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When a House Sparrow couple is together this way, they usually appear sweet. But in fact House Sparrows are feisty, even murderous sometimes. If they want some other bird's nest, they are quite willing to kick out that other bird's eggs or hatchlings and take over.
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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.
I'm no movie producer lol...and this is a little long, Hooded Mergansers were going fog crazy...I had to try, warm weather has everything upside down.
Great Swamp NWR, NJ
Three shot series. I watched this grebe for about 40 minutes as she diligently caught fish after fish and made sure both chicks were fed.
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.
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Larger bird captured on a trail camera.
Northern Harrier Food (Marsh Wren) Exchange Sequence. This action happened in literally 70mph windy condition. I was finding it tough to stand at one place and feared I may topple the tripod and gear while shooting. Amazing how birds align their position and transfer precious prey which takes them a awhile to catch while cruising over marshes. This poor Marsh Wren was literally plucked from top of a cat tail. I observed the Male Harrier(Gray Ghost on top in the frames) just dive on top of a cattail and emerge in split seconds with catch.
It was a very dry and warm day. I was sprinkling water on the plants of my roof garden. Suddenly I spotted a bee drinking water from a small pool of water on a leaf. And then within minutes I found hundreds of them gathered to drink. I was trying to track their path and finally discovered a big beehive under the sunshade of a house 30 yards away from my own. I wonder how they have developed the skill to search for the source of water and communicate for the same to other members of the hive!!!
Later I learned that honey bees sometime drink water. They take the water and put it into their hive. As the bees fan their hive entrance, the water evaporates and helps to cool the beehive. They also use water to dilute honey to feed their larva.
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.
This is by far the most common lizard here... and the most interesting. The male has an extendable throat fan that is bright orange or yellow. The female has a wide light stripe on the back that has scalloped borders. While not a native species, it is now well established in southern Florida. (It was introduced from the West Indies centuries ago... not necessarily deliberately.)
IMG_5466; Brown Anole
Model: Taylor Freeze
Photographer: Justin Bonaparte​
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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"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"
"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.
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).
Limpkin (Aramus guarauna) male showing highly altruistic and gentlemanly behavior giving up the hunted mollusc to his female
partner. A loud "calling" characteristic sound is emitted by the male in this footage.
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!!
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.
Mid-March brings a lot of change in weather and animal behavior here in Wyoming. While on a drive to Grand Teton National Park, I spotted 3 bull moose near the road. One was rather upset, thrashing around and running into the willows, but these 2 gave me a chance to snap a few photos of them in the late afternoon light. Moose are the largest member of the deer family and can run 35 mph, so I know from experience to keep my distance! They're huge mammals, but amazing to watch, especially in the deep snow!
I'm clinically insane.
Call yourself psychotic enough, and others will believe you, and put it on the net for others to see.
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
This is only a small fraction of the seabirds that had assembled on the shoreline of the well-visited public beach park. If you walked slowly through the place where they were resting, the grounded flock usually parted (without flying) to create a path to let you pass through. Sometimes, however, the beachgoers' actions spooked them and they rose en masse, circling low across the area before resettling in the same spot on the beach. This behavior afforded many photo ops for close flight shots of the group, and even better yet, of individual birds. Most of these birds are Royal Terns and Elegant Terns, but I also could spot a few black bills (now out of frame to the left) that indicate Sandwich Terns.
IMG_0335; Royal Terns
The couple of puffins can exit their cave.
Das Papageitaucherpaar kann endlich wieder seine Höhle verlassen.
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.