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Whilst at Bempton Cliffs we watched the Gannets spending much time collecting nesting material. At times there were fights to obtain the best material available.
The Rainbow Lorikeet is unmistakable with its bright red beak and colourful plumage. Both sexes look alike, with a blue (mauve) head and belly, green wings, tail and back, and an orange/yellow breast. They are often seen in loud and fast-moving flocks, or in communal roosts at dusk.
Description
The Rainbow Lorikeet is a brightly coloured parrot. Flies fast with rapid wing beats. Lorikeets are often seen in large flocks. Often these flocks are very noisy around sunset as they screech and fly around before roosting. They usually roost in tall eucalypts.
Other Names
Blue mountain lorikeet, Blue mountain parrot, Swainson's lorikeet, Rainbow lory
Size
28 cm
Habitat
rainforest, open forest, woodland, heath, mangroves, along watercourses, mallee, gardens, parks, orchards
Food
mainly flowers, nectar and fruit. The lorikeet has a brush on the end of its tongue to help with sipping up nectar and pollen. Native shrubs such as Grevilleas attract them to suburban gardens.
Breeding
2 (rarely 3) white, oval-shaped eggs a pair can produce up to 3 broods in a season. The female incubates the eggs for about 25 days. The male also spends time in the nesting hollow. The young leave the nesting hollow for the first time after 7-8 week, returning to roost for first few weeks.
Range
almost anywhere along the east coast of Australia from Cape York to Tasmania, both in towns and in the bush.
Classification
Class:Aves
Order:Psittaciformes
Family:Psittacidae
Genus:Trichoglossus
Species:haematodus
Common Name:Rainbow Lorikeet
Relatives in same Genus
Scaly-breasted Lorikeet (T. chlorolepidotus)
Red-collared Lorikeet (T. rubritorquis)
(Source: OzAnimals.com)
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.
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.
GONE--Cute mid-century vibes with these teak nesting tables. Super-convenient, too, since they can all go together.
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'd spotted this lady whizzing around the garden collecting bedding material..... so I set up the camera in the conservatory....and waited.. she kindly landed just in front of me carrying this mouthful for her nest.... once again very dark day, taken through double glazed window....
Trinidad has the second largest nesting site for Leather back turtles. This turtle just laid her eggs and was heading back to the ocean.
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...
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.
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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!
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)
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!
Nesting monsters using plastic Easter eggs, knitting pattern included in my upcoming book, More Knitwits. www.caffaknitted.com
One of a series of fourteen hand-forged artworks, dotted along a trail beside the River Colne in the old port area of Colchester ( The Hythe). They are the work of a group of artists ( Andrew Rowe, David Mackie, Heather Parnell and Becky Adams) who worked with members of the local community to produce the sculptures. The trail begins ( or ends) at firstsite, the new arts' devlopment in Colchester town centre , which will open to the public on 25 September 2011.
The sculptures represent various aspects of either the wildlife or local history of the area and the whole trail is described in a specially written poem by Martin Newell of Wivenhoe, in which he assigns a verse to each sculpture. The details ( including a map of the trail) are available locally in Colchester.
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Last summer, a leafcutter bee built a leaf tunnel nest in the crack along the edge of the top step. We would frequently see her show up with a small leaf and crawl inside to add it to her nest. I wonder if we'll see any leafcutter bees using that nest this year!
Was out for half the day, so I only got as far as building the frame, floors and roof for the nesting boxes and the food storage.
Tomorrow I'll finish the last of the framing (somebody decided today they want the areas I was going to fill in with mesh to be siding instead. So I'll have to build in a little triangular frame in those two spots now.)
Then the siding starts! Whee!