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I found the most delightful woven chair while we in Home Depot yesterday. My husband was searching for some specific replacement lightbulbs and I was beat, so I crawled into this egg chair and tried to figure out where I could put it in my home. There's not many things that I covet now but this chair is a real charmer and I have no place for it ... sigh :)
www.homedepot.ca/product/hampton-bay-cayman-woven-egg-cha...
Found this beautiful bird whilst on one of our three land excursions whilst in Svalbard. Probably one of the coldest days we had and as you can see it started snowing which makes this image one of my all time favourites wildlife encounters.
Nella piccola ma splendida cornice dell'oasi Lycaena, moltissimi uccelli trovano riparo per... mettere su famiglia :)
Buona giornata
#oasi #lycaena #wwf #venezia #salzano #protected #pond #stagno #alberi #trees #nido #nest #airone #heron
Wrapping up my nesting bird series with this American Avocet sitting on her nest at Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge.
From the Cornell Lab: "Male and female avocets select a nest site together. The male leads the female around making scrapes in the ground, until they both choose a spot to nest. They typically nest on islands or dikes, placing the nest on the ground with little or no surrounding vegetation."
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 took this shot this morning, while out with the dog in tow. I'm guessing that this male is building for a second brood, perhaps, given that we're now almost through May, already. I don't know enough about the nesting habits of Wrens to know for sure, but I wish him luck.
Stour valley, Suffolk - May 2016.
A lone swan sat on the edge of the forest as it seems that it was brooding,, sometimes you had to get up to check that there were any threat factors.
These Cattle Egrets were in the process of parental nest sitting relief. You can just see the bundles of fluff that is are two chicks in the nest. Healesville Sanctuary with Flickr friend Jan Diamond. Best viewed large and right at the limit of my lens.
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.
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 !!!!
Australasian Grebe (Tachybaptus novaehollandiae)
We have a Grebe nest on the Vic Uni Pond. I'm not sure if there are any eggs yet, Flickr and birding mate David J ( www.flickr.com/photos/birdsaspoetry/with/50543076361/ ) got an image of the pair mating last Thursday. Today this one was attending to the nest. Thankfully the nest is in a great spot to observe.
. . . I watched this pair "waking up" . . . the Mama (back to us) was already on the branch when Papa exited the nest (presumably incubating an egg - as they share this duty) . . . I was then treated to some "eagle porn" (none of the shots are worth posting . . . as my vantage point didn't afford a clear view . . . lots of action though . . . lol!!!) . . . they both sat awhile longer before Papa flew off to "work" . . . hunting for breakfast I would imagine . . .
I'll have to make a point of checking things out in approximately 35 days . . . the incubation period . . .
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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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Scarborough Bluffs Conservation Area
Trumpeter Swans build their nests on a site surrounded by water and usually less than 600 feet from shore. The nest is usually built on an existing structure including muskrat and beaver dens, beaver dams, floating vegetation mats, small islands, or manmade platforms. Swan pairs often use the same nest site year after year.
Nest Description
Both sexes collect plant material to build the nest, which includes a foundation topped by a mound of aquatic vegetation, occasionally including grasses and sedges. The female uses her bill and body to shape a nest bowl atop the finished mound. The bowl’s lining may include a few feathers. Nests take 14 - 35 days to build and the completed oblong or circular nest mound can reach up to 11 feet across and 3 feet high, with a bowl measuring 10 - 16 inches across and 4 - 8 inches deep.
from allabputbirds.org
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.
This post concludes the brief review of our trip to Badlands National Park and Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge. Three more trips coming on my '23 look back.
While most of the Canada Geese at Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge were swimming around with their young broods, the other species were still tending their eggs, like this Black-necked Stilt.
If you look closely, you can see two eggs in this stilt's nest.
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..
Schurwald, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany. I do not know whether or not birds are or have been using this bird house or whether they would prefer the millions of nesting opportunities in the surrounding forest. But I think I can imagine what drove people to put up this nest box right above the footpath. They like birds and like watching them. Perhaps, they want to express their sense of sharing, that we share this life and this world with them. That we are guests here, just like them, and just for a while. Leica M8, Voigtlaender NC 1.4/35.
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.
Northern Cardinal ~ (Cardinalis cardinalis)
This determined female Northern Cardinal eventually won this tug-of-war with a stubborn piece of Spanish Moss. She is looking for ideal nesting material for a cozy new nest.
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