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I made these nesting dolls using my Cricut and the Paisley cartridge. They range in size from 3 1/2 inches to 2 inches.
Two female Marbled Salamanders (Ambystoma opacum) guarding eggs and waiting for rains beneath a small log adjacent to an ephemeral wetland.
Tutakoke River Research Camp, Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge
Photo by: Kristine Sowl, USFWS
Public Domain
'Peaceful Doves' nesting in Healesville Sanctuary - they are SO pretty.
Specialising in native Australian animals, Healesville Sanctuary is one of the Zoos Victoria sites, located at Healesville in the Yarra Valley to the east of Melbourne. It is a fantastic set-up, well worth the cost and at least a half-day visit! More info available at www.zoo.org.au/healesville.
HDR from 4 exposures
-0.67/-0.33/+0.33/+0.66 EV
Photomatix for HDR and tonemapping
gimp for cropping
jhead to restore EXIF
Double sided nesting puppets, digital drawings printed on fabric. Each featured a fun surprise on the back (like the robot is run by mice, the cupcake has a bite out, etc.) Characters are a robot, fairy, alien, cupcake, balloon riders, and a bug.
A female African quailfinch collects nesting material from the regurgitated pellet of some large raptor, containing fur and feathers. It is generally believed that only the male collects nesting material, making this observation rather fascinating!
One always finds them in short, open grassland especially if there is water nearby.
One can tell breeding male and female apart by the darker upper mandible and grey (not black) face of the female.
on Puffin Island.
Our cruise was a wonderful experience and we saw may wonderful birds.I found the photography quite a challenge due to the movement of the boat.
Let me tell you a story. The Oystercatcher is nesting precariously on this derelict jetty. Later in the day I was kayaking past the bridge with my friend Chris. The crow was trying to get to the nest. One of the Oystercatchers hit the Crow so hard it fluttered down onto the opposite bank. After a short while it tried again, this time the Oystercatcher hit it so hard it fell into the creek. For a while I thought it would drown. It started to flap its wings feebly, than gradually got stronger and flapped till it got the bank, where the Oystercatcher had another go at it. We paddled on at this point, when we came back there was no sign of the crow. I've never seen anything like it.
A feisty relationship in the nest. This was one of ten pecking attacks that went back and forth in about 20 minutes of shooting. Makes for a good shot thought.
One of my favorite birds to photograph they will always pose for you.
There are two chicks in the nest. I have never seen the mother leave the nest. Papa will hunt for the family until the chicks are almost fully fledged.
These birds are very tolerant of people so they don't mind nesting where people are as long as there is a body of water near by for a food source. Osprey nest can be found on the ground or even up to 60 feet high on live trees, dead trees, utility poles, duck blinds, fishing shacks, storage tanks, aerials, cranes, power line transmission towers, billboards, chimneys, windmills, fences, channel buoys, and even on artificial platforms built by humans. Most nests vary in size, between one foot wide and up to ten feet wide, with the exterior composed of small and large sticks and an inside lining constructed of inner bark, sod, grasses, vines, and many other items that the osprey are able to carry away from the ground. Large nests may reach up to 400 lbs., and are often used in successive years!
A vintage find photographed for my etsy shop: How Now Design. Please see my profile for a link to my shop. SOLD
The other day bought a set of blank wooden nesting dolls that I got on sale at Michael's, my next project is to do my own paintings in them. Been working in my sketchbook creating different ideas for this project. Here is the strange bird family version.
This little pair have been excavating an old cocos palm we lopped a few years back. They are obviously keen on making a nest - and a giant mess.
Saw the most extraordinary thing this morning! The nest is now deep enough to fit in an entire galah - and turn around and come back out.
The male was down the hole for about 10 mins and I couldn't work out what he was doing....until he reappeared and had a few large shakes of his feathers. He has been stuffing the debris that is being chewed out - into his feathers. Up his trousers, in his tail, his breast feathers - just everywhere. Zoom in to the last several photos and look how much stuff he has packed in to his suit! No wonder he has been preening a lot!!!!