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Spring brings these geese to locate a safe nesting spot to lay their eggs. this on found this nice secluded pond.
Shot through a windowscreen, the nest is located just two meters off the ground on a small electrical meter box with lots of human traffic on the walkway below it. The robin layed no eggs and was gone a few days after we noticed it.
The bird jar is a reproduction of jars that were found during excavations at the James Geddy House (circa. 1762), Williamsburg, Virginia. At first archeologists did not know how early colonists used the jars. The tab on the lower lip was what led them to believe they were used to attract nesting birds. A small branch can be placed in the hole to provide a pearch. This House Wren picked my jar to raise a family as one did in 2006. I wonder what species of birds used them in 1762?
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A female prothonotary warbler sits on her young inside her nesting cavity. Both the male and female were extremely tolerant of my presence.
This hen mallard is nesting in a friend's yard, in town, not three feet off a busy sidewalk. She's well camouflaged and has a bush between her and the sidewalk. My friend erected a sign warning of a "nesting duck." Hope her brood makes it. There is a pond about a block away, so momma will likely lead them to it. My fear is that a dog on a leash will grab the nesting hen or destroy her clutch of eggs. Keep your fingers crossed.
Silver quail - nesting. The actual size of the birds body is outlined by the 'hump' in the photo.
She seems to have a skirt of feathers which she is able to spread to cover at least a dozen eggs!
Snowy Egret (nest) - 2 nest-bound juveniles
Saint Augustine, Florida - Mid Summer 2024
In the Nest - Northern Florida U.S.A. - 7/4/24
-------Independence Day 2024 ----------Born in the U.S.A.!
In the Wild - Nesting - Rookery - Treetop - July 4th, 2024
Southern Snow - Beauty of Snow - Snowy Egret chicks
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Snowy egrets breed in mixed colonies, which may include great egrets, night herons, tricolored herons, little blue herons, cattle egrets, glossy ibises and roseate spoonbills. The male establishes
a territory and starts building the nest in a tree, vines or very thick undergrowth. He then attracts a mate with an elaborate courtship display which includes dipping up and down, bill raising, aerial displays, diving, tumbling and calling. The immediate vicinity of
the nest is defended from other birds and the female finishes the construction of the nest with materials brought by the male. It is constructed from twigs, rushes, sedges, grasses, Spanish moss
and similar materials and may be 15 inches across. Up to six pale bluish-green eggs are laid which hatch after about 24 days. The young are altricial and covered with white down when first hatched.
They leave the nest after about 22 days. - Lots of fun to observe.
During a stay at a friend's place in Land Between the Lakes, it was my pleasure to discover another Bald Eagle nesting site. Photographed near Lake City, Kentucky.
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Cavity-nesting birds, such as the Tree Swallow (shown here) and Eastern Bluebird, compete fiercely for suitable nesting sites. That competition is both intraspecific and interspecific. Bluebirds won't tolerate another nesting pair of Bluebirds within 100 yards or so, and, in a fight with a Tree Swallow over a single nesting site, the larger and rather more aggressive Bluebird typically prevails. Tree Swallows, on the other hand, will tolerate other Swallows nesting within 100 feet or so.
One way to keep both sides relatively happy in these bird wars is to employ paired boxes, as in this photo. The Bluebirds return from their wintering grounds about two weeks ahead of the Swallows and claim one of the boxes. The Swallows then arrive and claim the other box. The Bluebirds already settled in may express their irritation with the new neighbors, but they usually acquiesce. Both species then go about their business of raising broods.
For more on this topic (with photos and video of the paired boxes working as intended), please see: treeswallows.com/tres/index.php/reducing-bluebird-tree-sw....
I do believe that bird has those potatoes confused with eggs. Haha, taken at our smallish family reunion, June 13th, 2009