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A Common Moorhen on the bayou is uncommon enough, but to see one flying instead of skulking in the reeds is downright rare.
When the water levels are right, Sir Lance-A-Lot is always good to show, and he can assume some unusual positions as he stalks his prey in the shallow waters of Horsepen Bayou. I’ve posted two shots to show how deep the water was in the area and how he crouches down at time to focus on this next tasty meal. He is extremely proficient at what he does. Tri-colored Heron in breeding plumage foraging on Horsepen Bayou. No need to comment on both photos.
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I found this cricket low on a plant in the night, it was just done with molting, the old skin is still hanging on the leaf stalk.
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With life-long, monogamous, mate fidelity, a pair of Laysan albatross reestablish their bond at the breeding colony after months of solitary wandering for tens of thousands of miles over the north Pacific. After returning to the colony, they perform elaborate recognition and courtship behaviors that include a complex repertoire of tactile and visual displays. There may also be olfactory recognition associated with the close contact. This gorgeous couple, resting after their dance, seem quite enamored.
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The behavior of the male Painted Buntings is changing. They aren't up high singing as much. Feed in early morning and as the day heats up spend time just sitting back in the shade. Our beautiful world, pass it on.
One interesting move an american bittern makes is to stretch straight up when it feels threatened. Guess it is trying to look like a stick and disappear into the marsh foliage.
Taken at Ritch Grissom Memorial Wetlands, Viera, Florida.
I have a large colony of Great Golden Digger Wasps (Sphex ichneumoneus) and am fascinated watching them each summer as they dig and provision their nests. Although large, they are extremely docile and won't sting unless handled roughly. This one perched on my knee with her catch, a katydid. Eventually, she carried the prey to her nest burrow and eventually took it in, where she'll place one egg on it. Her prey is paralyzed so once the egg "hatches" her larvae will feed on the host. Gruesome, but also kind of cool.
On a morning breakfast run, a pair of backlit white terns head out to sea. Manu-o-Kū are not as gregarious as other terns, however, I observed a ternery of fourteen birds on this morning squawking and flying around a narra tree, perhaps mobbing a predator that was unseen by me. The manu-o-Kū, or white tern, is an arboreal nesting seabird that thrives in urban Honolulu. Adults fish up to 120 miles offshore and return with fresh provisions rather than devouring then regurgitating a meal for their chick. 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.
During his voyage on the HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin observed white terns at Cocos Island inspiring the naturalist to journal, “It is a small snow-white tern, which smoothly hovers at the distance of a few feet above one’s head, its large black eye scanning, with quiet curiosity, your expression. Little imagination is required to fancy that so light and delicate a body must be tenanted by some wandering fairy spirit.”
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I had a slight mental breakdown yesterday. I think it was a mixture of stress from finals and a feeling of photographic inadequacy. I keep seeing the amazing photos others are creating and the success they are having and feeling like mine will never be as good. I kept looking back at all my photos and found that most of the ones I was most proud of were from months ago or were followed by ones that I really don’t care for. I started having a personal identity crisis and just wanted to crawl into a hole and hibernate until I was ready to face the world. I eventually decided that what I really needed was to go out and lose myself in the forest. I ended up going to a completely different area of the forest and just wandering about and ended up finding an amazing area that I plan on shooting in a lot. It was exactly what I needed. I eventually got out of my funk and realized that I was the only one creating my problems and was the only one who could fix them. If I want to get better I need to put in more effort. It’s as simple as that. So today while editing this I made myself become a perfectionist, working every detail until I got it how I wanted it. And then my computer shut off for no reason at all, of course on the one day that I wasn’t saving every so often. I wanted to rage/cry. But instead I just turned it back on and started all over again. I got this.
Also on a separate note, a lot of you are commenting on how cold I must have been. Well surprisingly it hasn’t actually been that cold. It’s usually been around only 32ºF, yesterday even getting up to 37! This is like October weather for Montana. Usually by now we could easily be having wind chill down to -20ºF or colder!
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He was attempting to pull the stick loose with his mouth and foot. Apparently the stick was too tangled. He left without the stick.
Not sure what caused this little dispute. Don't believe it was a fish fight. Interesting to watch and photograph these two.
Cormorants can be aggressive and exhibit aggressive behaviors such as rearing back and striking with their hooked beak, lunging with an open bill, and locking beaks with opponents.
Not a great image but a fun catch of the Canyon Wren on the right not liking it at all that the White-crowned Sparrow on the left was hopping over with…an offering? nesting material? who knows!…which it dropped once the Wren moved down into the rock crevasse.
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