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This is a bleach stamped background with alchol inks on top, ran thru the Cuttlebug and the embossing inked.
On the left side is "layered paper fabric" . The bird is embossed vellum. The base of the next is napkin with fibers added.
After roosting all winter, the bluetit has decided to use the box for a nest. Yesterday they were clearing out the mess - poo and feathers. Today they have been bringing in nesting material and to keep guard on the few bits they have brought, one of them is roosting over night.
Mourning Dove, (Zenaida macroura), nesting in Pine tree, # WV-10072905
This is "Mommy Dove." She raised five pair of squabs from this same nest last year. She is now nesting with her second pair this year (Mourning doves raise their babies two at a time, up to six pair a year).
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)
I built two bird houses into a snow sled and mounted it on our chimney a few years ago. We have a nesting pair of nuthatches in the lower level. Usually this is obscured by a lot of branches and hadn't gotten a shot of whoever has nested in the sled before today. Glad they like it! We love our birds! :-)
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.
I found a little dugout area with sticks around it that reminded me of a nest so I decided to turn myself into a bird (sorta).
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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)