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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.
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
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
During breeding season the Belted Kingfisher pair defends a territory against other kingfishers. A territory along a stream includes just the streambed and the vegetation along it, and averages 0.6 mile long. The nest burrow is usually in a dirt bank near water. The tunnel slopes upward from the entrance, perhaps to keep water from entering the nest. Tunnel length ranges from 1 to 8 feet
At work near the pond there is a pair of geese that definitely have a nest. The female is always sitting there, and often ducks down to try to hide when anyone comes near. Luckily I have a long lens.
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.
This is the five different sizes of Lotus Bowls I have. I was inspired to arrange them like nesting bowls by Whitney Smith.
A yellow Volvo 850 with another yellow Volvo 850 on its dashboard.
Volvo Museum, Gothenburg, Sweden
Nikon D610 + Tamron 24-70 f/2.8.
Edited with Lightroom 5.3.
Black-legged kittiwakes are members of the gull family and are very abundant in Resurrection Bay, Alaska. Here they are tending their nestlings on a sheer cliff above the ocean.
Viewed from the little tour boat guided by Seward Ocean Excursions
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.
The cover of a 1960s children's book on various bird species and their nesting behaviors.
It's Nesting Time.
Written by Roma Gans
Illustrated by Kazue Mizumura
Ty Crowell Co (June 1964)
Pattern: Nesting Fabric Bowls by Nova available now!!
I used Ayumi's scrappy hourglass tutorial for the patchwork part.
Thousands of pairs of nesting northern gannets cover the top of Stac Lee, a sea stack near Boreray Island, Scotland.
An Ancistrocerus (I think!) wasp, collecting nesting material in our Staffordshire garden today.
As with other Ancistrocerus solitary wasps that I've observed, she collected dry soil granules and mixed them with saliva, to make mud. The mud is then carried off in her mandibles and used to make the brood-cell partitions in her nest.