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This juvenile Ruby-throated male is on alert watching the other hummers near by. - From our yard. - Photo By Dee
This is one more idea which I had for "Heart" the subject of Looking Close...on Friday! this week.
Ordered online, it arrived in this stylish little red drawstring bag and flags up 'pacemaker' for Ray. The jewellery is stainless steel and the red serpent-entwined rod in the centre of the heart symbolizes healing and medicine,
We are so grateful for the NHS (National Health Service) in the UK who looked after him so well and, of course, modern medicine.
Ray did a little research into pacemakers and found that the first patient to receive one did so in 1958. He had more than 20 different pacemakers in his life and went on to live to his late eighties.
So, we're watching this small group of the Mara pride we had been so lucky to spend time with. It began to rain, and our guide sitting in the front of the vehicle on the left (opposite of the cats) has this mental lapse and hops out of the vehicle to put the flaps down on the windows. We're all aghast and he quickly jumps back into the vehicle. Sure got the lions' attention. They were pretty laid back till then. You can see the drops coming down in this image even. They **did** join up with the rest of the pride and I can tell you - lions don't like rain either.
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.
I am getting around to placing better portraits of raptors up now, I must learn to slow down and crop properly.
Back story;
as I said I had got low down in the exit gully to get a good angle for the pictures , I totally forgot the bow wave they were making was going to come straight up the gully where I was standing.....
when I realised it was too late, and I ended up knee deep in freezing water.The guys in the car video the whole thing but when we played it back they were laughing so much the video was unusable ....:-)
Keeping an eye on the competition... how many are there, who are they, what boards are they using...
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
© Ayon Saha
#StaySafe #Covid19 #Corona #AyonSaha #Bangladesh
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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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Here I've tried to highlight some of the current situation with the Corona virus awareness in Rajshahi.
22 March, 2020
© Ayon Saha
#StaySafe #Covid19 #Corona #AyonSaha #Bangladesh
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