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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
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Bald Eagles of Carnegie Lake | 2015 - 16
Bald Eagles on Carnegie Lake
We're fortunate to be able to see eagles in our area. Last year we watched a pair of Bald Eagles raise two chicks in a large nest nearby. But the chicks grew up and the nest has been empty since late last summer. Now several sightings have confirmed that the Bald Eagles have returned to their nest. Our Nature Guide Jon Latimer tells us more.
"An adult Bald Eagle in flight is almost impossible to mistake. Bald Eagles are large, dark brown (almost black) birds with brilliant white heads and tails. Juvenile Bald Eagles are as big as adults, but they don't develop the white markings until they are four or five years old. You can distinguish an eagle in flight from a vulture, our other large black bird, by the way it holds its wings. Bald Eagles soar with their wings held flat; vultures hold their wings in a shallow V-shape.
"Bald Eagles live up to 30 years in the wild and mate for life. Pairs tend to use the same nest year after year. Their nest or "aerie" is usually built in a large tree near a river or coastline, or in our case overlooking Lake Carnegie. Depending on the shape of the tree branches the nest is built on, it can be cylindrical, conical or disk-shaped. Typically a nest is around 5 feet in diameter, but eagles add new material each year, and nests over 9 feet in diameter have been recorded.
"Eagles are territorial during nesting season and will keep other eagles out of their nesting area. The nesting territory usually extends one to two square miles around the nesting site. Bald Eagles also guard their nests against predators, such as crows or gulls, that might try to eat their eggs or chicks.
"It takes 35 days for Bald Eagle eggs to incubate. Both males and females tend the eggs, but the female spends the most time on the nest. During incubation, a male Bald Eagle may bring sprigs of green conifer branches to the nest. No one is sure yet why males do this, but it could be for deodorizing the nest or possibly to control pests ...
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)
Every year, between July and September, hundreds of olive ridley sea turtles step out from the ocean to nest on the beach.
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/
kitschy nesting dolls from Japan! on its way to me as you're reading this... thanks to Bubbles Company for the tip ;) Check out her flickr here: www.flickr.com/photos/bubbles_company/
get one for yourself at: www.jbox.com/SEARCH/unazukin/1/
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
Nesting dolls of Elvis, Freddie Mercury, Barack Obama, Sarkozy, Merkel, Mao, Berlusconi, etc. Also present but not pictured were famous cartoon characters, Soviet leaders, tsars, Osama bin Laden and Michael Jackson.
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)
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.
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Here is the other photo of the nesting turtle that I like from yesterday. It was an awesome experience.
Four-channel video installation by Mary Lucier, with sound, 20-pc unpainted Matrioshka doll, tables. Photo: David Allison.
March 22, 2020
Our two remaining Eastern bluebirds are very busy making their nest. They are occupying the same box from last year. I guess they like the location!
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Barn swallow (Hirundo rustica) in a nest under the footbridge leading to Theodore Roosevelt Island. Usually, these birds are busy flying around at high speeds.
As a result of the slight relaxation of the StayatHome guidelines, I have been taking the opportunity to have a few day trips to locations that I hope wouldn't be too busy with other people. One such place is the Blackdown Hills and in particular where a few new clearings were created last year. I was watching Spotted Flycatchers when I noticed a Treecreeper returning to the same old tree. Then I realised that it was nesting behind the bark only a few inches off the ground. I have enjoyed watching the adults making repeated visits with all manner on insects. That is probably it for now as I do not wish to disturb the birds. All images taken from a very safe distance.
We were watching this swan for a while when she suddenly got up to reveal all her eggs. She then carefully turned each one. National Trust property Sheffield Park, Sussex
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Dec 8/11 another kind of nesting. beautiful nests at my coworker's home make me miss living rurally...