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: اعدادات تصوير الدانبو
Camera : Canon EOS 7D
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: اعدادات تصوير رشة العطر
Camera : Canon EOS 7D
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Shutter Speed : 1/160
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[ جميع الحقوق محفوظه لدي ولا احلل ولا ابيح من يستخدم صوري بدون اذن مني وبدون ذكر الحقوق ]
He was attempting to pull the stick loose with his mouth and foot. Apparently the stick was too tangled. He left without the stick.
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.
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.
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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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.
took it on the same day with "foibles", so you can see some sort of similar mood here.
that was a pretty hot day. i was sweating,so hair could be sticked easily.
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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A great blue heron was constructing a nest this morning at Loxahatchee NWR in Boynton Beach, FL. This was not the largest piece of nesting material that he brought, but the wingspan here was appealing to me.
Nottingham County Park, Chester
According to the Audubon, they eat conifer seeds, also some berries, insects. This one was eating the very small red insert.
I hate the semi-annual process of clock change. Don't like how it messes with my circadian rhythms or the mental grogginess it causes (even more than my usual state). But I especially dislike leaving daylight saving time. At this point in the year, sunset is already occurring much too early for my liking. To have the sun setting one hour earlier just cements the feeling of anxiety about re-entering the dark part of the year. It's not the cold of winter that gets to me; it's the massive decrease in the quantity and quality of sunlight. The root of it is a primordial fear of darkness. Nightfall is the perfect breeding ground for the unknown. Easy enough to put that aside on lazy summer nights with their slow rolling, lemonade-sipping sunsets. But November sees darkness crashing down, not just early, but as swiftly as sudden death. And the abruptness of the autumn clock change only worsens a bad situation.
Late afternoon now is very deceptive. Everything at first seems normal until the shadows lengthen and the sun begins to crowd the horizon. Yet still there's enough brightness in the sky to make me believe darkness is still a long way off. Oddly I get this recurrent sense of false hope every day for at least a couple of weeks after the clock change. And every day hope is dashed as darkness envelopes the landscape, each day sooner than the last. Body and mind reluctantly adjust, however it's an uncomfortable process.
One of my many odd rituals is to remain outdoors during sunset on the last night of daylight saving time. I love the idea of experiencing firsthand the final twilight of the bright phase of the year. There's an aspect of facing one's fears in this I suppose. But like many rituals, the original intent is lost or at least muddled over the years of repetition. Anyway it's as breathtaking now as it ever was, and even more so when skies are clear. This year I gathered up a Jack-O-Lantern which I carved especially for this moment and headed off into a clearing in the woods about a half hour before sunset. I lit the candle and just sat down to absorb the atmosphere. The approach of darkness can be felt as much as observed. It felt like weight pressing down on me as the temperature began to dip and color began to fade from the landscape. The color goes first, then shadows replace texture. And soon there's nothing left but soft glow on the horizon in the direction the sun recently occupied. Less than an hour to watch it all slip away.
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Curious courting behavior perhaps......
I spotted these two Red-browed Finches in this pose a couple of weeks ago during a birding session at Hunter Wetlands Centre (Shortland, NSW; Australia).
The finch on top here, started by presenting the grass stalk to the other bird; but then it decided to hop onto the back of the other bird before the pair took off together!
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Striated Heron (Butorides striata macrorhyncha), Daintree River, Queensland, Australia
Ebird checklist:
ebird.org/checklist/S112643773
The striated heron (Butorides striata) also known as mangrove heron, little heron or green-backed heron, is a small heron, about 44 cm tall. Striated herons are mostly non-migratory and noted for some interesting behavioral traits. Their breeding habitat is small wetlands in the Old World tropics from west Africa to Japan and Australia, and in South America and the Caribbean.
Source: Wikipedia
A Cham shepherdess at work in south central Vietnam. The Cham people are a predominantly Muslim ethnic minority group who live mostly in south central Vietnam. They are descendants of Austronesian people who arrived in Vietnam by boat from Sumatra, Borneo, and the Malay peninsula. The Champa Kingdom flourished in this part of Vietnam for millenia until they were conquered by the Kinh people (descendants of modern day Vietnamese). Today most Cham people make their livelihood in fishing and agriculture, including the raising of sheep.
Although Anhingas fish by "swimming" underwater and spearing their fish with their dagger-like bills, the evolutionary process hasn't progressed to where their feathers have oily waterproofing... they often need to spread their wings like this for drying. Usually the birds are positioned far offshore when you view this position, but in this heavily visited park, this bird was next to a main walking path. The local fauna here pretty much ignore the presence of people and exhibit natural behavior.
IMG_0397; Anhinga
Some young bulls are checking out a cow that is beginning to release the smell of estrus. They are curious and fired up, but won't breed this season. When the cows become receptive, the mature bulls will chase away these youngsters. Our beautiful world, pass it on.
I am sometimes amazed by the tender and loving behavior I have seen animals exhibit to each other. Obviously facial expressions don't work for most animals so it has to be behavioral. Here two Sitka Black-tailed bucks are nuzzling each other and obviously enjoying it at the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center. The deer came here when they were found orphaned otherwise they would not have survived in the wild. It's interesting to see this behavior for these two bucks as they will fight each other for the ability to mate with does. So, maybe they are saying, "Forgive me for what I'm about to do to you?"
Taken 29 August 2016.
Podilymbus podiceps,
Atascadero Lake,
San Luis Obispo Co., California
The bird at left had been tending four chicks as I heard but could not see the bird (calling excitedly) at right approaching, both swimming toward each other. This connection happened quickly and I did not see a fish exchanged. In a brief search I could not find this behavior explained, but I believe it is a pair-bonding greeting. Seconds later the chicks swam up to join these adults.