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NIKKOR 50 mm 1.8D
Extension tubes + Raynox DCR-250
Aperture: f/8
Hand held
External flash with diffuser used
🇩🇪 Beschreibung (Deutsch):
Der Neuntöter (Lanius collurio) ist ein kleiner, aber auffälliger Singvogel aus der Familie der Würger. Männchen erkennt man leicht an der schwarzen „Banditenmaske“, dem grauen Kopf und dem rostroten Rücken. Der Neuntöter bewohnt halboffene Landschaften mit Hecken, Dornbüschen und Feldrändern, in denen er seine Beute – vor allem große Insekten – jagt.
Seinen deutschen Namen verdankt er einer alten Volkssage: Demnach soll der Neuntöter angeblich neun Beutetiere auf Dornen aufspießen, bevor er mit dem Fressen beginnt – daher der Name „Neuntöter“. Tatsächlich legt er gelegentlich Vorräte an, indem er Beutetiere wie Käfer, Heuschrecken oder kleine Wirbeltiere auf Dornen aufspießt – was ihm auch den Namen „Würger“ eingebracht hat.
Als Charaktervogel extensiver Kulturlandschaften steht der Neuntöter heute vielerorts unter Schutz, da seine Lebensräume zunehmend verschwinden.
🇬🇧 Description (English):
The Red-backed Shrike (Lanius collurio) is a small but striking songbird from the shrike family. Males are easily identified by their black “bandit mask,” grey head, and reddish-brown back. This species prefers semi-open habitats with hedgerows, thorn bushes, and field edges, where it hunts large insects and occasionally small vertebrates.
The bird’s German name, Neuntöter (“nine killer”), comes from an old folk tale: It was believed that the shrike would impale exactly nine prey animals on thorns before eating the first one. While the number is myth, the behavior is real – Red-backed Shrikes often store food by impaling it on sharp twigs or thorns, a habit that earned them the name “butcher birds” in English.
As a species typical of traditional agricultural landscapes, the Red-backed Shrike is now protected in many regions due to habitat loss.
West Sussex garden
Just wandering around my mum's garden and came across this little beauty roosting.
The light was fading fast and i didn't have my flash with me so I put up the iso and hoped for the best, quite pleased it came out so well.
~~Chez certains insectes, les œufs et les larves doivent être déposés précisément sur leurs ressources alimentaires. La femelle est donc très sélective lors de la ponte.
Chez certaines, elles pondent les œufs de manière aléatoire sur le substrat. Chez d'autres, Elles les déposent en masse sur le feuillage ou les posent individuellement sur le plant. D'autres pondent à l'intérieur des racines, des tiges et à travers des troncs d'arbres à l'aide d'un organe spécialisé appelé ovipositeur.
Les mantes, les blattes et certains orthoptères pondent leurs œufs en masse dans une capsule protectrice appelée oothèque. Cette mousse de protéines forme une carapace solide assurant une protection contre d'éventuels prédateurs.
I am no specialist on insects so I don't know which spider and which fly. The fly didn't make it though
Insects possess segmented bodies supported by an exoskeleton, a hard outer covering made mostly of chitin. The segments of the body are organized into three distinctive but interconnected units, or tagmata; a head, a thorax, and an abdomen. The head supports a pair of sensory antennae, a pair of compound eyes, one to three simple eyes ("ocelli") and three sets of variously modified appendages that form the mouthparts. The thorax has six segmented legs (one pair each for the prothorax, mesothorax and the metathorax segments making up the thorax) and two or four wings (if present in the species). The abdomen (made up of eleven segments some of which may be reduced or fused) has most of the digestive, respiratory, excretory and reproductive internal structures.
Camera: Canon EOS 50D
Exposure: 0.067 sec (1/15)
Aperture: f/8.0
Focal Length: 70 mm
ISO Speed: 400
Exposure Bias: -1/3 EV
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