This ruby crowned kinglet landed in a place where it wasn't completely entangled in twigs, affording a much cleaner shot than is often offered.

A very nice white-lined sphinx moth fed for a long time on the blue sage flowers and allowed me to get lots of good shots....

Some species info: www.butterfliesandmoths.org/species/Hyles-lineata

Dewey, Illinois - population 63 (more or less)

The Superb Starling, a Northeast African bird, uses cooperative breeding to raise its young. Both the male and the female take care of the offspring. Previous offspring may also assist in collecting nest material and feeding young, Ridges on their feathers interfere with white light to produce their metallic color. Taken at the Bird Sanctuary in Niagara Falls, Canada.

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Stone Harbor Point, New Jersey, USA

During August and September, we observed 4 juvenile Piping Plovers in the same general area of the beach. They were usually in the tire tracks or up in the dunes on the dry sand. Nice images but I prefer my shorebirds in the surf or on the wet sand. It was late in the afternoon with about 90 minutes of light left when we came upon our 4 friends. Were where they? In the tire tracks of course. We had to make a decision. Do we wait and hope that the birds move to the water or continue on our way and hope to find something else to work with. We decided to give them 15 minutes. Boy am I glad we waited. They did indeed head to the water and were outrageously cooperative. They made up for all the hours we patiently waited over the summer. We took tons of images but this was my favorite.

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I have to mention folks that yesterday's outing was ok and nothing like the last one, but I'll take whatever I can get. This guy was just so cooperative I just stayed with him.

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We had just left the car when we spotted a Kestrel in a tree right next to the path. Of course I was shooting right into the sun. However, he flew over to a tree across the path and hung out for a bit and let us have a good look at him.

Last night's sunset was a beautiful one -- these two ducks were pretty cooperative about adding a bit of interest to the scene. View On Black

He was very co-operative during the photoshoot even though his attention was on some critter running around the bush .

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Fortunately, she chose to fly toward me.

I've found that the Red-bellied woodpecker is the easiest of the woodpeckers to photograph (2nd place is the Downy). They are quite vocal and pretty easy to locate, they present a nice medium-sized target, and they seem easier to get close to and not as skittish as some. This one poses for me very nicely out in the woods at Rocky River Reservation Metro Park so you'll be seeing quite a bit of him in the days and weeks to come.

Sometimes, all you get are the plain, but cooperative, subjects

The Canada Goose is a species a lot of people take for granted, but they actually have lots of interesting traits that are appealing. They help each other when flying together in formation by drafting off each other and taking turns doing the hard work at the front. Two or three adults will work cooperatively to look after the young of many goose families, allowing the other adults to feed or rest. It is cool to see 20 or 30 goslings following single file behind an adult across a pond. They can get a bit feisty when they feel threatened, but mostly they prefer to relax and just get on with enjoying life and raising their young.

This photo was taken at a popular urban park when a pair of big geese (some subspecies are much smaller) were taking off to carry on with their migration and were cooperative enough to fly low right past me. They gave me, a fellow Canadian, a friendly 'honk' as they passed. LOL

I named this little dragonfly this because this was my first attempt at catching a live insect, and despite a breeze, by some miracle, I got the shot. It was because of his patience, not mine...I would look through my lens and his little head would jerk as if he were saying, "It's OK, come closer." So, I would ooch the tripod closer, look through the lens, and he would seem to invite me again. It was a great moment when I discovered that some of the shots had actually turned out, but again, much of that credit goes to him.

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This small cooperative of seamstresses opens onto the main street in Sittwe, Rakhine State, Myanmar.

One cooperative behaviour you may see honey bees do is clump together at the entrance to a hive in an attempt to regulate the temperature or humidity within the hive. That is typically done on hot and/or humid days. The clumping is called bearding in the bee-keeping parlance.

This image was taken on a very cool morning, so heat wasn't an issue. There was lots of dew, so maybe humidity was a problem.

In trying to figure out what I was seeing, I checked out a few websites. The Honey Bee Suite site seemed to offer the best explanation: "Once the bees begin to finish their work in late summer, you are more apt to see bearding, especially in large colonies. This occurs because the cells are already full of nectar, but summer dearth means flowers are scarce, so no new cells are needed. Simply put, the bees are left with nothing to do.

Too many bees in the hive block air flow, which slows down the drying of nectar, so the bees hang around outside. New beekeepers often misread this behavior as preparation for swarming, but it has nothing to do with swarming. In fact, many of these bees will die at the ends of their natural adult lives of four-to-six weeks, and most will not be replaced in order to bring the colony down to a manageable winter population.

Then too, bearding often increases after the beekeeper removes honey supers, thus forcing the bees into a smaller space. Since there isn’t enough room indoors, the bees stay outside, just doing their thing."

In this case, two hives were exhibiting the behaviour, and both looked to have been downsized recently, meaning the extra summer storage areas for honey and pollen (supers) have been removed by the bee keeper. So, perhaps I happened to show up when there was simply no room in the hive and all these bees were just hanging out at the entrance.

If anyone knows of other explanations for this behaviour, please share your knowledge.

Cooperative Feeding

This is part of a line of almost twenty Greater Yellowlegs slowly moving across a pool in Bombay Hook NWR, apparently in a cooperative feeding behavior.

This is a case of content over quality to document this interesting behavior

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Taken at ISO 2500 last evening full frame I reduced the noise and cropped in approx 25%. This young Barred was curious and very cooperative other than the perch it selected.

Cooperative pose at local golf course.

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This is the first ladybug I saw this year. Seeing so many wonderful ladybug images here on Flickr I wanted to take one myself. And it wasn't easy. This lady just wouldn't cooperate. She wouldn't stay still not even for one split second. I wonder how you guys get them to cooperate...

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Another shot of the cooperative Fulmarus glacialis that swam up to Debra Shearwater's boat full of birders, and stayed close until every last birder had some good pictures. Nice bird!

Monterey Bay, California. September 2018.

At last, a non-fidgety yellow-rumped warbler. Merced National Wildlife Refuge.

Female surf scoter, I think.

Melanitta perspicillata

Dungeness Spit, WA, USA

white-breasted robin (Eopsaltria georgiana)

Unseen and unpraised, you tend to the soil and you feed us all. Only when it rains do you show yourself, and then you make me smile. You are so pink and soft, and you hug the earth with your entire body.

I’ve been seeing a lot of you this winter, but only now did circumstances come together to where I found you with my camera. And how extremely cooperative you were, crawling along steadily in a straight line while I struggled with the focus and framing – and then you broke my concentration because you would lift up your front end in an investigative movement that made me chuckle! It’s the same instinctive motion we all have in common and understand, but it’s so cute when you do it!

I want you to know that I see you and I praise you, humble rainworm! You work tirelessly to maintain the health of our living earth. You set a good example that I wish we would follow.

Be proud of who you are!

Claudia

Sambar deer and cattle egrets have a cool relationship: the egret gets a free ride and a meal, and the deer gets a clean coat and a lookout. The egret perches on the deer's back and eats ticks and other parasites, which keeps the deer healthy and free of pests. The egret's keen eyesight also helps to alert the deer to predators. In return, the egret gets a free ride to new food sources and a high vantage point from which to spot danger.

This symbiotic relationship is common in many parts of the world, where sambar deer and cattle egrets share the same habitat.

I don't get much of a chance to get water foul shots as they are usually out of reach . This one came close enough to take the shot from the car . Sometime you get lucky !

I was waiting for an eastbound BNSF grain train near the Right Cooperative Association (RCA) elevators in Wright, KS when these two units raced up from their normal parking spot - lights-off unfortunately - to grab a cut of empties for loading. RCAX (ex-BNSF) 1702 is one of only four GP-9s converted by BN to B-units in 1982, and intended for use at Minneapolis between SD-7 hump units. Built as NP GP9 326, it was later renumbered 1911, then B-unit 602, before its final number 1702.

RCAX 101 behind it was built as NW GP9 519, later rebuilt as NS TC-10 101, and pictures I've seen show it working the Delray area of Detroit.

Coopers Hawk, Prime Hook NWR, De.

This Heron was quite cooperative. He didn't seem to mind me taking shots of him from various angles.

When I first spotted him, he was backlit, so I walked to the other side to get a better shot. He didn't fly but rather posed for me in good light.

I wish all birds were like him.

Green Heron

Butorides virescens

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Loon, Peace Valley Park, Pa.

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Broadkill Beach Rd. De.

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He let me take lots of photos of him in a tree, then flew to this perch and let me take more. I finally stepped over his tolerance line and he went screaming off. I was still a considerable distance from him but closer than I usually get to a male Kingfisher.

This is a place where tradesmen can stay, work and market their goods.

Fez, (Fés), Morocco

Grain elevator at the foot of Tifft St in Buffalo, New York

What a bold patient!!!

Another animal that I'm always fascinated with for some reason is the porcupine. OK, so it's a bit like a rodent with quills that it uses as a defense. I remember the first time I ever laid eyes on a porcupine, I froze in fear. I know that sounds crazy, huh? But you know that when I grew up we had cartoons and the porcupines always "threw" their quills at anything that even looked at them! LOL. Now I know that they don't actually do that, but it was my first reaction. My second thought was ... how amazing of a creature they were. In a weird way too, so very beautiful. Those tiny eyes, those 2 big orange teeth, that slow moving nature they have ... adorable!

We observed this one perched up in the tree, thankfully without leaves, but there was this stick covering up his face. If you're wondering how the stick was miraculously out of sight in this shot ... you've got to check out the blog post at:

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Yes, this was THE most cooperative porcupine ever! Such a joy to photograph and a thrill to observe. The perfect end to a wonderful day! Before I left I, as I always do with wildlife I'm photographing, thanked it for giving me the opportunity and sharing its day with me. :-)

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