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This pigeon was under a bridge near where I live. The sun was VERY bright outside, and I spot-metered off the bird's chest. Despite this, some detail seems to have been lost in the body, though I still really like the shot. This is basically SOOC with a slight crop and white balance corrected. In the nest were a few babies, which may have been dead (or so recently hatched that they weren't moving or making noise). You can see part of one of the chicks if you view this original size. Given the somewhat difficult exposure conditions I'm proud to have come away with this image, which I feel is nicely composed and very representative of what the scene looked like.
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.
Female seen nesting on the evening of June 3, 2010--the fourth box turtle I'd found that day--a personal record!
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)
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
Canada geese also make use of the nesting platforms, as the goose on the next platform back has done. The Bitterroot Mountains are in the background, a few miles from the Lee Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge in Stevensville, Montana.
Double-crested cormorants (Phalacrocorax auritus) nesting in red mangrove on the ragged keys. Biscayne Bay National Park, Florida.
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".
© Jim Gilbert 2009 all rights reserved
I think that there are just the two eggs visible here.
Jersey Shore
Fellow birder Leslie has been seeing a very strange critter nesting in her bluebird box: a Tree Frog!
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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Eurasian Crane. On the reserve at Slimbridge.
I don't know if it is actually on a nest, but that's what it looks like, so that's the title.
Shot with an Opteka 650-1300mm lens. I believe I had it set to around 800mm (no electronics in the lens to register EXIF data).