photos from the past 40 years
This is my contribution to the Friendly Friday Photo Challenge: Construction.
After considering construction in the human world I took a change of direction and started thinking about some of the construction in the animal kingdom.
Here is an adult Great Tit using Moss to construct its nest.
This is my contribution to Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge: Bathrooms/Outhouses.
As is sometimes the case, I took a sideways look at the challenge and thought about bathrooms and outhouses in the natural world.
To a bird, any water is a bathroom, here a male House Sparrow is bathing in a garden pond in Nantwich, Cheshire, England. Bathing is an important part of feather maintenance.
An adult Great Tit removing a fecal sac from a youngster in Hatherton, Cheshire, England. The young produce fecal sacs to allow the adults to remove the droppings and keep the nest clean.
Throwback Thursday is a follow-up to last Tuesdays post.
Another shot of an adult Great Tit (Parus major) feeding recently hatched young. Taken using a specially constructed nestbox in Cheshire, England in the late 1980s.
One from the archives taken in Cheshire in the late 1980s.
Having documented the complete nesting cycle of a pair of Eurasian Blue Tits in 1987 I went on to photograph other species in different nestboxes over the next couple of years.
Here an adult Great Tit (Parus major) is about to feed some recently hatched young with a small yellow green caterpillar. While it looks as if the bird is looking at the camera it was just the timing of the shot. It was dark inside the nestbox, I was releasing the shutter a second or two after hearing an adult land at the entrance hole.
The Daily Post one-word prompt is Inchoate.
An adult Great Tit drops into a nestbox with some moss at the start of nest building.
I am already posting about a pair of Eurasian Blue Tit nesting so I thought I would change species for the one-word prompt.
