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Don't know but it's some of the other poses those guys were doing the other day!! Sometimes I do wish I had a bigger/better lens ;-( Some day!!
"Most of us are creatures so comforted by habit, it can take something on the order of religion to invoke new, more conscious behaviors -- however glad we may be afterward that we went yo the trouble."
Barbara Kingsolver
"Animal, Vegetable, Miracle"
Not that I know much about birds, but I'd never seen this before. The bird was systematically tugging at the spiderweb, ripping it apart. I couldn't tell if it was taking parts of the web away with it, or what.
Model: Tania d'Anconia
Photographer: Justin Bonaparte
The usual comical, frantic, jerky feeding behavior of this egret allows it to be identified from a great distance off even though you cannot discern any of its field marks. It's usually my favorite large wader to watch trying to secure a meal. This bird, however was remarkably subdued... it was uncharacteristically calm and patient!
IMG_8982; Reddish Egret
9/365
I'm not completely happy with this but i was running out of light and ideas. I figure the point of a 365 is to develop, not to outdo yourself everyday.
Anyways my reasoning for not posting yesterday (or taking a picture for that matter) was I had homecoming and a dance. Both sucked, but at the dance a get went crazy and had to get the stun gun. Needless to say, he is in juvi for the next six months.
SIC Manzolino Tivoli - Spring 2014
During the nesting Knights of Italy show aggressive behavior even with their own kind and do not hesitate to perform in reckless pursuits if the birdcalls prove ineffective in defending the little chicks
L.T. Woodward, M.D. - Sex and the Armed Services
Monarch Human Behavior Books
Monarch Books MB541, 1963
Cover Artist: Robert Maguire
L.T. Woodward was a pseudonym of Robert Silverberg
Fuji Photo Gallery
Shinjuku, Tokyo
I went to the Fuji Photo Gallery to see Mamoru-san's photo with Yoshikatsu-san,
Katsushi-san and Koichi-san.
The couple of puffins can exit their cave.
Das Papageitaucherpaar kann endlich wieder seine Höhle verlassen.
This is my photo (chickens at the farm across the road when I lived in western NC)--used by the author (a Cornell University professor) in her book about animal behavior. 😊
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"Sweetie" licks her chops and looks longingly at the suet feeder on my deck. Scroll down to see how she accessed the feeder.......When you feed the birds, you find you may also feed other critters as well! These photos were taken in the evening after the sun had set.....so a bit noisy.
Model: Taylor Freeze
Photographer: Justin Bonaparte​
One day when there were lots of brine flies, I noticed the gulls on the shore doing some weird things. You can see two or three of them here getting their heads down low and snapping at the brine flies. They quickly move forward with their heads low and opening their bills. I had never seen anything like it.
Subfamily Tachininae / Tribe Leskiini
My best guess Genea Texensis - Penny Lake Preserve, Boothbay Harbor, Maine
A coupe of Tachinid flies sexin' it up before goin' out to look for some leaf-rollers to lay their eggs on. Well, not both of them (just the fem) 'cause you know how lazy them boy flies are!
I had trouble IDing these guys down to the species level, so I had to resort to extreme measures to find anything about these guys.
So, check out the screen dump from that national archives in the comment section. And if you're an entomologist and/or understand their lingo, please have a go at confirming my proposed ID. Thanks
King or Imperial Cormorants (Phalacrocorax atriceps) engage in courtship behavior at their nesting site. They almost fence with those menacing hooked bills. They are gorgeous with iridescent colors in sunlight.
Colombia
Potoos are nocturnal insectivores which lack the bristles around the mouth found in the true nightjars. They hunt from a perch like a shrike or flycatcher. During the day they perch upright on tree stumps, camouflaged to look like part of the stump. The single spotted egg is laid directly on the top of a stump. The mother sits in a cryptic pose with the chick on top of the stump.
I took this picture while on a photo tour led by Jeff Munoz of Rainforest Photo Tours (rainforestphototours.com).
I watch this tandem pair of Swamp Spreadwings (Lestes vigilax) quickly land on the surface of the water when a Slaty Skimmer (Libellula incesta) flew too close to them. All other times the pair would perch on emergent vegetation. Blue Heron Pond Patuxent Research Refuge, Anne Arundel County, Maryland.
Florida Sandhill Crane and 2 day old chick - Ritch Grissom Memorial Wetlands (Viera Wetlands), Melbourne, Florida
A freshly hatched chick trying its best to model the foraging behavior of its parents.
It wasn't all that successful, but was encouraged by its parents who dropped disabled insects in front of it to reward it for its efforts.
Through the viewfinder these chicks looked fuzzy and out of focus (OOF),
but sometimes fuzzy is just fuzzy!
These Owls are at this site courtesy of a large widespread colony of Gunnison's Prairie dogs. This huge commercial acreage is being developed for warehouse and similar large-structure activities. It is adjacent to open desert and farming plots, and I hope that the animal residents can make the eventual move to the remaining open land and stay viable as a community.
IMG_1087; Burrowing Owl