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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.
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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 female Eastern Bluebird grips a bundle of nesting material in her beak, nearly obscuring her face. She’s perched on a rooftop edge, mid-task.
I photographed her in my yard in Arkansas, where she paused briefly during an early morning flurry of nest-building activity.
Eastern Bluebirds (Sialia sialis) are cavity nesters and often return to familiar spots each spring. This female was likely gathering grasses and fibers to line her nest, a meticulous and repetitive part of their breeding behavior.
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.
It was so uplifting to discover this colony of nesting shags at Kai iwi Lakes on our recent road trip, north of Auckland. Vern and I watched their nesting behaviour for about an hour before we reluctantly had to get on the road again. I only occasionally see shags at our local park, so it was a real treat to see about 100 of them sitting on nests and feeding their young.
A wet day in Saddleworth, so perfect to sit in the car and get a few photos of the nesting blue tits in a drystone wall.
Peace Valley Nature Center Doylestown, PA
Wood ducks are perching ducks making there nests in tree cavities or nest boxes provided in an aviary. They are typically found in wooded areas with swamps, ponds or smaller lakes. The mating period is usually between February and April depending on the area of the country, the female normally lays 9 to 12 ivory/off white colored eggs. The incubation period is around 30 days with the young climbing out of the nest usually within 24 hours of hatching. Nesting locations can be quite high but the young are rarely injured as they fall to the ground. The young begin to fly at 8 to 10 weeks of age.
I do not normally photograph nesting birds for two reasons.
1.The risk of disturbance and therefore abandonment
2.The risk of disclosure to others.
However, while walking along the River Exe, I came across this Dipper’s nest, in a very public place and spent two fabulous hours watching, from a considerable distance, these birds. The weir was visited by a number of people during which the Dippers did not visit the nest. However, most people only spent a few minutes in the vicinity of the nest and the Dippers resumed feeding as soon as they had gone.
Taken at Kanaka Creek Park, Maple Ridge, BC.
This is my first photo of this elusive sprite. There were a pair of them busily gathering nesting material (moss). Sorry for the poor quality. I sat and waited by their nest for about an hour yesterday trying to get a clear shot, but as you can see, clear shots had become quite a thorny issue for me.
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Am I the only one who thinks that some Christmas ornaments are just too pretty to pack away in January? These birds are actually dove-shaped candles from The Pottery Barn and I leave them out all year. The nest gets added at Christmas.
My nesting instinct also seems to kick in around this time of year and I start listing all the renovations and home purchases I want to make. Planned for 2012, a new wood floor and a new sofa, which means family and friends will be calling me Scrooge this year. Ha!