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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)
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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
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.
The two Mute Swans at LLC have started showing signs that they intend to raise a family. The free food might play a part...
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.
The front of the house had to be bumped out to accomodate our chickens and a nesting box was added. No laying yet but they sleep in their nesting box, not on the roosting poles. Ugh!
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.
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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.
Stork nests - usually in small groups - are a common site in Alentejo, Portugal. The nests are built on trees, telegraph poles and buidings.
April 17, 2021
I found this pair of merlins while walking along Lake Champlain near Burlington Vermont. They are nesting high in a tree on the edge of the forest. The tree stands alone on a sandy beach. They were making a lot of noise, otherwise I would never have seen them.
(Falco columbarius)
(Thank you, Buckeye. for confirming the ID!)
Lake Champlain Waterfront
Burlington, Vermont
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Quick trip to Darts Farm, Topsham in Devon resulted in some lovely close views of the Penduline Tits and a nesting building wren that was more on less ignored!
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 = ;[