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I'm finally learning to play chess (again).
About 30 years ago my younger brother tried to teach me. At some point I packed it in believing he was just making the rules up to suit himself.
Now I'm back learning again and I'm pretty sure it was the castling move that got me!! I called my bro & apologised for my poor behaviour. Luckily he didn't remember my hands in the air but he did have a giggle agreeing that castling could easily have been the last straw.
The hunting behaviours of animals are the most interesting when they depart most from what humans can do: the eyesight and hearing of raptors and owls, for example, are so acute that they can sense and capture creatures we would never have known were there.
There is something similar to the hunting practices of the Night-heron. I have only photographed the species in the very early morning, or at sunset, and it is most active at night (hence the name). It is hard enough for me to imagine fishing in the dark, let alone having to catch the fish without a rod and reel. In this case, the corner of the Lake where I found this bird at sunrise was covered with dense plant life, and seconds after I secured this image the Night-heron plunged into the water and came up with a medium-sized catfish. It was unclear to me that anything was beneath the surface - no motion, no disturbance of the surface. And the bird was very locked in to the area right in front of it, so locked in that it didn’t notice me creep up behind some bushes.
The Night-heron is thought to adapt well to the presence of other Herons and Egrets, often nesting near to them, and even caring for their young. The simplest explanation is that by hunting during the night the Night-heron is not directly competing for food.
They stun their prey, usually fish, by violently shaking it. They will often fly away to consume it. Watching one snatch a dragonfly out of the air is pretty amazing too.
There is usually at least one breeding pair on the Lake, and the emergence of the young is always pretty well-documented by photographers. The young birds tend not to follow the sleep patterns of the adults and so are active more during the day, and their very different plumage is fun to photograph.
When resting, lion socialisation occurs through a number of behaviours; the animal's expressive movements are highly developed. The most common peaceful, tactile gestures are head rubbing and social licking, which have been compared with the role of allogrooming among primates. Head rubbing—nuzzling the forehead, face and neck against another lion—appears to be a form of greeting and is seen often after an animal has been apart from others or after a fight or confrontation. Males tend to rub other males, while cubs and females rub females.Social licking often occurs in tandem with head rubbing; it is generally mutual and the recipient appears to express pleasure. The head and neck are the most common parts of the body licked; this behaviour may have arisen out of utility because lions cannot lick these areas themselves.
Lions have an array of facial expressions and body postures that serve as visual gestures. A common facial expression is the "grimace face" or flehmen response, which a lion makes when sniffing chemical signals and involves an open mouth with bared teeth, raised muzzle, wrinkled nose closed eyes and relaxed ears. Lions also use chemical and visual marking; males will spray and scrape plots of ground and objects within the territory.
The lion's repertoire of vocalisations is large; variations in intensity and pitch appear to be central to communication. Most lion vocalisations are variations of growling, snarling, meowing and roaring. Other sounds produced include purring, puffing, bleating and humming. Roaring is used to advertise its presence. Lions most often roar at night, a sound that can be heard from a distance of 8 kilometres (5 mi). They tend to roar in a very characteristic manner starting with a few deep, long roars that subside into a series of shorter ones.
Marsh Harrier attacking Buzzard which was sitting too close to the Harrier's nest site. Fascinating to watch. The Buzzard eventually gave up and left..
I only managed a snapshot of this interesting behaviour. I wasn't sure if these were two males, facing off, or a courting couple?
Wildlife in Transition continues with a sub-set of Mule Deer shots, starting with this trio. As the first dawn rays spread across the valley bottom, two young ones look to their mother... she will decide if it's safe to continue on... somehow she has avoided being rounded up by one of the big bucks to become part of his harem.
The Mule Deer rut is the last big wildlife event of the year, and I get out there as often as I can between mid-November and the second week in December. I'm still looking for close shots of two battling bucks, something I've seen here rarely, and always at a distance. I like having a blank spot on the map; it keeps me motivated. Maybe next year...
This year's rut had a different look, because there was no snow on the ground until the very end - uncommon in this place so late in the year. Aside from that, the behaviours I witnessed were typical. More to come...
Photographed in Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2023 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
I find this shot of the rather light coloured red deer stag quite amusing... I know why it's doing what it's doing but my 15 year old mindset can't help but think it's just being rather rude to the other deer!
After yesterday's mystery limpet behaviour - I ventured to a different beach at low tide this afternoon, and spent a couple of hours staring a limpets - waiting for a repeat. My patience was eventually rewarded. This is quite a big crop, but I am super-pleased with the detail in this shot.
I hardly ever use flash - but it was the only way to capture this. I think I need to buy some Rizla papers for my kitbag, so that I can diffuse the tiny flash that came with the EM1 MKII.
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
This species is a migrant that breeds locally in Ottawa. Here, a female gathers nest-building materials from a wetland. These are the previous year’s Spotted Jewelweed branches.
Though the females can, in the right light and with the right colouring, warrant the French name for the species, this creature was much subtler. Her behaviour though was quite something. She used this material to weave in the nest some fifty metres away.
This egret isn't taking off to fly it is jumping up and down, trying to drum up some lunch in the shallows of the estuary. I was mesmerized watching it run around in a circle, flapping and jumping from one spot to another. I have only ever seen them slowly 'stalking' their dinner. Sorry the photos are dark but it was a really grey day with little light.
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Kallang. This is part of the courtship behaviour of little terns, where the male would offer food to the female.
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 don't think I've ever seen a Eurasian jay just hanging out at the park. They are far too fast to be captured usually, but there you go. Nothing is as usual these days...
Just read about a very peculiar behaviour of the jay: "In order to keep its plumage free from parasites, it lies on top of anthills with spread wings and lets its feathers be sprayed with formic acid." (Wikipedia). Has someone ever seen this?
Oder sitzt bei euch zumindest mal ein Eichelhäher minutenlang am Futterhaus, wie dieser hier am Zaun?
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Architect Maaskant (1907-1977) was a modernist who worked in the international style. For sure he would have loathed adding colours like this (done in 2016). Though perhaps not an architectural masterpiece, the Pier does not deserve a cheap and ill concieved treatment like this.
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.
6 o'clock in the morning. The sun was rising quickly filling the sky with a deep golden glow. I wasn't the only one enjoying that moment as a beautiful male pheasant stepped into the scene.
I know what a pheasant invariably does on a beautiful may morning; making his presence known to all the ladies in the neighborhood, by calling and flapping his wings.
So I went down on my stomach in the wet grass and just waited.. And they never disappoint, do they :-).
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School Discipline
1. Bad behaviour - Before you read
Look at these examples of bad behaviour in school. How would you classify them?
Very serious / serious / quite bad / not bad behaviour
• Chewing gum or eating sweets in class
• Playing truant (not coming to school/not telling parents)
• Smoking in the school building (in the toilets?)
• Swearing (using bad language)
• Swearing at a teacher or insulting a teacher
• Not doing homework
• Cheating in exams (copying from secret notes or another pupil)
• Shouting and making noise during lessons
• Running in the corridors
• Writing on walls, desks and other school property
• Stealing from other pupils pockets or bags
• Calling a teacher or another pupil bad names (bullying)
• Carrying a dangerous weapon (gun, knife, penknife)
• Hitting other pupils or teachers
• Not listening/paying attention in lessons
• Wearing unsuitable clothes for school
• Kissing boys/girls during the lesson or in the corridor
• Leaving the classroom without permission
• Have you ever broken a school rule or been badly behaved in school?
What happened? haha
i remember one time we hid the school
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A shaky, hand-held video of a male mountain bluebird that is bringing food to it's brood. I've been told by a bluebird expert that the wing flashes are used to signal something to its mate. Whether that is every time it raises a wing or not, I don't know, but this one seems to have lots to say.
Although this link is for a different bluebird species, there are similarities: HP@#LocalAccount01
AK 2017: Katmai N.P. and Preserve. We flew to Mirror Lake from Lake Clark then trekked along Funnel Creek where we spent the day watching and photographing the brown bears. This confrontation was interesting (it happened twice while we were there). The light colored bear caught the sockeye salmon. The more aggressive darker bear came over to check it out and managed to steal it away after a scrimmage. The lighter colored bear looked like s/he was well fed, so this behaviour probably didn't happen too often. (Tight crop)
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