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Nesting by Sisters Hope
photo: I diana lindhardt
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Leaps of preparations for Sisters Academy - The Takeover in Copenhagen
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Note the freshly added mud daubs around the nest entrance.
Cliff swallows build "adobe" enclosures that they glue to the junction of any cliff-like overhang (such the eaves of a roof) and a vertical wall in which they nest. These birds are collecting beaks-ful of mud they consider to be suitable for building/repairing their nests in Yellowstone.
Flocks of cliff swallows cumulatively consume tons of small insects, including pests like mosquitoes.
Russian (or Chinese) nesting ninjas! Completely awesome Christmas present... and don't think I didn't find the sly message inside the smallest one!
Osprey
The osprey (Pandion haliaetus) — also called fish eagle, sea hawk, river hawk, and fish hawk — is a diurnal, fish-eating bird of prey with a cosmopolitan range. It is a large raptor, reaching more than 60 cm (24 in) in length and 180 cm (71 in) across the wings. It is brown on the upperparts and predominantly greyish on the head and underparts.
The osprey tolerates a wide variety of habitats, nesting in any location near a body of water providing an adequate food supply. It is found on all continents except Antarctica, although in South America it occurs only as a non-breeding migrant.
As its other common names suggest, the osprey's diet consists almost exclusively of fish. It possesses specialised physical characteristics and exhibits unique behaviour to assist in hunting and catching prey. As a result of these unique characteristics, it has been given its own taxonomic genus, Pandion and family, Pandionidae. Four subspecies are usually recognized, one of which has recently been given full species status (see below). Despite its propensity to nest near water, the osprey is not classed as a sea eagle.
One of a pair of Blue Tits which made use of a nest box in our garden is pictured at the entrance to the nest box.
Nesting by Sisters Hope
photo: I diana lindhardt
Photographs are free to use with the credits as formulated above displayed visibly.
Leaps of preparations for Sisters Academy - The Takeover in Copenhagen
Calls for residencies will open soon.
A vintage find photographed for my etsy shop: How Now Design. Please see my profile for a link to my shop. SOLD
Nesting by Sisters Hope
photo: I diana lindhardt
Photographs are free to use with the credits as formulated above displayed visibly.
Leaps of preparations for Sisters Academy - The Takeover in Copenhagen
Calls for residencies will open soon.
Our second day in Cape Town we visited the southern-most region viewing an old lighthouse and then the penguin colony.
Nesting by Sisters Hope
photo: I diana lindhardt
Photographs are free to use with the credits as formulated above displayed visibly.
Leaps of preparations for Sisters Academy - The Takeover in Copenhagen
Calls for residencies will open soon.
I am fortunate enough to have this cute purple sunbird (phool sunghani, dev chakali )couple nesting on a cripper just outside my living room window! Fortunately it's a clear glass and I can observe them from a very close distance. Female Sunbird (One with greenish breast) has built the entire nest with very few exceptions when male also participated (the shiny black). Generally male sunbird escorts the female. The nest looks dirty from outside but has a very smooth white surface in interiors made with feathers! Comfort for kids and safety with camouflage! They build the nest at a very low height. This one is at five feet from ground. April to August is the expected duration when she will lay eggs. Will keep on posting the pictures as they progress in their family planning :)
There must be at least 20 harvestmen nesting in the wall of a bridge I walk under every morning....and no they aren't spiders
Turtle nesting is a serious affair. Lights out are strictly enforced. The baby turtles will head towards the lights instead of the ocean.
Taken on A1A Lake Worth, Florida
Mistle Thrush feeding young at nest
Grive draine nourrissant des jeunes au nid
(Turdus viscivorus)
03-05-2011 - Margravine Cemetery
Third stop on the Borrego Springs Artwork tour: there's a nesting bird of prey with two fledglings in the nest.
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Way out in the California desert there is an art installation with no equal. There are 129 welded steel sculptures, some are prehistoric animals showing us what creatures lived here before we came, some are current residents; there are also people, machines, and reptiles spanning prehistory to the present.
All are amazingly well done and in the wide open desert setting, damn near breathtaking. We're not much for museums but this? This is our kind of art museum!
(click on the Valday2014 tag to see the whole set, still in process)
Kittiwakes on the side of the castle ruins in Dunbar - they nest all over the castle ruins that overlook the harbour. They are quite a sight and make quite a sound too
Every year at this time, there are 3 trees in the middle of town where these shy birds come to nest and raise their new babies. The trees are filled with mainly these Snowy Egrets, but also Great Herron’s nest there as well but deeper within the tree vs. the top outside branches as the egrets. What is even more amazing than just watching them is listening to the egrets amazing chatter. Oh how they do love to gossip while sitting on their nests.
As a result of the slight relaxation of the StayatHome guidelines, I have been taking the opportunity to have a few day trips to locations that I hope wouldn't be too busy with other people. One such place is the Blackdown Hills and in particular where a few new clearings were created last year. I was watching Spotted Flycatchers when I noticed a Treecreeper returning to the same old tree. Then I realised that it was nesting behind the bark only a few inches off the ground. I have enjoyed watching the adults making repeated visits with all manner on insects. That is probably it for now as I do not wish to disturb the birds. All images taken from a very safe distance.