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I think Al and Callie are a good example of behavior of "The People," as we call our animal family here. SO sweet to have them on the couch with us, and for the most part, they all come and go and get along so well! Callie is one of our most skittish scaredy cats, but she tolerates young Al quite a bit, as you can see!
Happy Caturday!
Rockport, Texas
Laughing Gulls use ritualized displays to keep order among themselves. These involve exaggerated calls and movements: Laughing Gulls threaten each other or simply claim space by extending the neck and head, lowering them toward the ground and calling, tossing the head backward repeatedly while calling, or ruffling their feathers, nodding the head, and flapping the wings. They signal submissiveness by turning the head away from their opponents (www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Laughing_Gull/lifehistory).
RKO_5610. Sitting on my deck these grebes came by and started their courtship dance. How lucky can you be!
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Captured this Welcome Swallow during a visit to the Hunter Wetlands Center (Shortland, NSW; Australia) today with long time friend and fellow flickr photographer Joe Micallef.
Maybe they are readying for the nesting season?
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Late autumn heading into early winter here in the northern hemisphere. There's a grittiness to the landscape now, accentuated by bare tree limbs and overall lack of foliage. The killing frost took care of that. The bareness of the earth brings with it a depletion of color that only adds to the feeling of inhospitality. There's a feeling that there's nowhere now to hide from the often wintry blasts that howl across open farmland. Yet somehow this is all very fitting. As much as I dislike winter I find this atmosphere strangely comforting. Every dreary cemetery scene my mind can conjure seems to now appear before me as a reality. The cold and darkness take a back seat to the excitement this causes me. A very strange duality of thought. Nothing about visiting cemeteries seems strange about. Any last vestige of that sort of thinking left me while still a teenager, if it even existed then. If there is any oddness with this behavior it's my fixation with standing on the boundary of the cemetery property gazing back at the outside world. It's not the same doing this from within the cemetery. For me it's all about getting right up to the edge, near the graves that form the boundary between the dead and the living. It's like standing over an unsee energy field. Like an invisible fence for dogs. Dunno. But standing here on this grim November day the energy field was wide open. I looked past the graves of people that died over a century ago. In the distance the remains of a cornfield that was harvested just a few days ago. The cycle of life and death so wonderfully manifested and in the shadow of that gnarly old tree. Late autumn heading into early winter and I'm right where I belong.
This Sea Otter (Enhydra lutris) was holding on to and swimming with the carcass of this Horn Shark; Both Alice and I got shots--the only photographers there. Mike Harris, local Sea Otter Biologist with California Fish and Wildlife arrived after the otter had gone. We sent Mike photos as well as Gena Bentall, Director/Senior Scientist with Sea Otter Savvy in Watsonville CA; According to Gena, its rare for California sea otters to feed on fish, but relatively common in Alaska and Russia; I did see, through binoculars, the otter nibble on areas of the shark's face; Mike thought it was a female otter; I'm glad I was "camera ready" for this natural history moment. Sony a9; Sony 200-600mm lens at 200mm; 1/1600 sec; f/7.1; ISO 4000; Gitzo tripod; Topaz AI Sharpen and De Noise;
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Does anyone else see things in their
dreams and then, later on, see thee
exact same thing in real life.....
My Look,
Hair Tableau Vivant Kematian Reds
Head Catwa Catya
Eyes -SU! Aisling eyes winter
Outfit .miss chelsea. Gina shorts maitreya black .miss chelsea. Gina Cardi Stripes
Boots [BREATHE] Eiko Heels M.Lara Black
Body Maitreya Lara
Calypte anna female,
Oso Flaco Natural Area,
San Luis Obispo Co., California
And it's possible that the hummer was scratching its front with its foot.
Instinctual Behavior shapes the Beast, conduct and cognition shape the Man .... Quotes by Patricia
"Robert The Bruce of Scots " 1316- 1329
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Swallowtail butterflies group together in a behavior called "mud-puddling" to extract vital salts and amino acids (like sodium) from damp soil, dung, or carrion. This behavior is primarily performed by males to boost reproductive success and improve flight energy.
Winlaw, British Columbia, Canada
So happy to see the return of the wooducks. So beautiful in their color and markings that they almost to beautiful to be real. There were two males and one female and perhaps more will come but that was all that we saw and we were thrilled to see them. One looked like a young male and perhaps was learning a few lessons from Dad !!!
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Common Redstart...chirping, singing, calling at a pitch far louder than one would expect considering it's size.
A short eared owl scans the fields looking for something.
There is something about the way his body curves under those feathers that is interesting here. I don't think I have seen an owl shaped like that before.
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An awesome behavioral moment of two African Jacana's.
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A view looking to the east to the New River with the river valley and gorge while walking the Grandview Rim Trail in that part of the national park. My thinking in composing the image was to one minimize the overcast skies with low clouds and two create a more sweeping view across this national park landscape by angling my Nikon SLR camera slightly downward. In some ways, the river would be that leading line into the image. I later worked with control points in DxO PhotoLab 4 and then made some adjustments to bring out the contrast, saturation and brightness I wanted for the final image.
Most bumblebees are social insects, forming a colony with one queen; female bumblebees can sting repeatedly – and have aposematic (warning) coloration like contrasting bands of color – but in general ignore humans and other animals
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Goldenrod and Bumblebee – 2020OCT03 – Charlotte, NC
My goldenrod in bloom!
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Just having a little fun focusing on details and moving around sections of Remedios Varo's painting Memesis.
A drenched seven-week-old manu-o-Ku nestling endures a rain storm. Its bare branch “nest” offers little shelter. Still molting downy fluff with most of its more resilient flight feathers yet to fill in, it has nowhere to go and nothing to do until its next feeding. The manu-o-Kū, or white tern, is an arboreal nesting pelagic seabird that doesn’t actually fabricate a nest; instead, it uses a flat or hollow or fork in the tree to keep the single egg from rolling away. The hatchling uses its strong, clawed, semipalmate feet to cling to the tree branch that will be its home until fledging. Parents alternate brooding duties until a week or two after hatching when the chick can thermoregulate and be left unattended for up to several hours. Then both parents engage in fishing and feeding, often alternating their arrival time back to the nest. Adults fish up to 120 miles and several hours offshore and provision the chick with fresh whole fish or squid rather than devouring then regurgitating a meal. This avian behavior was known to Polynesian voyagers and other seafarers. A landfall that may be out of view over the horizon could be located by following these birds conveying their catch back to their nestling.
This group of young squirrels have played and posed for me for a few days in a row barely noticing that I am near. Near Aspendell, California in the Eastern Sierra.
Birds in freedom. La Ceja, Colombia; Central Andes; 2.300 meters above sea level.
Aulacorhynchus albivitta
(Southern Emerald toucanet / Tucancito Esmeralda)
The male (right) collected the plantain in his beak and then presented it to the female (left) who has just received the present.
Like other toucans, the Southern Emerald Toucanet is brightly marked and has a large bill. The adult is 30–35 cm (12–14 in) long. The sexes are alike in appearance, although the female generally is smaller and slightly shorter-billed.
The Emerald Toucanet is a generally common in humid forest and woodland, mainly at higher elevations.
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