White stork (Ciconia ciconia)

Weißstroch (Ciconia ciconia)

It appears leatherbacks weren’t the only sea turtles interested in securing early bird nesting status during the 2020 season: bit.ly/2wr5aPJ

Our first loggerhead nest of the 2020 nesting season was reported from Jupiter Island in Martin County, yesterday morning, March, 20th. The earliest loggerhead nest on record in Florida, was March 6th, 2007.

One from Swansea Vale Ponds the other day. I was stood watching this swan pulling out and pecking at the reeds investigating them in prep for building a nest

Clark's Grebes getting read to nest. SM Lake.

Collecting mud at low tide.

The roses in the People's Garden

Plan

Rosarium History - Classification

Floribunda - new color range - Casting

Tree roses - new plantings - Pests - Winter Care

Rambling Roses - fertilizing, finishes

Shrub Roses - Rose Renner - Sponsorship - variety name

The history of roses in the People's Garden

The People's Garden, located between the Imperial Palace and the ring road is famous for its beautiful roses:

1000 standard roses

4000 Floribunda,

300 rambling roses,

(Also called Rose Park) 200 shrub roses.

Noteworthy is the diversity: there are about 400 varieties, including very old plants:

1859 - Rubens

1913 - Pearl of the Vienna Woods

1919 - Jean C.N. Forestier

The above amounts are from the Federal Gardens. My own count has brought other results:

730 tree roses

2300 Floribunda

132 rambling roses

100 shrub roses

That's about 3300 roses in total. Approx. 270 species I was able to verify. Approx. 50 rose bushes were not labeled. Some varieties come very often, others only once or twice.

Molineux 1994

Rubens 1859

Medialis 1993

Swan lake 1968

Once flourished here Lilac and Rhododendron bushes

1823 People's Garden was opened with the Temple of Theseus. Then made ​​multiple extensions.

The part of today's "Rosarium" along the Ring Road was built in 1862. (Picture fence 1874)

What is so obvious to today's Vienna, was not always so: most of the beds in the People's Garden originally were planted with lilac and rhododendron.

Only after the second World War II it was converted to the present generous rose jewelry.

Since then grow along the ring side creepers, high stem and floribunda roses. On the side of Heroes Square, with the outputs, shrub roses were placed, among which there are also some wild roses.

1889 emerged the Grillparzer Monument.

(All the pictures you can see by clicking the link at the end of the side!)

Rhododendrons, output Sisi Avenue, 1930

Classifications of roses

(Wild roses have 7 sheets - prize roses 5 sheets)

English Rose

Florybunda

Hybrid Tea Rose

Rambling Rose

At the Roses in the People´s Garden are hanging labels (if they do not fall victim to vandals or for souvenirs) with the year indication of breeding, the name of breeding and botanical description:

Hybrid Tea Rose (TB): 1 master, 1 flower;

Florybunda (Flb): 1 strain, many flowers;

English Rose (Engl): mixture of old and modern varieties Tb and Flb.

Called Schlingrose, also climbing rose

Florybunda: 1 strain, many flowers (Donauprinzessin)

Shrub Roses - Floribunda - Tree roses - Climbing Roses

Even as a child, we hear the tale of Sleeping Beauty, but roses have no thorns, but spines. Thorns are fused directly to the root and can not be easily removed as spines (upper wooden containers called).

All roses belong to the bush family (in contrast to perennials that "disappear" in the winter). Nevertheless, there is the term Shrub Rose: It's a chronological classification of roses that were on the market before 1867. They are very often planted as a soloist in a garden, which them has brought the name "Rose Park".

Hybrid Tea Rose: 1 master, 1 flower (rose Gaujard )

Other classifications are:

(High) standard roses: roses are not grafted near the ground, but at a certain strain level. With that, the rose gardener sets the height of the crown.

Floribunda roses : the compact and low bushy roses are ideal for group planting on beds

Crambling roses: They have neither roots nor can they stick up squirm. Their only auxiliary tool are their spines with which they are entangled in their ascent into each other

English Rose: mixture of old varieties, hybrid tea and Florybunda (Tradescanth)

4000 Floribunda

Floribunda roses are hardy, grow compact, knee-high and bushy, are durable and sturdy

There are few smelling varieties

Polyantha classification: a tribe, many small flowers; Florybunda: a tribe, many big blossoms

New concept of color: from red to light yellow

The thousands Floribunda opposite of Grillparzer Monument shimmer (still) in many colors. From historical records, however, is indicated that there was originally a different color scheme for the Floribunda than today: At the entrance of the Burgtheater side the roses were dark and were up to Grillparzer monument ever brighter - there they were then already white.

This color range they want again, somewhat modified, resume with new plantings: No white roses in front of the monument, but bright yellow, so that Grillparzer monument can better stand out. It has already begun, there was heavy frost damage during the winter 2011/12.

Colorful roses

2011: white and pink roses

2012: after winter damage new plantings in shades of yellow .

Because the domestic rose production is not large enough, the new, yellow roses were ordered in Germany (Castor).

Goldelse, candlelight, Hanseatic city of Rostock.

Watering

Waterinr of the Floribunda in the morning at 11 clock

What roses do not like at all, and what attracts pests really magically, the foliage is wet. Therefore, the Floribunda roses are in the People's Garde poured in the morning at 11 clock, so that the leaves can dry thoroughly.

Ground sprinklers pouring only the root crown, can not be used because the associated hoses should be buried in the earth, and that in turn collide with the Erdanhäufung (amassing of earth) that is made for winter protection. Choosing the right time to do it, it requires a lot of sense. Is it too early, so still too warm, the bed roses begin to drive again, but this young shoots freeze later, inevitably, because they are too thin.

1000 Tree roses

Most standard roses are found in the rose garden.

During the renovation of the Temple of Theseus the asphalt was renewed in 2011, which was partially only a few centimeters thick, and so was the danger that trucks with heavy transports break into. Due to this construction site the entire flower bed in front had to be replaced.

Now the high-stem Rose Maria Theresia is a nice contrast to the white temple, at her feet sits the self-cleaning floribunda aspirin. Self-cleaning means that withered flowers fall off and rarely maintenance care is needed.

Pink 'Maria Theresa' and white 'aspirin' before the temple of Theseus

Standard tree rose Maria Theresa

Floribunda aspirin

The concept of the (high) standard roses refers to a special type of rose decoration. Suitable varieties of roses are not grafted near the ground, but at a certain height of the trunk. With that the rose gardener sets the height of the crown fixed (60 cm, 90 cm, 140 cm)

Plantings - Pests - Winter Care

Normally about 50 roses in the People's Garden annually have to be replaced because of winter damages and senility. Till a high standard rose goes on sale, it is at least 4 years old. With replantings the soil to 50 cm depth is completely replaced (2/3 basic soil, 1/3 compost and some peat ).

Roses have enemies, such as aphids. Against them the Pirimor is used, against the Buchsbaumzünsler (Box Tree Moth, Cydalima perspectalis) Calypso (yet - a resistance is expected).

In popular garden roses are sprayed with poison, not only when needed, but also as a precaution, since mildew and fire rose (both are types of fungi) also overwinter.

Therefore it is also removed as far as possible with the standard roses before packing in winter the foliage.

Pest Control with Poison

The "Winter Package " first is made with paper bags, jute bags, then it will be pulled (eg cocoa or coffee sacks - the commercially available yard goods has not proven).

They are stored in the vault of the gardener deposit in the Burggarten (below the Palm House). There namely also run the heating pipes. Put above them, the bags after the winter can be properly dried.

Are during the winter the mice nesting into the packaged roses, has this consequences for the crows want to approach the small rodents and are getting the packaging tatty. It alreay has happened that 500 standard roses had to be re-wrapped.

"Winter Package" with paper and jute bags

300 ambling roses

The Schlingrosen (Climbing Roses) sit "as a framing" behind the standard roses.

Schlingrose pearl from the Vienna Woods

Schlingrose Danube

Schlingrose tenor

Although climbing roses are the fastest growing roses, they get along with very little garden space.

They have no rootlets as the evergreen ivy, nor can they wind up like a honeysuckle. Their only auxiliary tool are their spines with which they are entangled in their ascent mesh.

Climbing roses can reach stature heights of 2 to 3 meters.

4 x/year fertilizing

4 times a year, the soil is fertilized. From August, but no more, because everything then still new drives would freeze to death in winter. Well-rotted horse manure as fertilizer was used (straw mixed with horse manure, 4 years old). It smelled terrible, but only for 2 days.

Since the City of Vienna may only invest more plant compost heap (the EU Directive prohibits animal compost heap on public property), this type of fertilization is no longer possible to the chagrin of gardeners, and roses.

In the people garden in addition is foliar fertilizer used (it is sprayed directly on the leaves and absorbed about this from the plant).

Finishes in the Augarten

Old rose varieties are no longer commercially available. Maybe because they are more sensitive, vulnerable. Thus, the bud of Dr. F. Debat already not open anymore, if it has rained twice.

Roses need to be replaced in the People's Garden, this is sometimes done through an exchange with the Augarten Palace or the nursery, where the finishes are made. Previously there were roses in Hirschstetten and the Danube Park, but the City of Vienna has abandoned its local rose population (not to say destroyed), no exchange with these institutions is possible anymore.

Was formerly in breeding the trend to large flowers, one tends to smell roses again today. Most varieties show their resplendent, lush flowers only once, early in the rose-year, but modern varieties are more often blooming.

200 shrub roses

Some shrub roses bloom in the rose garden next to the Grillparzer Monument

Most of the shrub or park roses can be found along the fence to Heroes' Square. These types are so old, and there are now so many variations that even a species of rose connoisseurs assignment is no longer possible in many cases.

The showy, white, instensiv fragrant wild rose with its large umbels near des Triton Fountain is called Snow White.

Shrub roses are actually "Old Garden Roses" or "old roses", what a time

classification of roses is that were on the market before 1867.

Shrub roses are also called park roses because they are often planted as a soloist in a park/garden.

They grow shrubby, reaching heights up to 2 meters and usually bloom only 1 x per year.

The Renner- Rose

The most famous bush rose sits at the exit to Ballhausplatz before the presidential office.

It is named after the former Austrian President Dr. Karl Renner

When you enter, coming from the Ballhausplatz, the Viennese folk garden of particular note is a large rose bush, which is in full bloom in June.

Before that, there is a panel that indicates that the rose is named after Karl Renner, founder of the First and Second Republic. The history of the rose is a bit of an adventure. President Dr. Karl Renner was born on 14 in December 1870 in the Czech village of Untertannowitz as the last of 18 children of a poor family.

Renner output rose at Ballhausplatz

He grew up there in a small house, in the garden, a rose bush was planted.

In summer 1999, the then Director of the Austrian Federal Gardens, Peter Fischer Colbrie was noted that Karl Renner's birthplace in Untertannowitz - Dolni Dunajovice today - and probably would be demolished and the old rosebush as well fall victim to the demolition.

High haste was needed, as has already been started with the removal of the house.

Misleading inscription " reconstruction"?

The Federal Gardens director immediately went to a Rose Experts on the way to Dolni Dunajovice and discovered "as only bright spot in this dismal property the at the back entrance of the house situated, large and healthy, then already more than 80 year old rose bush".

After consultation with the local authorities Peter Fischer Colbrie received approval, to let the magnificent rose bush dig-out and transport to Vienna.

Renner Rose is almost 100 years old

A place had been found in the Viennese People´s Garden, diagonal vis-à-vis the office where the president Renner one resided. On the same day, the 17th August 1999 the rosebush was there planted and in the following spring it sprouted already with flowers.

In June 2000, by the then Minister of Agriculture Molterer and by the then Mayor Zilk was a plaque unveiled that describes the origin of the rose in a few words. Meanwhile, the "Renner-Rose" is far more than a hundred years old and is enjoying good health.

Memorial Dr. Karl Renner : The Registrar in the bird cage

Georg Markus , Courier , 2012

Sponsorships

For around 300 euros, it is possible to assume a Rose sponsorship for 5 years. A tree-sponsorship costs 300 euros for 1 year. Currently, there are about 60 plates. Behind this beautiful and tragic memories.

If you are interested in sponsoring people garden, please contact:

Master gardener Michaela Rathbauer, Castle Garden, People's Garden

M: 0664/819 83 27 volksgarten@bundesgaerten.at

Varieties

Abraham Darby

1985

English Rose

Alec 's Red

1970

Hybrid Tea Rose

Anni Däneke

1974

Hybrid Tea Rose

aspirin

Florybunda

floribunda

Bella Rosa

1982

Florybunda

floribunda

Candlelight

Dagmar Kreizer

Danube

1913

Schlingrose

Donauprinzessin

Doris Thystermann

1975

Hybrid Tea Rose

Dr. Waldheim

1975

Hybrid Tea Rose

Duftwolke

1963

Eiffel Tower

1963

English Garden

Hybrid Tea Rose

Gloria Dei

1945

Hybrid Tea Rose

Goldelse

gold crown

1960

Hybrid Tea Rose

Goldstar

1966

deglutition

Greeting to Heidelberg

1959

Schlingrose

Hanseatic City of Rostock

Harlequin

1985

Schlingrose

Jean C.N. Forestier

1919

Hybrid Tea Rose

John F. Kennedy

1965

Hybrid Tea Rose

Landora

1970

Las Vegas

1956

Hybrid Tea Rose

Mainzer Fastnacht

1964

Hybrid Tea Rose

Maria Theresa

medial

Moulineux

1994

English Rose

national pride

1970

Hybrid Tea Rose

Nicole

1985

Florybunda

Olympia 84

1984

Hybrid Tea Rose

Pearl of the Vienna Woods

1913

Schlingrose

Piccadilly

1960

Hybrid Tea Rose

Rio Grande

1973

Hybrid Tea Rose

Rose Gaujard

1957

Hybrid Tea Rose

Rubens

1859

English Rose

Rumba

snowflake

1991

Florybunda

snow white

shrub Rose

Swan

1968

Schlingrose

Sharifa Asma

1989

English Rose

city ​​of Vienna

1963

Florybunda

Tenor

Schlingrose

The Queen Elizabeth Rose

1954

Florybunda

Tradescanth

1993

English Rose

Trumpeter

1980

Florybunda

floribunda

Virgo

1947

Hybrid Tea Rose

Winchester Cathedral

1988

English Rose

Source: Federal leadership Gardens 2012

Historic Gardens of Austria, Vienna, Volume 3 , Eva Berger, Bohlau Verlag, 2004 (Library Vienna)

Index Volksgartenstraße

www.viennatouristguide.at/Altstadt/Volksgarten/volksgarte...

A Mallard Duck built her nest right next to my front door and is sitting on 13 eggs.

Nesting materials anything found in the water or on the beach

Collared Aracari are social toucans that nest in natural cavities or deserted nests of other birds. The lower bird is tending to its young in the tree cavity. Photographed in the Sarapiqui rainforest, Costa Rica

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Hello All,

Hope you all have a lovely weekend.

Again apologies for not being on much, I’m way behind on your updates and comments.

I’ve still have so much in backlog to post, including the oh so cute baby longtails I promised last week.

Tonight’s update is all about showing how busy some of my weekends can be 

I know some of you don’t have the time to look through all the updates so I’ve added the full set each.

Friday started as per the norm…..work!!! A place I don’t enjoy at the moment……

So escaping work at 3.30pm I headed over to Blashford reserve to make the most of afternoon and eve. Usual suspects outside the Tern hide, little ringed plover, red shank, common sand piper, lapwing ect. They only have a few plovers there and in the past they have nested but not too successfully. Currently they are having a few problems with illegal night fisherman around the lakes at the moment, which is causing some worry about disturbing the ground nesting birds like the plovers. I won’t go into a rant about it…..but it does p-me off , there are more than enough places for them to fish without going onto a nature reserve.

Back to the weekend, after watching the plover I popped over to watch the sandmartings. Would love to know what goes on in those nest holes, they been going in and out of them for weeks seemingly nest building………doesn’t look like any have settle or brooding yet.

After all the cold wet weather we’ve had I get the feeling they are just waiting for the weather to improve before really nesting down.

The sunset was going to be nice so went into the New Forrest to check out a location. And the shots from the sunset are from a pond near Cadham.

The only thing with sunrise and sunset shots this time of year, they require you to be up early and out late. So by the time I got back home and settled…. it was nearly 11 and bed by 12am. Then I was up at 4.am to get ready and start the journey to Oxfordshire to spend the day watching Red Kites , met a friend there and we spent the day and evening watching these incredible birds. Haven’t had time to go through all the shots from the day, but many I have checked have found their way into the recycling bin…lol. But I still had an incredible day in awe of these stunning birds, their flying and diving is awesome to watch. And the lovely whistling call noise they make is a joy too.

By the end of the day we left Oxfordshire at about 9 and by the time I was home and settle the clock was heading towards 12.30am…….boy I was knackered!

After a lay-in till 7am I was up and ready for a dash down to Sussex/Surrey to catch up with a friend and check out the Bluebell woodlands. Sadly it seems the cold and wet weather we’ve been having has had a big impact on the amount of bells out this year.

Again when I have more time I’ll try and post some comparison shots from a couple of locations between the last years and this year’s turn out of bells. Still there were a few about and I got to enjoy some fav woodlands I’ve missed since being in Dorset.

Left Sussex just after six and stopped in the New Forrest on the way home for the sunset, so ended my weekend as I started.

Hope you enjoy todays update.

Nesting coot.

a day in the countryside

and discovers where the blackbird is nesting.

what a beauty

These birds form a large colony and live all year round in the Pohutukawa Trees (NZ natives) - Te Puna, Tauranga, NZ. The Pohutukawa is commonly known as the NZ Christmas tree and is a ablaze with red flowers around the northern coastal regions of NZ at this time of the year.

Nesting bowl pattern from Nova at acuppaandacatchup.com/2012/03/nesting-fabric-bowls-pattern/

I made the biggest one

Brussels.

A sunny day in may.

Walking from the Atomium to the Florist garden.

Next to the Colonial garden is Sobieski park, and behind it the Florist Garden.

The Florists’ Gardens are certainly among the most beautiful green areas of the Brussels region. Hosting old greenhouses from the time of Leopold II who has initiated this park, the Florist’s Gardens also offer a magnificent view on the city and are a harbor of piece close to one of the most visited attractions of Brussels, the Atomium.

The Florists’ Gardens can be reached via the Sobieski park (close to metro Stuyvenbergh).

www.laeken.brussels/nl/locations/sobieski-bloemist/

Busy at work, making the perfect nest for their babies.

These Kittiwakes were nesting under the bridges over the Tyne at Newcastle, and on the ledges by the Hotels in the area too. Lovely to hear and see them....

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This American Robin (or "Rouge Gorge" in French) has a nest in the tree on our front lawn.

A couple of weeks ago, I was doing Spring inspection of our lawn and noticed a tiny light blue Robin's egg on the ground so I think it was a fatality of this nest.

Yesterday, I was sitting outside with my camera waiting for birds to come to the tree and suddenly 3 Grackles showed up. The Grackles made a lot of loud noise and were trying to get at this nest in the tree. The pair of nesting Robins rallied and chased away the Grackles successfully.

Today I went looking for the nest, spotted it, and managed to get this shot of one of the adult pair incubating the remaining eggs.

This nest is not very far from the Starling nest in the eaves of my neighbour's house. The Starlings sometime visit this tree, but I've noticed that the Starlings always seem to be chasing away other Starlings who try to get into their own nest.

The Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape (also Lednice-Valtice Area or Lednice-Valtice Complex, Czech: Lednicko-valtický areál) is a cultural-natural complex of 283,09 km² in the Czech Republic, South Moravian Region, close to Břeclav and Mikulov.

(Wikipedia)

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Did spend a nice summer weekend in the south Moravia, once more enjoying Pálava region and the area around Lednice - it is truly one of the most beautiful parts of the Czech republic.

Nesting swifts are a common sight around the hotel

the swans on the canal in Stockton heath have been on the nest all week at the bottom of someones garden on the other side of the canal from the towpath

In the Vondelpark, Amsterdam

ST Abbs

This beautiful Mourning Dove built her nest in a hanging pot on our deck and it was such a joy to watch her babies develop, mature and fly away.

Lens test in our yard of the new Sigma 150-600mm mounted on the D7100

All shots hand-held.

These images are cropped from D7100 files taken at 500mm!

This unconventional but highly creative and opportunistic nesting site was chosen by a pair of pigeons. They had built their nest in the men's urinal in the Frenchmen Valley Campground in Grasslands National Park. Their nest wasn't successful. They had abandoned it prior to my discovery as the eggs were stone cold. This photograph was taken on the same day that the wildfire burned through the park.

I found their nest very endearing. We had seen them hanging about the bathroom a week or so prior to the discovery.

Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission

© Colleen Watson-Turner. All rights reserved.

The Chickadees have won the new nesting box over the Bluebirds. The male and the female were both busy gathering their nest material yesterday. It was gray and cold yesterday--hoping for better sunshine shots today.

A Goldfinch gathering spider silk for it's nest

sterling silver and freshwater pearls

A robin nesting in a tree.

A Tree Swallow perches on top of a nest box at the American Canyon Wetlands

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.

Then to end a great morning in the park I watched this heron fly back and forth to his/her nest with more nesting materials. I also spent time here talking with a wonderful couple from up north about cameras, birds, travel, and the wonderful life of being retired.