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I had the incredible experience of witnessing thousands of puffins nesting on the cliffs of the Tjornes Peninsula in Iceland. They are pretty skittish, so I found myself inching along on my stomach in an effort to keep them from flying off.
First and foremost, bubble credits go to my son. (He was wary that he did all the hardwork in bubble-making and I was gonna steal the credits :D )
Looking for 'slight' inspiration, I found him making nesting bubbles on the living room table. The bubbles have managed to catch some reflections. On the right side you can see a few curious onlookers, his sister and friends and on the left you can see a few frames hanging on the wall.
Our Eastern Bluebirds are preparing for a second nesting this season. There were several days of wing fluttering and checking out the housing. In courting, the male carries some grass into the box. If the female approves the engagement offer, then she builds the rest of the nest from there. The male, with brighter colors, is standing on the top of the box.
This little female hummingbird (I think she is a black-chinned) was very busy collecting fluff from the dandelions in my yard. One of the reasons I love to leave a few of these plants in my yard, despite their unpopular status as noxious weeds.
Montell, Uvalde County, Texas in April 2021
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
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.
Black Kite (Milvus migrans)
There seem to be newly hatched chicks in there as I observed both parents bringing 'morsels' at regular intervals. Hope to get some shots of the babies too, but will have to wait till they grow up and start peeping out from the nest.
Note : The nest was lit by 'dappled' light filtering through the branches & leaves . . waited till the bird's head/neck was appropriately 'sunlit' and then took the picture.
Ok partner - here is a set of scappy nesting fabric bowls with a 'chartruese' green Kona for the lining. Each bowl has different quilting. Small is pebbles, medium is a fmq stipple and the large is a chrysanthemum sort of design.
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"
I normally don't post videos but some people have expressed interest in down under native wild life and these nesting cockatoos were definitely behaving like pork chops, unfortunately I was testing my new wide angle, sorry about the lack of closeness and video skills, SOOC too. They then decided to take turns to dive bomb me, not too close, but just enough to send me a message.
Found a Hummingbird nest in my backyard and am guessing by the amount of time being spent in the nest she is probably sitting on some eggs. It was kind of a dark windy day today and the nest is at the bottom of a cedar branch that never stopped moving. Tomorrow it is supposed to rain but am hoping for a llittle more light on Friday so I can raise my shutter speed.
Pattern: Nesting Fabric Bowls by Nova available now!!
I used Ayumi's scrappy hourglass tutorial for the patchwork part.