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Breakfast on the deck, this morning, gave us a grandstand view of one of our two pairs of robins, currently nesting in the ivy in the back garden. Snapped with the Canon Powershot SX50 HS, set at around X30 optical zoom.
The mourning dove (Zenaida macroura) nesting in our hanging planter is remarkably laid back around people, incubating her nest while eight-year-old Laurel played outside and only retreating to the tree off our patio (we live on the second floor so it's technically a balcony, but it's quite large) when our house cat noticed her and sat below the planter meowing piteously. (We took him back inside and he will not have outdoor time until the birds are done using our planter.)
GONE--Cute mid-century vibes with these teak nesting tables. Super-convenient, too, since they can all go together.
Super cute Elf nesting doll cookies instructions here: bubbleandsweet.blogspot.com/2011/12/elf-in-my-tummy-chris...
Santa nesting doll cookies tutorial here: bubbleandsweet.blogspot.com/2011/12/santa-nesting-doll-co...
Her mate on the log is giving me the evil eye. There were about 3 pairs nesting on the islet.
Flora Islet, April 14, 2 pm
I can't wait till the eggs hatch and I can photograph the cygnets. I hope they ride on their parents' backs.
Black swans nesting in the middle of the river in Dawlish Devon. While mum sat on the remaining eggs the cygnets played with a piece of eggshell
This Common Pauraque is sitting on eggs and another is only inches away doing the same. She seems to suffer the 'ostrich syndrome'. Occasionally she would open her eyes and see this strange creature near her and then just close them and it went away. Never showed any nervousness or indication that she would fly. Taken at Estero Llano Grande near Weslaco, TX.
Pauraques are a nightjar similar to whippoorwills. Found from South Texas into South America.
In Mexico and Central America they are called “Cabellero de la Noche” (“Gentleman of the Night”), and it is believed their evening calls put young women into an amorous mood.
This photo appears on All About Birds, a free online bird guide from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Common_Pauraque/id
Yep - it just about time for all the birds at the St. Augustine Alligator Farm to begin getting their homes ready for the kids. And this Roseate Spoonbill is not exception. For info on the Munch digital brushes check out my blog at sydspix.wordpress.com/2021/02/08/kyle-t-websters-photosho...
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)
I have provided safe nesting for this guy or his ancestors for the past three years. I enjoy it when they come back in the spring, after dreadful winter. They are such artful flyers.
It is like another world: limestone tufa towers rise like strange stalagmites out of the still, salty lake waters in California’s Mono Lake Tufa State Natural Reserve.
The lake is a mecca for birds and bird watchers. Since the mid-1980s, osprey pairs have been nesting on tufa towers in Mono Lake. Although the raptors are fish-eaters – and therefore have to hunt for food further afield – the tufa-islands provide nesting sites that ground-based predators can’t access.
For the story, please visit: www.ursulasweeklywanders.com/travel/evening-over-the-tufa...
I know it's not the greatest photo, but it has special meaning to me. Most of my adult life, I have been searching for American Dippers every time I visited the Western United States (they were called Water Ouzels when I started looking for them). I would check all the streams and stop everywhere a guide book said they could be found, and, in all those years, I had seen only one.
This year, as always, I spent hours looking for them and at one spot that claimed to have them, I saw what I thought was a Starling flying to a nest under a Highway 101 bridge. I looked closer and discovered that it was an American Dipper nest. The bird on the left (I assume the male) would fly to the next every minute or so with some sort of water insect and alternately feed the other adult and the baby (all three can be seen in this photo). Although I was tempted to go back with a flash, I decided not to for fear of disturbing the birds while nesting. Instead, I cranked up the ISO to 3200, slowed down the shutter speed to 1/50th and held my breath. I was way happy about getting a few pictures of this "quest bird."
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Ibis nesting - Coolart. The Coolart Wetlands and Homestead Reserve is an 87 ha estate on the Western Port side of the Mornington Peninsula of Victoria, Australia, about 70 km south-east of Melbourne.
Hummingbird on nest, near Tucson, AZ at a B&B where we were staying. This image has been chosen by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology to be included in a series of webinars being developed to help educators meet national science standards through birds.
© Jim Gilbert 2007 all rights reserved.
I doubt that I would have seen the eggs if the Stilt hadn't been incubating a moment before.
Wakodahatchee wetlands near Delray Beach, Florida.
After a whirlwind weekend of moving, immediately followed by a week at my Mom's house to help with her recovery from knee replacement surgery, I'm finally back home and settled. Of course, I can't go anywhere without bringing back a few photos.
This female cardinal was nesting in my Mom's backyard. Every time I looked out the kitchen window, I would see her sitting on the deck with another piece of nesting material. The male cardinal was much harder to photograph, not sitting still for even a moment. I never did get a good shot of him!
Today I found the nest of the Orchard Orioles! Much later in the summer than I've ever seen them nesting. And the nest is much lower in the branches of the gum tree where they've nested many times before. I'm not sure if the mother is still sitting on the eggs, or maybe there are hatchlings in there. The nest is very well hidden inside the branches and leaves, but almost at eye-level, so easy to photograph. I won't spend nearly as much time near this nest as I did with the Baltimore Orioles. I've been photographing the Baltimore Orioles for so many years, and I start watching them as soon as the nest building begins, so by the time they are nesting they are very accustomed to having me nearby, pay no attention to me at all. The Orchard Orioles don't know me so well:) So, I'll be keeping a distance from them because I don't want them to be anxious about me hanging around. So happy to have found this nest today!
long time-exposure photograph of giant nesting sea turtle..... a large tripod on the sand provided stability.... the only movement blur is the turtle's head
There were nests on every fan and up in some bookshelves too, all around this farmhouse from last week
Giant River Frog (Limnonectes leporinus) - Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia
Walking back after my night hike, I stopped at the stream again to check on the progress of the two frogs. They had separated and were no longer in amplexus. Interestingly, all the sources I have read say the male buries the eggs and fills in the depression but when I stopped by it was the female and not the male hard at work. The male was still in the area, sitting around about a meter away. The next morning we were walking in the same direction for work and I checked the nest site and there was actually a small hill of gravel rather than a depression. You can see the nesting depression, it pretty much fills up the image here.
It may not have been the most incredible wildlife encounter but I thought it was really amazing and enjoyed being able to observe such behavior firsthand. Its one of my better memories from Borneo and I wont be forgetting anytime soon!
I made something and I know it will never sell in my store, nor will I ever use it. Shall I do a little lottery or something? Anyone want to win this
What would you do with it? The one writing the most fun comment will have it :-D
Leave me a way of contacting you if I do not already have your address or mail
One of many nesting Osprey on Eastern Neck Island on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay, Maryland USA
a gorgeous new dress from I Have Wings that I have to show off which went perfect with a new easter hat that I made sweet Sophie!
Shot through the sliding door at my (temporary) apartment in Cambridge, UK. Unfortunately the poor dove and her eggs had been eaten overnight, I was hoping to see the babies if I were lucky enough to still be here when they hatched.
out on an island it has built to nest in the lake at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, W Yorks, UK.
Waiting for it's partner to return with fish whilst it incubates the eggs which we saw later on when it turned around.
March 22, 2020
Our two remaining Eastern bluebirds are very busy making their nest. They are occupying the same box from last year. I guess they like the location!
Brewster, Massachusetts
Cape Cod - USA
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