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Nesting Ospreys at EB Forsythe NWR.
In total I saw 8 separate active osprey nests and at least 14 ospreys on the salt marshes. There should be a bumper crop of ospreys this year.
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Out today with Pauls Pix 53 and our long lenses, for a potter in the countryside around Robertsbridge.
We were hoping to find butterflies, but it wasn't butterfly weather ... twas dull and very windy.
Anyways, just as we were about to cross the railway line, the barriers came down. So we waited for the train, and that's when we spotted and heard there was a nest in the gubbins behind the traffic lights.
Puffin on Skomer Island.
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Even though it seems to be very early to start building nests, a few eagles at Conowingo were working intently in gather sticks apparently for nests.
It is interesting to see how this large stick actually interfered with the wing feathers at it flew
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We've lived in Somerset since December 2013 and each spring and summer we've seen Great Crested Grebes nesting and chicks appearing shortly afterwards. Lovely.
Please note, these were shot at long distance and in poor light so are massive crops. That's how it is sometimes when you need to keep a distance from nesting birds.
In this photo, taken in early July, is of a Tundra Swan on her nest on the tundra beach. The water in the background is the Beaufort Sea, which is in the Arctic Ocean. The nest is built high off the tundra to give insulation to her eggs and eventually chicks.
A Black Swan sitting on eggs at Laratinga Wetlands, Mt Barker, South Australia.
Hopefully we will see some little cygnets swimming around in the coming weeks.
See the previous shot for a description of the action. This one was taken from the clifftop (well back from the edge!) and shows a male trying to impress a female who has set up her stall in an old rabbit burrow which has been exposed by erosion.
Emerging series "Urban spaces / City trees".
Nikon F2 with 50mm/1.8 Nikkor
Fomapan 400 developed in R09
Darkroom print, toned in Amaloco d-max enhancer
I wondered why these had been left .. the only conclusion that they were potentially nesting sites for Raptors.. certainly wouldn't have been because they look pretty ..
We have a busy Wren visiting our garden. He's building one of the many nests in a tree by our garden. He'll build several nests in different parts of his territory and hope that one of them will satisfy a mate. Fingers crossed that she picks the nest in our garden ?
A Red-shafted Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) digs a hole in a tree to make a nest.
"Northern Flickers are large, brown woodpeckers with a gentle expression and handsome black-scalloped plumage. On walks, don’t be surprised if you scare one up from the ground. It’s not where you’d expect to find a woodpecker, but flickers eat mainly ants and beetles, digging for them with their unusual, slightly curved bill. When they fly you’ll see a flash of color in the wings – yellow if you’re in the East, red if you’re in the West – and a bright white flash on the rump.". - www.allaboutbirds.org
a house sparrow male (Passer domesticus) in the bush outside my window collecting nesting material... seems like spring is really in the air now... ;)
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Spent some time watching the swan building up its nest whilst keeping the eggs warm. Nice way to spend 20 mins.
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