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Continuing from the last two shots, this is the third when it probed a different spot with its beak
In der Reihe der letzten Bilder ist dies das dritte, in dem der Sandregenpfeifer an einer anderen Stelle weitersucht und mit dem Schnabel herumstochert
Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge
California
This Marbled Godwit was probing the muddy bottom with its left leg. That's one of it methods for finding clams, shrimp, and other prey.
Tiny Snowberry Clearwing Moth taking nectar from a wild Giant Ironweed flower while in flight during a stiff breeze.
Common and abundant.
Chinese Peacock | Papilio bianor | Papilionidae
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Kunming | Yunnan Province | China
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A ruddy turnstone (arenaria interpres) probing stones and dead pieces of coral for something to eat. Photographed near Belle Mare, Mauritius.
A common spoonbill (platalea leucorodia) probing and sifting through the shallows of a waterhole with sweeping movements of its broad bill. These birds have a varied diet of aquatic insects, mollusks, newts, crustaceans, worms, leeches, frogs, tadpoles and small fish. Photographed in Yala National Park, Sri Lanka.
Brown Creeper probing the bark of a tree in my yard in Chester County, PA, for tiny morsels of food.
These little birds are very difficult to photograph, not only are they exceptionally well camouflaged, but they also never stop moving.
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I took this earlier this summer when we were visiting the California Coast near Bodega Bay. Here we see a selfie of me playing with my new super-duper powerful LED Nitecore flashlight under the gorgeous Milky Way and light pollution of San Francisco.
Image Notes: Image is a composite, one frame for everything but the ocean detail which was light-painted in a separate shot by the same Nitecore flashlight on a lower setting with a diffuser in use.
The Hadeda ibis (Bostrychia hagedash) uses a feeding strategy known as probe foraging, inserting its long, curved bill into soft substrates to search for underground prey such as earthworms and insects. This behavior is supported by a specialized sensory adaptation called remote-touch.
At the tip of the bill lies the bill-tip organ, containing tens of thousands of sensory pits embedded in the bone. This structure enables the detection of minute vibrations produced by moving prey, allowing the bird to locate hidden organisms without visual cues.
Experimental studies have shown that the effectiveness of remote-touch is strongly influenced by soil moisture. In wet soils, vibrations transmit more efficiently, significantly increasing prey detection rates. In contrast, dry conditions reduce this ability, forcing the ibis to rely on random probing.
• Hadada / Hadeda ibis
• Ibis hadada
Scientific classification:
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Pelecaniformes
Family:Threskiornithidae
Genus:Bostrychia
Species:B. hagedash
Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden, Cape Town, South Africa
Was interesting watching this bishop's mitre probing his rostrum, I guess to try to find the juiciest seeds!!
Upton Magna - Shropshire
Black and white Warblers, such as this one, make their living by probing bark and moss for insects. These birds "have an extra-long hind claw and heavier legs than other wood-warblers, which help them hold onto and move around on bark," according to AllAboutBirds.org. This one was photographed at Chicago's Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary. And yes, it was upside down when the shot was taken.
A ruddy turnstone (arenaria interpres) probing a sandy area near a beach in Trou D'Eau Douce, Mauritius.
With an expansive migratory range, the wandering tattler lives up to its name. ‘Ūlili, the Hawaiian name, resembles the wandering tattler’s alarm call. On tropical islands it prefers probing crevices and crannies on intertidal shorelines and exposed reefs for invertebrates, often dodging breaking waves. ‘Ūlili were considered messengers and scouts of the gods.
A magnificent navigator, the tattler annually migrates from Alaska and Canada to tropical Pacific islands on a high endurance non-stop flight of 3 to 4 days over thousands of miles of featureless open ocean. Using the stars and the earth’s magnetic field (perhaps visually with quantum entanglement) to find its way. Tringa incana, non-breeding plumage.
A black-winged stilt (himantopus himantopus) probing the mud and vegetation for food. Photographed on the island of Langkawi, in Malaysia.
A painted stork (mycteria leucocephala) probing the muddy waters of a small waterhole for food. Photographed in Yala, Sri Lanka.
A hunakai actively probes the wave washed sand for small crustaceans and other sand burrowers. It stays in constant motion chasing each wave as it recedes. Sanderling. Calidris alba.
"La nostra immaginazione ingrandisce così tanto il tempo presente, che facciamo dell’eternità un niente, e del niente un’eternità." Blaise Pascal
E, aggiungo io, chi non sa gioire dell'attimo presente, sprecherebbe anche l'eternità.
In questa foto, di archivio: Grand Canyon, Arizona. La luce radente del mattino illumina strutture millenarie che, come pagine di un libro, narrano la storia del pianeta.
Buona domenica, cogliete l'attimo :)
Probing for nectar, a mejiro spreads pollen between the shandilay blossoms. Mejiro, Japanese white-eye, Zosterops japonicus. Klip dagga, Leonotis nepetifolia.
A green sandpiper (tringa ochropus) moving slowly through shallow water and probing for food in the margins of a lake in Tangalle, Sri Lanka. More at "Colin Pacitti Wildlife Photography & Fishing Travels" - www.colin-pacitti.com.
Austin, TX...July 19, 2008
another bit of digital "cross-processing" with some cropping as well to suit to taste...
didn't adjust the levels fully to match the histogram but boosted saturation back to 100 and sharpened as well...experimentation while the hot summer continues here...
organ player (and his wife?) rehearsing at St. Stephen's Church, Mainz
Ein Orgelspieler (und seine Frau / Begleitung) probt auf der Klais Orgel in St. Stephan, Mainz. Ich gehe davon aus, dass es sich um Christoph Keggenhoff (Speyer) handelt, der am Donnerstag (06. August 2015) um 19:30h ein Konzert auf dieser Orgel spielt. Der Eintritt dazu ist frei:
www.bistummainz.de/pfarreien/dekanat-mainz-stadt/st_steph...
A kōlea probes the damp soil for earthworms. A Pacific golden plover patrols the Oahu shoreline and reestablishes his territory after a five-month summer breeding season in arctic Alaska. With his seasonal mating plumage fading this shorebird looks for food to replenish his body fat. The return trip traversed approximately 3,000 miles of open ocean requiring an exhaustive 3 to 4 days and nights of nonstop flight. Incredibly, some kōlea will continue their marathon semiannual migration to oceanic islands of the southern Pacific resulting in an annual round trip total of about 15,000 miles. Their fledglings set off from the tundra searching for an island and a suitable territory a month or two after the adults have departed. Many fledgling birds probably miss landfall and perish at sea. Survivors are superb navigators with territorial fidelity, using the stars and the earth’s magnetic field to find their way over the featureless ocean to the same small patch of land every year. Like most transoceanic migratory birds, they may use the earth’s magnetic field visually with the magnetoreception molecules of cryptochrome in their retina.
Just below the summit of Legges Tor, which rises above the central plateau of Ben Lomond, we come across some interesting equipment. The ski lift is obvious enough, but my title reflects a little confusion as to the origins of the solar panel on the right.
My first thought was a weather station, but that seems unlikely since we lack the means of measuring rainfall and wind speed (there's no anemometer). Is it an alien probe? My guess is that it in fact measures seismic activity and relays this information electronically.
Interestingly enough, this is the only place on the entire mountain that has mobile phone reception. So one would think that our phones can tap into whatever signal is being emitted from this "probe". Any suggestions warmly welcomed.
Black crowned Night Heron
"A heron can use a Probing
technique by quickly and repeatedly moving its bill into and out of the water or
substrate, in a method more typical of ibises. Probing is a non-visual, tactile foraging
technique. A more common behavior is Pecking. The heron merely picks up an item
from the substrate, often repeating the movement. The substrate may be the ground, a
plant, or surface of the water. A specialized method is Scooping used by the Boat Billed
Heron. By Scooping, the individual walks forward with its bill partially submerged,
thrusting forward and Scooping with each step.
Prey are caught in the bill either by Impale Capture or Grasp Capture. Impaling
means the bill tip goes into or through the prey. This occurs mostly on large and wide
prey, and mostly by herons with bills large enough to withstand the stress of impaling
and landing a larger prey item. Grasping is the more common capture method in which
prey are caught in a tweezers grip."
from heronconservation.org
From the archives... One year ago.
Or what a probe on a shoestring budget (broken lander leg) might see upon landing at the Michigan City Lighthouse. The near object is a massive block of ice which has formed over a small concrete pillar. The frozen, Southern tip of Lake Michigan is between the frozen pillar and the sky beyond.
Whether the probe landed here, or at the U.S. Capitol Building, the conclusion might be the same: no life here (no offense to those living camera left...the probe was just pointed the wrong way here).
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