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Rhinoceros Auklet RHAU (Cerorhinca monocerata)
Strait of Juan de Fuca
Salish Sea
BC
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DSC_5086 etc Publication1 RHAU power dive
Prey appears to be
Pacific Sand lance (Ammodytes hexapterus) aka Needle Fish
Initially i thought this bird was working on taking off.
It was not stressed by being too close to boat or anything like that ... just seemed to want momentum for a deep dive.
1st time i have seen that behaviour
This composite shows the male Nuthatch retrieving a seed it had previously hidden under the bark of a tree. White-breasted Nuthatches often store seeds and insects one at a time, under loose bark on their territory. They typically hide the food by covering it with a piece of bark, lichen or moss.
Santa Cruz county, Southern Arizona.
Gonna go back and change the other one to look like this.
It got so heavy when I tried to colour it.
COLOUR! With a U.
I think this is a Warbler, possibly an Audubon Warbler, getting at food on the underside of this rock formation.
Late in the day with the gulls feeding on midges. Unfortunately I didn't get any when they suddenly rise up open beaked into a swarm, next time perhaps.
They're at it again. I"m assuming the 2 scuffling hogs are males and the smaller one is a female.
Apologies for the clock, it should read 21:33
The dark conditions meant a bit of a balancing act was required between iso & shutter speed, just about managed to get this one reasonably sharp at 1/320sec which was a suprise given the dippers sudden movement.
Album Title: Exotic Behaviour
Model: 虹羚
Photographer: Edwin Setiawan
Place: 士林官邸
Date: 2009/07/12
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Went to Warham Camp after the Chalk Hill Blues , managed to get this group shot of them on dog poo before some bad sport sat on it.
I saw this fantastic model of the Supermarine Spitfire, one of the most beautiful aeroplanes ever to grace the skies, at this year's Rye Dog and Horse Show!!!
Noticed this place on our drive up to Hardangervidda for going for walk on Wednesday. On our way back, we stopped and I managed to get some shots of this strange phenomenon.
This is a resting area at the road crossing the Hardangervidda, just on the edge of a water called Ørteren. Apparently numerous people who stopped here, have placed rocks on top of each other. (I think I remember this from other countries as well).
The result is that you can hardly walk between these rock "monuments" without touching them. This image only shows 1/4 of this area.
To me that's strange; I'm a strong believer in leaving nature as you found it.
There have been some post processing. In addition to the usual tweeks, I have used some LR4 filter to remove most of the colours leaving only a hint of blue sky, (I wanted a monochrome look but found that I still needed some colours).
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Swallows behaving badly. The stick is in the lake as a perch for Kingfishers.
Not the best shot, but not the usual behaviour!
My first model shot..:P this is the only pose.. she would do.. :) A little skinny..:P
Have a great time.. hope your Christmas was wonderful..
I took yet another trip to Lainshaw Woods with my camera yesterday, hoping to finally get a half-decent shot of the digger wasps that I've found there. I did see a few, but as typical so far, they just didn't stay still, hardly even landing. I went to investigate a wooden bench, and found these two flies having a private moment, so took the opportunity to snap away. I was slowly cranking the aperture down to get the dof I needed, when finally, at f/18, a digger wasp landed right beside the flies! I got one (unusable) shot of it before it laughed and flew off! :D...digger wasps still on my `to-get' list! :D
I was just about to take a picture of the male buzzard on a telegraph pole when he flew off - thought I'd missed my chance of a picture when he flew up onto the rocks behind beside his mate
Crows are well known for harassing, bullying and disturbing other small birds like doves and even birds of prey like buzzards, hawks and owls, but this was the first time that I saw them going for a large bird such as a Secretarybird (Sagittarius serpentarius), an enormous raptor with very long legs, which forages for small animals, especially snakes, by walking slowly across the veld. I spent the best part of half an hour observing a small flock of pied crows repeatedly dive-bombing on the big guy from all directions, while making loud alarm calls.
I did a bit of research and discovered that ornithologists refer to this animal behaviour as antipredatory mobbing behaviour.
From the Royal Society for Protection of Birds website:
"Mobbing is a noisy, obvious form of behaviour that birds engage in to defend themselves or their offspring from predators. When a predator is discovered, the birds start to emit alarm calls and fly at the predator, diverting its attention and harassing it. Sometimes they make physical contact. Mobbing usually starts with just one or two birds, but may attract a large number of birds, often of many species. For example, a chorus of different alarm calls coming from the same tree is often a good sign of a roosting owl or a cat.
Mobbing behaviour has been recorded in a wide range of species, but it is particularly well developed in gulls and terns, while crows are amongst the most frequent mobbers. In addition to flying at the predator and emitting alarm calls, some birds, such as fieldfares and gulls, add to the effectiveness by defaecating or even vomiting on the predator with amazing accuracy..."
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Rietvlei NR, Pretoria, South Africa.