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Just love it when birds begin to preen and groom themselves by running their beak through their feathers. This marbled godwit, which stopped by on its migration to the north, was totally hamming it up for the camera. Hope you enjoy.
© Debbie Tubridy Photography
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Camera: Canon PowerShot A560
Location: Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Double-banded Plover (male)
Charadrius bicinctus
June 17th, 2019
Yambuk, Victoria, Australia
Canon EOS 1D X Mark II
Canon EF 600mm f4L IS II USM lens
Canon EF 1.4x III Extender
A lovely male Double-banded Plover keeping himself well groomed for the ladies!
DDC-My Word Is....Groomed
Tick season is in full swing around here, so getting her coat shortened was important. We have to be diligent about keeping her safe. The Groomer told me she has found 100's of ticks on the dogs she's groomed. This area is one of the worst in the country.
This is the flicker from the photo yesterday before she flew over to the tree. Almost didn't post cause it's a bit too noisy, but I don't know when or if I'll ever get to see this happen again.
"The thing about repairing, maintaining and cleaning is: it's not an adventure. There's no way to do it so wrong you might die."
Tell that to a tree kangaroo trying to scratch its tail.
He probably wants to look his best in front of his two lady friends... ;)
Dushara Tatters and Rags (Somali), 15.08.2014.
Olympus E-400 Digital Camera
Many thanks to Adam & Kim for being such good fun.
Wedding at Alveston Manor Hotel, Stratford upon Avon, Warwickshire
Falling back on the ol' archives as the bayou has been a distant memory, but I remember this gang quite well!! Some of my winter time visitors on the bayou that allowed me to get fairly close!! American White Pelicans on Horsepen Bayou!
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This long horned Locust Borer Beetle (Megacyllene robiniae) is grooming itself on a blooming yellow goldenrod plant (Solidago)
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Locust Borer Longhorn Beetle – 2020OCT02 – Charlotte, NC
I went to harvest goldenrod for goldenrod tea, finding in the bountiful blossoms a breathtaking bonus: a beauteous beetle!
Spectacular arrays of brilliant yellow flowers attract throngs of insects intent on collecting and consuming the nutritious large and rather sticky pollen from myriads of small flowers on each plant, a magnet for late summer and early autumn insects, this wasp-striped longhorn beetle among the most eye-catching, especially important to it as a mimic (Batesian mimicry, something harmless imitating something dangerous): looks like a bee or a wasp but cannot sting.
Many insects, like this locust borer, try very hard to imitate bees (called bee mimics) and wasps, and do a surprisingly good job of it!
Hope you enjoy this 25% of 213 captures I took here this day!
Footpath barbers are a common sight in Kolkata. Customers can often be seen self grooming with the barber's tools
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Another shot of my raccoon visitor looking quite comical as it was grooming its tail. The same raccoon climbed the chestnut tree for a snooze last Wednesday and it obviously had such a restful time that it came back again on Saturday morning. This time I caught it having a bit of grooming session before it went back to sleep for the day. A few times it was actually upside down and I was worried it might fall out of the crow's nest and tree as it was at least 35 feet up. But all was well as I think this raccoon has most likely done this before!
I came across this story about a man in Nova Scotia who might have too many raccoon friends!
www.boredpanda.com/raccoons-hot-dogs-james-blackwood-nova...