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Sandhill cranes raise one brood per year. In migratory populations, egg-laying usually begins between early April and late May.
Both members of a breeding pair build the nest using plant material from the surrounding areas.
Nest sites are usually in marshes, bogs, or swales, though cranes will occasionally nest on dry land.
It may look like this Killdeer is nesting on a beach somewhere, but you might be surprised that she decided to lay her eggs in the middle of a church parking lot!! In an effort to protect her from the inevitable crush of traffic come Sunday, a chair with a sign on it was placed over her nesting site. She doesn't seem to mind the roof over her head, but it made it a bit challenging to shoot! (Saanichton, BC).
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This male house sparrow was gathering twigs and fluff by the Willamette River. Never saw his landing place, though - kept the nest well hidden!
A garden sunbird (cinnyris jugularis) looking for nesting material amongst the trimmed leaves for a palm tree. Photographed in Ban Khlong Sai, Krabi, Thailand.
This was another sign of spring this week. The squirrel had quite the mouthful of nesting material. Happy Fence Friday!
A Wood Stork transports nesting material into its tree top destination.
From Cornell:
Wood Storks nest in trees above standing water. They build nests in cypress swamps, in oaks in flooded impoundments, in mangroves, and in flooded areas with black gum and Australian pine. Almost any tree or shrub will do as long as standing water is present.
Males and females gather sticks from the surrounding areas. Together they build a large, bulky stick nest 3–5 feet wide. They line the nest with greenery that eventually gets covered in guano, which helps hold the nest together. Nest building typically takes 2–3 days, but the pair continues to make improvements throughout the nesting period.
From Audubon:
The average Wood Stork family requires nearly 450 pounds of fish during a breeding season.
I have never owned a watch and we do not have clocks in our house. Therefore, I had to borrow a timepiece this week for the challenge for the Smile on Saturday group - theme Timepieces
Soon to be Mom...this female Cardinal is ever so busy getting her nest ready for this years young ones arrival.
Pushing on that trigger is like pulling magic into my very soul....Darrell.
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Got out to Gator-land Orlando today, had great time. Lots of herons and egrets nesting and some hatched. There are a lot of try-colored herons hatched up to one month old chicks. Cattle egrets started nesting!
Also called fish eagle, sea hawk, river hawk, and fish hawk.
A very distinctive fish-hawk, formerly classified with other hawks but now placed in a separate family of its own. Along coastlines, lakes, and rivers almost worldwide, the Osprey is often seen flying over the water, hovering, and then plunging feet-first to catch fish in its talons. After a successful strike, the bird rises heavily from the water and flies away, carrying the fish head-forward with its feet. Bald Eagles sometimes chase Ospreys and force them to drop their catch: The Audubon Field Guide to North American Birds
This one was on the Turner River, Big Cypress Preserve in the Everglades
This is a verdin, a small songbird of the Southwest. Presumably this is a female. Verdins nest all year round and build several nests each year. The boy is responsible for the exterior and it's a spherical jumble of sticks. The girl verdin is responsible for the interior, lining the nest with soft and insulating materials (hence my assumption that this is a girl). I watched this gal fly off and come back to her nest several times with a beak full of nesting materials. Their winter nests have their entrance at the bottom of the sphere. Summer nests have their entrance at the top, which some theorize is a way to take advantage of the prevailing winds and cool down the house a bit.
Great Egret brings in a twig for a nest. That's his mate low in the tree waiting for the egret to land, turn and pass the twig.
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If you like Mute Swans get yourself to Abbotsbury they have rather a lot
Abbotsbury Swannery is the only managed colony of nesting mute swans in the world. It is situated near the village of Abbotsbury in Dorset, England, around the Fleet Lagoon. The Fleet, besides which the swannery sits, is the largest lagoon in Europe, and runs for about 8 miles along the Dorset coast. It is brackish and tidal, but sheltered by Chesil Beach, and is a RAMSAR site of international importance and a Site of Special Scientific Interest, and has been a nature reserve since as early as 1393. The swannery is at its westerly extremity.
The colony can number over 600 swans with around 150 pairs. Written records of the swannery's existence go back to 1393 but it probably existed well before that, and is believed to have been set up by Benedictine monks in the eleventh century.
Today, there are around 600 swans. They are free-flying birds and could choose to nest anywhere, but are obviously attracted by the Fleet Lagoon. Visitors can wander on small paths among the various nests, sometimes experiencing the birds' territorial displays. The swannery is open to the public between March and the end of October,
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