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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.
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.
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.
A rare glimpse into courtship behavior of a pair of Downy Woodpeckers.
Peace Valley Nature Center
Dec 1, 2014
This specie and the Ground Squirrels provide for my amusement when the birding gets slow at our pond. These rodents know every nook and cranny of the jumbled rock and log border surrounding the pond, and can navigate through this maze with amazing dexterity and speed. It's their "jungle gym." and safe house! I have to constantly watch them through my viewfinder to quickly capture a still moment like this... they're usually in frantic motion. This one has paused to munch on scattered bird seed.
IMG_0087; Colorado Chipmunk
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).
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!
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).
Feeding behavior of a young Great Egret, in which the young tried to force parent to release additional food from his beak.
Don't come any closer the Coyote on the right warns the approaching Coyote (Canis latrans) on the left. This behavior was exhibited during the period when coyotes mate which is late winter. Image taken in Yellowstone National Park of Wyoming.
There are few birds that provide me with as much entertainment as mockingbirds do. They use all sorts of stratagems to get my attention including finding good places to pose.
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Bad day for our male snail kite. I went out to lox for fifteen or twenty minutes today (too much thunder and lightning). THIS IS NOT GOOD PHOTOGRAPHY!!! The light was bad, and it was raining. This is to show Red winged blackbirds for the mean little SOB's they can be!
Handsome Wild Horse (Equus ferus) stallion of the Pryor Mountains of Montana. Just the way he is carrying himself indicates his dominance behavior.
This is what happens to a Green Heron that tangles with a Snapping Turtle, I suppose. I really do not know how or why a Green Heron does this. Is walking around on only one leg somehow relaxing?
Please take care of yourselves out there. As Fall deepens in the Northern Hemisphere, I worry about my friends in the UK, in India, all over Europe and even here in the US where all is insanity at least for the time being. (For now, everything is fine in my own little world.)
I appreciate your visit and hope you will come back. I enjoy keeping track of you both through your visits (and comments) and through your wonderful posts.
Having attached a six-stop neutral density filter to my lens, upon discovering I'd been taking pictures the entire time with the ISO set to 500 (from picture-taking the day before), it made being splashed over and over by freezing seawater seem like a poor bargain for fun :-P
Not observant, of me. Stark evidence of an extreme over-reliance on trial and error.
The very gray, gauzy tonality is a result of heavy salt spray in the air. For a few years I did so much shooting along the ocean and other saltwater, I basically rusted my D700 over. It still has an L-bracket permanently attached to it.
Stormy, gloomy day in Seattle. Manning the fort this afternoon, my youngest is sick with a sore throat and sleeping soundly after a round of puerile Adam Sandler movies that were almost tailor-made for twelve year olds. My oldest and his mom are up in Everett, he's playing a music festival there.
- ...Was it good for you to darling?
- Yes of cause! bur my love have you got any cigarettes, that is what humans often do after grinding and screaming when they have calmed down...
- Do you think we will ever be able to be open about our love? Do you think the fleshies will ever understand?
- I don´t know, but honestly I hope some day!?? they will...
Universal fact Box:
No one knows why robots mimic human behavior, most robots have no idea of how the human reproduction process works, but they have often seen neo-bollywood movies...
...Robot love, mimic intercourse and relationships are strictly forbidden across most of the galaxy!
I study owl behavior, that requires lots of time in the field at night, which is, by far one of the things i love most in life. In this privileged life i've seen many things, but the flight of the common potoo it is by far one of the most imprecive things you can witness, all that with the soundtrack of it's voice is something to never forget.
"How many people see the birds singing to the moon in the trees?" (the birds, apparatjik)
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900 E Dublin-Granville Rd, Columbus, OH. Built in 1973.
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This building was previously featured in my photostream and felt it deserved at least a drive-by update. As of early 2017, this hotel was reopened as a psyhiatric hospital.
The hotel operated under a few different brands, including Rodeway Inn and, according to property records, a Red Roof Inn. It supposedly became a Clarion in 2001 and closed in mid-April 2015.