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Janice and I were thrilled to watch the construction of about eight nests as blue heron couples tore twigs from treetops and wove their nurseries, far above our heads. We wished we could have had a higher vantage point!
Here's a first attempt at a nesting box. Two nests for five chooks.
The nests are made big enough for the chooks to feel comfotable, but not too big to risk accidents or chooks eating eggs.
The (operable) lid is so that chooks can't sit (and poo) on top, and also acts as a supplies store.
The perch out front is just to help them get in and out.
The whole coop is fully insulated so that the chooks don't get too cold in winter or hot in summer as the shed is clad in corrigated iron.
Most materials are offcuts from the construction of our main house - apart from the framing timber which is cypress pine from a nearby farming hedge that was due to be bulldozed.
Chesapeake Bay Program Multimedia Manager Will Parson photographs the tern colony during a visit to Fort Wool on July 15, 2021. (Photo by Aileen Devlin | Virginia Sea Grant)
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.
our hens now have this row of vintage nesting boxes to lay in each day. Modeled by one of our 4 RIRs.
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)
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 painted this for Jessie for her birthday in, I think, Sptember. It's a cute little nesting doll with a rad background table type thing. I like it. The lines making up the body took quite awhile to do. I then coated it in several coats of Mod-Podge.
I am told it is hanging up and adding character to her bedroom. Yay me!
Photo by Dennis
I just got a new lensbaby for Christmas and am experimenting with all it can do. These nesting dolls are from Russia, my youngest's Christmas gift
A great egret sitting on her eggs. there was a whole little island full of these nests.
More egrety goodness: www.flickr.com/photos/artolog/2428614576/in/photostream/
One of the 3 year olds found this nest somewhere in the garden a few days ago, and it got put on this hedge. (Which wasn't flowering at the time)
After the hedge broke into bloom, this nest was all but forgotten till I was roaming around the house yesterday with the camera in my hand looking for something interesting to shoot, when i saw this empty nest in the middle of this colorful hedge.
Some post-processing.
I am still not happy with the color balance. I probably will work on it some more later.
Will process the rest of the shoot and upload them at a later date.
Comments and crits are more than welcome.
The sparrows are collecting the pampas grass just outside my living room window. It looks as if the grass did not survive the bad winter we had. I had to take the pictures through the window
The white-fronted bee-eaters nest in colonies, digging holes in cliffs or earthen banks. In this case, we saw them in a mound by a quarry. If you look closely, you can see one standing on the ground above the holes.
The white-fronted bee-eater (Merops bullockoides) is a species of bee-eater widely distributed in sub-equatorial Africa.
They have a distinctive white forehead, a square tail and a bright red patch on their throat. They nest in small colonies, digging holes in cliffs or earthen banks but can usually be seen in low trees waiting for passing insects from which they hunt either by making quick hawking flights or gliding down before hovering briefly to catch insects. Wikipedia
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)
Sabal Palm Sanctuary's resacas are full of Least Grebes.
We've counted at least 8 pairs building and sitting on their nests!
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.
On our hike, we spotted an osprey nest built on a dead tree. Mom was in there keeping the babies warm. For scale - this is a BIG bird, wingspan is 5-6 feet!
This was special because we're usually looking UP at their nests, seeing one from above is a treat.
(I took another photo later in the day, shows scale a bit better)
A nesting green sea turtle(?) (Chelonia mydas) from the Nicoya peninsula in the Guanacaste region of Costa Rica. Unfortunately she chose a bad place to nest, her eggs were poached before she even got a chance to return to the water.
EDIT: Turns out this is actually a olive ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea)! Which is pretty exciting since then this is the first and so far only one of these I have seen. This is a wide ranging species and is found throughout much of the worlds oceans but population levels have dropped from historic levels.