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another great find - unpainted nesting dolls. I've always wanted to paint my own but I didn't want to paint over some artisens gorgeous work.... so I've looked for years and finally found these

On the canal between West Byfleet and New Haw, Surrey

A bird was frantic in the building of this nest on my coworker's tire - when she left for lunch, the bird came looking for his new digs and found nothing but scraps left on the pavement - it was so bittersweet to watch, since I could just imagine his thoughts as he darted around...he was practically scratching his head, saying " I know it's around here somewhere..."

Went to Lake Guntersville for the Eagle Awareness Program. Saw 10 bald eagles, counting this one nesting at Guntersville Dam

Great weekend, even with the lousy weather. The rain kept us from seeing any birds Saturday, but Sunday made up for it.

Also tried out my new Canon EOS 7D for the first time

I didn't know geese would nest in a hollowed out tree stump. I wonder how the babies are going to get down.

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Nesting kittiwakes on the cliffs near Arnastapi, on the Snaefellsnes peninsula, Iceland

This female Brandt's Cormorant on her nest in all kind of bad weather.

The woodpecker snag we checked out turned out to have two species nesting in the same snag. Here we see both species ready to deliver food to the young in the nest. The female American Kestrel on the left occupied the topmost cavity in the snag facing away from the Thompson River; while the Lewis's Woodpecker on the right occupied a cavity halfway down the side facing the river. Both are feeding their young grasshoppers. The kestrel would deliver food while we were watching but the woodpecker would not so we did not stay long. Spences Bridge, BC. July 16, 2015.

Haliaeetus leucocephalus

Nesting pair of bald eagles in Butte County, California

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In the window of International Images in Sewickley.

This is a set of Nesting Boxes that all fit within one another.

I was lucky to witness thousands of puffins nesting in the cliffs of Iceland's Tjörnes Peninsula. I had to inch along on my belly through tall grass in an effort to not scare away these skittish birds. I was happy to capture shots like this with a 200mm telephoto lens - and patience! These birds fly away in mid-August and won't return to land until the following spring.

Please don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission. Copyright © 2007-2012 Claudia Cooper. All rights reserved.

Week 2: I had a really hard time narrowing down a specific picture to work with so I went with music instead. I put on Adele, Beyonce, and Lissie and went to work. When I was trying to find a photo to use for the homework assignment this week I found a bunch of pictures with/of bokeh which I loved from the moment I first saw it in a picture and I have always wanted to try photographing with it. I had the idea to have everything be white with the bokeh (I used white Christmas lights to create the effect) in back of my nesting doll. I ended up playing with different exposure times and focuses. I was hoping these pictures would load from lightest to darkest but for some reason the display wont let me do it. I think the numbers start from 4 and go though to 8 and you can see the progression that way.

I found the dry lavandula

I felt the sensation of nesting

I picked up the leaves and the hedera

I reaped the rose fruit

I made the liquidambar leaves branch

I composed the nest

I photographed

And in the end it flew away...

Coyote Visitor center, under eave near entrance

The mountain bluebird nesting in the barn in the Selway Meadow cow camp. Every once and a while he would pose for me.

He said he paid $150 for them. I'm not sure if I believe him or not but I paid him $25 for the three tables and feel pretty good about it.

Moorlands, Nesting, North-Central Mainland

younger than most

Blue tit spotted flying back and forth to a nest formed in a woodpecker hole

I have never experienced a time when seagulls were so still and uninterested in humans. I'm used to the hypervigilant "fish and chips" variety. I know they're birds and this is what they are supposed to be doing but I found it remarkable. Also, it wasn't just a bird or two here and there. Most of the seagulls were hunkered down all over the island- on the beach, on the dunes, in tall grasses.

Penguin Island.

Shoalwater Islands Marine Park, Western Australia.

A normally public area of Wrightsville Beach, this is closed off in the summertime for nesting birds.

Shot with Pentax K10D and 55-300mm F5.0 © Craig Lindsay 2011. All rights reserved.

Sea Turtle Nesting Area

Part of Final Project Winter 2011

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5 X 7 gocco print of two nesting birds on cover stock paper from the Green Paper Company. Paper color is Balsam Fir and is 50% recycled and 30% post-consumer waste. This lovely bird couple looks wonderful in a frame on any wall. 2 color screen print, gold + black.

She's been sitting on her eggs, just outside the entrance of Kohl's, for several days now.

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