tiabunna's photos with the keyword: nesting

This Australian bird is a member of the Honeyeater family and is known as a Little Wattlebird. They eat nectar from flowers, but also insects and seeds. I was surprised when it made a nest in a wall-mounted hanging pot plant basket. Which also meant that the wires around the basket became a fence around the nest - almost certainly the smallest this week. Check the next two images in the PiPs, taken over several days later. Happy Fence Friday, everyone. I'm afraid outside doings (moving house) are taking my time at present, and it's likely to be near a fortnight before I'm able to join ipernity online again. Best wishes until then.

At the Snares Islands, to the south of New Zealand, we were fortunate to see these nesting Buller's Albatross, as we followed the shore in our zodiac. View large. Explored.

Snow Petrels Pagodrome nivea are found around Antarctica and even travel hundreds of kilometers inland (years earlier, I was surprised to see them overhead in the Prince Charles Mtns). This one was nesting under a rock shelter near the Dumont d'Urville base. It would be normal practice to not go so close to nesting birds, but this had chosen to nest alongside one of the main walkways and seemed utterly unconcerned at the passing people!

Looking along the coastline of East Antarctica from one of the few rocky outcrops, toward the distant ice cliffs at the edge of the plateau ice sheet. Adelie penguins nesting across the inlet on the nearby rocks.

From an old slide. The Southern Giant Petrels were usually known among Australian antarctic expeditions as "Nellies". This one nesting is in the white colour phase: dark brown/grey is the more common plumage, but they change.

From an old slide taken with a Minolta SR1 and 55/1.4 lens. For several years, an Erect-crested penguin (on the right) had been nesting on the island with a slightly-related Royal penguin (their eggs were sterile). But unlike the Royal, the Erect-crested penguin is not a native of Macquarie Island: they come from the islands to the south of New Zealand, something like 1000 km distant.