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After Mom came over to reassure him/her, the fawn dropped it's defensive posture and didn't seem at all frightened by my presence. It lifted it's head, made eye contact with me, and was looking all around.
It even stood up for a few minutes.
I popped back to see how the Wagtails were getting on at the weekend. I was hoping that the young may have fledged and the adults would be feeding them. There was was no sign of the youngsters and the female was busy building a new nest. The male was busy posturing and keeping watch over his territory.
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Happy New Year to All. A One Horned Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) was grazing peacefully under a warm afternoon sunshine in a backlight condition. But the posture of the giant with erected horn and chewing mouth made it stand out with the delightful backdrop. I was hiding beside a bush and thankfully to the poor vision of the rhino I managed some of the unique frames of a lifetime. Pics was taken from Manas National Park, Assam, India.
Catching up with grizzly (brown bear) "Sadie" @ The Minnesota Zoo.. Dakota County, MN. While she partakes of some pleasant spring weather.
Visitors: Invited to peruse my photostream & albums for various seasonal pix of wildlife/scenics/florals.
Les pélicans consomment presque exclusivement du poisson. Le pélican d’Amérique consomme à l’occasion des salamandres et des écrevisses, alors que le pélican à lunettes prend quelques crustacés. Les tout jeunes poussins sont alimentés avec un liquide régurgité, une sorte de “soupe de poissons”. Dès l’âge de deux semaines, ils sont nourris de poissons régurgités. Peu avant leur envol, les jeunes deviennent souvent plus trapus et plus lourds que leurs parents.
Les pélicans ont l’habitude de pêcher en groupe, un cas très rare de prédation coordonnée parmi les oiseaux. Ils se rassemblent pour former un demi-cercle à la surface de l’eau, et repoussent devant eux les poissons vers les eaux peu profondes du bord. Tout en avançant, ils écartent les ailes et plongent simultanément le bec dans l’eau pour capturer les poissons. Parfois, ils nagent avec les becs immergés tout le temps. Comme leurs becs ont une sensibilité tactile, ils peuvent détecter leurs proies sans les voir. Une autre variante, généralement employée sur les cours d’eau, consiste à former deux rangées parallèles qui nagent l’une vers l’autre. Le poisson n’est presque jamais transporté dans la poche, mais avalé dès sa capture.
En Europe occidentale, le pélican était au Moyen Âge un symbole de piété pour l'Église chrétienne : on croyait qu'il perçait sa propre chair et nourrissait ses petits de son sang. Une autre version évoque un pélican qui aurait tué ses petits, puis, au bout de trois jours, se serait percé la poitrine de son bec, et les aurait ainsi ramenés à la vie. Ces erreurs proviennent probablement d'observations superficielles. Il n'en reste pas moins que, dans l'iconographie et la symbolique chrétienne occidentale, le pélican symbolise le sacrifice du Christ, qui verse son sang pour le salut du genre humain, et la charité.
The pelican (Henet in Egyptian) was associated in Ancient Egypt with death and the afterlife. It was depicted in art on the walls of tombs, and figured in funerary texts, as a protective symbol against snakes. Henet was also referred to in the Pyramid Texts as the "mother of the king" and thus seen as a goddess. References in non-royal funerary papyri show that the pelican was believed to possess the ability to prophesy safe passage in the underworld for someone who had died.[99]
An origin myth from the Murri people of Queensland, cited by Andrew Lang, describes how the Australian pelican acquired its black and white plumage. The pelican, formerly a black bird, made a canoe during a flood in order to save drowning people. He fell in love with a woman he thus saved, but she and her friends tricked him and escaped. The pelican consequently prepared to go to war against them by daubing himself with white clay as war paint. However, before he had finished, another pelican, on seeing such a strange piebald creature, killed him with its beak, and all such pelicans have been black and white ever since. source wikipédia
The grackles, along with the starlings, have taken over the bird feeders in my garden ! Aside from being boisterous, they have been monopolizing the feeders and gobbling the seed. I am changing seed now from a combination of sunflower and peanut chips which they---and most of the other birds that visit love !----to safflower seed which is less appealing. I hope to discourage them and expect that they will leave and fly away to greener pastures for the balance of the season..... Once they do, I will go back to the original seed mixture....
L'aigrette profite de l'ombre de ses ailes pour attirer ou mieux débusquer les poissons et crevettes qui fuient ses pattes.
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Street photography from Glasgow, Scotland.
Previously unpublished archive shot and a great example of the simple fact that some people are more relaxed and easily flattered than others. Enjoy!
Green Heron (adult) - Florida Wetlands - 9/5/20
In The Wild - Palm Beach County, Florida USA
*[left-double-click for a closer-look - going out on-a-limb]
*[The Green Heron is relatively small; adult body length is about 17 inches. The neck is often pulled in tight against the body. Adults have a glossy, greenish-black cap, a greenish back and wings that are grey-black grading into green or blue, a chestnut neck with a white line down the front, grey underparts and short yellow legs. The bill is dark with a long, sharp point. - Thanks for looking]
[FYI: They are called "green" herons because of
the green color on their wings (see image below)]
Un ptérosaure qui risque fort de finir dans l'estomac du Dakosaure
Dakosaurus maximus : son nom signifie " le plus grand lézard mordeur", un redoutable prédateur des mers du Jurassique : 4-5 mètres de long pour un poids entre 500 kg et une tonne.
Festival "Jurassique en voie d'Illumination"
Jardin des Plantes Paris (MNHN)
Rainbow lorikeet, our famous colourful Australian parrots......enjoying the bottlebrush flowers, very early one morning. Their posturing and antics can be very funny at times.
30 cm length.
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On Day 1 of hatch watch the female rose from her incubation posture, gently turned an egg, and sat back down. No crack or air hole visible; day 25/26 since laid
That gas station, you know, the one in that big empty stretch between Beatty and Goldfield, Nevada. Late at night, lit with red flashlight under the full moon.
Here is a great eggfly (Hypolimnas bolina), in some places known as the blue moon butterfly because of the markings on the other side of the wings.
In case you want to know where the "eggfly" name has its origin, have a look here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/53347135973/
Photo taken on an early April visit to the Haga Ocean butterfly house in Solna, Sweden in 2023.
"Was it leaning or a posture
of inconfidence and shyness
that made standing tilted?"
"Was het leunen of gebrek aan vertrouwen
en van verlegenheid
dat voor een schuine houding tekende?"
(mixed media DM, 2024, 18 x 14 cm)
I shot this frame last winter on Kodak Tri-X with a Chinon camera that I had saved from getting crushed into pieces in a waste skip.
The camera worked excellently and a lens it had on it wasn’t a bad performer either.
Taken with:
Chinon CX
Auto Chinon 55mm f/1.7
Kodak Tri-X 400
Scanned with:
Canon EOS 6D
Leica APO-Macro-Elmarit-R 100mm f/2.8
An ongoing attempt at capturing my alchemical nymph's ever-changing faces, postures, and gestures. Been together in millions of places, and we've got an eternity of galaxies to travel to yet. This is only the beginning. From a technical perspective, this is the first set I will be posting since 2011 or so where all pictures are untouched - this is intentional and I hope visitors will perceive why.