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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.
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...
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!
Today is the start of a very busy time for our Blue Tits as the first of 11, or more, eggs have hatched. They normally don't produce this many eggs, 5 or 6 is normal, if they are not in the wild.
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
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!
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Nesting season for California least terns (Sternula antillarum browni) occurs from mid-April to August.
Female California least terns generally lay 1 to 3 eggs which take about 3 weeks to hatch. Photo Credit: Mark Pavelka/USFWS.
Some extra gifts for you Partner, two sizes nesting bowls made of some crazy/funny snowman fabric. I hope you like them, because it’s about time to wrap up the gifts and ship them. If you don’t like them, that’s OK because I would not have a problem to keep them!
Piping plover sitting on the nest. Usually nests of piping plovers are protected by the net but that year on West Meadow Beach they decided to keep them without any protection. So one day I met this plover sitting without movement just in a little sandhole among the stones. At first I thought that it was just resting but then it made high pitch sound and moved few steps aside. I retracted and i noticed that the plvoer quickly returmed to exactly the same spot. Several minutes later another plover appeared and took a spot of its partner. So then I knew that they were nesting. It was amazing how well camouflaged their nest was and how difficult was to see any egg. Unfortuantley removing protection neet was not good for the plovers that year. My friends told me that some nests got plundered by crows and some chicks got eaten by predators soon after hatching. Fortunately environmental officials drawed the right conclusions and in the following years protecting nets returned to West Meadow beach
This ground dove (Columbina talpacoti) took up residence in my cherry tree (acerola) about a week ago. Best of luck to her chicks.
I came across a pair of rose-breasted grosbeak out in the woods today, preparing their nest. The female flushed from the forest floor, posing for just a moment directly in front of me with a beak full of nesting material. Allamuchy Mountain State Park, NJ
High up in a tree, a squirrel is gathering nesting material to prepare its home for the winter. The camera's eye-tracking focus is impressive, finding its way through all the branches between me and the squirrel. An amazing invention that I don't understand how it works but appreciate very much. Shot at the Woodland Cemetery in southern Stockholm, Sweden. Early December 2025.
Because Sycamore has been empty for so long, birds have been finding places to nest in the fabric of the building. Now we are starting to rebuild the front panels of the cottage and replace some of the timbers, but we are working around this Mom and Dad Blue Tit and leaving their entrance open. They got quite used to Scott yesterday and were popping in and out around him. I added a note to show you their home.
365(25)150??
I would include this cutie in my current list of things I'm grateful for, but I put her in last year.
I am still grateful for her though. (If I wasn't, would I have wrapped this nest around her this morning??)
Also, I haven't been feeling well today.
It started yesterday, but yesterday was it's own version of hell.
I spent about 9 hours working on my midterm for history.
Needless to say, I did NOT want to spend any more time typing or doing anything on the computer yesterday when it was finished!
In fact, I'm supposed to be working on my weekly essay for the same class right now, but can't bear to focus on it too much. I'm struggling with the caring thing right now. =0)
For 30 Days of Gratitude
I am grateful for feeling comfortable.
Seriously, my pillow is the best pillow in the world, and, ever since Jake acquired this memory foam mattress topper, my bed has never been harder to get out of in the morning!
So, Ms. Brat, I don't blame you for snuggling down into the warmth of the blankets and not moving for hours on end.
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