Bird nests in palms pics anyone?

[akamu]

We have some humming birds nesting in our dypsis lucabensis right now and it has been fun for my wife and I to watch them grow up. Looks like anyday they will be moving on. We also have some crows (not so cool) nesting 40ft up in our caryota urens. Anybody else have any pictures to share? 

[Reyes Vargas]

I had a hooded oriel build a nest on my sabal mexicana.

[Austinpalm]

13 hours ago, akamu said:

We have some humming birds nesting in our dypsis lucabensis right now and it has been fun for my wife and I to watch them grow up. Looks like anyday they will be moving on. We also have some crows (not so cool) nesting 40ft up in our caryota urens. Anybody else have any pictures to share? 

If you don't like the crows..... just caaaall  caaaall pest control.    Sorry I just could not pass that one up.

[aztropic]

Watched 3 sparrows grow up in our pigmy date.Nice nest!

 

aztropic 

Mesa,Arizona

[aztropic]

Not wild,although they have naturalized here,I have 3 new lovebird babies.The parents build their nest by shredding palm fronds that I put into their enclosure.

 

aztropic 

Mesa,Arizona

[akamu]

These birds are pretty incredible Builders the wrens pull fibers off of some of the Palms to build their nests and alot of the bird species help with the insect control. 

[akamu]

15 hours ago, Reyes Vargas said:

I had a hooded oriel build a nest on my sabal mexicana.

That's cool how they punched holes into the palm fronds and essentially built a suspended hammock

[Reyes Vargas]

1 hour ago, aztropic said:

Watched 3 sparrows grow up in our pigmy date.Nice nest!

 

aztropic 

Mesa,Arizona

That nest does look comfortable.  What did they use for nesting material?  That looks like cotton.

[Reyes Vargas]

33 minutes ago, akamu said:

That's cool how they punched holes into the palm fronds and essentially built a suspended hammock

Birds are extremely smart.  I wish I could get them on video and see how they do it.

[DoomsDave]

Great thread @akamu!

Here’s a Livistona australis leaf with what appears to be a weaver bird nest under it.

 

[DoomsDave]

Look closely and you can see where the birds wove over the top of the pinnae.

 

 

[Tracy]

Our Carlsbad garden was a mecca for nesting humming birds.  We typically had 3-4 nests per year in the yard due to attractions like trees that had numerous blossoms for long periods (African tulip in late summer and through autumn as well as Bauhinia x blakeana which flowered from Autumn through until mid-spring), aloes and hibisucus.  We didn't have to put out feeders to attract them, they were content with the natural feeding grounds the yard provided.  Here is a sampling with only the photo of the parent feeding a pair of chicks which isn't a nest in a palm (African tulip tree instead).  Phoenix roebelenii and Caryota were there favored palms, but they also used the Foxy Lady I had in a pot while waiting to move to its new home here in Leucadia.

[Tracy]

12 minutes ago, Reyes Vargas said:

Birds are extremely smart.  I wish I could get them on video and see how they do it.

Hooded orioles sometimes use my banana plants, hanging their nests on the underside of a leaf, but they like fan palms as well.  There are always some nesting in my neighbor's tall Washingtonias.  Yesterday morning one was harvesting threads from a Pritchardia off my deck to take back to its nest.  I've watched them create the nests on the Banana plants, pulling threads which they weave and only using minimal supplementary material from other plants.  Pretty interesting to watch.

[DoomsDave]

I think some of the birds consider my place "Hotel Dave" or something like it. I've had weaverbird nests on Pritchardtias, Archontophoenix, Roystonea and Livistona.

[Tracy]

9 minutes ago, DoomsDave said:

I've had weaverbird nests on Pritchardtias, Archontophoenix, Roystonea and Livistona

Interesting Dave.  The fan palms make sense but the Archontophoenix and Roystonea are a bit of a surprise to me for the "weave birds", at least if we are talking about Hooded orioles which are the common ones to weave nests here in Southern California.  I assume that with the pinnate palms they are weaving together multiple leaflets to hang their nests?

[Tracy]

One of the Phoenix roebelenii was right off our kitchen window, so when the Humming bird's nested in it, it was about 18" away from the window.  Our indoor cats would climb up behind the sink to get close and watch "kitty television" as we called it.  First the view they saw looking through the window and second one of the cats engrossed watching the evening feeding show.

[bubba]

This is not a bird’s nest but bird related. Unexpectedly, I caught this bird on film amongst a grove of Borassus:

[Jim in Los Altos]

I wish I had photos of some of the other birds that have nested here in the garden but here are a few including some non-nesting “visitors.”

[DoomsDave]

6 hours ago, Tracy said:

One of the Phoenix roebelenii was right off our kitchen window, so when the Humming bird's nested in it, it was about 18" away from the window.  Our indoor cats would climb up behind the sink to get close and watch "kitty television" as we called it.  First the view they saw looking through the window and second one of the cats engrossed watching the evening feeding show.

OMG!

So that’s where Conan ran off to! 

Jokes aside you have nice taste in kitty cats!

[Butch]

I posted these earlier... In my dead Foxy Lady...

[Tracy]

While not in my Dypsis lutescens, it is about as close to nesting in it as can get.  This was taken yesterday evening, but I posted photos of the previous chicks before they flew the nest.  It appears that the mating pair liked the nest location so much that they returned to nest here for a second batch.  I haven't seen the chicks, but the parent roosting on the eggs or young chicks is accustom to me getting right up close.  Its some very common variety of Dove which I had narrowed down to two species last time I looked them up.

[Silas_Sancona]

15 minutes ago, Tracy said:

While not in my Dypsis lutescens, it is about as close to nesting in it as can get.  This was taken yesterday evening, but I posted photos of the previous chicks before they flew the nest.  It appears that the mating pair liked the nest location so much that they returned to nest here for a second batch.  I haven't seen the chicks, but the parent roosting on the eggs or young chicks is accustom to me getting right up close.  Its some very common variety of Dove which I had narrowed down to two species last time I looked them up.

Mourning Dove,  Zenaida macroura.. Too small for Eurasian Collared or White Wing,  Too big for Incas ..or either of the ground Doves. Too plain Jane for a couple of the more exotic looking semi- established escapees seen around S. Cal/ San Diego County.

[ruskinPalms]

Dove in one of my Bismarckia fronds

 

[kinzyjr]

A nest in the Phoenix roebelenii, but the parents weren't home.

[96720]

I don’t know what bird builds this nest but they are always building them in my Bismarckia’s

[palmfriend]

Hi, 

I got aware of an empty nest in my currently largest Elaeis guineensis a couple days ago and

while checking the garden this morning I heard a bird taking off in a hurry when I approached 

the area again. I felt a bit sorry since I found this one...

..but felt very relieved when I saw this a few hours later...

A so called Ryukyu-kin dove - smaller and more colored than common doves - not to be seen

very often and indegenous to the Okinawian islands.

From now on I will try to keep myself away from the nest's closer area - I hope everything 

will turn out well with the baby bird. 

best regards from Okinawa -

Lars