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Sorry if I'm boring everyone with all the wren pics - but while they're so close I'm making the most of the opportunity!
Quite a site to find these young Eagles nesting on the ground; well, half-nesting. The nest must have been used continuously, each season, as one day the tree it was perched in couldn't support the weight anymore, and half of it broke and fell to the ground. That didn't stop the eagles from using the nest though, and the small island that it rested on appeared to be free of any other predators.
We took the Loon nesting area signs down yesterday. It's been another successful year, one chick born and it's doing well.
When you're a novice chicken owner like me and you have questions about your hens, you go online to research. When you do so, you come across any number of beautiful, Pinterest worthy blogs devoted entirely to hobby chicken ownership, coop and run care, and keeping your flock as happy and kodak-moment ready as a group of six-year-olds at a birthday party.
These blogs have all of the correct answers, and you will feel like a neglectful and selfish bird owner stuck in the dark ages of animal husbandry. You will also wonder how these people keep their yards so beautifully manicured whilst their flock of 20 heirloom heritage breeds free-range their way through the garden.
Interestingly, the gulls circling high here fill the role that raptors would fill, if they were here: they are carnivores, and they will prey on the guillemots.
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)
"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.
All New Scavenger Hunt 9 - Item 28: A bird nest
I had to get up on the roof of the house to get this one. She's been building the nest for several days - looks like she's about done!
Camera: Rollei 35. Film: Rollei Nightbird @ ISO320, home-developed with the Rollei Digibase C-41 kit.
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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.
All New Scavenger Hunt 9 - Item 25: Russia Nesting Dolls
As luck would have it, my mother-in-law had a set of these!
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.
This Red Kite was photographed in the Chilterns on the 17th March 07 and is grasping some nest material so spring is definately in the air. Photographed with a Canon 600mm lens with 1.4x extender mounted on a EOS 20D body. 1/1600 sec, F8 @ ISO 400.
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)