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This juvenile Ruby-throated male is on alert watching the other hummers near by. - From our yard. - Photo By Dee
Can't pass on a cute Chipmunk picture while I am photographing birds. This version is a Townsend's Chipmunk, common in the Pacific Northwest. Photographed in the Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge near Olympia Washington.
It spent some time here on a few occasions - behind tall deer fencing so not easy to get a good image
Dit darmhert mannetje hield mij nauwlettend in de gaten. Gezien in de Amsterdamse Waterleidingduinen.
This fallow deer buck was watching me closely. Seen in the Amsterdam Water Supply Dunes.
Here I've tried to highlight some of the current situation with the Corona virus awareness in Rajshahi.
22 March, 2020
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Morning guys! Another post from my visit to the fox cubs from a couple of weeks back with my buddy Dan.
There is an area of the graveyard which is beautifully backlit during golden hour and we took full advantage of this by lying on the floor and waiting for the cubs to come out and play. This little guy was ever so obliging!
I hope you are enjoying seeing a variety of my wildlife/people and landscape shots! I love the variety of shooting many genres and getting involved in so many aspects of photography!
One of the wolves checking out the humans. Currently there is the alpha pair, and 3 juveniles born in April 2016. The alpha pair, Zana and Flint, have been together again for breeding.
Mexican Gray Wolf
Brookfield Zoo
Illinois, USA
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A herd of Impalas looking back in the direction that they came from.
Impala - Fast food of the African bush!
The impala even has the distinctive MacDonald's "M" on its rump and are also called predator take-aways. There are thousands of them in the Kruger Park and we get so used to spotting them that eventually we just ignore them.
Impalas have evolved a number of unique adaptations that allow them to thrive in their dangerous environment.
Grooming and tick removal are high on the list of survival skills. The impala is the only hoofed animal that allogrooms - mutual grooming from one animal to another - as well as grooming itself.
It is also the smallest antelope that tolerates oxpecker birds to assist in removing ticks. Ticks can reduce blood reserves exposing the antelope to disease and malnutrition. To assist them in grooming, impalas possess an "antelope's toothcomb" comprised of canines and incisors adapted for removing ticks and other parasites. By allogrooming they get rid of ticks etc in the unreachable places, like around the ears, head and neck. When it comes to the area under the tails the two black stripes of the MacDonalds logo come into play. The constantly wagging tail of the impala brushes the ticks towards the warmer black hair where the impala can reach with its teeth.
Unlike most animals, the impalas graze and browse, thereby maximising the availability of food. For safety they move in herds as large as the available food will allow. They scatter in all directions if a predator should charge, leaping in strides of up to 12 meters. Impala ewes give birth away from the herd and rejoins with her calf within two days. With lambs in the herd, vigilance is sharpened, but the lambs still fall prey to wild dogs and other predators.
Even though they are considered predator "fast food", their numbers are increasing and these graceful antelope will not be on the endangered list for some time to come.
Source: Getaway Magazine - January 2004
Kruger National Park as seen from Ngwenya Lodge
Mpumalanga
South Africa
She is on the lookout for danger.
A doe in the fog
Cades Cove Tennessee
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
We are currently experiencing Storm Eunice, and Woody keeps asking to be let out into the communal hallway to watch various things blowing around outside. He is in full pounce mode ready to deal with any outside dangers. (Unless they are too scary...)
Italian postcard by Bromofoto, Milano, no. 227. Mistake alert. This is NOT American actress Joan Leslie as indicated on the card but British actress Hazel Court!
Flame-haired English actress Hazel Court (1926 – 2008) was a Horror Queen of the Hammer films of the 1950s and Roger Corman’s Edgar Allan Poe adaptations of the early 1960s. Alfred Hitchcock called her 'the best screamer in the business'.
Hazel Court was born in Sutton Coldfield, Great Britain in 1926. She attended Boldmere School and Highclare College. Her father was G.W. Court, a professional cricketer. At the age of fourteen, Hazel studied drama at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre and the Alexandra Theatre, also in Birmingham. Two years later, she met director Anthony Asquith in London, which won her a bit part in the musical film Champagne Charlie (Alberto Cavalcanti, 1944), made by Ealing Studios. Her only line of dialogue was "I never drank champagne before". The film was based on a play that depicted the real-life rivalry between 19th-century English music hall performer George Leybourne (Tommy Trinder), who first performed the song 'Champagne Charlie', and his colleague Alfred Vance (Stanley Holloway). She got a contract with the Rank Organisation and trained at the studio’s ‘charm school’. Court won a British Critics Award for her supporting role as a crippled girl in Carnival (Stanley Haynes, 1946) about a ballet dancer of the Edwardian era, starring Sally Gray. Years later, Tom Vallance wrote in his obituary of Court in The Independent: “Pert and pretty, Hazel Court was a versatile actress who for several years was the epitome of the deceptively demure, often spunky, but very English heroine in British films of the Forties.” She appeared in supporting parts in the comedy Holiday Camp (Ken Annakin, 1947) with Flora Robson, My Sister and I (Harold Huth, 1948) with Sally Ann Howes, and the drama Bond Street (Gordon Parry, 1948), starring Jean Kent. About the latter Hal Erickson writes at AllMovie: “This multistoried drama purports to detail the events occurring in a single 24-hour period on Bond Street, a "typical" British thoroughfare. The Grand Hotel-like construction of the film allows for several colourful character vignettes.”
In 1949 Hazel Court married Irish actor Dermot Walsh. They co-starred together in the fantasy film Ghost Ship (1952, Vernon Sewell) as a young couple that acquires a yacht. The ship is haunted by the ghosts of a crew that had disappeared off the ship years before. A cult classic became the science fiction film Devil Girl from Mars (David MacDonald, 1954). Patricia Laffan starred as Nyah, an uptight, leather-clad female alien, armed with a ray gun and accompanied by a menacing robot. She arrives at a Scottish inn to collect men as breeding stock, while Court played a disillusioned fashion model who hides for a man who is following her. In 1957 Court played the naive cousin-fiancee of Baron Victor Frankenstein (Peter Cushing) in The Curse of Frankenstein (Terence Fisher, 1957). It was the first colour horror production by Hammer Film and the first of the studio’s Frankenstein series. Its worldwide success led to several sequels, and Hammer's new versions of Dracula (1958) and The Mummy (1959). Court's red hair and green eyes were seen in colour for the first time and her role plus her buxom gained her the status of a ‘scream queen’. However, she wanted to act in comedy films, and in the 1957-1958 television season, she appeared in Dick and the Duchess, a CBS sitcom filmed in England. She played the role of Jane Starrett, a patrician Englishwoman married to an American insurance claims investigator living in London (Patrick O'Neal). Court travelled back and forth between Hollywood and England, appearing in four episodes of the TV series Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1958-1961). One of them showed her being transformed by her jealous husband (Laurence Harvey) into chicken feed. In England, she played in Hammer horror films like The Man Who Could Cheat Death (Terence Fisher, 1959) with Anton Diffring and Christopher Lee, and Doctor Blood's Coffin (Sidney J. Furie, 1961) with Kieron Moore. In the first, Diffring played a sculptor who had found a way of stopping the ageing process so that he was around 70 years older than he looked. While posing for him, Court bared her breasts, a scene cut from the British and American releases and only used for the foreign film market.
By the early 1960s, Hazel Court had permanently moved to the United States. In Hollywood, she continued to appear in horror films, now for American International Pictures. She knew how to project a smouldering sensuality in her roles, and it propelled her to a cult siren. Court was featured in three of AIP’s Edgar Allan Poe adaptations. At the climax of the first one, The Premature Burial (Roger Corman, 1962), Ray Milland shovels dirt on her as she lies in a grave. In the black comedy The Raven (Roger Corman, 1963), she co-starred with Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, and Boris Karloff as a trio of rival sorcerers. The third and best was the exotic The Masque of the Red Death (Roger Corman, 1964), with Vincent Price. The blog Cult Sirens notes: “The Masque of the Red Death in 1964 is probably her most well-known role and surely her best performance. As Juliana, the bride of Prince Prospero (Vincent Price), her sex appeal is at its peak and her tragic death (a bit on the bloody side) is one of the film's highlights.” Court's roles often relied on her cleavage and her ability to shriek in fear and die horrible deaths. It brought her fan mail, even in her later years. Court had divorced Dermot Walsh in 1963. They had a daughter, Sally Walsh, who at the age of four had appeared with her mother in The Curse of Frankenstein (1957). While shooting an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Court met American actor-director Don Taylor. They married in 1964, and Court retired from the film business to concentrate on being a wife and mother. They had a son, Jonathan, and a daughter, Courtney. Through the years, she guest starred in episodes of many classic TV series such as The Third Man (1959), The Invisible Man (1959), Bonanza (1960), Danger Man (1960-1961), Rawhide (1964), The Twilight Zone (1964), and Twelve O’Clock High (1964-1965). She continued to do so and could be seen in Dr Kildare (1965), Gidget (1966), The Wild Wild West (1966), Mission: Impossible (1967), Mannix (1968) and McMillan & Wife (1972). Finally, she appeared briefly in the third Omen film, The Final Conflict (Graham Baker, 1981), starring Sam Neill and Rossano Brazzi. Like in her first film, she was uncredited in this Horror thriller and played a champagne-drinking guest at a party. In addition to acting, she was also a painter and sculptress and studied sculpting in Italy. Following her husband Don Taylor's death in 1998, she appeared on the cult movie conventions circuit. In 2008 Hazel Court died of a heart attack at her home near Lake Tahoe, California, aged 82. A week later, her autobiography 'Hazel Court - Horror Queen' was published by Tomahawk Press. One of Court's biggest fans is writer Stephen King who mentions her in various of his novels.
Sources: Tom Vallance (The Independent), Ronald Bergan (The Guardian), Hal Erickson (AllMovie), Tom Weaver (IMDb), Horror Stars, Cult Sirens, Wikipedia, and IMDb.