Home sweet home.

@CTGT and I enjoyed watching Carolina Chickadee parents come and go from building their nest in a tree scrag; a fitting moment during our Mother’s Day hike.

#birds #birding #nesting #nature #SolaceInNature #DelightOverDarkness

A student asks me a question about #optimisation and #nesting so i'm back into "16 Case stories, re-imagining the practice of layout" with @colm @Femke @Ludi #OpenSourcePublishing
Published in 2012
"a catalogue put together as part of an attempt to rethink #layout tools, and features case stories that range from historical to present, on to the imaginary and speculative. The ‘camera-ready copy’ of this book was created on a pen #plotter: this has required a rethinking of the workflow, including a special font stack built upon engraving tools, to be able to use stroke based fonts."
Tools: #ActiveArchives, #LibreOffice, #Inkscape, Custom #Herschey Inkscape plugin, #Roland pen plotter, laser printer, glue and scissors. Printing: Risograph and Roland Pen Plotter.
Provided by https://calibre.constantvzw.org/book/5 - Thx @constant

Which brings me back to this year's #nesting.
Eggs always hatch by mid-late May.
I watch daily, walk slowly to Mother Goose on #nest. I believe it's still Gail, but last year bird flu affected Gordon and she may have a new mate.
#Thread #Birds #Geese

STRIKE A POSE! #VOGUE
Updates soon
#TheEnd

Reviewing my week of photos, and found a little more of my STAR GOOSE. It must be getting close to hatching time, as she adds some straw and twigs to shape the nest bigger

#Geese #Birds #Nesting

I CAUGHT HER!
I study the nest every day. I walk slowly to check on Mom, but she never seems to leave the nest.
This is not the second Gander below. That's the mother eating, my photo shoot (just downloaded from camera) shows the nest is vacant. First time I've seen that.

She's a star. I have some video too.

#Geese #Birds #Nesting

"Altamira Oriole Protecting the Nest"
Great Kiskadees were also nest-building in the same tree & stealing from the Oriole’s nest.

https://debra-martz.pixels.com/featured/altamira-oriole-protecting-the-nest-debra-martz.html

#Altamira #oriole #bird #nesting #spring #birds #aves #avian #BirdLovers #featheredFriends #ornithology #photography #PhotographyIsArt #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #BirdsOfMastodon

Great Kiskadees Nest Building Time by Debra Martz
Photographed at the Bentsen Rio Grande State Park in South Texas.

https://debra-martz.pixels.com/featured/great-kiskadees-nest-building-time-debra-martz.html

#GreatKiskadee #BirdNest #nesting #bird #birds #aves #avian #BirdLovers #featheredFriends #ornithology #photography #PhotographyIsArt #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #BirdsOfMastodon

For the third time we know of, birds have chosen to nest in the window box on the front of our house, right outside the living room window among the artificial flowers. First it was robins, then wrens. This time we think they are house finches. (They are well hidden under the fake foliage.)

#birds #nesting

Gathering Building Supplies
The ladies do love a nice nest.

#bird #birding #animal #birdphotography #naturephotography #nesting #building

Found Some Good Nesting Material

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#bird #birding #birdphotography #cormorant #nesting #flying #animal #nature

Dear Friends,
It's #mating and #nesting season. These big #birds are in full intimidation mode protecting nests and asserting dominance. Long Islanders have grown accustomed to Canada Geese. The return of Wild Turkeys is just the last few years. Both can injure people. Don't turn your back 🫣
ESM
#NewYork #CanadaGoose #WildTurkey
#FotoMontag

The lower goose was sat a nest #canadagoose #nesting #spring #art #drawing

A Cooper’s hawk is nesting in a nearby tree and an Eastern Phoebe is nesting above a light fixture in my yard. Both species nested here last year though the Cooper’s hawk is building it’s nest in a new tree about 30 meters from last year’s site. #bird #nesting