Swallows under a bridge for nesting.

The department painted one nesting doll per employee for our art director

A nesting box just behind my house. And a stone cat, and rocks hanging in the tree.

A mysterious place.

I'm retiring these fabrics from my Etsy shop! Final sale through 1/31/12 - 15% off.

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Since we lost our breeding pair of swans a couple of years ago, we've been without new cygnets each spring, which is something I have missed. The young swan who has taken the territory along this stretch of the Union Canal now has a mate, and a friend alerted me to the fact they had made a nest and it looks like there are eggs in it, so perhaps this spring we will have cygnets again!

Sadly being young and inexperienced, they have chosen a less than ideal location - in a busy area, right against the canal wall by some apartments, meaning locals cats, foxes and others can see down into the nest. Hopefully the large swans will be a deterrent to any would be predators and we get some hatchlings...

Delighted to see them building up the nest this evening as I walked home from work.

Bluebird couple alertly monitoring their spring nest box.

One of the cabins at Campo Cortez had an interesting hood ornament; a pair of nesting Ospreys

Great spotted woodpeckers, nesting in Formby woods

I'm impressed with the depth of this Osprey nest. That took a lot of build-up between the trunks.

in the Kalahari

The secretarybird or secretary bird (Sagittarius serpentarius) is a very large, mostly terrestrial bird of prey. Endemic to Africa, it is usually found in the open grasslands and savannah of the sub-Saharan region. Although a member of the order Accipitriformes, which also includes many other diurnal raptors such as kites, buzzards, vultures, and harriers, it is given its own family, Sagittariidae.

Nests are built at a height of 5–7 m (15–20 feet) on Acacia trees. Both the male and female visit the nest site for almost half a year before egg laying takes place. The nest is around 2.5 m (eight feet) wide and 30 cm (one foot) deep, and is constructed as a relatively flat basin of sticks.

Secretarybirds lay two to three oval, pale-green eggs over the course of two to three days, although the third egg is most often unfertilised.[citation needed] These eggs are incubated primarily by the female for 45 days until they hatch. The secretarybirds are facultatively fratricidal.[27] There are conflicting opinions on this phenomenon also called cainism—"No evidence [exist] of sibling aggression, but youngest in brood of 3 almost always dies of starvation..."[28]

thanks to Wikipedia :-)

return of the great blue sky, and Great Blue Herons - Stanley Park , Vancouver, BC , Heronry

Nesting blue tits in garden bird box, they have started to increase the feeding,

Nesting blue tits in garden bird box, they have started to increase the feeding,

Nesting eagles

~ Blomidon ~

Blue Tit(Cyanestes Caeruleus). Busy with a mouthful of moss, ready for nesting.

Nesting in Pinellas County, Florida

This little rascal kept uprooting vegetation and taking it underground to a burrow. I wonder if babies are on the way.

A touch of snow today as the Rooks have just completed nest building.

Nesting..

Arizona-south of Tucson; in the side yard

Smallest - 11 x 11 x 18"H

Medium size- 13 x 17 x 19"H

Largest - 15 x 23 x 20H

Style #114 - Shaker Leg

Shown in Brown Maple/Onyx

While walking along a river bank I happen to come across this nicely camouflaged duck nesting inside the hollow trunk of a tree. She didn’t seem to mind the crowd and the music being played by a band nearby. Not many people actually noticed her. A couple came by to look at what I was shooting and was pleasantly surprised to see the duck.

This is an addition to the Jaipur set. Looks very similar to the chipmunks we have in North America, though I don't know what species this actually is. Is this nesting material or is she rushing home to try on a new dress??

Best viewed LARGER in the Lightbox.

[http://www.flickr.com/photos/deepcaves] has identified this as an Indian Palm Squirrel. Thanks!

Thanks to Flickrer 'Wild Bill in MN' for tipping me to these guys. Not too surprisingly, our shots are a bit similar. As I'm guessing are all of the hundreds of shots from all the photogs lined up to capture these guys. Must have seen five Canon 'bazookas' on tripods amongst the snappists, I think I was the least focal-lengthed with my "lowly" 500mm mirror lens, heh!

I might go back with the Nikon V1 and the 18-270mm. That's probably my longest reach setup ...

These big birds are great builders..they take every thing from the present world ..like fabric, papers..tin , big and small sticks and what not ..they build very strong nest for their breeding season :)

Nesting by Sisters Hope

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Leaps of preparations for Sisters Academy - The Takeover in Copenhagen

Calls for residencies will open soon.

This is the mallard that is nesting under a nandina bush next to my daughter's pool. She is sitting on 13 eggs and I don't think she is through. Odd place for a duck to pick.

Regional Wildlife Manager with the Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources, David Norris, left, and Wildlife Biologist, Meagan Thomas, right, step off the boat and onto Fort Wool on July, 15, 2021.

Rip Rap Islands serve as crucial nesting ground for seabirds near the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel in coastal Virginia. Currently, species that rely on the island include the royal tern, common tern, gull-billed tern, sandwich tern, herring gull, laughing gull, great black-backed gull, black skimmer, and snowy egret.

For decades before the expansion of the HRBT, two artificial islands anchored the underwater tunnels and housed the large colony of seabirds. The construction made these islands unsuitable nesting grounds.

In February 2020, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam tasked the Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources with relocating the colony. A quick yet massive renovation of Fort Wool, a Civil War-era military installment built in 1819, transformed Rip Rap Islands into a landscape for the seabird colony similar to the barrier islands. Along with Fort Wool, DWR leased three flat-top barges to create additional habitat next to Rip Rap Islands for the birds to nest. July 15, 2021 (Photo by Aileen Devlin | Virginia Sea Grant)

Towers of Santa Maria do Castelo, Alcácer do Sol.

Sorry about the poor quality folks; it's an enlargement from a small part of an MFT image. I wished at the time I could have beamed myself home to get my other camera with its telephoto zoom.

I played with my scraps and received two scrappy panels. I turned them into a nesting bowl. I loved playing with my scraps and used some precious fabric for the inside. Outside essex yarn dyed linen.

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These Carlyle style nesting tables, were custom made to coordinate with another table in the next picture.

The large table measures 18"W x 26"D x 25"H and the small table measures 12"W x 20"D x 20"H.

All two toned in Elm/Asbury for the tops, and Brown Maple/Black for the rest.

spring time

Loved getting to see Hummingbirds nesting. As I'm learning DSLR photography, the thing I keep discovering most often is how much more I need to learn & understand. At least I had a few pics that were worth sharing.

Nikon d5200, Nikkor DX 55-200mm VR, edited with Snapseed & PhotoToaster

Family of robin's built a condo and are currently taking turns watching over their eggs in the camilla near the front porch.

the nesting site was selected after serious consideration... squirrels here mate and reproduce almost all year round except December and January...

Nesting Canada Goose by Adam Turow

Great Swamp NWR, NJ.

She didn't move an inch when I came by, hoping to photograph her goslings soon!

Photographed at the Murphy-Hanrehan Park Reserve in Savage, Minnesota.

Vidsey Island, Reyjkavik, Iceland

Russian Nesting Dolls.

ODC Group 1: 12/14/2011: Hollow.

I have always loved nesting dolls.

Some background on nesting dolls from Wikapedia:

A set of matryoshkas consists of a wooden figure which separates, top from bottom, to reveal a smaller figure of the same sort inside, which has, in turn, another figure inside of it, and so on. The number of nested figures is traditionally at least five, but can be much more, up to several dozen with sufficiently fine craftsmanship. The form is approximately cylindrical and hollow, with a rounded top for the head, tapering toward the bottom, with little or no protruding features; the dolls have no hands (except those that are painted). The artistry is in the painting of each doll, which can be extremely elaborate.

The first Russian nested doll set was carved in 1890 by Vasily Zvyozdochkin from a design by Sergey Malyutin, who was a folk crafts painter in the Abramtsevo estate of the Russian industrialist and patron of arts Savva Mamontov.[2][3] The doll set was painted by Malyutin and consisted of eight dolls—the outermost was a girl holding a rooster wearing a traditional dress. The inner dolls were girls and a boy, and the innermost a baby.[2]

Matryoshka dolls are often designed to follow a particular theme, for instance peasant girls in traditional dress, but the theme can be anything, from fairy tale characters to Soviet leaders.