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This whole neighbourhood is sick of the driver and the friends who use this vehicle - they like to turn up the music with all the doors open - have a bit of a street party around the car whether 10pm or 2am. To hell with the neighbours.
No respect. That is shit Britain
! watched this Blackbird returning to a specific spot on the grass and lying spread eagled with beak open. A second blackbird arrived and lay on the same place. It looked like some kind of mating ritual. Any ideas?
Scent means a lot to horses. This mare and gelding are inspecting the mare's fresh doings. They were quite stinky
spanwidth min.: 25 cm
spanwidth max.: 29 cm
size min.: 19 cm
size max.: 20 cm
Breeding
incubation min.: 13 days
incubation max.: 15 days
fledging min.: 12 days
fledging max.: 14 days
broods 1
eggs min.: 3
eggs max.: 6
Physical characteristics
Large and long strong-billed warbler with nondescript plumage typical of unstreaked Acrocephalus but at times bold behaviour. European and Mediterranean race, nominate, upperparts generally warm olive-brown, with crown slightly darker than mantle, rump and upper tail-coverts fawnier than back, and wing-coverts and inner flight-feathers slightly edged rufous. Face pattern with cream to buff supercilium from just behind bill to no more than half-way along ear-coverts, dusky eye-stripe, and brown lore and ear-coverts. Birds thus has strong, even stern expression. sexes rather similar, slight seasonal variation.
Habitat
Breeds in middle latitudes of west Palearctic, in both cool and warm and arid and moist climates, mainly in temperate, steppe, and Mediterranean zones. In west, occurs mainly in lowland, even in some zones in Switzerland and USSR on mountain lakes up to 2000 m. Mostly concentrated in aquatic vegetation emerging from shallow standing water, fresh or brackish, especially in strong, tall, and dense reeds fringing banks or swamps, or islanded above the shallow bottoms of lakes or sluggish rivers.
Other details
Acrocephalus arundinaceus is a widespread summer visitor to much of Europe, which accounts for less than half of its global breeding range. Its European breeding population is very large (>1,500,000 pairs), and was stable between 1970-1990. Although the species declined in various countries during 1990-2000, trends in the east of its European range—including key populations in Russia, Ukraine and Romania—were stable, and the species probably declined only slightly overall.
Large and long strong-billed warbler with nondescript plumage typical of unstreaked Acrocephalus but at times bold behaviour. European and Mediterranean race, nominate, upperparts generally warm olive-brown, with crown slightly darker than mantle, rump and upper tail-coverts fawnier than back, and wing-coverts and inner flight-feathers slightly edged rufous. Face pattern with cream to buff supercilium from just behind bill to no more than half-way along ear-coverts, dusky eye-stripe, and brown lore and ear-coverts. Birds thus has strong, even stern expression. sexes rather similar, slight seasonal variation.
Feeding
Mainly insects, with some spiders, snails, and small vertebrates, some fruits and berries outside breeding season. Feeding techniques not as well studied as in other Acrocephalus. Composition of diet and visual observations suggest that most prey caught in short leaps as bird moves through vegetation, searching leaves and stems carefully. Mobile, flying prey caught by usinglong jumps or leaps, or flycatching techniques, akin to leap-catching and fly-catching.
Conservation
This species has a large range, with an estimated global extent of occurrence of 10,000,000 km2. It has a large global population, including an estimated 2,900,000-5,700,000 individuals in Europe (BirdLife International in prep.). Global population trends have not been quantified, but the species is not believed to approach the thresholds for the population decline criterion of the IUCN Red List (i.e., declining more than 30% in ten years or three generations). For these reasons, the species is evaluated as Least Concern. [conservation status from birdlife.org]
Breeding
Breeds mid March to mid June central and western Europe, early May in southern Europe. Nest site is dense stands of mostly reed in water. Preference for areas with thick reed stems. Nest attached to several stems. 3-6 eggs are laid, incubation 13-15 days, by female only.
Migration
Locally common and widespread summer migrant of Eurasia, from continental Europe and southern Sweden across central Russia to western Siberia and western China, south through Mediterranean region and east to Turkey, Israel, Iran and Caucasus, mostly in lowlands but to 2000 m in Asian mountains. Winters in subtropical zones of Africa, south of the Sahara. (Baker K 1997) A.a. orientalis: Vagrant Austria (1; record considered questionable). Breeds Siberia, Soviet Far East, north Mongolia, north-eastern China, Korea, Japan; winters South-East Asia, Philippines, Indonesia. A.a. griseldis: Summer visitor lower Iraq; winters east tropical Africa. Scarce migrant Kuwait. Vagrant Germany. A.a. arundinaceus: Summer visitor throughout much of Europe (absent northern regions, UK Eire), European USSR, locally Turkey and Near East (may no longer breed Israel), north-west Africa; winters tropical Africa. Migrant Malta, Cyprus, Kuwait, north Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Libya. Vagrant Iceland, Faroe Is., Madeira, Azores. A. a. zarydnyi: Summer visitor north Iraq; winters tropical Africa. (Parmenter T Byers C 1991)
underwater,marine creatures
mating pair of mandarinfish-dragonets
Lembeh Straits, north Sulawesi
Kungkungan Bay Resort
©Geoff Spiby/iAfrika Photos
Whilst Dave and I were waiting for the rest of our party to come out of the shop. we spotted these tourists.
I'm sure that most locals would rather the pigeons were shot. These tourists though were feeding them. They'd even brought bags of food in specially for the purpose. I know that Indians feed pigeons but these people were clearly not from India.
The most bizarre though was one man who was holding a baby. He literally poked the baby's face into the group of pigeons almost as if he was feeding the baby to them.
Public Lecture on "Changing Consumer Behaviour: Are We Becoming More Demanding?" by Professor Moira Clark, Director, Henley Centre for Customer Management on 25 February 2015
A young Chinese female tourist takes a photo of her friend who is raising her arm in front of the Wuhouci Memorial Temple in Chengdu as remembrance of their visit.
This looks more suspicious than it really was. These gentlemen were just taking shelter from a sudden heavy rainfall....
The wool carder bees like the hairy stems and leaves of the Lychnis plant. They clip off the 'wool' with their jaws and collect the clippings in a ball held between the four hind-most legs as they work backwards down the stem or along a leaf. Once enough is collected the load is held by the legs and transported to the nest.
Sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus) pursuing starling murmuration (Sturnus vulgaris). Surrey, UK.
With thanks to Ralph (and the cloud god).
Challenging the dog to a little play.
More photographs of my trip to Winchester, to taste a bit of Christmas atmosphere, will follow. You can find them in the set CHRISTMAS CROWDS.
Interesting behaviour watching hornets interact at Minsmere today. They were located next to a tree bleeding sap, but occasionally seemed to be getting into tumbles at the base of the tree. Apparently eating the sap can make them more aggressive towards each other and there were a few dead hornets at the bottom.
(Also posted on FB "UK Bees, Wasps, Ants" and "RSPB Minsmere")