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"Hercules Garden is a walled enclosure of about 9 acres (3.65 hectares) developed by the 2nd Duke of Atholl in the mid 18th century. Named after the life-sized statue of Hercules which overlooks it, the garden incorporates landscaped ponds and plantings." - Source.
nesting moor hen at martin mere. Love this shot, due to the DOF in the foreground this was on a riverbank.
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This Black Headed Gull was one of many picking up nesting materials at Leighton Moss RSPB reserve recently.
We got very lucky. At 10 p.m. we started our trip to the beach to see the leatherback turtles nesting. Our guide told us to wait on the beach while he went to see if he can find any turtles nesting, and after waiting just around 15 minutes we suddenly saw a turtle coming out of the water right where we sat waiting for our guide! We had to stay quietly in the dark for about an hour while the turtle climb up the pretty steep beach pulling herself up with her front flippers, and then dug a deep hole in the sand with her back flippers. The guides warned us that we only can turn the lights on and take photos after the eggs start to come out, and all the light must come only from the back. Here is that very moment.
And I wasn't the only slave to my nesting instinct. The people I know who used to sit in the bathroom with pornography, now they sit in the bathroom with their IKEA furniture catalogue. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 5
"If you don't know what you want," the doorman said, "you end up with a lot you don't." ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 5
A Masked Lapwing (Vanellus miles) sits on its eggs in an abandoned bowling green, Hamilton, Newcastle, Australia. It is quite aware of my presence about twenty metres away. Its partner is watching me intently and when I stand up it takes to the air and charges at me with the sharp spurs exposed on the extended wings.
Hand-held Hanimex 500mm f8 mirror lens.
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 common snapping turtle that was found nesting in Pope County, Minnesota.
Photo by Mead Klavetter/USFWS.
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".
This is a scan of I slide I took back in the days when Ivors Restaurant in Jacs Hills was still open.
Just a little comic trying to promote Nesting Dolls (Matryoshka Dolls) for www.therussianstore.com
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Actually, three 5 gallon buckets. Hens can access the buckets from the perch in front. Hens can also lay in the three boxes provided by the cabinet frame. The round objects in the nests are no eggs, but golf balls to "teach" the hens were to deposit their eggs.
An old lobster shell is picked clean in the bottom right of the picture. These chickens are spoiled.
nesting along the breakwater at Provincetown harbor. These birds have been known to swallow small stones to help them dive deeper when fishing.
Small Wren checks the coast is clear :-)
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Yellow-bellied turtle - Trachemys scripta scripta (female, ~30 cm)
Location: Durham NC (USA)
Found laying eggs in a suburban yard. I actually saw her drop one egg, but could not get a photo. The nest hole was narrow (2-3 in/5-8 cm). When I returned with a camera, she was covering the nest and soon moved off to a nearby lake.
According to locals, it is rare to get anything but a fleeting glimpse of the purple-chested Wompoo Fruit-dove high in the rainforest canopy. Seeing this Mum on her nest in the forest surrounding the Kuranda Conservation Plant Nursery, far north Queensland was such a special gift.
Thank you to Garry Sankowsky for promoting this and other of my wildlife shots in his recently released book, "All About Garden Wildlife of Australia" newhollandpublishers.com/au/natural-history/2153-all-abou...
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