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These dolls were sold at a market in Prague.
A matryoshka doll is a Russian nesting doll (Russian: Матрёшка) which is a set of wooden dolls of decreasing size placed one inside the other.
The first Russian nested doll set was carved in 1890 by Vasily Zvyozdochkin from a design by Sergey Malyutin, who was a folk crafts painter at Abramtsevo.
Traditionally the outer layer is a woman, dressed in a sarafan, a long and shapeless traditional Russian peasant jumper dress. The figures inside may be of either gender, the smallest, innermost doll is typically a baby.
Much of the artistry is in the painting of each doll, which can be very elaborate.
I had an old suet block feeder that I was not using, so decided to put some Alpaca wool in it, which I bought especially from Amazon as nesting material. The blurb says it dries quickly if it gets wet... and yes, it does.
So far I have not caught a bird on it, but looking at the way the wool is being pulled out, someone is certainly using it.
It appears they prefer black rather than red! lol
CC March Versatile - Messy.
Lady Independence checking out the nest where she and Sir Hatcher have hatched eaglets for the past 5 or 6 years. A new nest cam is visible in the background just to the bottom right of the nest. Check out eagles.org for more info about this pair of eagles.
I was at the lake when I ran into Mama Cardinal who was gathering nesting material. It is the female who does most of the nest building.
Female Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis)
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1965 Ford Thunderbird.
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Pullman, Chicago, Illinois.
Saturday, May 23, 2015.
Taken this morning in our garden. Our Blireiana plum trees are in full bloom – over a month early!
Hope this brings you a taste of spring, even if you are still having snow.
As always, thank you for your visits and comments. If you've added me as a contact recently, I will do my best to visit you very soon. Life seems awfully busy this year...
xo – g ♥♥
still working through pics from the Wild Animal Park last year. This is from 8/2/10.
I need to get out :)
A section from a tree on a lake in Greece, filled with nesting squacco herons (Ardeola ralloides) like the one in front, little egrets (Egretta garzetta) like the one in the back, and great cormorants as well.
(Topphegre fremst og silkehegre bakerst, in Norwegian)
My album of photos from Greece here.
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Nesting place of Gannets (top of the rock + flying) and Terns (left of the rock). Auckland Region, New Zealand.
While walking around a local nature reserve, I found this pair of whitethroat, building a nest, so with a bit of Patients, I managed to get close enough for a couple of decent shot, I'm am very happy with these shots, I really hope that you like them to...