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We spotted this common nighthawk sitting on its nest at Big Stone National Wildlife Refuge in Minnesota. These ground nesters will incubate two eggs for 16-20 days. After 17-18 additional days, young are ready to venture out!
Photo by Mike Budd/USFWS.
Every day we have just about the whole Corvid family in our garden steeling all the bird food much to the delight of our dogs who get their daily exercise chasing them around. The have started gathering sticks now so I reckon that is the beginning of the nesting season..
The White-eared Honeyeater busy trimming my friend's hair for nesting material. I even managed to get into the photo too.
Found this Broad-tailed Hummingbird nesting in a Bougainvillea, inside a friends courtyard, west of Tucson Arizona . She was more than patient with me while I got up close and took several angles.
Looking forward to posting her again with her young ...
Ospreys were nearly decimated about 50 years ago when the pesticide DDT took a toll on many predatory bird populations. Since that product was banned, ospreys, eagles, and hawks have rebounded significantly. In most places, ospreys often nest on man-made towers; here at Cradle Creek Preserve in Jacksonville Beach, Florida, a 43 acre protected parcel of land, there are three active osprey nests in trees. The Spanish Moss makes great nesting material!
This Osprey is nesting on a structure specially designed and built for ospreys located near Burritts Rapids. Ospreys generally build their nests in tall, isolated trees that are close to shallow bodies of water. This nest is very near the road and the Ospreys were not bothered by the traffic but did not like it when I got out of the car and walked to towards the nest to take a picture. Please view large!
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a new project- handbound journal featuring Nesting illustration on the cover and newly designed pattern for the endpapers
Nesting Bluebirds watch over the nest. In this brief video segment, at the very end the male's brilliant plumage is seen -- along with a little one poking its head out of the box.
She was definitely keeping her eye on me. I was going to cross the plank to get over to the small island where she is but after reading about how aggressive they are during nesting, I am glad I didn't.
14.5 – Sew Not a Square – Challenge 5 of Project QUILTING Season 14
I made these small nesting pouches for the challenge to sew something without any squares. I love these little dumpling pouches for storing small things. I have given pouches like these to many friends who carry them in purses, suitcases, etc. The pattern is my adaptation of the Dumpling Pouch I originally found here
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Linking to Project Quilting 14.5 at
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Common Raven heading to the nesting site. Interestingly, its mate was right behind it (too far for a photo of both) and also had a beak stuffed with the finer nesting materials.
Another sign of spring around the Tucson area. I found this Morning Dove nesting with two eggs, in the crotch of a Saguaro skeleton against the wall of an adobe home in my neighborhood. She definitely had an eye on me as I snapped off some shots ...
We first noticed the mute swan on the nest on April 11, although I'm not sure if eggs had been laid yet. Last year's hatch was the first week in June, and the incubation period for Mute Swans is 34-45 days.
Until today, we had only seen this pair on the lake, nesting on the same site as last year. Tonight, however, there were 6 swans on the lake, more than we have ever seen here.
For those new to my photos, please check out my Swans album for previous years.
Grey Wagtail (Motacilla cinerea)
Good to have at least two pairs of grey wagtail nesting on local patch this year.
Set of Nova's Nesting Fabric Bowls. Love this pattern and will definitely be making many, many more! These are the 6, 7, 8, and 9 inch bowls.