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Springtime in Canada Geese Country

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Normally, I don’t look forward to seeing the Canada Geese on the lake near my Florida home. The adults have been paired off for months, building nests in the grassy edges of the lake (except one pair, who nested in a wooden pail at the end of someone’s dock) and finally the adorable babies emerged from their cream-colored eggs.

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The Amusing Case of the Gulf Breeze Zoo Canada Geese

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The Canada Goose sits on its nest of pine cones. With so much to look at, you wouldn’t think my eyes would be drawn to a pine cone nest on the ground, complete with a Canada Goose parent shielding her delicate eggs from the nearby antelope species. The Canada Geese (on the right side) show no fear.

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Into the Nest: A Book Review in the Time of Nesting

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And of eggs and nests and birds on nests. Into the Nest , as the title says, is about the courting, mating, egg-laying, nesting, and parenting behavior of “familiar birds”. Cedar Waxwings exchange berries, carry nesting material, eggs. Oops, the curmudgeon in me slipped.) And of birds courting and mating.

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Driven to Distraction

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Last year the nest failed, the eggs apparently not viable, never hatching. I had crossed the stream and was approaching for a quick look to see how many eggs were in the nest this year. The parent waited just off shore, and as soon as I neared enough to look at the two eggs that had been laid, she started. Splish Splash.

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Collaborative list – June 2019

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Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh.

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What’s down in the Arctic.

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I had hoped to have some Semipalmated Plover chick photos for comparison but as of last night they seem to be still at the egg stage. This is a photo from last year, as neither the Pacific nor the Red-throated Loons ‘ eggs have hatched yet, it’ll be about 2 more weeks. With some serious legs.

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The long journey home

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Typically there are four eggs in a brood especially on good year. Once the eggs hatch the family begins the long walk down to the shoreline. The peak of this activity is over in about a week, and the birds head upland to nest (for the most part, as some have nested right at the edge of the water. This was a later nest.