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Abby is confused for a minute. We were walking beside the normal path to stay off the snow but she kept going back to it even though it was only twenty feet away. Repetition is EVERYTHING to a pup
“I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people's minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.”-Audrey Hepburn
Female blocking the nest hole. The whole process takes about 90 minutes, spending around two to three minutes at the hole in each visit then a 90 second flight to get more mud.
Name: Panthera leo, or Lion
Location: Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda
Description:Tree-climbing is an unusual behavior for lions, but the pride in Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda is famous for napping in trees during the day -- this male is just waking up at dusk. Though they don't know it, the lions here may be the last of their kind; relentless poisoning by cattlemen leads many researchers to believe the big predators of this area will all be gone within the next five to ten years.
wee ting for the GRV if it does well im gonna do a different animal for each one ...... because the jungle is massive....
Breeding behaviour
Where possible, the birds excavate a nesting burrow into the soil. Sometimes they will make use of Manx shearwater or rabbit burrows. Where burrowing is not possible, the birds nest under boulders or in cracks and cavities in cliffs.
The birds defend the nesting site and its immediate surround, and use it in subsequent years. Puffins lay only a single egg, in late April or early May. Both parents incubate it for 36-45 days, and they share the feeding duties until the chick is ready to fledge.
The fledging period is very variable, ranging from 34 to 60 days, depending on the area and year.
Adult birds desert their young shortly before they are ready to leave the nest. The timing of the breeding in puffin colonies is highly synchronised, and so the departure of all adults takes place within a few days.
The young birds leave their nest burrow and make their way to the sea, normally under cover of darkness to avoid predators. In some colonies, for instance in Iceland, nearby bright lights confuse the young birds, which then fly into the light and end up on city streets.
Puffins usually reach breeding age at 5-6 years old, and often live for 20 years.
Stummbled on these 3 hares in a field and had a great couple of hours filming and photgraphing these guys.
The Gilly suit was on for this as I didn't know how tolerant they would be of me. ISO was between 500-800 and F stop 4 - 5.6 on AV
This pair of Black Oystercatchers nested in this same location last year. They are the first to lay eggs in the reserve this year, two this year compared to last year's three. Generally, only 2 chicks make it anyway. Shooting Oystercatchers on their nests requires a super telephoto lens, patience, and a hide... or a camera trap! Oystercatchers rely on the camouflage of their eggs for protection and so leave the nest at the slightest sign of danger. Today after a bald eagle fly-by I hid my camera near the nest and set it to shoot every 15 seconds. I watched to make sure the camera didn't disturb the birds and it went on to record nearly 5 hours of natural behaviour. These shots mostly show the mother returning to the nest after a disturbance (they occurred about 4 times an hour), but out of 12 GB of images there were plenty of egg-turning, thermoregulation (panting), and other behaviours recorded.
A Fixers campaign led by ‘Jessica’: www.fixers.org.uk/news/13032-11208/be-a-good-sport.php
A keen sportswoman from County Derry/Londonderry, who was shunned by her teammates when she picked up an injury, wants others to show respect both on and off the field of play.
‘Jessica’, whose real name has not been used, was bullied when she had to miss part of a season and now wants to show others that sport is as much about having fun as winning.
Quickly grabbed a bendy lamp I had in my room and made a makeshift off-camera light.
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Distinctive looking paropsine larvae showing their usual behaviour - Paropsis aegrota elliotti (note that subspecies elliotti applies to the Tasmanian population whereas those occurring on the mainland are P. aegrota aegrota). The lavae gather only in small groupings (usually 3 to 4), resting together in tight lines facing into a leaf axil.
The larvae in the top picture are in a slight alarm position - if they were fully at rest the abdomen of the middle one would be resting on top of the thorax of the one tucked close behind it. The larvae below was munching away until I got in it's face and it immediately assumed full alarm position.
The two more horizontal larvae above and the one in the pics below are final (4th) instar larvae - having a fair amount of orange colouring and with swollen abdominal turbicles. I'm assuming the other larvae above is a third instar as it clearly hasn't got swollen turbicles like the other two. First and second instars are black.
Photographed mid-summer, foothills of Mt Wellington, Hobart.
References, including keys and descriptions of Tasmanian Paropsis spp. - eggs, larvae, and adults:
De Little, D. 1979. A preliminary review of the genus Paropsis Olivier (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) in Tasmania. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 18: 91-107.
Selman, B.J. 1983. The naming of the Tasmanian species of Paropsis Olivier (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 22: 333-339.
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy is a specific type of CBT. It combines Cognitive Behaviour Therapy with mindfulness and other Eastern Meditation and Self-insight gaining practices. It helps in dealing with distressful emotions.
Check out all the amazing details about my experience on the Yarn Harlot's Toronto Sock Scavenger Hunt here in this blog post!