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BLOY Warrior Point Behaviour Doc Collage
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
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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.
Doing what cockatoos like to do best, Little Corella ripping cones to pieces in pine trees. Adelaide Botanic Garden.
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.
Tortoise beetle mother displaying parental care of larvae. She will defend the vulnerable larvae from potential parasitoids and predators all whilst herding them from leaf to leaf, which they consume with ever-growing appetites. Photo under UV light from Santa Marta region, Colombian Caribbean.
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A fallow deer doe resting now the rut and breeding season is over. Took this a few weeks back in Ashdown forest, this Doe was taking a nap snuggled up in the leaf litter with a few other Does and some of this years young nearby. Took a couple of snaps and left them too it. Dama dama, Ashdown forest, UK
A monkey cleaning his teeth with a vegetable on the ghats of Pushkar in Rajasthan, India.
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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
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.
The mating behaviour of dragonflies is one of the more bizarre activities in nature... but they may think the same about us!
Cormorants diving for fish and Egret catching the fish that almost escaped ... :-D
Taken at Rye Harbour, East Sussex, UK.
Spent few days this week in Norfolk, Horsey, snapping the seal pups. Many of the mums gave birth in the dunes behind the beach, I'm told because the beaches were very busy with other seals the last few weeks. This one was in the rough grass of the dunes, plump and well fed, getting a good start in life and just about to moult it's white coat for a darker waterproof one before it goes alone into the sea; mum was doing a good job.
Lovely to see so many doing well !
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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.
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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
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...