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Now that Spring is here Mother Goose has started a new cycle of the next generation....nesting her precious eggs !
Pushing on that trigger is like pulling magic into my very soul...Darrell.
Have a safe and delightful day dear Flickr friends !!!!
A female verdin collects materials for her nest interior. Verdins nest year-round. During the off-season, they build roosting nests which are about 6 inches in diameter and appear as a roughly spherical jumble of sticks. The interior is lined with plant matter, feathers and other soft and insulating stuff found nearby. Breeding nests are larger and more posh inside to raise little ones. The male of the species is responsible for the exterior nest construction and the female does the interior decorating. Since in this photo the bird is carrying fluffy stuff that might line the interior of a nest, I'm assuming its female. One more fact I find interesting is that the verdins will vary the position of the opening of the nest depending on the season. In the cooler months, the opening is near the bottom, presumably because it retains more heat that way. In hotter months the hole is at the top, perhaps to let the prevailing winds provide some air movement. According to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, one pair of verdins was observed building 11 different nests in one year, but that may be an extreme case. Both the male and female participate in the selection of a nesting site.
evidently, you can never have enough!
I FINALLY decided to leave the apt. yesterday! After almost a week of being locked in a room with a bunch of kittens and a crazed Labrador Retriever, I figured I should maybe get out and get some fresh air, so Pearl and I went bird hunting.
She slept in the backseat while I rode around looking for potential models.
First stop was the osprey nest to see how things are faring.
I was just in time to see Abby returning with a talon full of grass.
I spent some time travelling around the lake to find the local loons. There are at least two families currently nesting. Here's hoping they are both successful and babies are on Mom's back in the near future.
The osprey is unusual in that it is a single living species that occurs nearly worldwide. This male was on his way back to a massive nest in a Cypress Tree in Central Florida, there were over 200 pairs nesting in this lake! A truly memorable experience I have yet to equal..
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At Horseshoe Lake the Little Shags are next building and it looks like six are sitting on nests already.
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ODC-Balancing Act
It's interesting what you can do with an egg and two forks. I'll cook the egg and eat it, with just one fork. 😄
A Wood Stork carries a branch back to the nest after breaking it off of a tree. I would have liked to have gotten a clean background but I was on a boardwalk
Image created on March 23, 2018 at Gatorland, Orlando, Florida. Cropped for composition.
Appolgies for lack of commenting!
Ive been spending hours just going through trail cam sd cards and editing photos.Will catch up as soon as.Probably bit off more than I can chew this year.
It consists of 34 large scale replica eggs representing the 34 bird species found nesting in the area.
A large number of these little birds, were busy collecting nesting material
House Martin - Delichon urbicum
Ganavan - Argyll Scotland
Many thanks to everyone who takes the time to view and fave my photos and in particular to those kind enough to comment. It is very much appreciated.
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An ‘alae ‘ula prepares a nesting site in the reeds and grasses adjacent to a brackish marsh. The Hawaiian gallinule (Gallinula galeata sandvicensis) was listed as endangered due to habitat loss and predation. In Hawaiian mythology, the ‘alae ‘ula brought fire from gods to humans.
This area is roped off for breeding birds. Most of the time people are pretty good about respecting the areas. Other times....Not so much.
Breakfast browsing......
Greylag goose
Scientific name
Anser anser
Our commonest native goose, the greylag goose can be very territorial while nesting, chasing other geese and large birds away from its nesting site. Greylag geese become sociable again once the chicks have hatched, with several families of goslings sometimes grouping together. Greylag geese have short bills and prefer to graze pasture and meadows where cattle or sheep are grazing. They will also take grain, root crops and leafy vegetation.
A Grebe at Carr Mill Dam, just off the East Lancs Rd, north of St Helens.
Shot with the Panasonic Lumix GX8 and the 100-400 Panasonic zoom lens.
Another year - another busy Spring nesting season
Wood Storks - Florida Wetlands - Palm Beach County U.S.A.
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The Wood Storks are really making a comeback after
being on the endangered species list a few years ago.
In the image above; the juveniles are on the right and
the adults are on the left away from the sibling chaos.
(four more "wood stork" photos in the comments)
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The wood stork is a large American wading bird in the stork family. It appears all white on the ground, with blackish-gray legs and pink feet. In flight, the trailing edge of the wings is black. The head is dark brown with a bald, black face, and the thick down-curved bill is dusky yellow. Juvenile birds are a duller version of the adult, generally browner on the neck, and with a paler bill. The bare head and the long bill, which can measure up to ten inches in length, render the wood stork distinctive from other large waders in its range.
a Common Raven has been gathering nesting materials in our neighborhood these past weeks. Has broken off a few branches on a Manitoba Maple in our yard :-)