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The trumpeter swans at the Kansas City Zoo started nesting a couple of weeks ago. No eggs yet, alas.
Saturday, November 21, 2009
North Seymour Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, South America
Day 2: Galapagos Islands (Photo Expedition)
Lindblad Expeditions & National Geographic
File Name: DSC_8346
Description & Photographer Notes:
This is one of many magnificent frigatebirds that were nesting and hanging out, mostly taking care of the baby. This female may be incubating the egg, a 42 day process, while the male is out looking for food.
One female and her harem of three males have been nesting in the canal behind my house for the last four years. For 2011 they arrived on March 3rd.
The female tends to be plain looking and brown while the males are much more colorful.
The sandy beaches along the gorge are used as nesting sites by the smallish, harmless freshwater crocodiles. So you can't go on them. If you look closely you can just see crocodile tracks on the beach.
The staff says she comes back to this spot every year to incubate a single egg. Tropic Birds are pelagic and have tiny legs set too far back to allow them to walk on land.
I didn't have a telephoto lens with me; all of the bird photos were taken by simply holding the camera out right up to the birds, who did not seem bothered in the least.
According to Wikipedia they are not closely related to any modern species of bird.
I spotted this on my way home, so had to stop and have a look. It's next to a road in Pembrokeshire! She [?] has a lovely green light in her eye.
This is a nest box on my neighbours shed which had previously been broken into, probably by a Woodpecker so I was amazed to see a pair of wrens raising a brood there. And yes they were successful. A t least one fledgling was buzzing around my garden the next day. See following photo.
Photograph taken at 08:01am on April 12th 2012 of a nesting Goose off Birdcage walk by the lake within St James's Park, Central London, England.
Nikon D7000 300mm 1/100s f/5.6 iso200 -0.3EV
Nikkor AF-S 55-300mm f/4.5-5.6G VR. UV filter. Nikon GP-1 GPS
LATITUDE: N 51d 30m 4.91s
LONGITUDE: W 0d 8m 14.85s
ALTITUDE: 10.0m
This Great Blue Heron and American Avocet were found nesting side by side on an island at the Salt Creek Waterfowl Management Area in Box Elder County, Utah. The funny thing was to watch the avocet chase the heron anytime she moved. I guess that you would have had to have seen it to think it was funny. In any case, these two don't look very happy and probably aren't good neighbors.
This nest is built on a special platform designed to encourage nesting and is visible from I-84 in the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon
Nesting season is in full swing for the Great Egrets in Florida. See the display of feathers and the building of the nests.
Came home this afternoon to discover that someone had been trying to build a nest above my backdoor - without much success, thus the mess.
We are all in constant dialogue with the universe (whether we're aware of it or not.) Signs, symbols, and synchronicities abound. I get love notes and secret messages all the time. Not sure whether this is the former or the latter. In any case, I am paying attention. What next?
Superstitions in many cultures consider a bird's nest on/in one's house to be very lucky. I'll take all the good fortune I can get, however, I think the message here may be more complex than about just plain luck.