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Behavioral image of Magellanic Penguins as seen in the penguin rookery of the Cabo Dos Bahias nature reserve near Chubut, Patagonia, Argentina.
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I am always delighted to see the male cardinal with their beatiful red plumage and cautious behavior. Whenever I photograph them it seems they are looking directly at me.
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On an early Easter Monday bank holiday morning, I set off towards Bradgate Park under a biting wind, with my car showing just 4°C. Despite the cold, the land was clearly awakening with spring, quietly signaling renewal in every detail.
As I stepped into the park under the soft morning light, there was a rare stillness—no people, just nature beginning its day. Instead of the usual robin, I was greeted by a Eurasian chaffinch foraging on the ground. Around me, small birds were busily flying back and forth, carrying nesting materials in their beaks into tree hollows.
Continuing my walk, I noticed a group of fallow deer on my right. Among them, a young deer fixed its curious gaze on me, and I believe I captured that exact moment of connection in a single frame. Between us flowed the River Lin, its subtle elevation difference and fresh greenery adding depth to the scene.
As I observed the group, something remarkable caught my attention in the distance. Eurasian jackdaw were landing on the deer, pulling out loose fur and flying off to line their nests in ancient tree hollows. This interaction seemed less about parasite removal and more about building soft nesting material.
I waited patiently as the light shifted and the sun rose higher, creating a beautiful backlit background. Finally, the moment came—a female deer allowing a jackdaw to pull fur from her back. I captured this frame at ISO 4000 and 1/1250 sec.
It’s also worth noting that the deer are currently shedding their winter coats, which the jackdaws are clearly taking advantage of. Interestingly, not all deer tolerated this behavior—some females resisted, perhaps due to discomfort.
Nature’s balance and these subtle interactions continue to fascinate me, often leading me to reflect more deeply on the connections within the wild.
I hope this story adds another layer to the image and helps convey the moment beyond the frame.
Wishing you all a peaceful and joyful Easter Monday.
I've captured some unforgettable moments with my camera, and I hope you feel the same joy viewing these images as I did while shooting them.
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Nikon AF-S TC-14E III — hand-held or monopod, SPORT VR enabled.
Aperture set to f/8, full focal length.
All images were converted from RAW to JPEG.
During long walks, I use either a Nikon cross-body strap or a monopod.
Monopod setup:
Gitzo GM2542 Series 2 4S Carbon Monopod
Really Right Stuff MH-01 Monopod Head (Standard Lever)
Really Right Stuff LCF-11 Replacement Foot for Nikon AF-S 500mm f/5.6E PF
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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!
I'm going to put a rotated version of this on my Facebook becasue it loses the concept but has a strange uneasiness to it. Formspring. Tumblr
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.
Recurvirostra americana & Himantopus mexicanus.
In ephereral ponds on flooded alkali sink after all the winter & early spring rains,
Carrizo Plain,
San Luis Obispo Co., California
The stilt had been making some displays with the avocets nearby and at this point the avocet chased briefly. The avocet pair flew off shortly after. It is possible both species could be in the process of nesting nearby.
Good morning folks, the reason I'm posting this image is because I've never seen this kind of fish before here, besides it's nice to see the behavioral habits of species in the wild.
I watched him for quite some time and finally he came through for me. Thamk you as always for stopping by, and have a wonderful day.
He was attempting to pull the stick loose with his mouth and foot. Apparently the stick was too tangled. He left without the stick.
The white peacock (Anartia jatrophae) is a species of butterfly found in the southeastern United States,
Central America, and throughout much of South America.
The males of the species display a unique territorial behavior, in which they stake out a territory typically 15 meters in diameter that contains larval host plants. They perch in this area and aggressively protect it from other insects and other male white peacocks.[1]
From Wikipedia
: اعدادات تصوير الدانبو
Camera : Canon EOS 7D
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second Aperture : f/9.9
Focal Length : canon 17-40mm f4 L usm
Flash : Canon Speedlite 580EX II
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Camera : Canon EOS 7D
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Shutter Speed : 1/160
second Aperture : f/9.9
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Flash : Canon Speedlite 580EX II
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[ جميع الحقوق محفوظه لدي ولا احلل ولا ابيح من يستخدم صوري بدون اذن مني وبدون ذكر الحقوق ]
No matter where I wander, Buster the Crow pops up like magic. Here's his regular routine ... I put down a little of his 'health-food' snack ... he takes a bite, then says, "CAW" three times to summon Mrs B, his faithful mate, to join in the feast.
He must be a fair age now - he's been a friend for 11 years!
He likes to be stroked, if we're in a quiet place and he feels relaxed.
Between breeding and resident ranges, the Northern Mockingbird lives in two-thirds of the U.S. and all of Mexico and Central America. From the time I was a kid until now, I've always had mockingbirds to entertain me. I was once standing with the ranger at the ranch when one of the car alarms went off. But there were only three cars. The fourth, as it turned out, was a Mocker in the tree we were standing next to. Another time, a mockingbird was playing a rather dangerous game, mimicking a cat, and very well at that. In 1758, Carl Linnaeus named the species, Mimus polyglottos, meaning "many-tongued thrush." It certainly can mimic a whole host of sounds. It is not, however, a thrush. It is a species unto itself. If you have a "Bird" album, the Northern Mockingbird would have to be a separate category although I suppose you could loosely define it as a "Passerine." I'm just tucking him away under my "Corvids, Icterids, and Jays" album.
On this particular day, and for the third time since I started photographing them, this mocking bird came to the middle of the Buckeye Trail on Mt. Diablo and spread his wings in some sort of display. I didn't think he was displaying to or for me, but there were no other birds around ... and the rattlesnake that passed up a few minutes before, just kept going. I thought perhaps it was a warning to some other unseen mocker, but there was no sound. Just this display. Wings flapping, a little two-step dance, then he would be still and he's flash the white bands on his wings. And this went on for at least 10 minutes before he stopped, and just took off.
I thought I'd keep this shot in the archives until I could look up "mockingbird displays." That was ten years ago when I didn't really have "archives." But whenever I needed to look up Northern Mockingbird, I search for "displays." Today, in Wikipedia, I cam across this: "These birds forage on the ground or in vegetation; they also fly down from a perch to capture food. While foraging, they frequently spread their wings in a peculiar two-step motion to display the white patches. ***There is disagreement among ornithologists over the purpose of this behavior, with hypotheses ranging from deceleration to intimidation of predators or prey."***
Not exactly satisfying, but hey, a decade is enough.
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The daily free-flight exhibitions here offer exceptional photo ops of relatively close raptors. The Harris's Hawk is a unique species of neotropic Hawks in that they stay together as a family and engage in group hunting. The free-flight show here deploys this species in such groups to simulate their natural behavior! Today the show included four such birds. The Tucson area has proved to be a very reliable location for spotting this rare hawk species. Harris's Hawk can be seen in the US almost exclusively in only extreme southern AZ and TX. (We also have a few in NM.)
IMG_6149; Harris's Hawk
2005 Chandra observations revealed new details about the fiery ring surrounding the stellar explosion that produced Supernova 1987A. The data give insight into the behavior of the doomed star in the years before it exploded, and indicate that the predicted spectacular brightening of the circumstellar ring has begun.
Supernova 1987A occurred in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy only 160,000 light years from Earth. The outburst was visible to the naked eye, and is the brightest known supernova in almost 400 years. Optical hot-spots (pink-white) now encircle the ring like a necklace of incandescent diamonds. The Chandra data (blue-purple) reveals multimillion-degree gas at the location of the optical hot-spots.
Image credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/PSU/S.Park & D.Burrows.; Optical: NASA/STScI/CfA/P.Challis
#NASA #MarshallSpaceFlightCenter #MSFC #Marshall #ChandraXrayObservatory #cxo #supernova #supernovaremnant #HST #HubbleSpaceTelescope #Hubble #GSFC #GoddardSpaceFlightCenter #Goddard #NASAGoddard
Tachycineta bicolor,
San Luis Obispo Co., California
The two at left inspected the pipe they were perched on, I assume considering it as a potential nesting site. (Think about that!) Meanwhile there were several other Tree Swallows flying over the pond and the one at far right landed near the pair. Not welcome at all.
California Quail have an interesting behavior before mating…the male jumps around the female while she lays on the ground and he pushes his beak into her back a number of times before doing the deed. Birds.
Behavioral Picture 1 of 2
This bird did an unsuccessful full immersion snow dive for a vole and then sat up in the snow. But it seemed to hear a vole again under the snow and emulated the human behaviour of putting one's ear to the wall despite its highly sophisticated hearing.
I liked the owl's expression here and what one can see of the expression in picture 2.
A highly Nocturnal species breaking all rules and appearing in open that too in day time , we are amazing that few birds come very close to this and not even attack it .
Nocturnality is an animal behavior characterized by activity during the night and sleeping during the day. The common adjective is "nocturnal".
Nocturnal creatures generally have highly developed senses of hearing, smell, and specially adapted eyesight. Such traits can help animals such as the Helicoverpa zea moths avoid predators. Some animals, such as cats and ferrets, have eyes that can adapt to both lowlevel and bright day levels of illumination (see metaturnal). Others, such as bushbabies and (some) bats, can function only at night. Many nocturnal creatures including tarsiers and some owls have large eyes in comparison to their body size to compensate for the lower light levels at night. More specifically, they have been found to have a larger cornea relative to their eye size than diurnal creatures to increase their visual sensitivity in the low-light conditions. Nocturnality helps wasps, such as Apoica flavissima, avoid hunting in intense sunlight.
Mating Behavior
Once mature, a male dragonfly or damselfly establishes a territory from which he chases other males. When on territory, he produces packets of sperm called spermatophores at the tip of his abdomen (tenth segment), reaches the tip forward and places the spermatophores in a depression on the lower surface of the second abdominal segment.
With his sperm receptacle filled, the male flies out and grasps a female's head with his clasping genitalia at the abdominal tip. Each species' male genitalia fit the head of only the female of that species. (Slaty Skimmer Clamped in Tandem.) In some dragonflies and damselflies, the shape of the male genitalia is the most constant and accurate identifier of the insect's species.
Once the male has grasped a female, they fly in tandem for some time (Swamp Spreadwing in Tandem). The male usually flies while the female rests. Rarely, the female will fly while the male rests. It is unusual for both odonates to be flying at the same time.After some time, the female reaches the tip of her abdomen below her body and grasps the male's second segment to pick up the spermatophores he placed there. During this process, called the wheel formation, the two dragonflies take on a circular or heart-shaped pose. The two may stay in the wheel formation for upwards of fifteen minutes before the female releases and returns to the tandem position.
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Many different species of birds make their migration to Florida during the winter months, with high hopes for a successful breeding season while in town. One of the most beautiful to me are the black-necked stilts.
First of all, they are such a graceful, dainty-looking bird ... they always look so proper to me. LOL. OK, I know that sounds weird.
While photographing down in the Everglades, I can across several black-necked stilts foraging in the water while feeding. Its pace was slow and determined. The winds were calm, as it was early in the morning, so its reflection was mirrored on the surface of the water below. Double the beauty. :-)
While not in full breeding colors, you can see that its slender legs had already began to turn very deep pink and its eye was beginning that red color. In flight, these birds are also quite elegant and beautiful.
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