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Village Weaver - Queen Elizabeth National Park, Western, Uganda
Bird Species # (510) that I photographed and placed on my Flickr Photostream. Overall goal is 1000.
On this trip to Uganda we used Ngoni Safaris Uganda. They provided excellent service. I highly recommend them.
eBird Report and listing details - macaulaylibrary.org/asset/430251121
This is the Weaver Hills in Derbyshire / Staffordshire. It's a beautiful place which is little visited. I like the curving wall on this photo and the solitary tree. One from the archives.
Textorweber sind lebhafte und lautstarke Koloniebrüter, die ihre nierenförmigen Hängenester aus Gras dicht beieinander bauen.
This weaver builds a large coarsely woven nest made of grass and leaf strips with a downward facing entrance which is suspended from a branch in a tree.
Kruger National Park.
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I noticed this spider as it hung from a web strand attached to the brim of my cap and was dangling in front of my eyes. It is not a tiny spider, about 3/4 " including legs,
I took off my cap and lowered it to a blade of grass which the spider then grabbed. The subsequent shots made my day.
Elk Island National Park, Alberta.
Weaver ants moving a dead millipede.
Wikipedia: Weaver ants or green ants (genus Oecophylla) are eusocial insects of the family Formicidae (order Hymenoptera). Weaver ants live in trees (they are obligately arboreal) and are known for their unique nest building behavior where workers construct nests by weaving together leaves using larval silk. Colonies can be extremely large consisting of more than a hundred nests spanning numerous trees and containing more than half a million workers. Like many other ant species, weaver ants prey on small insects and supplement their diet with carbohydrate-rich honeydew excreted by small insects (Hemiptera). Weaver ant workers exhibit a clear bimodal size distribution, with almost no overlap between the size of the minor and major workers. The major workers are approximately 8–10 mm (0.31–0.39 in) in length and the minors approximately half the length of the majors. Major workers forage, defend, maintain, and expand the colony whereas minor workers tend to stay within the nests where they care for the brood and 'milk' scale insects in or close to the nests.
Weaver ants vary in color from reddish to yellowish brown dependent on the species. Oecophylla smaragdina found in Australia often have bright green gasters. Weaver ants are highly territorial and workers aggressively defend their territories against intruders. Because they prey on insects harmful to their host trees, weaver ants are sometime used by indigenous farmers, particularly in southeast Asia, as natural biocontrol agents against agricultural pests. Although weaver ants lack a functional sting they can inflict painful bites and often spray formic acid directly at the bite wound resulting in intense discomfort.
Male Taveta weaver (Ploceus castaneiceps), also known as the Taveta golden weaver, is a species of bird found in the Savanna of Kenya and Tanzania. The males build extravagant nests and the females select mates based on the quality of nest construction. Seen in the Africa Rocks Aviary, San Diego Zoo. Conservation status: Least Concern
The wild and rugged Superstition Mountain Wilderness east of Phoenix, Arizona, will thrill any visitor with its landscape of legends, of sweeping desert mountains, of lost gold mines and of Apache Indian hideaways. In the middle of this wilderness a huge rock monolith rises up out of the desert, the awesome Weavers Needle.
Southern Masked Weaver.
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Resting late evening in a hillside meadow in the Parque Natural de Cebollera in Northern Spain (5032).
What big eyes you have! A face to face encounter in the long grass on a damp, grey evening in a hillside meadow in the Sierra de Cebollera in Northern Spain in July (5068).
Arlington Row in Bibury, Cotswolds. 13th century buildings used as a monastic wool store before being converted in the 17th century into weaver's cottages. Wiltshire, England. Hasselblad X2D.
The hunting technique varies depending on the spider and its prey. Sometimes the spider waits in the center of the web, sometimes it sits at the edge of its burrow, with one or two legs attached to the silken thread. Once prey gets caught in the web and causes sufficient vibrations, the spider rushes towards it. Sometimes the spider goes straight for it, or shakes the web back and forth several times, often further entangling the prey, allowing it to be precisely located and identified. If prey doesn't move, the spider may lose interest; dead prey is generally ignored by spiders.
Small prey is immediately seized and often devoured straight away.
Slightly larger prey is grabbed and quickly spun; by rolling the prey in the web, a package is created that hangs from both ends of the web.
Even larger or more dangerous-looking prey is approached cautiously; the spider will first attempt to cover the prey with sticky threads from a distance using its hind legs. If the prey appears too dangerous, the spider will "free" it by biting through the threads.
The prey is eaten either on the spot, in the center of the web, or in the burrow, leaving a hole in the web. Orb-weavers "chew" their food, unlike most other spiders that suck their prey dry.
Some orb-weaver spiders that can be found in the Netherlands and Belgium: cross spider , wasp spider (or tiger spider), and the four-spot orb-weaver spider .
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Baglafecht Weaver - Rushaga Gorilla Lodge, Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, Western, Uganda
Bird Species # (642) that I photographed and placed on my Flickr Photostream. Overall goal is 1000.
On this trip to Uganda we used Ngoni Safaris Uganda. They provided excellent service. I highly recommend them.
eBird Report and listing details - macaulaylibrary.org/asset/441147551
Verrucosa arenata. With some kind of prey. Like many other orb weavers, these tiny spiders build very large round webs, commonly in trees. Seen in the park this morning.
Taveta Golden Weaver (Ploceus castaneiceps) aka Taveta weaver found on the African Savannah in Kenya and Tanzania. The male weaver build the nests and the females choose their mates based on how impressed they are with the construction.
Seen the Africa Rocks Aviary, San Diego Zoo.
Conservation status: least concern
The Taveta weaver, also known as the Taveta golden weaver, is a species of bird in the weaver family, Ploceidae. It is found on the African savannah in Kenya and Tanzania. The name of the bird comes from the unique markings/coloration of the bird, as well as how these birds weave intricate nests.
Cape Weaver, Skukuza, Kruger National Park, South Africa
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So you thought I was done with the Spiders? Ha! No chance. Temporarily I was without them as the usual locations are missing said Spiders due mostly to the change in the weather; but completely by accident I found another location against a different backdrop, these are much harder to photograph as there is no back light, just the night time black of the canal behind the metal railings where these little ones are living, so focus is a challenge even with the assistance of the Focus Illuminator.
Still, I have taken hundreds of new photos and many I will continue to post up here, this Orb Weaver was navigating between two rusted metal bars, against the street lights behind it, gave a really Urban Midnight feel, hope you enjoy!
Here's to another weekend, I hope everyone has a great one and so as always, thank you! :)
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Taken Addo Elephant National Park, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
Addo Elephant National Park is a diverse wildlife conservation park situated close to Port Elizabeth in South Africa and is one of the country's 20 national parks. It currently ranks third in size after Kruger National Park and the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park. I spent four consecutive days within the park which provided an amazing variety of wildlife.
Black-headed Weaver - Papyrus swamp south of Nyeihango, Western, Uganda
Bird Species (# 609) that I photographed and placed on my Flickr Photostream. Overall goal is 1000.
eBird Report and listing details - macaulaylibrary.org/asset/430249201
Roosting on a damp evening in a hillside meadow in the Parque Natural de Cebollera in Northern Spain (5023)
A red/orange Orb Weaver Spider. They are big spiders and scary looking. But they and the webs they weave are beautiful. Perfect for Halloween.
Wild South Africa
Phalaborwa
Limpopo Province
This male weaver is taking a short brake from building his mate's dream nest.
Full frame - nice enlarged
A Taveta golden weaver (Ploceus castaneiceps) in an aviary at the Reid Park Zoo in Tucson, Arizona. In nature, this species is found in the savannahs of Kenya and Tanzania.
A small finch-like weaver which is near-endemic to southern Africa, Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, South Africa
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