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Doing what cockatoos like to do best, Little Corella ripping cones to pieces in pine trees. Adelaide Botanic Garden.
The parent seemed to be teaching the juvenile to scavenge for food.
The adult (female I think?) Great Spotted Woodpecker appeared to
1) collect food from a feeder
2) stash the food in a crevice on the wooden pole
3) feed it to the juvenile
I watched (and photographed) this behaviour several times. (I selected the photos from different bursts)
At one point I photographed two juveniles at the site.
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.
Taken late evenng. The fish is about to eat a worm which is a little strange as I understand this type of parrotfish browses on algae.
... all through the holiday season is to be drunk. The drunkenness culminates on New Years’ Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you’re married to.
~P.J. O'Rourke
:-)))
Happy, happy New Year my Flickr friends, both near and far.
~hmbt~
A little artistic licence with this one by using Photoshop to combine two shots. Cheating or all part of the creative process?
St Aidan's Nature Park
My companion thought a short walk was in order. I took my cue to put on a pair of sneakers and left my newly repaired lens and cameras at home, assuming we were going for a stroll. It's never that simple. They're rarely seen when they aren't well tooled. Whether it's a medium format film camera, an Olympus, Pentax, Canon, Sony or Nikon; mirrorless, SLR or DSLR. There'll be something within reach.
They are of a scientific bent. A good observer, currently a geochronologist, I believe, despite a penchant for herpetology and years in geochemistry. Did I mention photography? Anyway, today they turned up with a full frame Nikon mated to a 300mm manual lens. I had my hands in my pockets.
Putting those observational skills to good use, they pulled up short and pointed up the slope — they'd spotted something. Monotreme extreme; it's a pocket-sized echidna!!
Normal posture for an echidna encounter is for the wee beastie to dig in, and knowing it can't see you, you can't see it. This one had missed that class and carried on feeding among the leaf litter. While the photographer was snapping away I risked a closer approach, pulling my hand from my pockets to reveal something much smaller than their burden.
After my squat put me within shooting range, this little fellow, who I'd assumed would now freeze, came over to see, perhaps, if I was edible or at least a good conversationalist. I can't say that this is something I've ever seen in echidna behaviour. Still, it seems to have turned out alright for us both: we had a short interaction, they came over to investigate my leg, decided it was neither a threat nor a snack, then got on about their brunch.
This is perhaps my favoured of the two photographs I managed. By the second, as they moved towards me, I suspect I was hyperventilating. You'll see them both, SOOC too, because I don't think I can improve on Nature…
Behaviour shot only (cropped a lot as I zoomed out expecting it to fly) - This is what a Great Blue Heron does when it wants to scare away another Great Blue Heron. Just like a cat, it will raise its plumage on its back and position its head this way... frankly if this guy or girl was walking towards me like this, I would fly away too.
Last one of him, I haven't got anything new in ages, we'd better have this nice day we've been promised tomorrow.........
Why is Flickr so slow tonight ?!?
Cormorants diving for fish and Egret catching the fish that almost escaped ... :-D
Taken at Rye Harbour, East Sussex, UK.
Snapped this lovely Albino grey squirrel in one of my local parks, a true Albino, pink eyes and all. He's been about for a couple of years now, unusual for one so obvious to predators. The grey squirrel is not a favourite for many people in the UK but always lovely to see an Albino one I think. Taken East Sussex UK
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This male Pileated Woodpecker had just taken a bath but was also molting in the neck. He kept on scratching its head against the tree trunk. It would lift the bark a bit and scratched on it. It looked like it was extremely itchy. Poor thing.
Shorebirds of Ireland, Freshwater Birds of Ireland and The Birds of Ireland: A Field Guide with Jim Wilson.
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The great black-backed gull (Larus marinus) is the largest gull in the world. It is 64–79 cm (25–31 in) long with a 1.5–1.7 m (4 ft 11 in – 5 ft 7 in) wingspan and a body weight of 0.75–2.3 kg. it is a very aggressive hunter, pirate, and scavenger. It breeds on the European and North American coasts and islands of the North Atlantic and is fairly sedentary, though some move farther south or inland to large lakes or reservoirs. The adult great black-backed gull has a white head, neck and underparts, dark grey wings and back, pink legs and yellow bill.
This species can be found breeding in coastal areas from the extreme northwest portion of Russia, through much of coastal Scandinavia, on the Baltic Sea coasts, to the coasts of northwestern France, the United Kingdom and Ireland. Across the northern portion of the Atlantic, this gull is distributed in Iceland, the Faroe Islands, southern Greenland and on the Atlantic coasts of Canada and the United States.
Great black-backed gulls are opportunistic feeders, apex predators, and are very curious. They will investigate any small organism they encounter and will readily eat almost anything that they can swallow. Unlike most other Larus gulls, they are highly predatory and frequently hunt and kill any prey smaller than themselves, behaving more like a raptor than a typical larid gull. They get much of their dietary energy from scavenging, with refuse, most provided directly by humans, locally constituting more than half of their diet. (wikipedia)
The Great-black backed Gull is resident along all Irish coasts. Less frequently seen inland, usually only following storms. They follow trawlers and other fishing boats along the coast, even hitching a ride on smaller lobster and crab fishermen's boats, just like this one. This was off Dun Laoghaire, Dublin.
This is behaviour I've not witnessed before. This pair of Robins are building a nest in our garden. For the last few days the male has been taking food from me and flying across the garden to present it to the female. I finally caught them in action today!
20+ lightpainted domes in a row, down a flight of steps off a footbridge, in a heavily light polluted area.
Single exposure.
Do you dome? Here's how
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Fabulous encounter with a wonderful, totally relaxed mountain hare in the Scottish Highlands, July 2019.
For the past couple of years, it's just been one thing after another for Poppy (in fact, usually several things at once, most of which we haven't yet figured out!). She had yet another trip to the vet this morning, needing treatment for a UTI :(
I took this very close-up shot of her shaking herself dry (hence her left ear being above her head) after a nice swim at Kilmaurs a couple of weekends ago.
I'll catch up with you all soon...