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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
A pair of jackdaws kept coming to a nest box and dropping in lumps of dried mud. Eventually the chicks were on a thick layer of dried mud and the jackdaws could reach in the hole and get them.
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.
Posted two pictures in one day ... how shocking is that ?..lol...
I do look somewhat angelic here, but I am no angel, not at all...lol...
Happy New Year !
I think I'm coming out of the stupor mode...lol...
P.S. I'm tired of watermarking my images in the same way, so I'm injecting variety here and there... :O)
BTW - I was tagged (strange game going around Flickr) too, but I refused to cooperate... :O)
but I can provide few funny and not so funny facts about myself, just like Paul (ifido) did...lol..
Random facts about me
1. I have red hair and blue eyes.
2. I sleep late, very late, in fact I lead a bohemian lifestyle - it suits me (I'm a creative person...:O))
3. I love, love rain ! ........ and fog and blizzards and storms and lightning and thunder, but I'm terrified of tsunamis.... I'm worried we all going to be washed away one day here in Northern California. We all gonna die !
4. I don't like Vodka, Vodka doesn't love me too.
5. I sleep naked.
6. I can't swim.
7. I can write and really well, but I'm too lazy to finish books I've started writing about 13 years ago. One day I'll publish them all.
8. I love dogs and lions.
9. I don't trust a single politician because I spent long time working with them (for newspaper).
10. I do take a bazillion of different pills so I can fall asleep at night, which in turn leads to binge sleeping.
11. I get the best ideas for writing while I'm driving my car and listen to music.
12. I don't believe into stupid New Year resolutions, I'm not local :O)
13. I love meat, can't leave a single day without eating something or someone meaty. I was a predator in my previous life and probably still am.
14. English is not my native language, although I started learning it when I was 7 years old.
15. I hate rap, Janis Joplin and Yoko Ono, when she (the last one) sings, she sounds like a goat who is about to be slaughtered/sacrificed.
16. I love potatoes, meat, asparagus, prosciutto, carpaccio, beer and whiskey, also Pinot Noir and Porto wine.
17. Potatoes love me too. I'm not sure beer loves me back.
18. My husband still thinks I'm beautiful, although I'm not sure I am that beautiful.
19. Vegetarians frighten me (joking).
20. I've been married for long time (to one guy).
21. I hate dry weather.
22. I love spicy food.
23. I can shoot with a gun, but I don't own one (prob. is a good idea).
24. Bush is a worst American president in my lifetime.
25. Stalin was a monster.
26. Hitler too.
27. I would love to learn to fly an airplane, fight with a sword and ride a horse, but I don't want to learn to jump with a parachute.
28. I am allergic to school teachers.
More to come.... with my next portrait or something like that...
Album Title: Exotic Behaviour
Model: 虹羚
Photographer: Edwin Setiawan
Place: 士林官邸
Date: 2009/07/12
Just about Photography: edwinsetiawan.wordpress.com
Edwin Setiawan Photography: www.edwinsetiawan.com
Hummingbird hawk-moth nectaring on verbena. Sussex, UK.
For a precious few evenings in mid-September first one and then a pair of these hawk-moths teleported back and forth outside my front door.
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 am finding it impossible to decide on Hawk IDs!!! I have put two different photos of an individual on Google Lens. One photo is identified as a Swainson's and the other as a Red-tailed, sigh. Thanks to friends, Sandi and Jackie, it turned out to be a juvenile Swainson's Hawk. The hawk in the photo above is of the adult that I saw first, along this gravel road. She flew off after a short while and I didn't think anything of it. However, when I came back in the opposite direction on this road, I glanced at the spot I had seen her, and there, to my surprise, were two juvenile siblings tucked into the corner of the field by the fence.
Further on, another two siblings were seen and judging by their behaviour, they would seem to be Swainson's Hawks. While driving along a back road after another visit to the Saskatoon Farm (previous visit was on 13 September 2024), I spotted a hawk down on the gravel road way ahead of my car. Pulling forward very slowly and cautiously, I took a few ID shots. My first thought was that perhaps it was injured, as I never see a hawk down on the road and I definitely didn't want to risk making it fly. Then I looked through the windscreen and was surprised to see a second hawk on the road! Passing the first hawk, I pulled over to watch the second bird. After a little while, this second hawk 'flew' for a second, barely above the ground. Then it walked to my car and stayed there. It did give one quick call to an unseen adult, but I didn't hear any answer. I can't imagine Red-tailed hawks doing this, as they tend to fly away almost as soon as they see my car.
Shortly before this experience, I had seen an adult hawk on a fence post but only managed a few quick ID shots before it flew. This was about an 11 minutes' slow drive further south on the same road. Driving past the spot in the other direction some time later, i glanced at the corner of the field where I had seen the adult hawk fly from, and there, down on the ground, were two young hawks. I don't know if these youngsters could be the same ones I saw further north or not. I wonder if their flying skills would be good enough to fly that distance.
"Breeding densities may vary from one area to the next but averages one pair per 2.5 sq mi (6.5 km2). The average home range estimate for this hawk is 1 to 2 sq mi (2.6 to 5.2 km2)."
From Wikipedia.
First thing in the morning on this day, 16 September 2024, I made a return visit to the Saskatoon Farm. They had just had a busy, special weekend at the Farm and I wanted to see and take photos of some of the pumpkin displays that were not out on 13 September. I always like to support the Farm, so I enjoyed a breakfast that I knew would keep me going for a few hours.
Very little in the way of birds to be seen on this drive, though I did see several other hawks. Birding has definitely slowed down - can't wait for next spring!
Juvenile
Lewis's Woodpecker LEWO (Melanerpes lewis)
Ocean Grove
Esquimalt Lagoon
Colwood BC
DSCN3657
Taken on September 29, 2019
THis fella flew back with bug and seemed to be using the hole in top of snag branch as a mortar (as in mortar & pestle) to arrange & pound away at to make ready to consume.
*****
We in Greater Victoria had a nice "spell" of Lewis's with 2 individuals being observed ...and at least one present at location from Sept 20th thru Oct 4th 2019
This nice prolonged stay over is not at all typical for Greater Victoria in my experience