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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.
Camas National Wildlife Refuge
About half of the Camas National Wildlife Refuge in southeastern Idaho consists of lakes, ponds, and marshlands; the remainder is grass sagebrush uplands, meadows, and farm fields. Camas Creek flows through the length of the refuge.
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 whooping Crane sitting on a large nest that I photographed at the International Crane Foundation near Baraboo Wisconsin.
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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.
Work for upcoming show at: www.aokayofficial.com/ in April!
I can take commissions for custom nesting dolls :)
Nesting at Preston Docks
The Arctic tern is a seabird of the tern family, Sternidae. This bird has a circumpolar breeding distribution covering the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions of Europe, Asia, and North America. Wikipedia
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Peaceful Doves, nesting in a ficus branch just above our main verandah steps. The parent attracted the young out of the nest and along the branch by feeding them away from the nest. This was a day or so before they left the nest.
This isn't supposed to be cute, but it is. I hate when they sleep in the feeders. The ewes won't eat the hay anymore.
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
Mom's version of nesting involved washing doors, dissecting the a/c, and even painting their bedroom the day before I was born.
Coots nesting on the river beside the Olympic Park in Stratford, London E15, in the London Borough of Newham, July 5, 2012.
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