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This shot was taken through a small gap in the brush,and marsh growth. The highlight were nearly blown out, so I did some adjusting of the highlights, and added a light texture, and blended it with the fuzzy brush encroaching on the opening...just trying to make a not so good exposure better and more appealing to the eye.
The black headed gulls were making a very noisy start to the day in the early morning sun - mating, nesting and roosting.
With this many gulls - there is more guano than in our 2015 Election broadcasts
Today was really cold and the sun kept trying to come out but the clouds seemed to be winning we did eventually get a little bit of hail but nothing much. We walked Ruby in the large wood to keep out of the wind there was as always lots of bird song and so one image of the anemone and some birds one in flight.
This is one of the nests I'll be monitoring this year. The female's in the nest now, so hopefully she's started laying eggs. Usually two eggs are layed, a few days apart. Ordinarily this gives one chick a great advantage, and the first hatched often kills the second to ensure its own survival if food supplies are tight. This pair however, has a habit of raising two chicks successfully, and one year I'm told that one year they even raised three. Will be fun to watch.
The Eagle Fest was great fun, a success for the organizers, and pretty good for me as well. Sales were much better than I'd anticipated, I met some interesting people, and made some possibly interesting connections with authors looking for pictures. A fine day altogether. A picture of our display is here.
Female Eastern Bluebird (Sialia sialis) bringing nesting material to the nest box for the second nesting. She is really in a hurry - looks like a one day event.
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Lake Renwick Heron Rookery is a unique site in Illinois where great blue herons, great egrets, black-crowned night herons, double-crested cormorants, and cattle egrets nest together. The site includes a 200-acre lake with several small islands used for nesting.
Nesting bowl set
Largest bowl 7 x 11 inches
From a series of pots, inspired by a friend, whose main goal in life was to be "the pebble in the pond"
Thousands of pairs of nesting northern gannets cover the top of Stac Lee, a sea stack near Boreray Island, Scotland.
This is a Great Kiskadee. I saw him/her at La Fortuna, Costa Rica.
It appears to be nesting.
March 23, 05