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Nesting spot contest
Tree swallows engaged in an aerial squabble over a nesting box at Exton Park
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Photographed in the Northlakes Wood Stork colony and nesting area along Sagebrush Road in Hillsborough, Florida.
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She was starting to get unhappy with me, even though I was some distance away and using a telephoto lens. So, I left her to peacefully tend her eggs. Location: Petite Camargue Nature Preserve, Alsace, France.
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Blue tits nest in crevices in all sorts of surfaces. This includes tree trunks and walls.Blue Tits nested in non-excavated holes with narrow openings, typically in live trees, which reduced both the risk of nest predation and of nest soaking.
The black-crowned night heron (Nycticorax nycticorax), or black-capped night heron, commonly shortened to just night heron in Eurasia, is a medium-sized heron found throughout a large part of the world, except in the coldest regions and Australasia (where it is replaced by the closely related rufous night heron, with which it has hybridized in the area of contact).
Adults are approximately 64 cm (25 in) long and weigh 800 g (28 oz). They have a black crown and back with the remainder of the body white or grey, red eyes, and short yellow legs. They have pale grey wings and white under parts. Two or three long white plumes, erected in greeting and courtship displays, extend from the back of the head. The sexes are similar in appearance although the males are slightly larger. Black-crowned night herons do not fit the typical body form of the heron family. They are relatively stocky with shorter bills, legs, and necks than their more familiar cousins, the egrets and "day" herons. Their resting posture is normally somewhat hunched but when hunting they extend their necks and look more like other wading birds.
Immature birds have dull grey-brown plumage on their heads, wings, and backs, with numerous pale spots. Their underparts are paler and streaked with brown. The young birds have orange eyes and duller yellowish-green legs. They are very noisy birds in their nesting colonies, with calls that are commonly transcribed as quok or woc.
The breeding habitat is fresh and salt-water wetlands throughout much of the world. The subspecies N. n. hoactli breeds in North and South America from Canada as far south as northern Argentina and Chile, N. n. obscurus in southernmost South America, N. n. falklandicus in the Falkland Islands, and the nominate race N. n. nycticorax in Europe, Asia and Africa. Black-crowned night herons nest in colonies on platforms of sticks in a group of trees, or on the ground in protected locations such as islands or reedbeds. Three to eight eggs are laid.
This heron is migratory in the northernmost part of its range, but otherwise resident (even in the cold Patagonia). The North American population winters in Mexico, the southern United States, Central America, and the West Indies, and the Old World birds winter in tropical Africa and southern Asia.
These birds stand still at the water's edge and wait to ambush prey, mainly at night or early morning. They primarily eat small fish, crustaceans, frogs, aquatic insects, small mammals, and small birds. They are among the seven heron species observed to engage in bait fishing; luring or distracting fish by tossing edible or inedible buoyant objects into water within their striking range – a rare example of tool use among birds. During the day they rest in trees or bushes. N. n. hoactli is more gregarious outside the breeding season than the nominate race.
For more information, please visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-crowned_night_heron
...almost looks like a fall shot but this is early spring at a small pond on the daily commute.. noticed one half of this pair earlier peeking out from the tall grass, and since the Canada geese seem to be pairing off right now, this couple is likely preparing and/or guarding a new nest by the pond..
Gathering Nesting Materials
Osprey with a large clump of What I believe must be nesting material at Ocean City, New Jersey
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Acorn Woodpeckers are communal and share their nesting duties with close family members. So sometimes duties are performed by aunts or sisters of the nesting pair. I learned this while on a bird walk during our recent visit to Yosemite. Did you know that a group of Acorn Woodpeckers is called a 'bushel'? I love fun facts like that.
I believe this is a Grebe of some sort. Can anyone identify the type? It was nesting at Beaumaris Lake.
A couple of swans nesting just by the area on the jetty where the boats go down to the water. According to a woman who went by they should be due very soon, they've been sitting on their eggs (5) for a month now. She thoughtfully put the notice on the traffic cone to hopefully let people with their boats and cars to be considerate.
While I was there they've got quite a few guardian angels keeping an eye on them with their fingers crossed all goes well in the next week or so.
I've never really thought about nesting bowls before, as they tend to be for food use.....but I was stacking my bowls to tidy them the other day and was pleased with this colour combination.....I think maybe when I have finished my 265 project (only another 3 weeks!) I may have a go at a nesting set.....
Friends Shelby and Stephen took me to this Bald Eagle nest in Tishomingo County, Mississippi on this date. This nesting site has been at this location for at least four to five years.
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