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experiencing some behaviour that I have never seen before from young red squirrels. These kits were unafraid of the water and would enter without any fear
Posting tonight as I am hoping to get away early tomorrow if conditions allow.
The last post had a House Finch and House Sparrow, both young and getting along well in the rain. Here an older sparrow has caused a bit of a rucus as a House Finch appears to be thinking, "Hey buddy, what's up? I have not done anything." At least that is the way I saw it. The House Finch was simply perched besides the House Sparrow.
Even though the tail feathers are clipped here, I am thrilled to have got this shot. So much better than a simple static shot (although I like them as well, but not as much) Action and behaviour, in my opinion can be of poor technical quality as long as the behaviour is interesting. I would love to hav emore shots like this, behavioural shots that is, not necessarily shots with an aggressor.
Lunchtime!
Trachinocephalus myops, also known as the blunt-nose lizardfish is a species of fish in the family Synodontidae found in Atlantic Ocean. This species grows to a length of 40 centimetres (16 in)
These two Hyena's may well have been outcasts.If you look at the one on the left his right eye appears to be milky suggesting he could be blind in that eye. Hiis 'companion' is missing his right ear.So they could well be looking out for each other(don't know if Hyena's do that kind of thing).They were most definitely alone though.The place is a waterhole in Etosha NP.
Eared grebes have a variety of interesting bonding behaviours. I'm going to try to describe one of them. This images shows shows a single frame from a sequence (wish I had a video) where the male and female grebe face each other and are slightly puffed up. They vocalize, turn their heads, tilt their heads down and away from each other and do a quick bit of preening on their own neck area, face each other again, turn to the opposite side, and preen again. This is repeated a few times. Quite intriguing.
The courtship display of a male Sharp-tailed Grouse includes rapid stamping with the feet, with wings outstretched and pointed tail held up. This aspect of their behaviour was recognized by First Nations peoples and incorporated into their dances. The males also inflate a purplish air sac (as seen here) and make low booming and ‘clucking’ sounds, as well as raising yellow eye combs. This bird was at a lek (courtship display site) in southern Alberta, Canada.
Childhood memory refers to memories formed during childhood. Among its other roles, memory functions to guide present behaviour and to predict future outcomes. Memory in childhood is qualitatively and quantitatively different from the memories formed and retrieved in late adolescence and the adult years. Childhood memory research is relatively recent in relation to the study of other types of cognitive processes underpinning behaviour. Understanding the mechanisms by which memories in childhood.
Hypopyrrhus pyrohypogaster
(Red-bellied Grackle / Cacique candela)
La Ceja, Colombia
Some male birds will bring food to a female as part of courtship to show he can provide for any chicks she may produce. He may simply bring the food for her to eat or in some cases actually transfer it directly to her mouth just as he would to hungry nestlings.
www.britishbirdlovers.co.uk/articles/courtship-behaviour-...
The robin is on high alert. There was another robin in the garden and he did not like that one bit. So after chasing him around and making him leave the garden he found himself a high perch to stand guard :-). You gotta love them
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Owls are supposed to be wise but I never hear a squeak out of this one! He just sits there all day never flying off anyway and not bothered by the lack of food or water available and totally unfazed by events around him! I think his behaviour is a little dumb!
For “Looking close…..on Friday! “, theme “Not a real one”.
Back home and out of hospital, this time. Getting used to home comforts and my one to one nursing - my wife is a nurse! Settling down to a routine and beginning to think of Flickr again!
Radiohead - „There, There“
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AQSLozK7aA
In pitch dark
I go walking in your landscape
Broken branches
Trip me as I speak
Just ′cause you feel it
Doesn't mean it′s there
Just 'cause you feel it
Doesn't mean it′s there
There′s always a siren
Singing you to shipwreck
(Don't reach out, don′t reach out)
(Don't reach out, don′t reach out)
Steer away from these rocks
We'd be a walking disaster
(Don′t reach out, don't reach out)
(Don't reach out, don′t reach out)
Just ′cause you feel it
Doesn't mean it′s there
(Someone on your shoulder)
(Someone on your shoulder)
Just 'cause you feel it
Doesn′t mean it's there
(Someone on your shoulder)
(Someone on your shoulder)
There, there
Why so green
And lonely, and lonely
And lonely
Heaven sent you
To me, to me
To me
We are accidents
Waiting, waiting
To happen
We are accidents
Waiting, waiting
To happen
I know that hundreds of Northern Hawk Owl images have been posted, over the last couple of months, but I wanted to share this one as well. I hope that you don't mind.
It shows the behaviour of caching. If prey is abundant, Northern Hawk Owls will take advantage of this by caching food for later consumption.
This owl had caught a vole and flew to this branch. It spent nearly 5 minutes attempting to stuff the vole into the crack of this broken limb. It rotated the vole several times trying to make it fit. Ultimately it was unsuccessful and finally flew off to try another location.
Image created on Jan 8, 2020 west of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Image cropped slightly for composition.
I photographed this beauty resting on a bench with her newly cut leaf, at Mill of Benholm, Kincardineshire. I saw a couple of these lovely bees there. One was nesting in a rotten post, and the leaves of a nearby sapling sycamore had lots of tell-tale semicircular chunks missing.
When I posted this on Facebook, Darek Ogrodnik commented that her stinger is out---interesting! I guess that's something to do with her having just laid an egg, or preparing to lay another?
Species: Cinclus cinclus.
Upright posturing - associated with courtship behaviour - with the bill raised vertically and wings slightly open and shivering.
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Birds are starting to disperse and there's lots of fighting going on, typical breeding season behaviour - the Bramblings are hanging on but if the weather stays warm they'll soon be off.
"At not one point did I say I was innocent darling...."
Model: Stella Fiorani
Photographer: Stella Fiorani
Location: Sunny's Photo Studio
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Backdrop "Devilish in Black"
Pose customized in Black Dragon
Bird behaviour is my theme for today. I swear, based on their body language alone, that these Spoonbills are a couple in a long term relationship. As a much younger man, I was told to be quiet around women; it was said that women like quiet men, because they think you're listening. In this shot, I instantly know which is the male bird, and I can tell you, he's not listening.
I think this one wins the cute factor. Moorhen feeding it's chick. There were in fact 4 chicks around but I only caught this one being fed.
A black-capped chickadee pair was chiseling wood out of this dead tree for days in order to make a nest. They disperse the chips so a big pile on the ground doesn't give the nest away.
A juvenile northern giant petrel was walking up the gravel covered rise next to a glacial stream when it went past this loose cluster of king penguins. The interaction was minimal and the reaction was subdued, but the penguins paid attention. One stood up vocalized a bit and there was some slight head bobbing, too.
Noori's drink limit is 2. We know now. Duncans is 12.
Mine is 0. Just like my tolerance for stupid behaviour! :P
Two naturally white subjects, the white inchworm and the white flower on a chili plant for Smile on Saurday theme 'Natural White'.
A 'striped insect' for Macro Mondays theme 'Pick Two'.
Having spent several days playing around with other combinations for Pick Two (not overly happy with anything), I went into my greenhouse yesterday to do some watering and found this tiny caterpillar on one of my chili plants when I was checking for aphids. Moving the plant to a more photogenic location resulted in the caterpillar adopting this pose by standing on its prolegs at the posterior end and holding motionless long enough for a focus stack. I suspect this is a type of inchworm - larva of the Geometridae family of moths. I have seen inchworms perform this behaviour before in an attempt to fool a predator into thinking the inchworm is a small twig - but I have never seen a white one before, and it would have to be a pretty poor predator that would think this was a twig!
This was shot with a Raynox DCR-250 mounted on my macro lens, so it wasn't until I looked closely when processing that I realised the caterpillar had tiny stripes - theme sorted for this week!
The title was inspired by a 1965 recording by the McCoys: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcHqUGZ6leI
No caterpillars were harmed in the making of this photograph.
Mallotus villosus, know in eastern Canada as capelin, breed on the stony beaches of Newfoundland each summer. They 'roll' up onto the beaches on the incoming waves in massive numbers to lay their eggs, after which they catch the next wave back into the ocean.
However, some do get stranded too high on the beach. The fish will then flip and flop to try getting back down to where the water is. Some fail. There are three basic techniques they seem to use. Some will twist/roll. Others employ a 'moonwalk' technique where they undulate their bodies, tail first, down the beach. They will also pivot on their nose, as shown in this image.
The fish prefer to breed on beaches with smaller gravel, like this one. All the little whitish/brownish balls you see, that looks almost like sand, are eggs, but the individual in the photo is a male so it only contributed the milk that contains the spermatozoa that fertilizes the eggs. The males develop stronger colours on their back and enlarged pelvic fins. Females are more silver/white on the sides and will have a swollen abdomen due to all the eggs. If conditions are not right, they will also breed off-shore.
The photo isn't the best, but does illustrate most of the points noted above.
While waiting for several hours for my subject to come, I was kind of bored and then this pair of Ring-billed Gull flew in right in front of me. To tell you the truth, even though I am very interested in wildlife behaviour, I have never taken the time to observe them in this matter. Known as the McDo Gull in here, we are usually not interested either about them. I was in for a surprise.
While his/her partner was out, the other one did not stop shouting until she came back. I thought it was interesting. See the other series for the conclusion.
Bearded Tits (male and female) develop their full plumage to coincide with their pair bonding / display behaviour - which itself coincides with a change to a more reed seed based diet.
This includes a pink chest blush on the male - which isn't so obvious during the rest of the year.
Taken in Norfolk before the rains set in.