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The last day the kits were at the deck den, they were wild and crazy, using all their muscles and instincts to build their survival skills. Note a second kit, watching from a distance.
Recent heavy rain has created mud in this dog town. For some reason the bison have stopped around this area a lot and three mature bulls were standing with their tongues to the mud. My guess is there is salt or some mineral present. Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, Medicine Park, Oklahoma. Our beautiful world, pass it on.
I've been hanging on to this shot for a while. I posted it because it's very rare to see a Carolina Satyr nectaring on a flower. The Satyrs normally subsist on sap and grasses. This is the only instance I've seen of this behavior.
Have a great Saturday, everyone!
Several killdeer were calling to each other along the mud flats of a shallow Boyd Lake in Loveland, Colorado. I was able to walk fairly close to this one, that kept giving alarm trills, but instead of flying or running away, it kept kneeling on depressions in the ground and lifting its wings over its back end.
so, people tend to ask me how i think of so many concepts for pictures. let me share my inspiration for this.
today i had burger king for lunch. i was feeling pretty thirsty so i decided to order a medium size veggie burger meal. long story short, that damn pop was the largest thing ive ever seen.
and thus, this picture was born. now i hope every one can look past burger king and realize that this applies to something greater than that.
inspiration is everywhere.
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engagement shoot tomorrow. work all weekend.. and i also agreed to model in a runway show thats going on this sunday, so ill probably be absent from flickr again for a little while.
The woods where I often photograph run parallel to a railroad switching operation. The deer herd that lives in those woods will run ahead of me when they spot me...always staying a safe distance.
At some point they will decide to climb the embankment to get up to the sets of rails. From there they can go either direction before climbing back down into the woods. It is never a panicked flight; the deer always keep a lookout for where I am,.
And once they get up the embankment to the rails, at least some of them will stop and watch me, to see which way they should go. That looks just like this.
I don't usually think of House Finches as particularly fun-loving birds. This one enjoyed splashing immensely today though making both bubbles and a delightful reflection while he was at it.
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Two Impala (Aepyceros melampus) Rams gingerly test each other in dominance behavior in Mikumi National Park of Tanzania.
Deep violets, you liken to
The kindest eyes that look on you,
Without a thought disloyal.
--Elizabeth Barrett Browning, A Flower in a Letter
The american bittern is often very difficult to find because it usually is rummaging around in the tall marsh foliage. It becomes visible once in awhile as in this photo or as it flies to a different location.
Taken at the Ritch Grissom Memorial Wetlands, Viera, Florida.
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. (Eastern Forktails in Wheel Formation image.)
Egg Laying
Once the wheel is broken, the female may leave the male, separate from him as he remains close to her, or they may stay together in tandem as she goes about laying eggs (oviposition). Oviposition may take many forms:
•Skimmer females usually leave their mates soon after breakup and fly over shallow water, dropping to the water's surface to lay her eggs and rising again.
•Darner males do not release their females and carry them to likely places for oviposition. The female dips her abdomen to the water's surface and they rise a couple of inches before flying to a new location.
•Some damselfly males do not release their mates – even when the female climbs down a plant stem to lay her eggs in that stem, but several centimeters below the water's surface. The male may be dragged down until he is almost submerged, but he is needed to help her break through the water surface once egg laying is over.
•Emerald dragonfly females have thorn-like ovipositors with which they stab the mud surrounding the bogs in which they lay their eggs. (Red and yellow arrows in the photo of the Clamp-tipped Emerald.) The eggs are deposited below the surface of the mud to hatch when rains raise the level of the bog and submerge the mud.
•Some damselflies and dragonflies, including the two primitive Anisotrophomorpha species, lay their eggs in the stems and leaves of sedges, rushes, and aquatic plants. Many that use aquatic plants have saw-like ovipositors that slice through the outer tissues of these structures and allow the eggs to be inserted below the stem surface. (Red arrow in the Eastern Forktail Female picture.) There have been several studies on ovipositioning scars on fossil leaves and stems from the Carboniferous Period, and many of these scars have been attributed to dragonflies and damselflies.
Dragonflies are unique in the insect world in their morphology and behaviors.
I never tire of watching Pelicans soar and dive. There was something very tasty in the shallow waters off the pier in San Simeon the other day. These guys put on quite a show! Sometimes barely lifting off - almost skipping across the water - before diving again.
This woman's car is PACKED with stuff. She was parked near an outside trash barrel at a retail shop and was inventorying her stash and doing a little house cleaning.
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The usual comical, frantic, jerky feeding behavior of this egret allows it to be identified from a great distance off even though you cannot discern any of its field marks. It's usually my favorite large wader to watch trying to secure a meal. This bird, however was remarkably subdued... it was uncharacteristically calm and patient!
IMG_8982; Reddish Egret
They're getting bolder, in color and behavior.
It is 47 degrees this morning......above zero! Going up in the 60's.
Spring has finally sprung!
Snow coming this weekend......lolol
The mockingbirds love to pose and fight, the one in the back looks much worse for the wear, and a little rough on the wings too. The other one seems to be moving fluidly, maybe a little more confident! These two reminded me of old samurai movies, with their winds swinging through the air so much like katanas.
What I like best about the shot is the one on the bottom showing some type of defensive behavior, but doing so fluidly, look at his tail and how it balances the wing movement. This one is firmly anchored and drove off the poor intruder, who is looking rough. If you see him on large, you can see how rough he looks.
Saw this on explore this morning! Thanks everyone for looking and commenting, I sincerely appreciate it! Y'all rock!
Good morning folks, here in this image you can see where I assume is the female start to come up out of the water, and the male starts to get into a position where he could try to get busy to do his thing, and you will see that. This series was a very special event for me to witness, and hope that I'm depicting it right so you to can see just what had transpired. Have a great day everyione, and thanks for the visit.
Just your basic ol’ Great Blue Heron, but in a pose that I have never seen before. I see them quite often but have never seen one in this position before. It was not injured and merely raised up and walked away as I approached. Maybe someone has an answer for this type of behavior. Great Blue Heron captured on the mud flats along Horsepen Bayou.
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Going to add that my Flickr feed just went belly up and I’m only seeing one contact. Will try to get to everyone’s posts ASAP.
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An addition.
Flickr says that they have rebuilt my feed three times, but I am only seeing a feed from one person and that’s it.
I see one post from Ken, one from Thelma and about a dozen photos from Gerry and that is all that I see. Flickr is really beginning to disturb me. They’ve had MONTHS to resolve the issues and we are still left with a haphazard product that only functions when it cares to. Maybe I need a refund or a different site to post my photos.
I grow EXTREMELY WEARY of this NONSENSE. How much am I paying for these headaches?
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The recent cool weather was not to this cat's liking. It usually has more energy than the Energizer Bunny, and sometimes literally runs around the walls and recoils off people! It discovered this ray of morning sunshine coming through a bedroom window and claimed this spot as its own. I couldn't pass up this posed shot! (For you cat lovers... it's a Russian Blue.)
IMG_0513; Cat