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Birocratic - Nesting
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Nikon 70-200mm VR II AF-S G ED NIKKOR
I was shocked to discover this Red-throated Loon nesting essentially in plain sight, but still very well hidden, in a pond just at the edge of town.
Taken 15 June 2023 at Nome, Alaska
Not a very good shot, but neat to spot an Eastern Kingbird with a big beak full of nesting material. Paulinksill WMA - Hyper-humus marsh
A turtle carefully digs a nest for her eggs on a sandy beach by Lake Erie in Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada.
In the summer of 2001, as a present to myself, I purchased a Canon FD 200 mm bayonet mount lens. This roll of film was my first test roll shot with it. I still have the lens and regard it as one the best in my collection.
Check out an album containing more of my photos shot in 2001.
Canon FTb
Canon FD 200 mm f/2.8 S.S.C. bayonet mount telephoto lens
Kodak Royal Gold 100 ISO film.
Scanned using a Nikon Super CoolScan 9000 ED with the FH-835S 35mm strip film tray.
A robin nesting on an incomplete antique Regulator clock case. Taken at a clock shop that sells new and used clocks in addition to new and used parts. Photographed from a distance.
A pair of Nuthatches were working tirelessly at Burton Mere RSPB, adding beak-fulls of mud to finish off their nest hole.
A couple more shots below - in the second, you can just about see part of the mud wall in the hole.
first time out for a week ,a wren at bmw gathering nesting material .
thanks for all the previous comments ,jan lost her mum a week ago so we have been going through all the usual emotions .we have just got to get our heads a bit straighter to get back to something like normal .again thanks
jeff and jan
While crawling through crevices along the escarpment I stumbled upon this scene. Turkey Vultures are not nesting birds but rather lay their eggs in dark recesses in ledges, caves and crevices. This one was laying on her eggs in a small crevice along the Bruce Trail.
j } one of the many little gifts my parents brought back from their trip for me. the colour of them is lovely!
Masai Mara National Reserve
Kenya
East Africa
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A Southern Ground Hornbill out foraging for food in the short grass. The image shows a toad in it's mouth, and as they forage they will spear an insect or small animal and then when it finds something else it will lay the first prey down and then pick it up along with the new catch. Sometimes you can see them carrying several items at a time.
Wikipedia-
The southern ground hornbill (Bucorvus leadbeateri; formerly known as Bucorvus cafer), is one of two species of ground hornbill and is the largest species of hornbill. The other species of the genus Bucorvus is the Abyssinian ground hornbill, (B. abyssinicus).
Southern ground hornbills can be found from northern Namibia and Angola to northern South Africa to Burundi and Kenya. They require a savanna habitat with large trees for nesting and dense but short grass for foraging.
The southern ground hornbill is a vulnerable species, mainly confined to national reserves and national parks. They live in groups of 5 to 10 individuals including adults and juveniles. Often, neighbouring groups are engaged in aerial pursuits. They forage on the ground, where they feed on reptiles, frogs, snails, insects and mammals up to the size of hares. Southern ground hornbills very rarely drink.
Southern ground hornbill groups are very vocal: contact is made by calls in chorus which can usually be heard at great distances. The calls allow each group to maintain its territories, which must be as large as 100 square
kilometres (40 sq mi) even in the best habitat.
Owing to large scale clearing of the bird’s specialised habitat for agriculture, along with its exceedingly slow reproductive rate, the southern ground hornbill is classed as vulnerable to extinction; however, in South Africa, where most studies on the species have been carried out, it is listed as critically endangered.
These critically endangered birds return annually to nest in the old bridge pylons. They are sitting on eggs at the moment
The New Zealand fairy tern, also known as the tara-iti, is a small tern which breeds between Whangarei and Auckland in the North Island of New Zealand. It is considered critically endangered with an estimated 45 individuals and 12 breeding pairs. Wikipedia