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Dreams produce symbolic images which picture the objective state of the dreamer. Usually, the general aim is to provide a starting point to make any appropriate adjustments to passing or fixed attitudes, prejudices, behaviours and other aspects of oneself or the environment which could tend to interfere with one’s overall self-development over time (if these were to become too strong and one-sided in nature).
A long-time colleague of C. G. Jung, analyst Marie-Louise von Franz, estimated that approximately 85% of images of other persons in our dreams relate to psychological aspects of ourselves. The other 15% or so depict actual outer persons and our relationships with them. Sometimes there is a mixture of the two in a given dream.
Analyst Mary Ann Mattoon in “Jung and the Human Psyche: An Understandable Introduction” explores this idea of “subjective” as opposed to “objective” interpretations.
For example, if the person’s image in the dream is an exact photographic likeness and not “different” from the outer person in some way, then it’s possible the dream could more likely be commenting on the actual person and his or her effect on the dreamer.
If an image similar to the above appeared in the dream of a male, the Jungian approach would be to carefully explore whether it represented his “inner woman” or “anima” as opposed to an outer person with whom he might be acquainted.
As a very general example, if it was believed that an image similar to the one above appeared to symbolize an inner aspect of the man, it could potentially relate to an overall feeling tone of boredom, malaise or even an encroaching depression.
This could be the result of ignoring or actively rejecting his values and emotional side too much of the time. As a result, he could even be attracted to a morose woman because of his unconscious depressed woman within.
If on the other hand, a comparable image appeared in the dream of a woman, it might potentially reflect a “shadow” side of her personality, something about which she was not adequately aware too much of the time.
For instance, she could be putting on a very animated, happy and interactive front with others when in reality, she was feeling anything but a genuine sense of contentment and a liking for others.
This state of affairs could also tend to result in a depression ranging from a low to severe nature, depending on the actual individual circumstances involved. She might even find herself befriending a gloomy woman because of this unconscious inner situation which could lead to outer complications as well.
Yorkville District, Toronto.
Les rêves produisent des images symboliques qui montrent l’état objectif du rêveur. Généralement, le but est de fournir un point de départ pour faire des ajustements appropriés aux attitudes fixes ou éphémères, les préjugés, les comportements et les autres aspects de soi-même ou de l’environnement qui pourrait tendre à gêner son auto-développement global au fil du temps, s’ils sont devenus trop forts et partials.
Un collègue de longue date de C. G. Jung, analyste de Marie-Louise von Franz, estime qu’environ 85 % des images d’autres personnes dans nos rêves se rapportent à des aspects psychologiques de nous-mêmes. Les autres 15 % ou plus représentent des personnes extérieures et nos relations avec eux. Parfois, il y a un mélange des deux dans un rêve donné.
Analyste Mary Ann Mattoon dans « Jung and the Human Psyche: An Understandable Introduction » explore cette idée de « subjectif », par opposition aux interprétations « objective ».
Par exemple, si l’image de la personne dans le rêve est une exacte ressemblance photographique et pas « différente » de la personne extérieure d’une certaine façon, il est alors possible le rêve pourrait vraisemblablement être commentant la personne réelle et son effet sur le rêveur.
Si une image semblable à ce qui précède est apparu dans le rêve d’un mâle, l’approche jungienne serait d’étudier attentivement si elle représentait sa « femme intérieure » ou « anima » par opposition à une personne extérieure avec laquelle il pourrait être la connaissance.
Un exemple très générale, si on croyait qu’une image semblable à celui ci-dessus semble symboliser un aspect interne de l’homme, il pourrait potentiellement concerner un ensemble ton sentiment d’ennui, malaise ou même une dépression envahissante. Cela pourrait être le résultat d’ignorer ou rejeter activement ses valeurs et le côté émotionnel trop du temps.
Si en revanche, une image comparable est apparu dans le rêve d’une femme, il pourrait potentiellement représenter un côté lié à « l’ombre » de sa personnalité, quelque chose dont elle ne connaissait pas bien trop de temps.
Par exemple, elle pourrait apparaître très animée et heureuse quand en réalité, elle se sentait tout sauf un véritable sentiment de contentement et un goût pour les autres. Cet état de choses pourrait aussi avoir la tendance à provoquer une dépression allant d’un minimum de caractère au sévère, selon les circonstances individuelles impliquées.
Arrondissement Yorkville, Toronto
Juvenile
Brown Thrasher BRTH (Toxostoma rufum)
tentatively or
experimentally feeding
Carmichael, Saskatchewan, Canada
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Mike McGrenere found one in Greater Victoria July 11th...Great Find Mike!
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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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.
This is a behaviour I've only recently noted. Here, Apples has stretched out a bit on the fence post near its nest. When I see this, it gives me such a wonderful feeling that this little critter is healthy, well fed, and can take a little break, all safe in the yard. Apples The Squirrel is a Red Squirrel, a native Alberta critter, pushed out of many urban settings by the bigger, nastier, invasive species, the Black and Grey Squirrels from eastern North America. A note: the Black and Grey Squirrels do not do well deep in the woods. My suspicion is that they are too heavy and slow to evade the nice predators that habit our forests...
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!
This shot shows the behaviour a little better than the previous one I uploaded.
The behavior that this Canadian Tiger Swallowtail butterfly is exhibiting, is known as puddling. They visit puddles like this ... sometimes in large numbers ... and extract sodium ions and amino acids from the damp gravel. Apparently, these sodium ions and amino acids help in reproduction.
I never had my extension tubes with me or I would have managed to get a closer shot. It was very co-operative. The front of the Nikon 105mm was practically touching it as it was. To get face to face with a butterfly like this, though, its an 'elbows and knees in the gravel' type of shot. Anyone passing by in a vehicle must have wondered what the heck I was doing. :-)
As you can notice, it's got the tip of that proboscis a little dirty. So, I was wondering: how does a butterfly wipe it's nose? :-)
The parent appeared to be teaching the juvenile to scavenge for food.
The adult (female I think?) Great Spotted Woodpecker seemed 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.
20+ lightpainted domes in a row, down a flight of steps off a footbridge, in a heavily light polluted area.
Single exposure.
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Wild Mustangs in the Eastern Sierra rear up and kick as they show aggression toward each other. We often saw behaviour such as this as we enjoyed the privilege of witnessing this magnificent herd of wild horses.
Fabulous encounter with a wonderful, totally relaxed mountain hare in the Scottish Highlands, July 2019.
Fabulous encounter with a wonderful, totally relaxed mountain hare in the Scottish Highlands, July 2019.
I don't know what's gotten into the Canada Geese lately! They are all very vocal & looking for a fight! : )
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Bowerbirds are renowned for their unique courtship behaviour, where males build a structure and decorate it with sticks and brightly coloured objects in an attempt to attract female. They are native to Australia and Papua New Guinea