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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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Grizzly Bear (Ursus arctos horribilis) pair in an amorous state prior to breeding. There were periods of gentle contact intermixed with biting along the neck of the female. Interesting behaviour to observed.
This took place during a guided trip to the K'tzim-a-deen Grizzly Bear Sanctuary in the Khutzeymateen Inlet along the west coast north of Prince Rupert, British Columbia, Canada.
The inlet is about a 30 minute flight by float plane, north of Prince Rupert. The tour of 6 wildlife photographers (including myself) was 5 days long and run by Ocean Light II Adventures. We stayed at the entrance of the reserve in a 72 ft sail boat (Ocean Light II) and accessed the reserve daily in a 19 ft Zodiac and spent most of the day looking for grizzly bear activity.
Our guide was amazed at the number of times we encountered this mating behaviour. He indicated that it was quite unusual to see this many breeding encounters as the bears tended to be more secretive in his past experiences.
26 May, 2015.
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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.
Bohemian Waxwing / bombycilla garrulus. Hassop, Derbyshire. 17/01/24.
'TIME FOR A DRINK.'
A very smart adult male Waxwing perched on a dead branch overlooking a waterlogged grassy field. He peered down at other members of the flock who were drinking from small pools of water. Eventually he too followed suit and slaked his thirst.
I loved watching the drinking behaviour of the Waxwing flock. Sudden downward swoops, then a fluttering of wings as individuals decided on an exact landing place. Once on the ground, the actual drinking was fast and furious, always punctuated by checking the surroundings. Each drinking session lasted no more than a second or two, then birds sprung up into the air and flew to the safety of nearby trees.
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Atlantic Grey Seal / halichoerus grypus. Farne Islands, Northumberland. 17/06/24.
'SPY HOPPING.'
An inquisitive Atlantic Grey Seal checking out our boat.
Holding its body vertically below the surface, it is able to stick its head out of the water and have a good look around.
This particular 'spy hopping' behaviour led biologists to think seals may use stars to help navigate their way about.
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A male Redstart, captured in my garden ad the edge of a forest.
The common redstart shows some affinity to the European robin in many of its habits and actions. It has the same general carriage, and chat-like behaviour, and is the same length at 13–14.5 cm long but slightly slimmer and not quite as heavy, weighing 11–23 g. The orange-red tail, from which it and other redstarts get their names ("start" is an old word for "tail"), is frequently quivered. Among common European birds, only the black redstart (Phoenicurus ochrurus) has a similarly coloured tail.
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The tree this Owl is perched in - about 15 feet or four plus metres in height - is in an odd location for a mostly cautious bird. But it faces the west, and in the cold and windy weather we have been having the tree seems to offer some sort of basking point between hunting locations. The tree is close but pretty much inaccessible to people - and if someone tried to get too close the bird would have lots of warning.
I saw the bird first a couple of weeks ago after picking my dog up at the end of the day from her kennel, where she spends a bit of time when I am away for work. I did not have my camera and stopping was unrealistic for a variety of reasons. So I made a mental note to check back.
When I returned a few days later she was on a hydro pole not too far from the tree. So I found a place to wait and monitored her with my binoculars.
She moved in about twenty minutes later. I got out of my car and began securing whatever images I could, advancing as close as I thought was safe to avoid flushing the bird. But I think she felt pretty secure, and never deigned to glance at me.
Sadly the sun was not going to appear, and the dusk light was a challenge. But it has been a desire of mine for a long time to have images of a Snowy without any artifact of human behaviour in the frame - no fence posts or hydro poles. I have some of those and they are, I think, great images. I have posted some of them. But the tree is a neat perch.
I have cropped the image to remove distracting branches where possible.
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A mixed bag of a flock containing predominantly Black-tailed Godwit, with Eurasian Teal and Black-headed Gull thrown in for good measure. This was part of a low-tide feeding frenzy at Poolbeg in Dublin Bay recently.
Photographing the wild mustangs in the Eastern Sierra, California, was an amazing experience. I continually felt that I was in their sacred place, and I felt privileged and honored to be there. I would have watched and photographed them all day.... but after a while the herd moved on, and so did I.
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This sequence of shots shows a Song Thrush dealing with a snail. It took about four sessions of bashing to break all the shell off the snail. As the bird brings the snail down on the rock the nictitating membrane (third eyelid) covers the eye to prevent it from damage
I was in Ashbridge's Bay park in Toronto, looking for a Lark Sparrow when three Northern Flickers landed on a sand dune not too far from me. Two females got in the "fencing duel" with head bobbing, beak touching etc. while the male foraged nearby. This is all for pair bonding, establishing territory and mating during this time of the year.
The duel lasted about 50 seconds before they dispersed. Quite a fascinating behaviour to watch. By the way, I did see and photograph the lark sparrow, but that's for another time.
Dont think just about your chance of getting infected.
Imagine that you do have the virus. ...and then change behaviour so that you are less likely to transmit it to others.
This virus needs us to to complacently interact to help it transmit. It needs us to ignore public health messaging. It needs us to not care about others that are more vulnerable than us.
Think social distancing, including children, & protecting older/vulnerable. We are going to be at this for a long time and we need to get good at it.
What happens in London over next few days will be mirrored in rest of UK in the following 14 days. We all have a role to play. ..both what we do and what we say to others.
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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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Shadowed by a Coastal or Longfin Trevally (not possible to distinguish which without disection). This is opportunistic behaviour and allows the Trevally to snatch any suitable creature disturbed by the Puffer as it rummages in the sand which it does pretty constantly searching for food
A pair of Rufous-necked Hornbill (Aceros nipalensis) was kissing each other in a romantic ambience in their natural habitat. It was the best luck I got after some repeated efforts for four days and even in the final day I had to wait for long three hours for this very precise moment. It lasted for 2-3 seconds. All their behavioural displays were done on branches behind some dense leaves but this time, they changed their display branch and made love in open. Pics was taken from Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary, West Bengal, India.
Photo taken in downtown ReykjavÃk.
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.