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Their curiousity and funny behaviour always make me smile...This guy and its sibling allowed us to watch them for a long time while their very relaxed mother was feeding nearby. Southern BC, Canada
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The leopard (Panthera pardus) is one of the five species in the genus Panthera, a member of the Felidae. The leopard occurs in a wide range in sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Asia and is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List because leopard populations are threatened by habitat loss and fragmentation and are declining in large parts of the global range.
Contemporary records suggest that the leopard occurs in only 25% of its historical global range. Leopards are hunted illegally, and their body parts are smuggled in the wildlife trade for medicinal practices and decoration.
Compared to other wild cats, the leopard has relatively short legs and a long body with a large skull. It is similar in appearance to the jaguar, but generally has a smaller, lighter physique. Its fur is marked with rosettes similar to those of the jaguar, but the leopard's rosettes are smaller and more densely packed, and do not usually have central spots as the jaguar's do. Both leopards and jaguars that are melanistic are known as black panthers.
The leopard is distinguished by its well-camouflaged fur, opportunistic hunting behaviour, broad diet, and strength (which it uses to move heavy carcasses into trees), as well as its ability to adapt to various habitats ranging from rainforest to steppe, including arid and montane areas, and its ability to run at speeds of up to 58 kilometres per hour (36 mph). – Wikipedia
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
At the level crossings car park site. Chaotic situation, too many people trying to see these birds in a cramped and awkward space, lot of silly behaviour and consequently, a very frustrating day. Only got record shots to show for a cold 5 hour stint with 2 visits by a small flock of a dozen or so birds, that were spooked by the people constantly milling around and surging close when they briefly dropped to the puddles. Lucky I got anything at all, especially with a silly ISO and shutter speed like this!
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This building is the work of two former students of Mies Van der Rohe. It shares the basic concepts put in practice by Mies in many of his buildings, but in this case the structrure is covered by a pronounced, curved skin.
Photos from the rolling red Toyota blind continue with a prairie dog doing its characteristic "jump-yip" - usually a warning call to other colony members, but sometimes (apparently) an "all clear" signal.
This little sentinel has the added advantage of having dug a burrow right beside a large rock: nobody's sneaking up on him! This shot is from last spring. I managed several jump-yip shots last week, but none were as good. It happens fast and is over in less than a second, the body launching up, with an accompanying high-pitched vocalization. Often it will be answered by neighbouring prairie dogs.
Grasslands National Park lies at the northern extent of this species' range, and is the only place in Canada where they are found.
Photographed in Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2021 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
The Harris Hawk or Haris's Hawk is unique amongst the raptors for hunting in family groups.
This co-operative behaviour allows it to capture larger prey than would otherwise be possible. Their favourite roosting places are the saguaro cactus. They also perch using stacking. This is where one bird stands on top of the other.
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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.
An image from about three weeks ago, of a small tortoiseshell butterfly nectaring on the chives in my garden, on one of the very few lovely sunny days we've had this year. I got lots of images with its wings open, showing its beautiful colours, but I didn't get the dof right in most of them.
Anthocharis cardamines ♀ ♂
Orange Tip
Aurorafalter
Aurora
Courting behaviour, she rejects him.
Taken with "normal" photo equipment
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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
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-...
Every once in a while you are surprised by the behaviour of the critter you are photographing. In this case, the great grey owl kept flying down the fence line, from one post to another, towards me. It would pause and check for voles, then move yet closer again. It then flew right past me, went across the road, and perched again to continue hunting.
This image was taken in the fall of 2024. I posted a shot of the same owl flying previously (www.flickr.com/photos/40724294@N04/54144281190).
A flock of twenty of more has been moving around the Lake for the last few weeks. They are preparing to mate and breed, and the behaviours are truly amazing. I watched this pair pass the hawthorn berry back and forth for about twenty minutes, before it was consumed, and they flew off. The moment one bird received the berry, it backed away, and then waited, and then approached the other bird, passing the fruit back. The receiving bird then backed away, and the ritual repeated. I was pretty pleased to find the Cornell ‘all about birds’ website describe this behaviour. Physical distancing was observed.
Very similar behaviour to our wren, keeping low and out of sight most of the time, but when it is singing you cant miss it.
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
A male Wood Duck does some stretching as it preens. Inglewood Bird Sanctuary in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, can be a great spot to observe behaviours of Wood Ducks.
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.
This is the closest a penguin comes to flying. A small group of chinstrap penguins were swimming at high speed. When they do that, they will routinely porpoise a few times, then swim underwater for a while. This allows them to breathe while maintaining their speed. It is also a behaviour they will use to evade predators, and possibly to navigate.
Here is a tidbit about chinstraps from Wikipedia: "Chinstrap penguins microsleep over 10,000 times a day and accomplish this in 4 second bouts of sleep. The sleep can be both bihemispheric and unihemispheric slow-wave sleep. The penguins accumulate over 11 hours of sleep for each hemisphere daily."
One cooperative behaviour you may see honey bees do is clump together at the entrance to a hive in an attempt to regulate the temperature or humidity within the hive. That is typically done on hot and/or humid days. The clumping is called bearding in the bee-keeping parlance.
This image was taken on a very cool morning, so heat wasn't an issue. There was lots of dew, so maybe humidity was a problem.
In trying to figure out what I was seeing, I checked out a few websites. The Honey Bee Suite site seemed to offer the best explanation: "Once the bees begin to finish their work in late summer, you are more apt to see bearding, especially in large colonies. This occurs because the cells are already full of nectar, but summer dearth means flowers are scarce, so no new cells are needed. Simply put, the bees are left with nothing to do.
Too many bees in the hive block air flow, which slows down the drying of nectar, so the bees hang around outside. New beekeepers often misread this behavior as preparation for swarming, but it has nothing to do with swarming. In fact, many of these bees will die at the ends of their natural adult lives of four-to-six weeks, and most will not be replaced in order to bring the colony down to a manageable winter population.
Then too, bearding often increases after the beekeeper removes honey supers, thus forcing the bees into a smaller space. Since there isn’t enough room indoors, the bees stay outside, just doing their thing."
In this case, two hives were exhibiting the behaviour, and both looked to have been downsized recently, meaning the extra summer storage areas for honey and pollen (supers) have been removed by the bee keeper. So, perhaps I happened to show up when there was simply no room in the hive and all these bees were just hanging out at the entrance.
If anyone knows of other explanations for this behaviour, please share your knowledge.
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A stray kitten looks up with wide, hopeful eyes and a soft meow, silently pleading for care and nourishment. This tender moment captures the innocence and vulnerability of street animals, reminding us of the compassion they deserve.
Skylark-Alauda arvensis perches on Burdock-Arctium in full song.
A 4.30am get up with the Skylarks before the heat haze appeared, proved successful. These beautiful birds have such a wonderful song. It kept landing on the Burdock singing it's little head off, flew off for a short while but luckily kept returning to the same spot.....
Behaviour:
White-tailed eagles spend much of their day perched on trees or crags, and may often not move for hours. Perhaps up to 90% of a day may be spent perched, especially if weather is poor. Also, they will alternate periods of soaring with perching, especially flying over water or well-watered areas, but do considerably less soaring on average than do golden eagles. Pairs regularly roost together, often near to their nest, either on a crag or tree or crevices, overhung ledges or small isolated trees on a crag.
White-tailed Eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) Apetlon, Burgenland Austria_7512