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One was not eating and the other really did not want it but for form sake and the juvenile further upstream they have to look like they are going to battle for the salmon.
美術館の周辺は美しい公園になっています。そんな中を歩く姿勢の良いご婦人を発見。
The area around the museum is a beautiful park. I found a woman with a good posture walking in the park.
A pair of dancing Eared Grebes (Podiceps nigricollis) roils up the water as they reach the peak of their courtship dance. They stay erect and more or less in place by paddling with their feet as they posture towards one another. Image taken on a North Park, Colorado pond.
With fading light, I was able to capture one of these beauties sitting upright and still. With next week off, I will try for better light and background detail.
It’s been said that hummingbirds weigh less than a penny! At 3-4 grams, this ruby-throated hummingbird is the only species to visit this part of Ontario.
The ruby-throated hummingbird is a species of hummingbird that generally spends the winter in Central America, Mexico, and Florida, and migrates to Eastern North America for the summer to breed. It is by far the most common hummingbird seen east of the Mississippi River in North America.
Another view of the posturing Male Flickers at Bombay Hook NWR in Delaware.
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Northern Rough-winged Swallow (Stelgidopteryx serripennis) Community Garden, Kelowna Rec Field, Kelowna, BC.
I really enjoy seeing these admittedly plainest of swallows in the garden area. As the next five shots show, they love to visit with people....
This was taken in very bad light today but this was the first time I've been able to get a shot of this behaviour. Obviously things are hotting up on the territorial front already and two pairs of moorhens came into contact. There was a great deal of while tail displaying and they were angling their tails at the opposition to make them more obvious. There wasn't much calling so it was a relatively silent affair compared to a coot impasse.
"Odissi is traditionally a dance-drama genre of performance art, where the artist(s) and musicians play out a mythical story, a spiritual message or devotional poem from the Hindu texts, using symbolic costumes, body movement, abhinaya (expressions) and mudras (gestures and sign language) set out in ancient Sanskrit literature. Odissi is learnt and performed as a composite of basic dance motif called the Bhangas (symmetric body bends, stance). It involves lower (footwork), mid (torso) and upper (hand and head) as three sources of perfecting expression and audience engagement with geometric symmetry and rhythmic musical resonance.["
Photographed at Christchurch Botanic Gardens, in Christchurch, New Zealand, lying on the ground, no cover
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This is one of the 9 ducklings which were being watched over by their very attentive mother. Prior to taking to the water they were all resting next to mom but headed for the water shortly afterwards. After 10 minutes in the water, they all got back out on the grass and, as a group, walked along looking for tasty treats(bugs) in the lawn.
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From Wikipedia: The paradise shelduck (Tadorna variegata), also known as the paradise duck, or pūtangitangi in Māori, is a species of shelduck, a group of goose-like ducks, which is endemic to New Zealand. Johann Friedrich Gmelin placed it in the genus Anas with the ducks, geese and swans. Both the male and female have striking plumage: the male has a black head and barred black body, the female a white head with a chestnut body.
Paradise shelducks mate for life and usually live as pairs, and moult their feathers from December to February. They are primarily herbivorous, and mostly graze on pasture grasses and clover, but have been observed eating a wide range of invertebrates. They are seasonally hunted as a game bird throughout New Zealand, and today the IUCN Red List classifies them as a species of least concern.
Description:
The paradise shelduck is a colourful, large bodied species of duck that differs in features depending on the sex. Both females and males have chestnut-colour undertails, primarily black wing feathers with green secondary wing feathers, and upper wing surface feathers that are white. They have black legs and webbed feet for swimming.
The adult male has blue-black head and neck, with a black rump and tail; back and flank are lightly flecked with a pale yellow colour. The wing of males have contrasting white upper-coverts and black remiges, metallic green speculum feathers, and rusty brown tertials feathers. The male also has a dark grey flecked with pale-yellow breast and abdomen, chestnut undertail and underwing, and black iris, bill, legs, and feet. The female, unlike the male, has an entirely white hand head and neck with a dark grey back heavily flecked with pale yellow. The rest is very similar to the male with the female's body being dark or light chestnut depending on age and stage of molting.
The downy young are white with a brown crown and brown stripes from crown to tail. Juvenile males look much like the adult males, but the females are smaller with a white patch at the base of the bill. The females assume their white head during the first molt and 1–2 months after fledging their breast and abdomen turn dark chestnut.
Behaviour and ecology:
The male adopts a threat posture by dropping its head low with bill horizontal to the ground. If a female notices a threat on the water she responds by stretching out the neck and body while swimming towards the threat swinging her body back and forth, and making a high pitched call. On land she will lower her head and charge. Males will respond to the females by charging with her or taking on "high and erect" posture. In this posture the male will stretch its neck and head upwards and forwards, raise its feathers on the lower neck, call rapidly, and pivot between facing the threat and the female. When a predator threatens an adult pair with young, the parents will adopt the "broken wing display". The pair will run away from the young in a crouched position, raising and lowering its half-opened wings to distract the predator. Once the predator follows the pair away from the young, one of the adults will return to them.
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I took this sequence (7 shots) of a dispute between a kite and a cocky the other day. The cockatoo started the confrontation but the kite saw it off. Posted in reverse order.
Black-shouldered Kite and Sulphur-crested Cockatoo, A.C.T.
[Legacy Photo] A Black-necked Stilt feeds in a marshy area in Central Washington State near Othello. Spring of 2014.
Misty hues, at Kohler-Andrae State Park, blanket a tranquil landscape at dawn, creating a serene scene with soft lighting. Gentle rolling hills covered with grass are dotted with a few trees and a single crane stands atop a distant hill, adding life to the serene.
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Over the past number of years I have been very fortunate to spend time photographing the bighorn sheep during their fall rut in November and December in Colorado. Here is a large collection of some of those images. The cameras used were the Nikon D810, Nikon D850, and Nikon Z9. The lenses ranged from a 70-200, 100-400, 180-600, and 500mm. I am always at a respectful and safe distance when photographing these incredible wild animals.