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Taken at Wollaton Hall, April 2015.
Wollaton Hall has a collection of managed deer within their parkland. Although I've seen other peoples photos of jackdaws collecting fur from deer, to this point I'd never witnessed it. I was pleased on this occasion, to not only see them, but to photograph it as well, and not one but two of them, They made several trips, so presumably had a very cosy nest as a result.
Dec 8/11 another kind of nesting. beautiful nests at my coworker's home make me miss living rurally...
Another shot of the Nesting mother? Curlew. I presume this is the
female but I haven't got a bird ID book at hand right now. Which brings
up the next point, which of the pair nests ? or is it a shared
responsibility ?
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)
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Least Tern, Huntington State Beach, Ca.
During the Spring and Summer months Least Terns come by the hundreds to nest at Huntington State Beach. They nest simply in a shallow burrow in the sand. Here you see one of them about to sit on a couple of eggs.
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Nesting Kittiwakes at St. Abb's Head.
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A peaceful moment in their day. At least from the camera's perspective. These two Blue Herons are nesting just past the first pavilion at Wakodahatchee Wetlands,
Matryoshka dolls meet soft puppets. Made from fabric scraps. Blond doll is hiding two more dolls inside.
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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)
Nesting Shag
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Having a house is one thing, having a home is a whole other thing. The details and love you put into them are what make any day-to-day activity (cooking, eating) a moment to look forward to. All this requires a prelude, a mise en place that goes from preparing a meal to setting up the table, and the attention you give to all its parts will take care of the rest. Some have the luck of being born with this kind of gift of making any event a magical one; others (most of us!), do not have that advantage. That is when Nesting Newbies comes in to save us like Superman always does to helpless Lois Lane!
Nesting in rock wall. This is the second clutch for the season and it would appear that earlier chicks are helping with feeding (but I'm not sure as they seldom land close to the nest entering or exiting the hole)
See strange behaviour in "Flowers and Fun" set.
I've taken this picture of a swan nesting next to the lake in Moses Gate Country Park, Farnworth, Bolton.
Photo by Sarah Donaldson, sent to BBC North West Tonight.
1676 Nesting brown pelicans at Breton NWR after booms were laid for the Deepwater Horizon spill, May 3, 2010 by USFWS Tom MacKenzie
The osprey (Pandion haliaetus) — also called fish eagle, sea hawk, river hawk, and fish hawk — is a diurnal, fish-eating bird of prey with a cosmopolitan range. It is a large raptor, reaching more than 60 cm (24 in) in length and 180 cm (71 in) across the wings. It is brown on the upperparts and predominantly greyish on the head and underparts.
The osprey tolerates a wide variety of habitats, nesting in any location near a body of water providing an adequate food supply. It is found on all continents except Antarctica, although in South America it occurs only as a non-breeding migrant.
As its other common names suggest, the osprey's diet consists almost exclusively of fish. It possesses specialised physical characteristics and exhibits unique behaviour to assist in hunting and catching prey. As a result of these unique characteristics, it has been given its own taxonomic genus, Pandion and family, Pandionidae. Four subspecies are usually recognized, one of which has recently been given full species status (see below). Despite its propensity to nest near water, the osprey is not classed as a sea eagle.
The osprey is 0.9–2.1 kg (2.0–4.6 lb) in weight and 50–66 cm (20–26 in) in length with a 127–180 cm (50–71 in) wingspan. It is, thus, of similar size to the largest members of the Buteo or Falco genera.
The subspecies are fairly close in size, with the nominate subspecies averaging 1.53 kg (3.4 lb), P. h. carolinensis averaging 1.7 kg (3.7 lb) and P. h. cristatus averaging 1.25 kg (2.8 lb). The wing chord measures 38 to 52 cm (15 to 20 in), the tail measures 16.5 to 24 cm (6.5 to 9.4 in) and the tarsus is 5.2–6.6 cm (2.0–2.6 in).
The upperparts are a deep, glossy brown, while the breast is white and sometimes streaked with brown, and the underparts are pure white. The head is white with a dark mask across the eyes, reaching to the sides of the neck. The irises of the eyes are golden to brown, and the transparent nictitating membrane is pale blue. The bill is black, with a blue cere, and the feet are white with black talons. A short tail and long, narrow wings with four long, finger-like feathers, and a shorter fifth, give it a very distinctive appearance.
The sexes appear fairly similar, but the adult male can be distinguished from the female by its slimmer body and narrower wings. The breast band of the male is also weaker than that of the female, or is non-existent, and the underwing coverts of the male are more uniformly pale. It is straightforward to determine the sex in a breeding pair, but harder with individual birds.
The juvenile osprey may be identified by buff fringes to the plumage of the upperparts, a buff tone to the underparts, and streaked feathers on the head. During spring, barring on the underwings and flight feathers is a better indicator of a young bird, due to wear on the upperparts.
In flight, the osprey has arched wings and drooping "hands", giving it a gull-like appearance. The call is a series of sharp whistles, described as cheep, cheep or yewk, yewk. If disturbed by activity near the nest, the call is a frenzied cheereek!
This image was taken in the J.N. "Ding" National Wildlife Refuge on Sanibel Island, Florida.
Sunshine the canary had a little surprise for us last week. "He" laid an egg! So much for being a guaranteed male -- not that it matters, really, since I was looking for a companion bird more than a singer.
Once I realized I had a girl and not a boy, I read up on what a female bird needs, and that turned out to be a nest. Sunshine had been trying to tell me this for a while: so desperate was her desire for nesting material she had been plucking her own feathers. (I treated her for mites instead, no doubt adding insult to injury.) But now the cage is outfitted with a little wicker nest and three types of nesting material. OK, four if you count my hair, which seems to have made its way into the nest, as it has every other corner of the house.
It took Sunshine a few days to get the nest thing figured out, but once she realized what it was all about she wasted no time customizing it to her liking. She's very proud of her efforts, and every day when we come home from work, she's eager to show us what she's done! And happily , the feather picking seems to have stopped.
this small acre is well cared for by a gnome. This area is home to a growing number of birdhouses up high in the trees and this year the gardener has appeared. This is the latest addition to the birdhouse woods aka Walnut Grove. They are nesting leather faces. For birds like doves and robins to nest.