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My husband remembered me swooning over these Starbucks nesting cups...this morning I opened the cupboard to make some tea and this is what I found!
The river from Littledoe Lake to Tom Thompson Lake at Algonquin Park, Ontario, Canada. Spent 1/2 hour just chilling in my kayak and snapping away. I was slow enough in my movements to keep them relaxed. Enough so, that I was able to get within 10 feet of both the hatchling on dad's back and mom sitting on at least one yet to hatch egg. Truly wonderful experience.
A vintage find photographed for my etsy shop: How Now Design. Please see my profile for a link to my shop. SOLD
This is the time of year when Oropendolas build their long hanging-basket nests in the trees. I flock picks out a suitable tree, in this case a Corotu tree and there can be as many as 40-50 nests in one tree.
As you can see these are large brightly colored birds, almost cartoonish in their contrasting colors.
This set of nesting envelopes was a custom request for someone who saw one of my Tiny Envelopes ( www.etsy.com/view_item.php?listing_id=259342 ).
He wanted to know if it was mailable, because he thought it would be cute to send a tiny love note to his girlfriend. (The answer is no -- Tiny Envelopes are too small to mail. The minumum letter size is 3.5 x 5" to mail via USPS).
This was his solution: A set of progressively smaller envelopes, nested inside one another, with a tiny note inside the smallest one.
Smallest envelope is 2-inches square.
Laregest envelope is 5.75 x 4.25 inches.
One of the two Starling survivors nested in the rafters of my Dad's garage, from an original group of about 7 (they kept on throwing themselves out onto his car).
I was on I-90 today, heading to Fort Sheridan, when I thought I saw what looked like a large number of nests in a group of trees just north of the interstate. I noted the next exit so that on my way home I could check it out. I'm glad I did - there were a large number of herons and cormorant building nests! What fun!
Nests are usually 600 to 900 mm apart and form regular lines due to the hexagonal shape of each territory, an arrangement that allows the birds to pack the maximum number of nests into a given area.
Occupied year after year, a typical nest grows from a low collection of seaweed, sticks, moss, and debris into a substantial heap of feathers, fish skeletons, and droppings accumulated from many generations of nesters.
I haven't identified this little bird yet (Black Chinned Hummingbird??) -- I can't see a whole lot of it.
I have no idea where this bird was planning to take this nesting material, since we have made every potential nesting site on our property unusable, but they're still flying around with beaks full of stuff, looking for somewhere to put it. (If you haven't read the rest of this saga, please don't feel sorry for them - once they've got young, or even an egg, they attack everyone, drawing blood. They are, officially, vermin, despite their beauty and elegance.)
Tenuous link: bird at rest --> bird in flight
Crazy birds all over the place. lol If I had a decent lens I could have shown you the chicks in the nests.