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☕ Tigers live solitary lives, except during mating season and when females have tiger cubs. Tigers are fiercely territorial and have and mark their large home ranges.🐱
This is a male muskox, identifiable by the heavy horn boss connecting its horns across the top of its head. I don't know much about this arctic native, but even today they play somewhat of the same role for Alaskan indigenous people as the bison (no relation) did in the lower 48 states. Their woolly and very warm fur ("qiviut"), skin, meat and blubber, and horns can all be put to important uses. Also as is the case with bison, muskoxen can be maintained in domestic herds.
Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center, Girdwood Alaska
A little about the AWCC from their website:
The Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center (AWCC) is located in Portage Valley and is surrounded by the breathtaking Chugach Mountain Range and Turnagain Arm Inlet. Located at Mile 79 of the Seward Highway, AWCC is a non-profit sanctuary dedicated to preserving Alaska’s wildlife through conservation, education, research, and quality animal care. AWCC takes in orphaned and injured animals year-round and provides them a forever home. The sanctuary maintains over 200 acres of spacious habitats for resident animals to feel at home displaying their natural wild behavior as education ambassadors for their species. The AWCC has a partnership with the US Forest Service and leases 110 additional acres that are dedicated specifically to wood bison.
"The AWCC is home to lynx, brown bears, porcupines, wood bison, black bears, foxes, coyotes, wolves, moose, elk, Sitka black-tail deer, muskox, caribou, reindeer, a bald eagle, a great horned owl, a red squirrel, and ferrets. The animals are cared for in large, natural environments. It is common for visitors to see brown bears swimming, moose strutting, wood bison roaming, muskox playing, wolves posing, porcupines climbing, and more!
Since 2003, the AWCC has taken part in a program to reintroduce native wood bison back into Alaska after a 100-year absence. The wood bison is the largest land mammal in North America and is a keystone grazing herbivore from the region. This project is a joint effort with the Alaska Department of Fish & Game. In 2015, 130 wood bison were released back into western Alaska. For more information, visit the Wood Bison Restoration page.
Along with our conservation efforts, the AWCC is also dedicated to providing our guests with high-quality learning opportunities. Educational efforts include development of STEM curriculum, as well as teaching visitors and students about Alaska’s wildlife through field trips, tours, interpretive signage, and animal presentations."
Mirror, Mirror (Look Into My Eyes)- Def Leppard - www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwOqlo63Kd0
Mirror Mirror - Bokeh Thursday- www.flickr.com/groups/bokehthursday/discuss/7215762979069...
Ansel at the Halfdome and me on the Space Coast
Know what-cha-wana-do, and just do it!
And it doesn't hurt to model your stuff after a master.
And what is a camera anyways?
My take -
It's the gear you use to create an image,
and sometimes you just gotta go BIG
to capture BIG!
Something im very good in at times ;D
Quick shot was this... need to do it over some time...didnt had much time and felt like doing something!!! >.<
I never thought much about the preening behavior before folks, not like I did with this guy.
I found his behavior fascinating because he separated and went over each and every feather on an individual basis of which I've never seen before.
Thank you very much for stopping and commenting, and it is so very much appreciated.
This is the only representative of its genus in North America. It is a desert specialist that lives in both the Chihuahuan and Sonoran desert regions. The yellowish head and small magenta shoulder pads are diagnostic, and the males are generally more colorful than the females, but only slightly (sex determination can be iffy). This is an adult bird. Verdins keep returning and disappearing down into the foliage or twig jumble... sometimes with nesting material. They construct neat globular-shaped nests.
IMG_9866; Verdin
One of our most graceful fliers, this kite glides, circles, and swoops in pursuit of large flying insects. Despite the name, it is most common on the southern Great Plains. During recent decades, the planting of trees in shelterbelts and towns has made it possible for this bird to nest in many areas where it was formerly scarce; many towns on the southern plains now have their own nesting colonies of Mississippi Kites.
Feeding Behavior
Catches many large flying insects high in the air in graceful maneuvers, often then holding these in one foot and eating them while soaring. Also skims low to catch prey on or near the ground. Sometimes flies out from a perch to catch passing insects. Pursues bats and flying birds (such as swallows and swifts) in the air. Sometimes catches insects that have been flushed from the grass by herds of grazing animals or by fire. Also scavenges road-killed animals at times (this may account for occasional large rodents or turtles in diet).
Source: Audubon Guide to North American Birds
This flyer illustration promoting "Positive Reinforcement Training" was commissioned by Vicki Ronchette for:
Also posted on Vicki's FB - www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1756165060648&set=a.1...
The Netherlands - Hilversum
Badhamia utricularis (Troskalknetje) is no fungus, but a species of slime mould (slijmzwam). Slime moulds have a variety of behaviors otherwise seen in animals with brains, but they also possess plant properties, like the formation of spores to reproduce. The image shows an early phase of fructification, when the fruiting bodies with spores are bright yellow to orange. Slime moulds contribute to the decomposition of dead vegetation; some are parasitic. Fairly common in my country. © Tom Kisjes
In about six weeks, the migration of the songbirds will begin. Songbirds migrate at night. They fly in such numbers that weather radar can actually detect the flocks.
I have noticed that, on dark still nights just before dawn I can hear them chattering during peak migration.
Small bird brushes by www.brusheezy.com
Moon and background by Lenabem-Anna J. www.flickr.com/photos/lenabem-anna/16045633318/in/photost...
Larger bird captured on a trail camera.
These two male Boat-tailed Grackles and several others were vying for the attention of a nearby female Grackle. Very, very noisy but interesting to watch!
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This species and the Ground Squirrels provide for my amusement when the birding gets slow at our pond. After many years of patient observations they are now totally unafraid of me, and often approach closely sometimes even crawling over my boots. These hyperactive rodents know every nook and cranny of the jumbled rock border surrounding the pond, and can navigate through this maze with amazing dexterity and speed. I have to constantly watch and pan them through my viewfinder to quickly capture a still moment like this... they're usually in frantic motion. This guy, however, is pausing to enjoy the morning sunrise. Nights can be really cool up here.
IMG_5910; Colorado Chipmunk