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I made an album cover for cactus island recordings.
This is an awesome compilation with beautiful music inside!
I'm very happy with this work, is very special to me and one of my song is on it.
Released: 16th february, close to valentines day ; )
more info: www.cactusisland.net
While it is technically still autumn, the weather outside is frightful and full of what winter has to offer - cold and snow.
This video shows a GGO going about its business of scanning for prey. This is the first 'snowy' owl I've seen this year. LOL
Photographed at my local feeding station. I've put in a jump which is great fun. The light has been poor when testing it, but should be good when the leaves are off the trees.
Things are changing within the pride. The girls are growing up and because they are remaining at the zoo and not being moved to another zoo, they needed to be implanted so no inbreeding would occur.
This was the day that happened and Milo was far more concerned about his girls than Misty was.
Both Milo & Kiros walked by the den doors doing their low lion grunts.
It surprised me that the boys were more concerned than Misty the mum.
I had an amazing experience going out much later than I normally do: this turtle creating the site and then laying eggs. I saw it digging with its back legs from a distance, and then came back a little while later - I kept my distance and didn’t disturb her - to see her laying the eggs. I have never seen this behaviour before. Simply amazing.
This little cup fungus was such a fun find. It surprised me with a soft white puff of spores, completely accidental at first and then I couldn’t resist encouraging a few more releases once I noticed the behaviour. I’ve rarely seen spores discharged so visibly in the field. I tried narrowing down the species, but without a spore print the ID remains uncertain. Otidea is a genus with several look-alike species, and based on descriptions, this one might possibly be Otidea onotica, commonly called “donkey-ears” or “hare’s-ear” fungus.
This year has been so good with different types of fungi to seek out, much later than usual, but still a great variety to photograph and attempt to ID.
To me zoo photography or any sort of animal photography is about knowing animal behaviour and if you know and preempt their behaviour you can ready yourself to what may unfold.
Most animals after they wake will yawn, (like Khumbu here )stretch and maybe shake or they will simply change position. Around their feed times they usually are a lot more active and will often move about their enclosure waiting for their meal, which is another opportunity to get different shots.
Knowing these behaviours and waiting for them pays off.
she has been around for a couple of months possibly longer, the last couple of weeks have shown a notable change in behaviour... the start of courtship the prospects for this summer are looking better by the day
Their mirrored behaviour was very entertaining but the right hand Seal had a very nasty cut and was bleeding a lot.
I know these are silly but just too much fun, I only ever see them feeding heads down on the lawn so have to try and do something a bit more interesting. Would rather capture interesting behaviour in daylight but that's just not possible. There is peanut butter involved, obviously.
This Arctic Tern pair were displaying courtship behaviour, in which one bird gave a fish to the other, with much vocalization attending proceedings. This timeless scene took place in Húsavík, a town in the region of Norðurland eystra, Iceland.
Our parish cemetery, with the tree a young woman hanged herself from. More and more decorations have arrived. Young people come and mourn, bring flowers or little memorabilities. Some attach notes to the tree. They do not follow an established script, this is laypeople's funeral behaviour straight from the heart (and, I am sure, informed by social media postings). No priest telling them what to do. I have a feeling that the idea of taking one's own life is something that some of the mourners are familiar with. It is their story too. Leica M8, Elmar (collapsible) 90/4.
A close-up of this spider exhibiting the strange behaviour. Probably fair to say in normal circumstances I doubt I would have been able to get so close and take a long exposure shot.
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The Dunnock is similar in size to the House Sparrow or Robin but they tend to be a little sleeker with a finer bill. The plumage is a bit dull being a mixture of grey on the head and chest and brown elsewhere. The upperparts and the flank are streaked with warm brown tones. You usually find Dunnocks foraging on the ground or shuffling about in their search for food and their tails always seem to be moving nervously. The breeding behaviour is a little different than you would expect by that I mean one female bird will mate with two male birds, the male bird pecks at the cloaca to remove any sperm from the female before mating themselves to ensure that the baby chick is theirs, and because of this neither male knows who the father is of each chick so they are both happy to supply food for her chicks which usually number around five or so. Young birds have olive brown eyes and these develop into a stunning mahogany red colour around December in their first year.
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One of the coolest bugs I know of and would like to shoot is the giraffe weevil, Trachelophorus giraffa. A fantastic animal with red elytra and otherwise black body and a almost bizarrely long neck. Since it's endemic to Madagascar and I've never been to Madagascar it remains just a dream species.
On a walk along a forest road near my mother-in-law's place, I found several specimens of what we can call the poor man's giraffe weevil - the hazel-leaf roller weevil (Apoderus coryli). Just look at it - apart from the extremely long neck, it really looks the part.
These guys have a cool behaviour of their own. The female rolls up a hazel leaf and then lay her eggs inside them. I actually noticed some rolled up leaves on my walk, but didn't know what they were and unfortunately didn't bother with taking a photo of one.
Part 1 here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52198922011/
Part 2 here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52217299792/
A short video of this weevil in the palm of my hand, please have a look here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52288266315/
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Starling murmuration; a swarm of starlings gathering at sunset
This one one of a breeding pair and seemed to perch perch up at watch while the female bird brought food to the nest.
These huge boulders are called glacial erratics ... dropped here like this eons ago when the glaciers that covered the island during the last ice age melted.
This is not really erratic behaviour for erratics, since it is not uncommon to find them perched in precarious places such as this. These are up on top of the Annieopsquotch Mountains. I have a photo on my photostream taken from the other side. A photo that really is an optical illusion. This one is a straight on photo taken just today.
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Scientific name: Podargus strigoides
Size Range34 cm to 53 cm
With their nocturnal habit and owl-like appearance, Tawny Frogmouths are often confused with owls, but are actually more closely related to the nightjars.
Identification
The general plumage of the Tawny Frogmouth is silver-grey, slightly paler below, streaked and mottled with black and rufous. A second plumage phase also occurs, with birds being russet-red. The eye is yellow in both forms, and the wide, heavy bill is olive-grey to blackish. South-eastern birds are larger than birds from the north. Tawny Frogmouths are nocturnal birds (night birds). During the day, they perch on tree branches, often low down, camouflaged as part of the tree.
Habitat
The Tawny Frogmouth can be seen in almost any habitat type (except the denser rainforests and treeless deserts), including heath, forest and woodlands, urban and rural areas.
Distribution
The Tawny Frogmouth is found throughout Australia, including Tasmania.
Feeding and diet
The bulk of the Tawny Frogmouth's diet is made up of nocturnal insects, worms, slugs and snails. Small mammals, reptiles, frogs and birds are also eaten. Most food is obtained by pouncing to the ground from a tree or other elevated perch. Some prey items, such as moths, are caught in flight, which has led to many unfortunate instances of birds being hit by cars while chasing insects illuminated in the beam of the headlights.
Other behaviours and adaptations
During the day, the Tawny Frogmouth perches on a tree branch, often low down, camouflaged as part of the tree.
Communication
A soft, deep and continuous low oom oom oom. Also makes a loud hissing noise when threatened.
Breeding behaviours
Tawny Frogmouths have a regular breeding season, but birds in more arid areas may breed in response to heavy rains. Both sexes incubate the eggs. The male sits during the day, but both sexes share sitting at night. The nest is a loose platform of sticks, which is usually placed on a horizontal forked tree branch. Normally only one brood is raised in a season, but birds from the south may have two.
Breeding Season: August to December
Clutch size: 2 to 3
During a fishing trip off the west coast near Prince Rupert, British Columbia, Canada we had a pod of Humpback Whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) swim by the boat under the surface of the water and circled in front of out boat and blowing bubbles. This is referred to as "Bubble Net" feeding where the whales swim in a circle around a mass of bait fish, "Herring" in this case, and cause them to bunch together in a tight mass. The whales then swim up to the surface through this mass of fish with their mouths wide open and break the surface of the water in a group with their mouths full of bait fish.
It was my first experience in viewing this behaviour and was incredible to view. There were at least four whales in this feeding activity.
23 July, 2019.
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I observed this Foxes behaviour while it followed its prey under the snow. Jumping up and then down and digging under the snow, while being followed by an opportunistic Magpie to the left of the image.
Foxes are, in visual terms, arrhythmic (or 24-hour) mammals, meaning they can be active at any time, day or night (compare this to most squirrels, who are almost totally blind at night and can only be active during daylight). There are several adaptations that allow for this activity pattern; all help control the amount of light available to the animal.
Foxes, unlike most canids, have vertically-slit pupils, which provide them with three significant advantages over hunters with round pupils. Primarily, vertically slit pupils can be closed more tightly than rounded ones and this, in conjunction with eyelids that close horizontally, allows their owner to more precisely regulate the amount of light entering the eye, helping them hunt across a wide variety of different light conditions.
Another from yesterdays visit to Priddy Mineries with quite a bit of cloud and a gentle breeze, managed to find a fairly sheltered spot and after a quick look around found a few Cinnabar moth caterpillars on a couple of Ragworts.
I noticed these two were in the right position to get both in focus though the head of the one on the left is slightly out of focus as it just wouldn't stop eating!!
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Stalks, creeps and runs on floating surface vegetation, was a bit lucky to capture this beauty (30 cm) as they are quite hard to approach, and being off the plants and wading gave me a fews seconds extra to fire a few shots. Takes short flights, squabbles , fights and often aggressive, a bit like our U.Ks coots in behaviour, but better looking.
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Photo taken in downtown Reykjavík.
P.S. Many of those people are foreign visitors.
Tourism to Iceland has formally exploded in the years after the famous volcanic eruption in the glacier Eyjafjallajökull, which caused delays in flight all over North and Western Europe. Foreign tourism has remained at an extreme level; today more than a million tourists visit Iceland yearly, while the population is only about 330.000 - was around 200 thousand a decade and a half ago.
If you want good things to happen in your life you need to focus on the positive
I believe it’s not good for you to think that a nuclear bomb will fall into your head tomorrow and do preparations for that to happen, when you are feeling that fear in your body
Creating fear like that really creeps into your bone marrow and infects you from within
And if you are spreading your fear, whatever it is, I think at least that is even worse than getting a bomb in my head
You can control people with fear
Just look at human history
Life is easier to deal with when you can see the humour in things, laughing even tho you are having a shitty time
It will get over
It always will
Deal with the negative you get your attention on, stuff that needs being done will keep on coming as long as you don’t deal with it
It’s like waves
Coming over and over again
Until you really deal with it, the proper way, not with a half mind
But always have the focus on what is good in life
The power we have in our way of thinking is probably just a few ones that really can comprehend
I can't
But what I know is that negative thinking can make you sick
Been there
Done that
Isn’t that weird that we take so easily the negative stuff in, how bad we behave, how awful we look, what lousy work we do
We easily adapt and flow into fear if we are not in balance
Changing the way of thinking will show yourself in another light, both for you and for others
You will get a new respect for yourself, you will think that you are decent looking and having a decent behaviour
And others will think the same
It all starts with you
You can use lots of money on health products that often are doing nothing else than emptying your pocket
Maybe changing your course in life and way of thinking could do the trick
It's free too
Positive thinking as a foundation is what brings you in balance
It brings laughter
It brings love
It starts with love for yourself
And goes on to loving others
Love is the greatest gift you can both give and get
And this must be in balance
This is of course only my belief and what I am living after
I'm done living in fear
I want love in my life
And that is of course what I will have
Both giving and receiving
Have a wonderful Weekend
I know I will
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