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Nazca Boobies lay their eggs directly on bare ground. As you can see here, no effort has gone into nest building. It seems to work just fine; there's no shortage of adult Nazca Boobies in this world.
If it's nest architecture you seek, you'll need to visit the Ecuadorian Amazon and look at the marvelous hanging nests of the Oropendolas.
I'm pretty sure that this Eagle is "Bonnie" carrying fluff to the nest... I think that "Clyde's" beak is more curved at the tip than hers. Also, when she dropped it off at the nest and tried to place it around, "Dad, (the carpenter of the family)" "beaked" her until she gave up and moved away from it?
* sorry for the overall clarity of this image..300 yards + harsh light = ;[
On April 2nd I posted a photo of two eagles mating at this nest at 3Tree. I believe she is now sitting on egg(s) because of how she is sitting and that she was there all the time I was. If they lay eggs 5-10 days after successful copulation, it must not have been successful on the 2nd because she was not nesting on the 15th. So if eggs were layed sometime in the last 3 days then there should be eaglets around May 23rd or so. Woohoo!!! I'm so excited.
05/10/11 -Been checking on the nest every few days and taking photos but they all look like this. Hopefully couple more weeks and BABIES.
I took this picture on my trip to Argentina. We had gone all the way to the end of the world (at least that's what they call, "Fin del Mundo"). It was a town called Ushaiua in Patagonia, which is the last large settlment before you leave for Antartica.
While there, we took a boat trip to go see some penguins by travelling down the Beagle Channel. But on the way we passed several large rocks sticking out of the water. On these rocks was a mixture of Cormorants and Sea Lions I guess it was nesting time and we got to see them in pairs. It was a very cool thing to see. If not a little bit strong to the nose.
As always, comments are always welcome.
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.
A visit to RSPB Bempton Cliffs reserve south of Scarborough, combined with lunch at Flamborough head, provided plenty of opportunity to observe the nesting Gannets, Fulmars and Kittiwakes at close quarters, whilst Shags were to be seen skimming the coastline just offshore. Bempton is the only mainland Gannet colony and presents quite a spectacle with thousands of birds rearing large grey fluffy chicks on the precipitous chalk cliffs
I posted a similar photo a few weeks ago, but this one was a little clearer. It appears that this heron is hanging out on a nest, one of the few you can actually see from anywhere accessible in the state park if it really is a nest. It will be interesting to watch as nesting season arrives; anybody have a clue when herons nest?
This here is a Kildeer on its egg..They nest in a hollow in the ground in open spaces where they can watch out for predators .. If it sees something coming like me with my weedeater it makes a high pitch squeaky noise and runs away from its nest to draw you away from it . To make you think it is injured it fans out its wings displaying an orangy color and pretends one of its wings is broken hoping that you will follow it away from the nest.... anyway in the last picture you can see its nest and egg...
No Kildeers were injured photographing this bird......Thanks to Theresa for teaching me how to post multiple photo's :-)
A pair of nesting Western grebes in a colony of approximately 200.
Location: Haglund Waterfowl Production Area, Chase Lake Wetland Management District
Credit: Neil Shook / USFWS
Photo Contest Entry #177
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.
was waiting for the library to open when i noticed that little birds (wrens, maybe?) were flying to the sign above the door and then flying into the crevasses and behind!!! you'll notice some nesting material that is hanging out.
scavenger22 symmetry
I like how South Carolina has stepped up their environmental program by trying to preserve the natural bird species in the state. These look like a group of swallows nesting around the man-made homes built for them.
Shooty is never a slouch when it comes to impromtu nesting oppotunities; not that he is planning to care for a new bunch of booty-shaker chicks! Oh no, anywhere warm and soft will do, with a good view of the TV! Merlin was in another of his 'contempating life' moods, so Shooty took full advantage of the situation!
A pair of willy wagtails spent several days working from dawn till dusk, trying to build a nest between the light and the beam (which I can now see needs a good wash). However, the gap was too wide, and all their nesting material kept falling through. Finally, they decided to relocate.
Notice the distinctive white eyebrows and whisker marks