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Got it! This behavior lasted for about 0.2 seconds, I'd say. Have been trying to capture this over the past weeks, and this happened at the end of a hummer photo session in which I was hoping for Calliope or other "special" hummers. No special hummers - but this guy's special statement made it worthwhile. They aim at the sun to get the maximum reflectance, apparently, and his bill shadow shows that nicely.
North Peak, Cuyamaca Mountains, California.
May 3, 2021
Paris - Rue de Rivoli
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This is the heron that I showed a few days ago with the fish jumping clear of a strike. This Great Blue worked the area for a while, catching a fish, then dropping it. I wondered if it was sport fishing, then it did this: gathered up three together, and proceeded to eat them! I'd never seen this behavior before! See below for a close-up of the catch (first comment).
La Ceja, Colombia; 2.300 meters above sea level.
Hypopyrrhus pyrohypogaster
(Red-bellied grackle / Cacique candela)
He is singing "this is our territory". On certain occasions the Red- bellied grackles inflate the belly and while looking towards the sky they emit a strong and very long whistle. They always go in a group and this behavior is typical of the leaders or guardians (a male and female in this case) to send the message to other birds that they are very strong and that no one should interfere with any member of the group.
I was watching the belted kingfisher at the lake recently, when I saw three together in this tree. The male had recently arrived at the tree with the fish, when the female landed on his back, and took the fish away from him. He flew off, and she then fed the fish to the young kingfisher, lower on this branch. I'll post her feeding the youngster tomorrow. Stay tuned!
Street Scene ~ Samphanthawong District ~ Bangkok, Thailand
Nikon D7500, Sigma 18-300, ISO 400, f/5.6, 38mm, 1/250s
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An ounce of behavior is worth a kilo of words.
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On CC (right):
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Hair - Doux Nashaly
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The puppy again drove Vaska to the top of the gate into the garden. Vaska is outraged by his behavior.
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Observing animal behavior is so interesting to me. I noticed these three amigos staring intently at something and I decided to pull over to investigate. Once out of the jeep I discovered their interest it was a snapping turtle crossing the green space. They followed it down the culvert and continued keeping their eyes on it until it got to the opposite side of the expanse.
The scarlet dragonfly has a one-year life cycle and overwinters as an egg. The eggs hatch in the spring, after which the larvae develop rapidly. The larvae are hunters and live among aquatic plants on a muddy bottom, feeding on small invertebrates such as mosquito larvae. Emergence takes place from early June to late September, with a peak from late July to early September. Young animals can be found in the wide vicinity of the breeding water, sitting and hunting for small insects in dense vegetation. Sexually mature males fly near the water and regularly perch on protruding stems in the bank vegetation. They scout for females for mating. Males that come too close are usually chased away. The eggs are deposited in the water or on mud close to the water while flying in a tandem position through bobbing movements of the underside. Sometimes multiple egg-laying tandems are observed at the same location simultaneously.
Cascade Mountains - Jackson County - Oregon - USA
Habitat : Open Woodlands
Food : Insects
Nesting : Shrub
Behavior : Ground Forager
Conservation : Low Concern
"Like many other songbirds, the male Song Sparrow uses its song to attract mates as well as defend its territory. Laboratory studies have shown that the female Song Sparrow is attracted not just to the song itself, but to how well it reflects the ability of the male to learn. Males that used more learned components in their songs and that better matched their song tutors (the adult bird they learned their songs from) were preferred."
- Cornell University Lab of Ornithology
Among the dragonflies, there are three common species that are frequently seen now. All three have brownish females. The males also start out brownish, but quickly turn red. They have confusing names: blood-red, brown-red, and stone-red dragonflies. This suggests you could identify them by their color, but that's not the case. Another complaint about the name: dragonflies fly throughout the country and are not at all restricted to heathland. To identify them, there are a few characteristics to look for. The blood-red dragonfly has black legs and can be identified by these. The brown-red and stone-red dragonflies have brownish or yellowish stripes across their legs. To distinguish between the two, the whiskers are important. The whiskers are black and are located directly below the eyes. In the stone-red dragonfly, it is a drooping whisker that extends downward on either side of the snout. In the brown-red dragonfly, the black is only above the snout.
Mating Behavior
Once mature, a male dragonfly or damselfly establishes a territory from which he chases other males. When on territory, he produces packets of sperm called spermatophores at the tip of his abdomen (tenth segment), reaches the tip forward and places the spermatophores in a depression on the lower surface of the second abdominal segment.
With his sperm receptacle filled, the male flies out and grasps a female's head with his clasping genitalia at the abdominal tip. Each species' male genitalia fit the head of only the female of that species. (Slaty Skimmer Clamped in Tandem.) In some dragonflies and damselflies, the shape of the male genitalia is the most constant and accurate identifier of the insect's species.
Once the male has grasped a female, they fly in tandem for some time (Swamp Spreadwing in Tandem). The male usually flies while the female rests. Rarely, the female will fly while the male rests. It is unusual for both odonates to be flying at the same time.After some time, the female reaches the tip of her abdomen below her body and grasps the male's second segment to pick up the spermatophores he placed there. During this process, called the wheel formation, the two dragonflies take on a circular or heart-shaped pose. The two may stay in the wheel formation for upwards of fifteen minutes before the female releases and returns to the tandem position. (Eastern Forktails in Wheel Formation image.)
Egg Laying
Once the wheel is broken, the female may leave the male, separate from him as he remains close to her, or they may stay together in tandem as she goes about laying eggs (oviposition). Oviposition may take many forms:
There were a couple dozen Pied-billed grebes in this pool in a lazy lowland stream, defying the general description of them as eschewing congregation.
There was a great deal of standing up and fluttering of the wings going on, but more interesting was that periodically, one or two, staging usually in an alcove on the back edge of the pool, would head out in a spirited and splashy running-on-the-water display.
None of this carrying on corresponds to descriptions of their courtship (minuet-like, not like this) or their behaviors otherwise that I can find. Perhaps this was a setting up of the pecking order for the pre-season polls.
Educated comment is most welcome. Whatever was going on, my inclination is that this was somehow celebratory, and enjoyed by all.
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I been on my worst behavior
But baby, I don't need no savior
I'm way outta line
But I kind of like the way I
Feel when I just don't give a fuck
Oh, I forgot to mention
I'll be there in five
The Great Horned Owl – large, powerful, and long-lived – is adapted by its anatomy, physiology, and behavior to survive in any climate but arctic-alpine regions. Equally at home in desert, grassland, suburban, and forest habitats, north to the tree line, it has a diverse prey base and the most extensive range with the most variation in nesting sites of any American owl. This one was at Macuquinho Lodge and was a real treat to see it during the day!
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Deciding to walk closer to Soda Lake yesterday to get a low photo with the hills in the background was an excellent decision. For a long time now I've wanted to witness American Avocets breeding. I've seen photos and video of what others have captured. I got to witness that yesterday. I was watching these two as they called and flew in pretty close to me. One kept it's head down for a long time (I thought it was just eating) so after checking my image real quickly and seeing that it wasn't eating but just hovering its bill above the water made me stop and think back to other images I'd seen. I quickly got low again and watched. It was over in an instant, but what an elegant behavior to observe. All I could say softly to myself was, "wow, wow, wow."
An Azure-winged Magpie raises its vibrant blue tail, a likely sign of excitement, while gathering near an almost hidden pool. Captured from a low angle, this characteristic pose reflects the bird's social behavior
J’ai été intriguée par le comportement de ce jeune homme qui sautillait très vite, d’avant en arrière, tout près du bord de la rivière. Un regret : j’avais un rendez-vous et je n’ai pas pu lui demander de m'expliquer pourquoi il faisait cela.
I was intrigued by the behavior of this young man, who was hopping very quickly back and forth, right near the edge of the river. One regret: I had an appointment and couldn’t ask him to explain why he was doing that.
Hope you are in for some more landscapes? I don’t photograph animals intentionally at all but this wintry scene from a horse farm in DeKalb county was hard to resist. I felt that we made a connection right her :) What do you think?
An immature red-tailed-hawk with an awkwardly positioned foot, starting to look down.
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South Staffordshire Railway Walk (Himley)
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The Great Tit (Parus major) is a widespread, common, and adaptable songbird known for its bright plumage, distinctive calls, and bold behavior in gardens, parks, and woodlands across Europe, Asia, and North Africa.
Identification
Great tits are the largest members of the tit family in their range and are easily recognizable.
Plumage:
They have a striking glossy black head and bib, prominent white cheeks, an olive-green back, and yellow underparts with a bold black stripe running down the center of the breast and belly.
Sexual Dimorphism:
Males have a broader and more prominent black stripe down the belly than females, a feature used by females to assess a mate's quality.
Juveniles:
Young birds have a similar pattern to adults but with duller, more subdued colors and yellowish-white cheeks.
Habitat and Behavior:
Originally woodland birds, great tits have successfully adapted to human-modified environments like parks, gardens, and urban areas. They are common garden visitors and readily use garden nest boxes.
Vocalization:
They have a large and varied repertoire of calls, the most familiar being a high-pitched, two-syllable "teacher-teacher" or "tsee-dee" song, often heard in the spring.
Diet:
They are opportunistic omnivores. In spring and summer, their diet primarily consists of protein-rich insects and spiders, especially caterpillars for their young. In autumn and winter, they switch to seeds, nuts (like beechmast and hazelnuts), and berries, and are frequent visitors to bird feeders for suet, peanuts, and sunflower seeds.
Intelligence:
Great tits are known for their problem-solving abilities and intelligence. Historically, they learned to break the foil caps of milk bottles to get the cream, and in lab settings, they can figure out how to get food from puzzles. In rare instances, they have been recorded preying on hibernating bats in winter when food is scarce.
Nesting
Great tits are monogamous during the breeding season. They are cavity nesters, building a cup-shaped nest of moss, grass, and hair in tree holes, rock crevices, or nest boxes. The female incubates a clutch of 5-12 eggs alone, but both parents feed the chicks, which fledge after 16–22 days.
The expression from the Atlantic puffin, because of how the eye looks, reminds me of the guilty look a child might give when caught doing something they feel they really shouldn't be.
And, this is another example of a puffing trying to bite off something that would be challenging for a human to break. Junipers are tough! The bird did give up.
Killdeer (Charadrius vociferus)
Rogue Valley - Jackson County - Oregon - USA
Habitat : Grasslands
Food : Insects
Nesting : Ground
Behavior : Ground Forager
Conservation : Low Concern
"A shorebird you can see without going to the beach, Killdeer are graceful plovers common to lawns, golf courses, athletic fields, and parking lots. These tawny birds run across the ground in spurts, stopping with a jolt every so often to check their progress, or to see if they’ve startled up any insect prey. Their voice, a far-carrying, excited kill-deer, is a common sound even after dark, often given in flight as the bird circles overhead on slender wings... The Killdeer’s broken-wing act leads predators away from a nest, but doesn’t keep cows or horses from stepping on eggs. To guard against large hoofed animals, the Killdeer uses a quite different display, fluffing itself up, displaying its tail over its head, and running at the beast to attempt to make it change its path."
- Cornell University Lab of Ornithology