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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)
This pair of Great Crested Grebes are nesting in front of Lake Hide at Westhay. I understand there were a couple of chicks in the nest but I didn't see them.
I continue to be impressed by my little TZ70, 30x zoom is of little use handheld but resting on the window frame of the hide produced pretty respectable results.
Mute swans are common in the Lea Valley, and this one chose a nesting site very close to a public car-park.
One of three images of a nesting Canada Goose I saw on the small island in Oakwood Cemetery, Troy, New York, USA on April 12, 2023.
Sometimes, hard-trying, it seems I cannot pray-----
For doubt, and pain, and anger, and all strife;
Yet some poor half-fledged prayer bird from the nest
May fall, flit, fly, perch----crouch in the bowery breast
Of the large, nation-healing tree of life;
Moveless there sit through all the burning day,
And on my heart at night a fresh leaf cooling lay.
------George MacDonald
Another day of nesting preparations....Hard to see she is so well camouflaged....Photo credit to my neighbor Pat Holmes.
A female red mason bee sealing off the last cell in a nest tube, in one of the solitary bee boxes in the garden.
Female seen nesting on the evening of June 3, 2010--the fourth box turtle I'd found that day--a personal record!
One of the few ducklings to be found in Bradgate Park, happily paddling through his new surroundings. Thanks for taking the time to have a look at my photographs
Ground nesting colonial "digger bees" with turreted entrances. (Perhaps of the genera Diadasia or Habropoda?) Photos from a day-long volunteer event, to collect seeds from the endangered Holmgren’s milkvetch (Astragalus holmgreniorum), on Utah SITLA land near St. George, UT. Along with volunteers from the Utah Native Plant Society were researchers from Utah Valley University, and partners at the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, and Red Butte Garden. The goal was to collect all the mature seed pods from the site, in order to best represent the genetic diversity of this population in the seed bank. Genetic testing may show that this population is appropriate to be used to diversify other populations on BLM land. The largest population of the endangered plant, Holmgren’s milkvetch (Astragalus holmgreniorum), grows on SITLA land (Utah School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration). If SITLA develops the land nearly all the plants will be destroyed, putting the future of the species in question. SITLA granted a permit to collect seeds from plants in May 2015. Along with photos of the collection event are photos of other flora and fauna found on the SITLA land. Participants / U.S. Bureau of Land Managment: Dustin Rooks, Samuel Fiek, Ellie Becklund, Bob Douglas / U.S. Fish & WIldlife Service: Jena Lewinshon, Nathan Brown / Utah Valley University: Renée Van Buren, Ally Searle / Other: Susan Meyer, Mathew Baker, Nick Eyre, Jonathan Barth, Bitsy Schultz, Stephen Dahl, Nicola Dahl.
Very cute way to attract birds to your garden: Bird nesting box photographed at the Enchanted Maze Garden, VIC. Australia.
Hand-tied whole cloth quilt made with Heather Ross fabric. Appliqued with a large Matryoshka doll to cover burn holes from a dryer fire. Backed with fleece. I made this for my daughter to use at nap time at Nursery School. She is in love with Nesting Dolls and refers to them as "Open Babies".
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I think that there are just the two eggs visible here.
Jersey Shore
Looks better Large!
I got up early yesterday morning to go into Valley Forge Park for some sunrise shots. It was beautiful but, didn't last very long.
The deer in the park are pretty friendly. I slowly walked up to this deer and shot as I walked because I wasn't sure when he would get up and run. As you can see, I got pretty close to this beautiful guy.
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Connie: No Mama Wubba that's no nesting material. That's Kiki's hair
Kiki: Yes that's my hair. Thx sis.
Connie and Kiki: Happy Wubba Wednesday dear flickr peeps!
Created for the PCAGOE April 2008 challenge, this is a set of three polymer clay covered plastic Easter eggs - a chick, which fits inside an owl, which fits inside a penguin. The penguin stands up on its feet; the chick is a shaker with glass beads inside. I usually work with canework, so this is quite a step outside the box for me!
Kind of reminds me of Jack and the beanstalk.
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There is a large Jacaranda tree in the street I walk everyday, very beautiful at bloom, and this year it is a joy to observe the nesting Tawny Frogmouth on the upper brunch of the tree.
This morning we were lucky to see all family - mother, father and two very cute fluffy chicks.
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Tawny Frogmouth is a strange large night hunter bird with a very broad bill, large yellow eyes and small, weak feet.. Often mistaken for owls, frogmouths are the birds of another family - Podargidae.