Please share your photos of nature, wildlife, etc.

[ItsMainelyYou]

Let's be real, they look absolutely ugly to me at the moment.

 

[Neptune]

I thought of your avatar expression when I saw them!

 

[pearlsngems]

One of the Black Stork eggs in Estonia (on Karl II and Kaia's nest) has hatched! The baby can barely hold his head up yet.



Discussion-- currently on page 72 for this nest:

Black Stork Nest In Karula 2023. - Page 72 - Looduskalender

You can drag back the time on this YouTube video to see the past 12 hours:

 

[pearlsngems]

1. The second stork chick just hatched and its feathers are still damp! He's resting his head against another egg-- not strong enough to keep his head up yet.
2. Mom removes the shell.
3. You can see that the dad stork has a tracker on his back.

 

[Star gazer]

1. The second stork chick just hatched and its feathers are still damp! He's resting his head against another egg-- not strong enough to keep his head up yet.
2. Mom removes the shell.
3. You can see that the dad stork has a tracker on his back.

WOW

 

[Neptune]

1. The second stork chick just hatched and its feathers are still damp! He's resting his head against another egg-- not strong enough to keep his head up yet.
2. Mom removes the shell.
3. You can see that the dad stork has a tracker on his back.

NICE.

 

[Neptune]

Find egg(s).




They weren't thrilled to see me but I wasn't treated with the famous "broken wing" act.

 

[pearlsngems]

Still just 2 fluffy storklets and 2 eggs....

 

[pearlsngems]

The CT osprey nest has at least 2 eggs...I grabbed this earlier today.

 

[pearlsngems]

The 3rd stork egg has a sizable hole and the chick inside can be seen moving. I think we're going to have a 3rd storklet sometime today!

 

[pearlsngems]

There are 3 baby storks now! #3 got out of his shell fully about 10 hours ago.
One egg to go.

 

[junebug17]

There are 3 baby storks now! #3 got out of his shell fully about 10 hours ago.
One egg to go.

Amazing pics! Look at those sweet babies

 

[Neptune]

My fleeting strawberry moon

 

[pearlsngems]

All 4 of the stork chicks have hatched. This photo was posted on the discussion forum for the stork nest:

 

[pearlsngems]

The CT ospreys have 3 eggs. I just grabbed this shot off the webcam (for some reason the webcam clock is about 10 minutes too fast)-- the female (on the right) had arrived to take over incubation from the male. He then flew off. She's on the nest now alone.

 

[Neptune]

Egyptian geese have their hands full.

 

[Neptune]

Celebrating Eco Day with more wee babies.

Still not ready yet.





They look different from each other, eh?

 

[VRBeauty]

The water’s edge at Flensburger Fjord near Brognar, Sweden. The area was once home to many brick kilns - a few brickworks are still operating there. Rejected and broken pieces of brick and tile thrown into the fjord have become clay “rocks” that are now part of the naturescape.

 

[YadaYadaYada]

The sun in CT this morning, first one is from the backyard, second is across town as a cloud went across it.

Also enjoyed this mourning dove at the Dunkin drive-thru this morning.

 

[Petalouda]

A House Sparrow flew into our home yesterday. We got it out safely. After some investigating we discovered she built a nest in our front door wreath and laid 5 eggs.

 

[Lookinagain]

The sun in MA tonight. It is actually much more orange, but I can't capture the color with my camera.

 

[Star gazer]

2 bun buns, sitting in our yard as I type <3

 

[stracci2000]

Pretty oleander in my back yard.

 

[pearlsngems]

The stork chicks are growing and eating small fish on their own. The food supply is scarcer this year so those who set up the webcams have set up a basket stocked with fish in a nearby brook which the stork parents visit to "shop" for food.
Photo from the forum:


Video of a recent feeding on YouTube-- the chicks are noisy!
video of recent feeding

 

[Neptune]

Oddly attractive, thistles.

 

[Neptune]

Pretty oleander in my back yard.

They are toxic (no?) yet still popular worldwide, so interesting.

 

[Neptune]

2 bun buns, sitting in our yard as I type <3

You are going to have more than 2 soon, haha!

 

[stracci2000]

They are toxic (no?) yet still popular worldwide, so interesting.

Yes, toxic if eaten!

 

[monarch64]

Vibe of the evening...

How Clear, How Lovely Bright
by
A. E. Housman

"Ensanguining the skies
How heavily it dies Into the west away;
Past touch and sight and sound
Not further to be found,
How hopeless under ground
Falls the remorseful day."



That was the sun, no joke!

“Ensanguining” hits mm mm mmmm just right

 

[monarch64]

Warning....Spider pics below....in case some of you don't like spideys......








A black widow hanging in her web below my shutters.
While I was watching her, two males emerged. The males are much smaller than the females. For size context, her abdomen is about the size of a pea.

If you look close in the top photo, you can see the red hourglass marking on her abdomen. They hang upside down, so we are looking at her underside.

Those males look puny as hell!