped including having the red at the throat meet the white band below the eye (without a black band between). The location of this bird in Police Outpost Provincial Park in southwestern Alberta, Canada, also fits with the usual distribution of the species.
I love the idea of creativity needing time to nest~ organically hatch and grow.
Muslin, watercolor crayons, acrylic paints, rubber cement, and iced coffee (clarification: iced coffee - extra shot with milk - for me). :o)
Gathering nesting materials he made a couple of trips from this branch to a near by tree where he/she was building a nest.
A lovely.. 'Great Crested Grebe'.. 'Podiceps cristatus'.... sat on the nest.. treated with 'oli-ort'
Thanks for looking.. have a great day.
Thanks to Krakkograff for the texture. 61
I was deciding where to get some acorns and learn to do needlefelting when a lady from quilting asked me to photograph hers for some cards. The chances of that must be a million to one..so...now I have the acorns I may never get around to making any. Or they may just go on the list of hobbies waiting for me to try.
We found a nesting Pale-billed Woodpecker while taking a hike during lunch time at Selva Verde Lodge. Super cool species and probably the closest thing to an Ivory-billed I'll ever see!
Blue tits start looking for a place to nest as early as January, usually beginning to build their nest by late March. They favour cosy cavities: rot holes and cracks in trees, old woodpecker nests. I was very lucky to find and spot this little gem, he was in and out of nest for a constant 6mins the i left the family to it.
Acorn Woodpecker (Melanerpes formicivorus)
Another shot from the nest I recently discovered. The adult female is feeding the dominant offspring (pretty sure it is a male) which already spends quite a bit of time poking his head out of the nest. Judging from the calls from the nest, he is not the only youngster.
“Reminiscent of a troupe of wide-eyed clowns, Acorn Woodpeckers live in large groups in western oak woodlands. Their social lives are endlessly fascinating: they store thousands of acorns each year by jamming them into specially made holes in trees. A group member is always on alert to guard the hoard from thieves, while others race through the trees giving parrotlike waka-waka calls. Their breeding behavior is equally complicated, with multiple males and females combining efforts to raise young in a single nest….. Acorn Woodpeckers are medium-sized woodpeckers with straight, spike-like bills and stiff, wedge-shaped tails used for support as the birds cling to tree trunks….. These woodpeckers live in oak and mixed oak-conifer forests on slopes and mountains in the Southwest and West Coast. They’re tolerant of humans, and you can find them in towns where there are acorns and suitable places to store them.”
Status : Least Concern
Source ; Cornell University Lab of Ornithology
Cascade Mountains – Jackson County – Oregon - USA
Back from Photofest...great to see the usual suspects, and meet some newcomers. Will catch up soon with what I missed here on flickr!
Just booked!
Back south on Wednesday morning, up and gone around
2:30 am! Hope I get a couple hours sleep!
Here is a shot from our last tour to FLA, a Red-bellied woodpecker taken near Orlando. This bird was preparing its nest right beside a dock used for fishing boats. About 12 feet from the dock!
Standing as still as possible, the woodpecker carried on with its business, virtually ignoring us, and doing quite a nice job cleaning out the bottom of the nest hole.
Hoping the Purple gallinules are busy in nesting, and maybe some spoonies nesting to at the alligator farm at St. Augustine - just north of our hotel a few hours drive! We should see some wonderful coloured plumage, and so many birds!
Should be fun with the D850 this time, a great birding test for the camera. - real nature in superb Florida!
Looking forward to all the tolls too! (ouch!) .
Loons will usually lay one to three eggs, which are olive or brown with dark splotches. Both adults incubate the eggs for about 29 days. Upon hatching, chicks are active and covered with down, and will leave the nest within one day. They’re ready to fly about 75 days after hatching.
My first visit to Witch wood Lytham a place named after a horse that died that was owned by the Clifton family back in the 1888. I was lucky enough to spot a nuthatch cleaning out a hole in a tree for nesting.
Many thanks to you ALL for the views, faves and comments you make on my shots it is very appreciated.
Those who have seen my last couple of postings (Red-bellied Woodpeckers) may recognize the stump this Starling is sitting on. Having finally retired, I now have the time to concentrate on taking pictures.
I have now visited this spot in the woods for the last week, spent 4-6 hours sitting in the Ram (yes, I'm inherently lazy) and have taken about 12,000 images. Truth be told, I'm starting to see this stump in my dreams arrggghhh!
However, the action has been unreal. I will share a number of "stump" images in the next few days. To me its a lesson in patience - pick a spot and the birds will come.
As I sat waiting for the mountain bluebirds to return to their nesting box my shutter finger got itchy to take some pics... so I decided to play with an HDR shot...
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