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On previous visits to the zoo, I've seen this particular bird exhibiting the same behavior. A zoo staff member told me the mice are shipped to the zoo frozen, so the Hornbill likes to carry the mouse around for several hours before consuming it whole. It also seems to want to show the mouse off like a trophy, and whenever I walked past its enclosure, the bird followed me as if looking for my approval. Maybe it wanted to share.
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I really didn't see just what the baby did but really do not think that it did anything to warrant the look it got from the parent, I think and hope that everyone got the idea of this behavior and will end this series with something better.
Have a great day and thank you as always for your visit, patience and kind words.
Art Museum, Philadelphia
The young hawks use found objects like sticks to practice adult behaviors like mantling prey.
"Taxonomically intermediate between goldeneyes (Bucephala sp.) and mergansers in the genus Mergus, the Hooded Merganser shares many courtship behaviors and vocalizations with these species"
~ Cornell Lab of Ornithology
This was taken during a time when the oropendulas were active in their courtship behavior. It was so amazing to see. They would fly to a branch and very quickly almost turn upside down making a special call to it;s mate. I so wish I could play the call for you as it incredible to hear an experience.
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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
Although they are not the ideal birds to have hanging around during the nesting season, it is still interesting to watch the behavior of Brown-headed Cowbirds. This group of 5 males were following one female around, singing and doing their wing-flare displays in an attempt to 1) impress her, and 2) intimidate each other. Didn't seem to work on any front... Andover, NJ
One of two images of a groundhog I met on the Bog Meadow Brook Nature Trail in Saratoga Springs, New York, USA on May 26, 2022. Although he turned around several times to seemingly glare at me, he never chose to leave the trail & just continued to run along ahead of me!
I had the most amazing experience shooting a pair of Louisiana waterthrush 3/24/2018. It was the first day of turkey season in Georgia so some roads that were previously blocked off in the logging property that doubles as a wildlife refuge were opened for the hunting season. That allowed me access to some habitat I prefer to work in Spring migration. That is where I heard the melodious song of my first Louisiana waterthrush of the season. As I was parking my pickup along the side of the dirt logging road I heard the song of my first B1ack-throated green warbler of the season as well. I gathered my gear and sauntered down the hill into the still largely denuded forest below where clear winding streams flowed. I choose an area to set up close to where I had been hearing the waterthrush. I soon realized there were two of them, and they were not behaving as competing males but rather were foraging about together. I had them down on this stream together, and the one seen is the suspected male, whom I observed singing on occasion. I have never seen a waterthrush display like this, and I wonder how many times this has been captured by camera? It is not a body posture I've ever observed before with this species. He acquired the pose slowly reminiscent of a tom turkey displaying. He maintained this pose for what seemed an eternity, but was just a few seconds. He better be careful since after all it is turkey season!
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.
Black headed gulls are notorious for their scavenging behavior and will often steal food from other birds or even humans. They are particularly adept at swooping in and snatching food right out of people's hands or stealing food left unattended. Their boldness and agility make them successful opportunistic feeders in various environments.
He was attempting to pull the stick loose with his mouth and foot. Apparently the stick was too tangled. He left without the stick.
: اعدادات تصوير الدانبو
Camera : Canon EOS 7D
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Camera : Canon EOS 7D
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It's one thing to see interesting wildlife. For me, it's something else to see interesting wildlife behavior. Here, a curious little Alamosaurus decides to come in for an up-close look at me capturing the scene...
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Always exciting to catch a behavioral shot when photographing birds. This male and female American Goldfinch were in some kind of a family dispute.
The root cause of all immoral behavior is fear.
Fear is the only thing in the universe capable of killing the empathy that is the source of our consciousness.
"There are moments of suffering or sadness or days like stabs to the heart, these moments when you try to knock on the door of my heart. My life and my heart are open to te.Queste ears can listen to anything any time, even these eyes have accumulated so many tears to cry with you. When you are joyous do not have to speak I understand from your face. Instead when you feel loneliness, sadness or desire to get away talking to me about all these things, I load on my shoulders half the weight of your suffering. Let us go forward together. This is our way until continue our friendship."
Daisaku Ikeda
I think it is very lucky to be friends with a person who says these things....:)
Good evening to everyone ! :)
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.
A downy white tern nestling stretches its wings and reveals emergent flight feathers. Bird of the war god Ku. In a few more weeks this fearsome manu o ku (Gygis alba) will fly out to sea to feed on fish and squid.
Captured this Royal Spoonbill today during another shoot at Hunter Wetlands (Shortland, NSW; Australia) with long time friend and fellow flickr photographer Joe Micallef.
I didn't notice that he'd pulled out the plug until I viewed this on my monitor!!!
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