Crested Goshawk collecting nesting material

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Cormorant

St. Augustine, FL

Sagebrush Rd. Rookery

Nesting on a small island on our lake this summer. Isle Lake Alberta

Osprey (Pandion haliaetus)

Emigrant Lake - Jackson County - Oregon - USA

Habitat : Lakes and Ponds

Food : Fish

Nesting : Tree

Behavior : Aerial Dive

Conservation : Low Concern

"Unique among North American raptors for its diet of live fish and ability to dive into water to catch them, Ospreys are common sights soaring over shorelines, patrolling waterways, and standing on their huge stick nests, white heads gleaming. These large, rangy hawks do well around humans and have rebounded in numbers following the ban on the pesticide DDT. Hunting Ospreys are a picture of concentration, diving with feet outstretched and yellow eyes sighting straight along their talons."

- Cornell University Lab of Ornithology

Great Blue Herons nesting. Ardea herodias

Out of respect for the eagles nesting this spring I waited till now to post images. County of Sturgeon Alberta.

Male bringing reinforcements for the nest with mom sitting on eggs.

Roseate Spoonbill races towards nest with fresh nesting material in tow...

not much light for this but had to share anyway. this little cutie was grabbing the moss from my back garden to take back to it's nest

Nesting mute swans at Abbotsbury.

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Western Kingbird picking up cotton from the cottonwood trees to build a nest.

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the macromonday theme for today, 6/17, is curves. got a couple of choices today. given the blue choices i think i'm going with this one. this tiny ceramic trinket box is under 2 inches so the whole is well under 3 inches

Six eggs

This is a nesting Mourning Dove (I'm pretty sure). The mourning dove is one of the most common birds in the United States, with a population estimated to be 350 million (there are only 331 million humans in the United States). The oldest recorded mourning dove lived over 30 years (it was banded in 1968 and taken out by a hunter in 1998, so it didn't even die of natural causes). All my fun facts come from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology web site.

the osprey are nesting in the same nest again now so I'm excited. I will go back periodically and check on them and take photos. And thankfully now, I won't be lugging a toddler size lens and a tripod. Yah!!! I love this much smaller size and lighter weight equipment!

I go see my ortho doc this morning and hopefully won't have to wear my cast anymore. Things are healing well. Let's hope that's what the ex-ray will show. I'll catch up with you all later! ❤️

Algonquin Provincial Park

Resoft County Park, Alvin, Texas.

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Nesting Territorial Dispute at John Heinz NWR in Philadelphia..

I watched the lower Tree Swallow diligently challenge any bird, not just swallows, even blackbirds that came too close to its nesting hole.

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Seen Underneath the Cliff Bridge at Scarborough..( See previous Photo for Details of this Bridge )

Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.

~ Rumi

If you wish, zoom in to see the raindrops :)

Carrying nesting material...

Managed to capture a couple of images of this tiny Spotted Pardalote gathering some nesting material this morning.

He was quite active and fortunately for me, kept returning back to the same tree to gather more bark and material for the nest.

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The pair that are hanging around my nesting box. I am not sure if they have babes yet. I think they are just getting the next ready. In this image you can see that the female has a bit of blue on her tail feathers, where the male is such a neon....vibrant blue. They both are SO gorgeous!!! They fly so swiftly and look like they are going to crash against the box, but instead land on the side and hang on with those little claws. Very cool to watch!!!

Have a great week ahead and be well.

Seen high above on a street in Bridlington .

We came across two Robins the other day, at Lackford Lakes, a Suffolk Wildlife Trust Nature Reserve. One, the female, was collecting nesting material and the other one, a male presumably, was singing for a mate.

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Vedanthangal Bird Sanctuary

Troup Head , Scotland

Exposed cypress roots and two little cones at Jordan Lake, North Carolina, USA

Lawrence's Goldfinch, female

Great Egret Carrying a Branch for Making a Nest - W 9th St., Santa Rosa, CA, U.S.A. - March 23, 2017

A small colony nesting on one of the islands.

Isle Lake Alberta

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Purple Gallinule, Porphyrio martinica. Sitting in the same place day after day, so maybe nesting.

Australasian Grebe (Tachybaptus novaehollandiae)

I hadn't been past the Vic Uni Pond since last Wednesday. This morning I found one of the adults apparently sitting on a new nest. I will have to keep an eye on them.

Red-Shouldered Hawk nesting. Natural frame with this photo, too! I think this is the most endearing shot of her on the nest. I have a couple others to post still, and almost did a multiple upload of them today but changed my mind. Save them for when I'm not out taking photos . . .

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