Crestie photographed at my woodland site in the Scottish Highlands. I offer both guided and unguided photography sessions here Nov-Mar. Please contact me for details.

This Robin swayed and rocked from side to side for quite a while (minutes at least) with puffed feathers and beak slightly opened, displaying to another one sitting just above it. Amazing behaviour to witness. Had never seen this before.

St Aidan's Nature Park

Long Tailed Tits sharing food.

some territorial behaviour of a blue damsel, trying to interrupt the egg laying dragonfly

Rhinoceros Auklet RHAU (Cerorhinca monocerata)

Strait of Juan de Fuca

Salish Sea

BC

DSC_5084 - Copy

DSC_5086 etc Publication1 RHAU power dive

Prey appears to be

Pacific Sand lance (Ammodytes hexapterus) aka Needle Fish

Initially i thought this bird was working on taking off.

It was not stressed by being too close to boat or anything like that ... just seemed to want momentum for a deep dive.

1st time i have seen that behaviour

I think this clip will explain some of the mouth opening behaviour with the Foxes.

House Finches

April 8, 2025, Rondeau Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada.

In the hedge in the yard a pair of house finches displaying courting behaviour with the male giving seeds to the female.

Haemorhous mexicanus

The red of a male House Finch comes from pigments contained in its food during molt (birds can’t make bright red or yellow colors directly). So the more pigment in the food, the redder the male. This is why people sometimes see orange or yellowish male House Finches. Females prefer to mate with the reddest male they can find, perhaps raising the chances they get a capable mate who can do his part in feeding the nestlings.

House Finches feed their nestlings exclusively plant foods, a fairly rare occurrence in the bird world. Many birds that are vegetarians as adults still find animal foods to keep their fast-growing young supplied with protein.

It rained it turned grey then the sun came out to play.

Teaching a day of one-on-one tuition at Australia Zoo

The behaviour of the ‘Cardinal Fish’ in the breeding season with the incubation of its fry in its mouth resembles that used by freshwater cichlids that incubate and protect their fry in their mouths, so we can say that the ‘Cardinal Wren’ is the cichlid of the Mediterranean.

Photograph taken in the Raco de Conill cove (Villajoyosa-Spain). Copyright @2024 José Salmerón. All rights reserved.

El comportamiento del «Pez Cardenal» en la época de cría con la incubación de sus alevines en la boca se asemeja al utilizado por los cíclidos de agua dulce que incuban y protegen a sus alevines en la boca, por lo que podemos decir que el «Reyezuelo» es el cíclido del Mediterráneo.

Fotografía tomada en la cala Raco de Conill (Villajoyosa-España). Copyright @2024 José Salmerón. Todos los derechos reservados.

Tophill Low Nature Reserve

© noah samuel mosko

London 2015

Olympus Mju2

35mm f/2.8, agfa vista 200

Fuji Frontier SP-3000

Pretty low light amongst the branches and getting a reasonably clear view took a few attempts.

Telemonia male jumping spider courtship show, there is a female telemonia jumping spider in the opposite side! Will post the other image soon!

after a nap time

A little artistic licence for this one.

The Red Kites were circling together at one stage but I photographed them separately before combining them in Photoshop for this shot.

Photographed in the Scottish Highlands, November 2023.

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subfamily Vanellinae

A behaviour common to birds - find a way to seem larger than you are - but one I had never seen before in a Wood Duck: this male stuck his neck out and raised his head as high as he could, as another male floated into range.

Shorebirds of Ireland, Freshwater Birds of Ireland and The Birds of Ireland: A Field Guide with Jim Wilson.

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There are three species: the Bohemian waxwing (B. garrulus), the Japanese waxwing (B. japonica) and the cedar waxwing (B. cedrorum). The Bohemian waxwing is a starling-sized bird. It is short-tailed, mainly brownish-grey, and has a conspicuous crest on its head. The male of the nominate subspecies has a black mask through the eye and a black throat. There is a white streak behind the bill and a white curve below the eye. The lower belly is a rich chestnut colour and there are cinnamon-coloured areas around the mask. The rump is grey and the tail ends in a bright yellow band with a broad black border above it. The wings are very distinctive; the flight feathers are black and the primaries have markings that produce a yellow stripe and white "fishhooks" on the closed wing. The adult's secondaries end in long red appendages with the sealing wax appearance that gives the bird its English name. The eyes are dark brown, the bill is mainly black, and the legs are dark grey or black. In flight, the waxwing's large flocks, long wings and short tail give some resemblance to the common starling, and its flight is similarly fast and direct. It clambers easily through bushes and trees but only shuffles on the ground.

The range of the Bohemian waxwing overlaps those of both the other members of the genus.

The Bohemian waxwing's call is a high trill sirrrr. The Bohemian waxwing has a circumpolar distribution, breeding in northern regions of Eurasia and North America.

This waxwing is migratory with much of the breeding range abandoned as the birds move south for the winter. Migration starts in September in the north of the range, a month or so later farther south. Eurasian birds normally winter from eastern Britain through northern parts of western and central Europe, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and northern China to Japan. North American breeders have a more southeasterly trend, many birds wintering in southeast Canada, with smaller numbers in the north central and northeastern US states. Birds do not usually return to the same wintering sites in successive years. One bird wintering in the Ukraine was found 6,000 km (3,700 mi) to the east in Siberia in the following year.

In some years, this waxwing irrupts south of its normal wintering areas, sometimes in huge numbers. The fruit on which the birds depend in winter varies in abundance from year to year, and in poor years, particularly those following a good crop the previous year, the flocks move farther south until they reach adequate supplies.They will stay until the food runs out and move on again. (wikipedia)

Always a pleasure seeing Waxwing. This bird was one of a flock of 50 in an industrial estate on the outskirts of Dublin city. Every few years there is a larger invasion into Ireland when the food supplies in their normal winter range is exhausted prematurely. Flocks of up to 400 Waxwings have been recorded in Ireland. This year seems to be one of those irruptive years for the species.

I wen't down to check out the birdbath after and a few feathers remained. So sad really but that is nature right?

Psychologist Timothy Leary developed an interaction behaviour theory which demonstrated a strong and consistent interdependency of behaviour between people.

Based on his research Leary arranged a set of interpersonal variables into a circle and which lead to an interpersonal circumplex model for assessing interpersonal behaviour, motives and traits. The construct of the model is formed by two main dimensions:

-1 - the degree of dominance / submission and

- 2 - the degree of friendliness / unfriendliness.

The first set of behaviour is located on the orthogonal y-axe of the model; the latter set of behaviour is located on the orthogonal x-axe of the model. Interpersonal behaviour plotted in the model reflects the degree of friendliness and dominance of that specific person at a given moment in time.

7 Days of shooting

Week #39

Flowers

Shoot anything saterday

St Aidan's Nature Park

BLOY Warrior Point Behaviour Doc Collage

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Black Oystercatcher BLOY (Haematopus bachmani)

Warrior Point

North Saanich

Vancouver Island

British Columbia

So as this individual was foraging ..repeatedly submeged head...

when it came up with a prize i attempted to photo doc.

Here we see that it is a bit like the song "Hole in the bottom of the Sea" (if you know that one)

Here we see there's an..""Oyster on a Mussel on the Bill of a Bird out at Warrior Point""

after which The BLOY walked over to a rocky area above waterline and dislodged the Mussel from the Oyster and then Dislodged the mussel from off of its own beak ,,,then dislodged the meat from the mussel shell...

Then down the hatch

:)

Matti-Jay asked for photos of her playing with the lock to the tools shed at Memorial park back in December. Bit cheeky really, I'm not sure she would have had such a grin if park maintenance turned up :)

I was delighted to note that she's wearing the flower earrings I made many moons ago that I gave her for Christmas. Boxing Day 2017.

Goldeneye ducks

HFF