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Wolf Spiders mating ritual - the male trying to impress the female with his dance moves by raising his palps in a rhythmic fashion
My latest short film 'A bite-size burglary' with new footage, natural sound effects and remastered audio. Story about a great crested grebes family that have their nest raided by a territorial coot.
The grebes there have had a very tough time of things this breeding season. As far as I can now determine, ALL the mating pairs there (at least 3 of them) eventually lost ALL their chicks to predation when at one point there were at least 7 chicks between them. One pair had a single chick and that pair have tried again laying a single egg recently that was lost and they are trying AGAIN to nest in different location that is unlikely to succeed as it is in the wide open. Another pair had 2 chicks and the pair in this film laid five eggs of which 4 hatched. One of those as mentioned did not survive long after hatching and the fate of the 5th egg is determined in this film. The surviving chicks were doing well but as the days went by there seemed to be one fewer chick and now there appears to be none :(.
On one occasion I witnessed a gull swoop down and grab a tufted duck chick swallowing it whole in a matter of seconds. It's tough out there in nature!
All shot at Longham Lakes over the last couple of months. Copyright ©Joseph Anthony
Available for licensing on request.
Even if that Marsh harrier isn't a Bittern and there's no way you can see ticks on the Night herons... LOL... Still the lizard is in the right place... I think they must have the links set up wrong on the page !!:@D
Things have been crazy here, for some time now. Aging parents, trying to make decent respectful care plans and settling for ones barely adequate, leaves everyone feeling depleted and lost. I have been struggling with a deadline for a personal goal which appears now, come hell or high water, I am likely to make tomorrow morning...., but it has lost its luster and become one more thing that must be done. On a bit of a drive today we passed this slightly surreal scene, just odd enough to make one wonder, just right enough to wish my name was on one chair. Maybe when we are lost, it is a chance to be found. Maybe somewhere a dream discarded is waiting to be picked up and carried down the road by a new burst of energy. maybe when I am slightly less tired, this will seem less wonderful, but on this day a smile and a thanks to the arranger of the chairs, who gave this view a room. If my life were a house, it might look just like this.
Although fairly common little birds here in the UK, ive spent almost a year trying too hunt some down local too me, soo when i walked towards a big reedbed and i spotted 4 females i knew lovely coloured male wouldnt be far behind!
They are fairly elusive birds spending most of there lives in thick reed beds
Inspired by BBC springwatch i went out to see how easy or as it turned out to be difficult nature photography really is.
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