Nest Collection (page 10)

The struggle for the nest. Date c1873

Scaffolding on Westminster Abbey
Scaffolding crows nest on Westminster Abbey Date: 1848

Bazaar at Ada-Kaleh - fortified Turkish Island
The Bazar at the fortified Turkish Island of Ada-Kaleh, now underwater. Situated on the Danube - submerged in 1970 due to the building of a hydro-electric station. Three kilometres from Orsova

Nest-Making Fish - 6
(polycentrus Schomburgkii) Veelsteckel (in Dutch : it means something like many- spined ) Date: 1954

Birds / Fieldfare
A Fieldfare (Terdus pilaris) at nest. Date: 1930s

Nest-Making Fish - 4
(trichogaster leerii) Diamond Gurami Date: 1954

Birds / Heron
A Heron at nest. Date: 1930s

Nest-Making Fish - 1
(gasterosteus oculeatus) stickleback Date: 1954

European Yellow Wagtail
A European Yellow Wagtail (Motacilla Flava) beside its nest. Date: 1950s

Mrs Bobbity in her garden, looking up at the sparrows and their nest. Date: 1937

ANT HILL
The nest of a Wood Ant. Date: 1950s

Birds / Raven
A raven in flight, about to alight on its nest, where its hungry fledglings greet it with wide open beaks. Date: 1930s

Jack and Jennie Sparrow on the roof above their nest, discussing the problem of the cat preventing them from getting to the crust. Date: 1937

Nest-Making Fish - 3
(badis badis) Blue Bass Date: 1954

Nest-Making Fish - 5
(cynolebias Belotti) Argentine Parelvis Date: 1954

Nest-Making Fish - 2
(macropodus opercularis) the Paradise Fish Date: 1954

Bessarabia - Moldova
Bessarabia (which became Moldova) - typical village scene. Lucky storks nesting on the roof! Date: circa 1910s

Easter Bunnies and Eggs
Two greedy little Easter bunnies stealing Easter eggs from a nest! Date: early 1930s

Cuckoo in the Nest
A young Cuckoo in the nest, with an unsuspecting Reed Warbler foster parent feeding it. Date: 1950s

Little Terns
Two Lesser Tern birds, the (female) hen sits on the nest, while the (male) cock brings in the rations. Date: 1930s

Herons Nest
A Herons nest. Date: 1950s

Nest of Swallows
A Swallows nest, full of fledglings, up in the rafters. Date: 1930s

Birds / Hedge Sparrow
Young Hedge Sparrows in the nest. Date: 1960s

Swallows Nest
A nest of Swallows. Date: 1950s

Birds / Redwing
A Redwing and her young in a nest. Date: 1950s

African Pythons
A nest of coiled African Pythons. Date: 1960s

Birds / Gannet
A Gannet and her young in a nest on Bass Rock, Scotland. Date: 1950s

Birds / Blackbird
A Blackbird feeing her young in their nest on a drainpipe. Date: 1960s

Texas Rattlesnakes
A nest of young Texas Rattlesnakes. Date: 1960s

Long-Tailed Titmouse
A Long-tailed Titmouse, about to enter a nest. Date: 1960s

The Birds Nest. Artist: Anon. Genre image of two girls walking in dense woodland, enthralled by birds feeding their young on a nest Date: circa 1905

Mrs Bobbitys cottage, with smoke rising from the chimney, and Mrs B herself shaking her tablecloth out at the back door. The birds have built their nest just above her head

Jennie Sparrow calling to Jack from the eaves, to warn him of a cat. Date: 1937

Jack Sparrow shocked to find the nest empty
Jack Sparrow returns to the nest, and is shocked to find it empty. Date: 1937

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Rattle Snake / Nest Attack
A rattle snake (or pit-viper) climbs a tree and attacks a nest, much to the distress of the two adult birds whose eggs are in the nest. Date: circa 1850

Looking at a Nest
Three children marvel at a nest containing nestlings Date: 1890

Nest of Birds
A little girl holds her baby sister up to look at a nest of birds in a tree. Date: circa 1890

Medieval Fireplace
A medieval group gather around (and warm their hands at) a fireplace. One man has an owl on his arm. A rather unfortunate stork and her young nest in the chimney. Date: 1338-1344

The Nest, Salvation Army Childrens Home, London
Inmates in the garden of The Nest, a home for sexually abused girls, opened by the Salvation Army in 1901 at Upper Clapton, north east London

Anon. Warne alphabet 1875. MNO
Page from a 19th century alphabet book with M for magpie, N for nest and O for oyster

Stork nesting on a rooftop, Constantine, Algeria
It is seen as very fortunte across the Mediterranean if a stork lands (and subsequently nests) on your roof! This is just such a happy occurance - at Constantine, Algeria

Ada-Kaleh - fortified Turkish Island
The fortified Turkish Island of Ada-Kaleh, now underwater. Situated on the Danube - submerged in 1970 due to the building of a hydro-electric station. Three kilometres from Orsoza

Young storks and parent - Baghdad, Iraq
Fledgling storks - Baghdad, Iraq. It is seen as very fortunate across the Mediterranean and Middle East if a stork lands (and subsequently nests) on your roof!

Ankara, Turkey - The Belkiz Sutunu. A Byzantine column with a (lucky) stork nesting at the top

Ada-Kaleh, The Mosque
Ada-Kaleh - The Mosque. The fortified Turkish Island of Ada-Kaleh, now underwater. Situated on the Danube - submerged in 1970 due to the building of a hydro-electric station

Turkey, Kayseri
Doner Kumbet - a Seljuk building, surmounted by a storks nest. Kayseri in Central Anatolia. Renowned for culinary specialities, historical monuments and the former Talas American college

A Nest of Billy Biters lately discovered in an ancient chape

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