Gorgeous! I particularly enjoyed the yellow Baltimore Oriole building its nest. The photographer Sandra M. Rothenberg wrote a lovely description too: "Since I was a child, Baltimore Orioles have...
Gorgeous! I particularly enjoyed the yellow Baltimore Oriole building its nest. The photographer Sandra M. Rothenberg wrote a lovely description too:
"Since I was a child, Baltimore Orioles have nested on our property. I have always loved watching the females: aerial acrobats that collect dried grasses and long gossamer strands of horsehair from my sister’s adjacent farm. The birds use the materials to build their pendulous, pear-shaped nests. What miraculous feats of avian engineering! Once they arrive in May after their long migration north, I use a tiny blind to observe the birds without disturbing them. This female barely landed to grasp a tangled clump of horsehair and natural hemp and sisal fibers caught on a branch. She was surrounded by a lacy, fluttering, diaphanous veil. Off she flew into the woods with her prize trapped in her slender bill."
That was my favorite photo too. The way the horse hairs frame the bird is quite beautiful, and almost reminds me of those neon scribbly lines that were trendy for a while in car commercials/music...
That was my favorite photo too. The way the horse hairs frame the bird is quite beautiful, and almost reminds me of those neon scribbly lines that were trendy for a while in car commercials/music videos.
I also really liked both videos too though. They were both so majestic!
Gorgeous! I particularly enjoyed the yellow Baltimore Oriole building its nest. The photographer Sandra M. Rothenberg wrote a lovely description too:
"Since I was a child, Baltimore Orioles have nested on our property. I have always loved watching the females: aerial acrobats that collect dried grasses and long gossamer strands of horsehair from my sister’s adjacent farm. The birds use the materials to build their pendulous, pear-shaped nests. What miraculous feats of avian engineering! Once they arrive in May after their long migration north, I use a tiny blind to observe the birds without disturbing them. This female barely landed to grasp a tangled clump of horsehair and natural hemp and sisal fibers caught on a branch. She was surrounded by a lacy, fluttering, diaphanous veil. Off she flew into the woods with her prize trapped in her slender bill."
That was my favorite photo too. The way the horse hairs frame the bird is quite beautiful, and almost reminds me of those neon scribbly lines that were trendy for a while in car commercials/music videos.
I also really liked both videos too though. They were both so majestic!