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Photogenic Mink photographed at British Wildlife Centre. He always does his best to give me his good side!!
A few wee facts about this voracious hunter. Minks are well adapted to swimming and prefer watery habitats, while weasels tend to avoid the water and prefer grassy habitats.
Beach goers find a spot in the low tide surf to sit and watch the sun sink below the ocean's horizon. They are joined by shorebirds wading and hunting in the surf.
Grey Wagtail - Motacilla cinerea
The species is always associated with running water when breeding, although they may use man-made structures near streams for the nest. Outside the breeding season, they may also be seen around lakes, coasts and other watery habitats. Like other wagtails, they frequently wag their tail and fly low with undulations and they have a sharp call that is often given in flight.
This slim wagtail has a narrow white supercilium and a broken eye ring. The upperparts are grey and the yellow vent contrasting with whitish underparts makes it distinctive. The breeding male has a black throat that is edged by whitish moustachial stripes. They forage singly or in pairs on meadows or on shallow water marshes. They also use rocks in water and will often perch on trees. They have a clear sharp call note and the song consists of trills.
The breeding season is April to July and the nest is placed near fast running streams or rivers on an embankment between stones and roots. The male in display, makes short flights up into the air and descends slowly with fluttering flight accompanied by a rapid series of chipping high notes. In Europe the nests are often made in holes in manmade structures. The clutch consists of 3–6 speckled eggs and multiple broods may be raised with declining numbers in the clutch in subsequent broods. The usual clutch size is five in Ireland and the breeding success is about 80% with predation of eggs or chicks being the main cause of breeding failure. The Canary Islands population typically have smaller clutches and the breeding season is not as short and well marked as in populations at higher latitudes. The incubation period is about two weeks with chicks fledging within a fortnight. They live for a maximum of 8 years in the wild.
In some parts of the its range the white-throated dipper nests in the same habitats as the grey wagtail and there are some records of interspecific feeding of dipper chicks by adult wagtails.
Population:
UK breeding:
38,000 pairs
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created for The Award Tree Group Challenge 177.0 "Water Work" November 2018.
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Must be quite a "thrill" to land and take off from water!!
Victoria Harbour, Vancouver Island, Canada
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A whimbrel strolls into a tidal pool to forage for some food.
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A similar view to that I posted yesterday, but with a narrower aperture giving a wider depth of field. The droplet at the top reflects another daisy in its depths. Again, zooming in, the droplets magnify the textures of the petals.
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Large on Black
i know.. nothing....
Fawlty Towers..
what did you expect...herds of Wildebeest roaming the Serengeti.
Well there are two beasts of a kind...
44871 & 45407 on a Bury ( East Lancs Railway )-St Philips Marsh move....
messing about with a Fountain, some lights, and my exposure...I thought it looked pretty, like fireworks :)
Morning light on a ruined pier, Boca Grande, Florida
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After running around their train, the PO75 heads west through Point of Gap with a C636, M636, and M630 trio.
A Long-tailed drake shortly after surfacing from a dive in the ocean wash. I spent quite a bit of time photographing the Long-tails and other Sea Ducks at a local New Jersey beach. The ducks were in close, coming right up to the shoreline, and it made for a great photographic opportunity. Get ready for a run of sea duck images over the course of the next week. If you want to get wet, view image large for a watery experience! :D
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Beside Humphrey Head.
Humphrey Head is a limestone outcrop situated south of the village of Allithwaite in Cumbria, England. It is whale-back-shaped and accessible for walkers, giving views over Morecambe Bay to Lancaster, Morecambe, Heysham and over the Leven estuary to Ulverston. There is an Ordnance Survey trig point at the top.
Since 1906 it has been the home of Humphrey Head Outdoor Centre, currently operated by Mere Mountains. Most of the Head is a nature reserve, managed by Cumbria Wildlife Trust since 1992 although still owned by the Holker Estate. On the eastern flank is a wood with permitted rights of way. It used to be possible to walk to the end of the outcrop by walking on the sands to the west of Humphrey Head, but changes in the sands have rendered this difficult (although still possible in wellies) (2011). To the east of Humphrey Head is a marsh which forms part of Kents Bank.
Humphrey Head is the traditional location for the killing of the last wolf in England, in about 1390. Folklore has it that the wolf descended the fells from near Coniston where it had caused havoc among the sheep flocks. After it attacked a child in Cark the country-folk chased it to the end of Humphrey Head where it was killed with pikes while hiding among the rocks.
Tropical Pitcher Plant, Nepenthes sp. (Nepenthaceae) at Oxford Botanical Garden
"The trap contains a fluid of the plant's own production, which may be watery or more viscous, and is used to drown the prey. This fluid contains viscoelastic biopolymers that may be crucial to the retention of insects within the traps of many species. The trapping efficiency of this fluid remains high, even when significantly diluted by water, as inevitably happens in wet conditions.
The lower part of the trap contains glands which absorb nutrients from captured prey. Along the upper inside part of the trap is a slick, waxy coating which makes the escape of its prey nearly impossible. Surrounding the entrance to the trap is a structure called the peristome (the "lip"), which is slippery and often quite colorful, attracting prey, but offering an unsure footing." (Wikipedia)