Nests of the animal kingdom

[Avondale87]

I started this at POTN several years ago and it received many beautiful examples

There's a lot of differing nests, dens, lairs, squats, anything animals reside in or 'nest' in.
We have some awesome ant nests.

Spent a lifetime in the bush and always amazed at how beautifully made birds nests can be
Here's one from our garden. not sure what it is, maybe a Grey Fantail or Cranky Fan
Post away and if helps to ID something for all to see then add the inhabitants also

Grey Fantail


Welcome Swallow

 

[OhLook]

Anthill, Yosemite Valley



Its center

 

[West Coast Birder]

Great thread, looking forward to the unusual and wonderful nests that all creatures great and small build!

 

[gjl711]

Just checking out the remodeling progress..

f-IMG_1319 by photog711, on Flickr

 

[OhLook]

Nest of crab-spider hatchlings

 

[hammer]

The first time that I ever saw a bald eagles nest in the real .... I was astounded. The nest really was a good 2 meters across !
(Forgive the rather poor photograph, as in 2010, I didn't have very good photography equipment. But I'd found an eagles nest, and eagles)

 

[OhLook]

Mud nest, genus Eumenes (mason and potter wasps)



Paralyzed caterpillars as food for wasp larvae

 

[Avondale87]

Mud nest, genus Eumenes (mason and potter wasps)

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Paralyzed caterpillars as food for wasp larvae

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Interesting
What's happening in second photo OhLook?
How come it's in 2 halves?

Some interesting variety with this thread, thanks
Keep them coming

 

[Dennis]

The Grey Fantail is quite inquisitive and will closely approach an observer. It feeds on flying insects, which it catches by chasing them from the edge of foliage at all levels in the canopy.

The Grey Fantail builds its nest in a thin tree-fork, unusually between 2 and 5 metres from the ground. It is made of fine grass bound together with large amounts of spider web. The bottom of the nest is drawn out into a long stem, resembling that of a wine-glass. Both parents share nest-building, incubation of the eggs and feeding of the young when they hatch.

A Grey Fantail on its nest in the Lamington National Park.
Dennis

 

[OhLook]

Interesting
What's happening in second photo OhLook?
How come it's in 2 halves?

The second photo was taken one day after the first. I cut the mudball open to find out what kind of thing it was. There were 13 caterpillars. I put them in a small container and photographed them after they'd been largely consumed. If I find the photo, do you want to see that?

 

[Avondale87]

The second photo was taken one day after the first. I cut the mudball open to find out what kind of thing it was. There were 13 caterpillars. I put them in a small container and photographed them after they'd been largely consumed. If I find the photo, do you want to see that?

Well yes, please

 

[gjl711]

The second photo was taken one day after the first. I cut the mudball open to find out what kind of thing it was. There were 13 caterpillars. I put them in a small container and photographed them after they'd been largely consumed. If I find the photo, do you want to see that?

You ate them? How did they taste? I'm guessing bitter.

 

[OhLook]

Continuing with the contents of the mud nest: This is one of the uglier parts of nature, from humans' point of view. The two photos above were taken Sept. 16 and 17, 2012.

September 20: The wasp larva is the plump one at 12:00.



September 26:

 

[OhLook]

October 5:



That's the last photo I have. I don't remember what happened to the larva after that.

 

[Jack Dawe]

This was the home of an Ashy Mining Bee that I dug out of our front lawn.

 

[West Coast Birder]

The nest of a killdeer (Charadrius vociferus), photographed at Jackson Bottom Wetlands Preserve in Hillsboro, Oregon.

Although out in the open, the mottled eggs are remarkably hard to spot. The bird also does a broken wing routine to distract potential predators and draw them away form the nest.

 

[joayne]

Sad, I don't know these birds but they were prolific as were the hanging basket type nests..
Costa Rica

 

[Macrobug]

My second try at posting to this section on birds nests. Hope it comes through this time. This is a Verdin building a nest in my front yard in Arizona. Used a Canon 50D and a 100-300 zoom lens with a Canon 580 EX flash. Flash did not bother the Verdin and it continued with its project as I was sat on a bench about 7 feet from the nest.

 

[Jack Dawe]

My second try at posting to this section on birds nests. Hope it comes through this time. This is a Verdin building a nest in my front yard in Arizona. Used a Canon 50D and a 100-300 zoom lens with a Canon 580 EX flash. Flash did not bother the Verdin and it continued with its project as I was sat on a bench about 7 feet from the nest.View attachment 47261

That's the best photo of one of those that I have seen. I never realised that they had a russet bit on their wing.

 

[Macrobug]

Thanks Jack for the comment. I have other stuff to post later.