#egg

mkwadee@diasp.eu

As prompted by @Noam Bergman, I've been keeping an eye on a #webcam trained on the #nest of a pair of #ospreys in #Scotland. Most of the time, one #bird is sitting on a solitary #egg while the other is out hunting, I suppose. Like most of life, things are a bit dull and all you see is a bird sitting patiently on the nest, incubating its egg.

A few minutes ago, the nesting #osprey started screeching and so I switched over to that tab to see what was going on. Its mate arrived with a fish for the other to feed on and the pair swapped roles. The nesting #bird flew away with the fish to feed on it somewhere else.

https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-and-wildlife/osprey-cam/

Here's a couple of screen captures of the change over.

#UK #Wildlife #Ornithology

yew@diasp.eu

Pieter Brueghel the Younger - The Egg Dance (ca. 1620) [+]

The egg dance was a traditional Easter game involving the laying down of eggs on the ground and dancing among them whilst trying to break as few as possible. Another variation (depicted here) involved tipping an egg from a bowl, and then trying to flip the bowl over on top of it, all with only using one’s feet and staying within a chalk circle drawn on the ground.⠀

#PieterBrueghel #painting #egg #art