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I have some nesting Blackbirds right outside my office window, I am going to enjoy the distraction over the next few weeks.
A pair of nesting Ospreys along the Gulf in Big Lagoon SP, Pensacola, FL. Our beautiful world, pass it on.
A Razorbill (Alca torda) nesting on a single rock in the cliffs outside of the ferry harbor of Vestmannaeyjar or Westman Islands of Iceland. Razorbills mate for life. They come ashore only to lay a single egg and rear a single chick, then spend the rest of the year at sea.
This is the tiercel (male) Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus anatum) returning to the eyrie (nest) with a plucked, partially eaten, shredded prey bird clutched in his talons. This time of year the Peregrine mating pair capture prey a few times a day to feed their eyases (chicks). In this Peregrine male's case, he is a practicing polygamist, as he has another Falcon mate with three more eyases at a nesting location a few miles up the coast. You would think he would not be able to maintain 2 Falcons (females), but he does it in style. In fact, the Falcon females are very capable and they rule the roost when it comes to providing for themselves and their young. Both Falcons let "Sid" the male think he is a stud.
On our way to my friend's sister's house in Sudbury we stopped to see if we could find the swans on the river. They weren't in their usual place but we eventually found them. They have chosen a very unusual place to build a nest, which I will reveal tomorrow.
There's a nesting aggregation of the Slender-bodied Digger Wasp (Crabro cribrarius) just 100m from our Staffordshire house. I went over yesterday to see if I could photograph any females returning with flies. They use them (including hoverflies and robberflies) to provision the brood chambers in their nest burrows.
There was not much interesting activity but this morning, a male was on our sitting-room window. I probably brought him home with me. They do tend to land on you!
Here's a shot showing the interesting fore-tibial "shields" that the male of this (and a couple of related) species exhibit. I've read that they pacify the females during mating, by placing them over their eyes.
An Australasian Gannet soars above the nesting platform atop Motutara Island, one of three nesting platforms that make up the Takapu Refuge gannet colony at Muriwar, New Zealand.
image credits:
"Nesting Nymphs" by Hidden Vintage Studios @ mischiefcircus.com
Background - Haute Halloween by Holliewood Studios
Cabinet door - Lorie Davison @ SBG
I have lived in Maine for 35 years, and in all that time, I had never seen a loon on its nest before. Photographed in some haste from a canoe, after which we promptly left the area so as not to disturb it. Full zoom + crop in post.
I would be very impressed, not to mention surprised, if any camera from any manufacturer could automatically focus on its dark red eyes (an amazing adaptation which facilitates underwater vision), since there is so little contrast between its dark eyes and black head.
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I'm starting a new plant. The old one didn't survive.
I thought I was done with stonechats, but this female was very tame. She was gathering dry grass, I assume for nesting material, and although she flushed from the path I was walking on, she stayed in the grass nearby, and let me come within 3-4 metres. I hope they do breed here, it would be good to see a male close, and the juveniles when they emerge.
Canon EOS 5D mark III, Canon EF 500mm f/4L IS II USM, Canon EF Extender 2x II (handheld).
1000mm, f/10, 1/320, ISO 3200.
Observed this nuthatch for a good while today going back and forth from it's nesting hole. It kept coming back with mud to line the entrance with
For the first time ever, a pair of robins built a nest in my maple tree. Crows were constantly trying to get into the maple tree, but the robins were vigilant and attacking the crows.
"Even the birds find a home there, and the swallow builds a nest, where she can protect her young near your altars, O Lord who rules over all, my king and my God" – Psalm 84:3.
An American robin has built her nest in our cloister garden in the Dominican House of Studies.
I was taking pictures of the maned wolf (in the shade), and looked up to see this hawk... without time to make all of the adjustments to my camera settings, I shot and got this. This is one of a breeding pair that was building a nest in a nearby palm. This was the only (mostly) unobscured flight shot I was able to get.
really crappy shots -- but look what we woke up to this morning :) Doves nesting in one of our pirate accoutrements on the back patio! There are a pair of house finches nesting in the palapa just a few feet from this. I can't imagine why birds are nesting at a house with four cats!?