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A confrontation that I was amazed to observe as birds and beasts harass an Asian Barred Owlet. The stripped squirrel actually got under the owlet and was nipping at it's tail !! The first two pictures are heavily cropped, but show a Black Drongo flyby which spooked the squirrel. The second shot is a pair of hoopoes that got in on the action. The owlet finally had enough and flew off. It landed much closer, but the backlight was very harsh. Not something you see everyday, but it sure was fun to watch!
Batttered looking Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) enters territory of male Northern Harrier (Circus cyaneus); mid-afternoon encounter; SLO County; CA; USA
In frame 1 (upper left), a male Northern Shoveler confronts a Blue-winged Teal. In frame 2, the Teal responds, and the Shoveler backs off, looking startled. In frame 3, the Shoveler turns away, but the Teal keeps coming and actually bumps into the Shoveler. By frame 4, the Shoveler is in full rapid retreat, with the Teal in hot pursuit.
That’ll teach him!
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A confrontation that I was amazed to observe as birds and beasts harass an Asian Barred Owlet. The stripped squirrel actually got under the owlet and was nipping at it's tail !! The first two pictures are heavily cropped, but show a Black Drongo flyby which spooked the squirrel. The second shot is a pair of hoopoes that got in on the action. The owlet finally had enough and flew off. It landed much closer, but the backlight was very harsh. Not something you see everyday, but it sure was fun to watch!
Les courses camarguaises célèbrent le courage des taureaux et l’agilité des raseteurs. Le taureau de Camargue ou « cocardier » est en effet plus malin, plus nerveux et plus rapide que son cousin espagnol, le taureau de combat. Le cocardier se prend au jeu et progresse au fil des courses. Il devient donc plus difficile à raseter. Certains deviennent même de vraies stars locales. A leur mort, la tradition veut qu’il soit enterré debout, la tête tournée vers la mer.
This is the first of four sequential shots featuring two prairie Coyotes. I wasn't close, but my telephoto was able to lock on.
The back story: it was late October. I had discovered - thanks to a tip - that a Coyote family were frequenting an area in and around one of the many prairie dog towns in Grasslands National Park. But they weren't hunting rodents. An easier source of nutrients was abundant at that time: grasshoppers. Some of you saw my shots of these predators nosing through the grass and sagebrush, at times even snapping at the flying insects they flushed. Pretty interesting stuff!
On this day, I sat in the rolling red Toyota blind, watching that action unfold. In particular, I was tracking the Coyote on the left in this shot. It had been in close, then moved farther away, toward the base of some rolling hills. When I saw a second Coyote appear and then approach from higher ground, I started shooting again; I'm always excited to see two critters interact. What would happen? Find out tomorrow...
Photographed in Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2021 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
This looks serious but it really wasn't. It was two tigers playing like two big rowdy kittens, chasing and stalking one another and wrestling around.
RKO_0506. On top of a small hill. That's what they usually do to observe their surroundings.
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A Black-bellied Plover runs up to me as I crouch in the grasses near the beach as if to challenge my presence on his territory.
Waterpearls & Strobe-Light-Installation by Olafur Eliasson (IS / DK)
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