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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
This is a typical submissive behaviour Kiros is showing here.
Milo approached him and to show respect Kiros lowers his head and makes a soft woh noise to show Milo he isn't going to challenge him.
This was the day the girls got their contraceptive implant and Milo was fussing because he knew something was going on.
Kiros was let out of the den and Milo approached him not with any intention of harm but to make sure he was ok but Kiros's instinct was to be submissive.
After this, they both rubbed heads and walked side by side to where they would rest.
The Italian sparrow's behaviour is similar in many ways to that of the house sparrow. It is a social bird, which feeds mostly on seeds and insects. It is mostly sedentary, but it wanders to some extent outside its breeding season. These wanderings are mostly local, but they may extend into southern France. Similarly, the house sparrow sometimes occurs as a winter visitor in northern Italy.
Purbeck mason wasp (Pseudepipona herrichii) with Acleris hyemana moth prey at nest burrow entrance. Dorset, UK.
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.
Gordon (my hubby) purchased a new lens last week (Sigma 135-400mm f4.5-5.6) so I thought I would sneak out while he was at work and take it out for a spin ...;)
I would have liked more light, but as I was just trying it out, I'm not too displeased with this result. (This is a juvenile Blue-faced Honeyeater)
It has been Explored! [Highest Position: 376 on Thursday 25 October] Thanks everyone!
A chase ensued after this Black Headed Gull plucked a leaf from the waters surface.
St Ives Estate, Bingley
“This is an important day for your mother and I, some very high ranking people will be here, you will both be on your best behaviour”
( thanks to Jose Gades for well dressed and well behaved children and Bing for other photos )
If you ever get close to a human
And human behaviour
Be ready, be ready to get confused
And me and my hereafter
There's definitely, definitely, definitely no logic
To human behaviour
But yet so, yet so irresistible
And me and my fear cannot
And there is no map uncertain
They're terribly, terribly, terribly moody
Of human behaviour
Then all of a sudden turn happy
And they and my here after
But, oh, to get involved in the exchange
Of human emotions
Is ever so, ever so satisfying
And they and my hero
And there is no map uncertain
Human behaviour, human behaviour
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Blackbird indulging in behaviour known as sunning. This usually involves the bird adopting an unusual posture and deliberately positioning itself in sunlight. It may spread or raise its wings, fan its tail feathers, sit down, fluff the feathers on the head and back, and hold the head to one side, looking directly into the sun with one eye. In this country, sunning has been observed in blackbirds more often than any other species (Simmons, K.E.L. The Sunning Behaviour of Birds, Bristol Ornithologists Club, 1986).
No-one knows for certain the reasons birds do this and several theories have been proposed. However, sunning would appear to perform two separate functions: maintaining the bird's feathers in good condition, and helping to regulate it's temperature. There is even a suggestion that they do it simply because they enjoy it!
Precisely how sunning assists with the maintenance of feathers is not known, despite being widely studied. All birds have a gland on the rump, called an oil gland. The 'preen-oil' that this gland produces helps to keep the feathers flexible and hygienic. It has been suggested that the sun affects the preen-oil in the feathers in some beneficial manner, or that it helps to synthesize the Vitamin D from the preen-oil. This preen-oil also aids with waterproofing the birds' feathers. Additionally, the heat from the sun may stimulate activity in parasites within the feathers, making them more accessible when the bird starts to preen. Preening usually occurs directly after sunning.