that's putin, and yeltsin, and GORBACHEV!

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.

Mallard Duck nesting

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.

Nesting gannets in the cliffs at Dunquin harbor, Dunquin, Co. Kerry

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Taken at Buffalo River State Park, Minnesota on 8 Nov 2010.

Sparrows are nesting in my neighours loft through an old overflow outlet.

Nesting female blackbird

Genovesa Island, Galapagos

Great crested grebe.

Rickmansworth, April 2021.

A greeb tending to the nest while its mate swims in the background.

I was surprised to see this Robin nesting at eye level in a pine tree on my walk the other day. Couple of days later, I saw babies.

Peaceful Doves, nesting in a ficus branch just above our main verandah steps.

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Coot nesting at Moses Gate Country Park

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Cormorants nesting in a drowned forest in the Kai-iwi lakes. Although these are fresh water lakes they are only a few Km from the Tasman Sea where the birds presumably feed.

Nesting Great Cested Grebes taken April 2010, April 2010, RSPB reserve Ham Wall, Somerset

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

Pied avocet (_Recurvirostra avosetta_) nesting at Slimbridge WWT.

Mass Nesting of Olive Ridley Turtles at Gahirmatha Beach

Crazy birds all over the place. lol If I had a decent lens I could have shown you the chicks in the nests.

At one of the Rideau Canal Lock Stations, we saw a nesting osprey and her mate. Osprey's are part of the eagle family.

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It wasn't my intention when I started making this, but I think it looks like a Russian Nesting doll.

My first thought when I began it was, "Can you see me?" But as she began to take shape, I kept hearing, "I am a part of something bigger than myself."

A nesting swan among the reeds in a branch of the Great Lake on the Castle Howard estate.

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Early January in South Central Pennsylvania and the Eagles have started build their nest.

Perched precariously on a security light, this Dove had made its nest. Up a ladder I went to take this picture, and very quickly the Dove, obviously, didn't like presence. I didn't hang around for long....

Swillington Ings, Leeds

July 3, 2019 – Nesting.

We have a lot of nesting activity in the Gardens right now. This is an American Redstart, one of my favourite summer visitors.