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Nesting Roseate Spoonbills at Smith Oaks Rookery. High Island, TX. These spoonies share their nesting area with Great and Snowy Egrets, Cormorants, and Tri-colored Herons. Our beautiful world, pass it on.
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
'A bunch of Beardis'. A group of Bearded Tits pictures here with male at the top of the image and four females. Lincolnshire, UK.
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Bearded Tit or Bearded Reedling Notes:-
The bearded reedling is a small, sexually dimorphic reed-bed passerine bird (Sexual dimorphism is the condition where the sexes of the same species exhibit different characteristics, particularly characteristics not directly involved in reproduction. The condition occurs in most animals and some plants). It is frequently known as the bearded tit, due to some similarities to the long-tailed tit, or the bearded parrotbill. It is the only species in the family Panuridae. Wikipedia
Scientific name: Panurus biarmicus
1. Not a bearded tit
Despite its name, the bearded tit is neither bearded nor a tit! It actually has a moustachioed-look to its plumage and for a while it was considered a member of the parrotbill family, but now it is thought to be more closely related to larks.
2. Reedbed inhabitant
Bearded tits are the only British songbird to stay in reedbeds all year round. Originally they were limited by the availability of reedbeds in Britain, but thanks to newly created or expanded reedbeds, they are now more widespread and can be found in parts of eastern and southern England, Morecambe Bay in northwest England and around the Tay estuary in Scotland.
3. Occasional movements
Although bearded tits are not well known for migration, there is some movement in the autumn through local dispersal. On occasion, there is also an influx of continental birds from mainland Europe. They are more gregarious outside of the breeding season, and therefore tend to be easier to see.
4. Breeding behaviour
There are only around 630 breeding pairs of bearded tits found in Britain, most likely due to the fact that they are limited by habitat. They build their nests low down in the reeds, often on piles of dead reed stems. They will use specially designed nest boxes, which were created to bypass their susceptibility to flooding. They are prolific breeders that can have up to four broods a year, with four to eight eggs per brood!
Bearded Tit/Bearded Reedling - Panurus biarmicus
© Allan Drewitt/BTO
5. Alterations
Bearded tits survive in the reedbeds all year round by changing their diet from insects during the spring and summer, to seeds in the autumn and winter. They cope with this by altering their gut morphology, and by eating large amounts of grit particles that help to grind down the tough seed fibres.
6. Vulnerability
Due to their range restriction, bearded tit populations can be vulnerable to particularly harsh winters, flooding and saltwater inundation into reedbeds. As a result local extinctions can occur. For example, in the cold winter of 1947 the East Anglian population decreased to just four or five pairs in Suffolk and a lone male in Norfolk. It is thought that the snow cover prevented them from accessing the seeds they needed to survive.
7. ‘Moustachioed tits’
Bearded tits are sandy brown with long tails, yellow bills and eyes. The males have grey heads with a conspicuous black ‘moustache’ that flanks the throat. Females are duller and lack the moustache. They have a distinctive ‘ping’ call when they fly, which you will usually hear before you see them.
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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.
Back from Photofest...great to see the usual suspects, and meet some newcomers. Will catch up soon with what I missed here on flickr!
Madagascan ibis (Lophotibis cristata), also known as the Madagascar crested ibis, white-winged ibis or crested wood ibis is endemic to the forests of Madagascar and is one of the largest birds in the area. Seen at the San Diego Zoo. Conservation status: Near Threatened
A male White-tailed Kite giving his mate a rabbit to feed the chicks in the nearby nest.
After cleaning up most mice and voles up the hill, the male went further away to get a rabbit, two days in a row. Only this day, he decided to perform an air transfer to the female. (Apr 2018)
White-tailed Kites usually eat mice, gophers, or voles. Rabbits, birds, and insects are their rare menu items.
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while walking at a flea market i chanced upon a bird vendor with a green parakeet on his shoulder. wild parakeets are known to bite so this made his parakeet domesticated and possibly hand reared. i started talking with the vendor to ask more questions about his parakeet and my hunch was right. he placed the parakeet on my hand and, guess what, i ended up taking it home he he he. these shots were taken when i was negotiating with the vendor. price: USD5.00 for a hand reared domesticated parakeet.
The Philippine hanging parrot (Loriculus philippensis) is also widely known as the colasisi[2] taken from its local Tagalog name, "kulasisi". It is a small parrot species of the Psittaculidae family. It includes about eleven subspecies, which are all native to only the Philippines; however, the exact taxonomy is unclear, and at least one of the subspecies might become split off and become a separate species if further research provides clarification.
They are mainly green with areas of red, orange, yellow, and blue varying between subspecies. Only the males have a red area on their fronts, except for the population living on Camiguin, where neither male nor female have this red area. They make nests in tree holes and, unusually for a parrot, the female takes nesting material back to the nest.
source: wikipedia
This hawk was tearing off this vine while the second one occupied the nest. Based upon the bands on the tail, I think it's a Coopers Hawk. The light was bad yesterday. Now that the light is good, I don't see the hawks. Maybe they noticed me watching them and decided to make a nest somewhere else.
I captured this image of a Wren looking out from its nest within a nest box in my neighbor's garden. I was able to sit still with my camera at the ready just 4M away without it being at all bothered by me whilst it went about its business. You can see the actual lining of the nest made from soft feathers, plus the moss and leaves for the main structure.
A pair of kittiwakes (Rissa tridactyla) share their nest whilst another snoozes on an adjacent nest site on the cliffs at North Landing near Thornwick Bay, East Yorkshire. I suspect both sets of birds hads already raised and fledged the next generation. The chicks that were on other nests were all quite large, with fully developed flight feathers, presumably later to hatch than those already fledged.