Great Blue Heron - Ardea herodias - Nesting

Project #24 in the Zakka Style Sew-Along; Blogged

Bird Island Tours in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.

Nesting Osprey's on Highway 62 near Crater Lake National Park.

I captured the house wren nesting this morning. When she went out for a bite to eat I peeked in and saw 4 little white eggs!

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Janice and I were thrilled to watch the construction of about eight nests as blue heron couples tore twigs from treetops and wove their nurseries, far above our heads. We wished we could have had a higher vantage point!

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Pattern: Nesting Dolls designed by Katie Startzman

Pattern Source: Available for purchase from Katie's Ravelry Pattern Store

Yarn: Various colors and amounts of Cascade 220 and Patons Classic Merino

Needles: US10.5 and US13 Clover Bamboo DPNs

Date Started: 1/25/2011

Date Finished: 1/30/2011

Modifications: Instead of embroidered patches, added bowties from wool felt

This pattern is really well written--and not to mention totally adorable! These guys are going to be for Serena for her first birthday next week. I think she will love how colorful they are!

See them on Ravelry and our blog!

Barnacle Goose nesting on an island.

I hope everyones week is going well. Please have a look at this shot on the large size for more detail.

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Kittiwake gull nesting on a rock in the harbour of Arnarstapi, Snaefellsnes.

I decided to make the nesting dolls into my favorite animals + a dinosaur/aligator hybrid.

Biggest - Owlet

Big - Polar Burr

Middle kid - Dinogator

Little - Octopod

Littlest - Bee

Nesting Color Series

Collared dove seems to be selecting material for a nest , and it's only January .

Forest View Estates area of Pine Crest Colorado

I found this Mourning Dove in a nest with her squabs hidden in my neighbor's hedge the other day! This bird is also called the 'Western Turtle Dove'. I love hearing the melancholy "woo-oo-oo-oo" call this bird gives in the morning and evening hours. Their wings also make an distinctive whistling sound upon take-off and landing.

My Morning Walk

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Wakodahatchee Wetlands with nesting material to bring to his mate. Shot this morning.

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heron collects nesting bits

September 2025 at our Hogsthorpe holiday cottage

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.

Yellow Warbler on nest at Middlecreek Wildlife Management Area, Kleinfeltersville, PA

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..

Along the Grande Ronde River, Washington Oregon border, USA

This massive nest in a large Ponferosa Pine has been used for at least the last seven years.

The Farne Islands.

Pattern by Nova!

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some kind of bird's nest fungus, one with its peridioles (the spores) still inside

Parry's Corner, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

June 2021 in our holiday cottage at Mill Farm, Hogsthorpe. With grandson no. 2.

Tree Swallow collecting nesting material

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 ...

On a visit to Eades meadow yesterday I found the tits were making use of the same location as last year in an old oak.

28.3.16... A lazy morning then we all went for a cycle along the canal to the playpark. This swan is nesting right next to the path so I hope she's left in peace. There were three eggs that I could see!