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It took me a while to photograph an Olive-sided Flycatcher (Contopus cooperi), actually this is the first photo I have taken of them. On this day I saw three. This particular one was flying in the air catching insects. At one point it captured what appeared to be a Cicada. It came on to land on a tree branch to consume the insect. However, the flycatcher gently put the insect down on the branch and let it go. In the inset one can see the flycatcher watching it go. Not sure why the insect was spared - but it was fascinating to watch for sure. Mind you Cicadas spend 16 years underground before emerging to mate. May be an insect that stayed underground for so long didn't taste that good. West Deane Park, Toronto
A montage to show you courtship behaviour with Sminthurides nr. penicillifer, as with all Sminthurides species the male and female Springtail perform a courtship ritual. The male which is quite a bit smaller than the female will approach a female and attempt to link its antennae with the female (If the female lets him). The male has specially adapted antennae with long setae on it, it uses these setae to lock its antennae around the females antennae. The female will often carry the male around like this for some time, I'm not sure if this is to exhaust her or if there is some pheromone at play here. The male will then unlock itself and deposit spermatophores that the female will walk over.
In these images the male is the smaller of the linked pair, the females being a lot larger with the distinctive white abdominal and facial band :o)
The females are about 1mm in length and the males 0.6mm long, taken with the MP-E on a 1.4x teleconverter and some with an extra 36mm extension tube added between the lens and teleconverter.
I have included some extra images in the comments :o)
Exercise on light behaviour.
Front light without window intervention.
Manual exposure mode.
Matrix metering mode.
WB Direct sunlight fine-tune -3
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Went today to this park so beautiful just between Beckenham & Bromley with its park area and its amazing 2 square miles of woodland and its wild walks. Got this shot of the 2 robins just before a hot brew and cake its a cracker mum feeding its mature chick, they must be early this year.
Two puffins (Fratercula arctica) are squabbling at the entrance of their cave.
Zwei Papageitaucher (Fratercula arctica) streiten am Eingang ihrere Höhle.
A small group of Oystercatchers flew overhead and were showing signs of coming in for a landing in this spot, yelling continuously. These two were having none of it, and responded by doing some yelling of their own, repeatedly alternating between holding their heads high and then bowing down. The small flock went away after much screeching and never did land here.
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Waved albatross in the Galapagos performing their mating rituals which includes vociferous clacking of beaks.
A fair distance away on a misty morning but nice to see the Cattle Egret in amongst the Highland Cattle.
Brick lane weekday lunch time enjoying the sun ! have a wonderful weekend all I am off to Cambridge to enjoy a bit of country side beauty ;)
Police behaviour in the 80's... When I traveled to France for the first time as a young high school student, one of the things I noticed was how different the relationship between law enforcement and the people was. In Denmark, the police were like the friendly parent who nicely told you that now you had become too drunk and had to find a bus home. Street musicians got a long string, and were often considered something positive in the shopping district. In Paris, on the other hand, there was no eye contact, and the musicians I followed were not only thrown away from Pompidou Square, but subsequently also thrown away from the nearby neighborhood. And I who thought that Paris was all about art and love ...
Strøget, Copenhagen, 1980's.