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A week after I saw him on the pole feeder, I spotted my male woodpecker on the ground with the other birds, looking for fallen seeds. All the other woodpeckers in my yard stick with eating from the suet basket and looking for insects on the trees.
Male Red-bellied Woodpecker (melanerpes carolinus)
House Sparrow (Passer domesticus)
Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata)
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Location: Highland of Perak, Malaysia
Toxicity: Non-venomous
Length: 6 inches
Also known as white-headed reed snake, or red headed reed snake.
Distribution: It is native to Southeast Asia, where it occurs in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore.
Habitat: Lowland to highland forest (e.g., Mt. Kinabalu)
Etymology: Named after Hermann Schlegel (1804-1884), German herpetologist.
Behavior: Shy and docile (but some specimens especially from Singapore are known to bite).
Length: 5--5-6 inches
Diet: Feeds on small invertebrates such as worms, sometimes insects.
Reproduction: Oviparous (eggs layer).
Distribution: It is native to Southeast Asia, where it occurs in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore.
Don't you just love when they pose for you
shot at the Emperor Valley Zoo, Trinidad & Tobago.
Honestly i Think it's a swan goose but i could be wrong if anyone knows the name of this beautiful bird please let me know.
Cape Gannets (Morus capensis) in scissor behavior as they court next to their nest at the Gannet colony at Lambert's Bay, South Africa. It is terribly hard to isolate a pair as some 19,000 birds were occupying the small island.
Sassy, Ryan, Teresa, Darren, Ken and Scott
Sassy --- I know that all of you won't be attending Thursday's event, but that doesn't mean you can't benefit from this. I gathered you guys here for a short lesson on how to deal with the press.
[...Sassy goes on about the do's and don'ts for press, red carpet etiquette, and so on...]
Okay, I think you all got it. I just have one more thing to let you in on before you go. If you can only take away one thing from today, it's this; the #1 rule in any press situation... always leave them wanting more.
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Taken at Southampton Agriculture & Forestry Museum & Heritage Village in Courtland, Virginia [Southampton County] Patient, strong and cooperative mules put on a demonstration. I’d like to think this is a nudge of affection for its handler.
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Haha..I am kidding. This super starling is super friendly and did not my presence at all. It just probably yawned..
I watched these two goatfish stay close together with the larger one staying in a vertical position and both alternating between remaining stationary and swimming frantically.
When we arrived at the Albany mudflats the tide had been pretty high but was going down...we decided to sit on a log and wait it out hoping the birds would show up, it didn't take long! Avocets started coming in and we witnessed a very 'curious behavior'...they would fly across the water skimming, dipping and even diving full bodied into it. The water hadn't exposed the mud yet but as they emerged they had streaks of mud on their chests! Something I had never seen before and very entertaining!
The last image you can see the mud on it's chest as it's walking out!
I've often seen roadrunners face away from the sun and spread their wings to warm their body core. But, it was 82 degrees this morning. Watched this bird for awhile and after a few minutes, he ran into the shade and immediately began gular flutter to cool down. Curious behavior.
Our beautiful world, pass it on.
The history of the dominatrix is argued to date back to rituals of the Goddess Inanna (or Ishtar as she was known in Akkadian), in ancient Mesopotamia. Ancient cuneiform texts consisting of "Hymns to Inanna" have been cited as examples of the archetype of powerful, sexual female displaying dominating behaviors and forcing Gods and men into submission to her.
Domina rituals included cross-dressing of cult personnel, and rituals "imbued with pain and ecstasy, bringing about initiation and journeys of altered consciousness; punishment, moaning, ecstasy, lament and song, participants exhausting themselves with weeping and grief."
The profession appears to have originated as a specialization within brothels , before becoming its own unique craft.
The day I saw the familiar behavior from you
I was very shocked, I didn't know there's someone not only me
Actually before you made this act, I didn't notice it yet
But that day, I looked longer time
My eyes lingered and wondered
Full of surprises that I realise it
There's a problem of your ^MiMi^
by Babette Teeth
That's the best way to describe what I watched. Notice the big fish at the edge of the water. It's severely injured. When it would wiggle off the sand the Great Blue would chase it down, spear it, put it back on the sand. When it finally gave up the Heron left. Go figure, I've seen them eat much larger than that one so it wasn't that - just purely unusual behavior.
Two White-tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus) bucks cautiously approach other as they joust in play after the rut. The deer on the right has broken its right antler. Image taken on Rocky Mountain Arsenal in Commerce City, Colorado.
I don't know what is beneath the lady bird, and the colour on his body fade like this. she just stay there any didn't make any move
This species is quite variable in appearance, and sex/age determination can be confounding until you know what to look for. Sexing them based on color alone is impossible- a view of the reproductive organs is essential.
I went to a haunt I know of where this species is ridiculously abundant- they swarm by the score and moving 100 feet down the trail will yield literally hundreds of individuals. I was hoping to find individuals varied enough to highlight the differences here. With so many milling about, this was not hard to do. Shooting these extremely wary Odes requires patience, and a little knowledge of their behavior.
This is a bright female, and a look at the terminal appendages shows that here quite clearly. Compare the cerci of this female to those of the male in the next shot. I've set these up so you can toggle between the two- showcasing the physical differences between the sexes. Go to expanded slide show for the best viewing.
Also note the absence of any protuberances on the bottom of the first abdominal segment. Compare to the male in the next image.
I will post other examples from this group as I have the time to go through them. I hope some will find this exercise useful.
Film at eleven, as I like to say.
GOELx
This Spotted Sandpiper did something previously unseen,. As I approached it -- stealthily (I like to think), it moved away from me, as they do. Quick walk. In the normal Sandpiper posture.
Then, for whatever reason, it stopped, and reared up. Think 'standing on its tiptoes'. Vertical posture...VERY unusual. Stood like this for seconds, like it was sampling its surroundings...but it never looked back in my direction. Then it dropped down to normal stance...and flew off.
Not a great photo -- but in this case behavior trumps quality. I processed this photo three times, in three very different ways...couldn't find any pleasing composition. Lacking that, I'm just showing the bird standing upright, like a biped.
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Nikon D4s. Nikkor 80-400mm @ 400mm. 1/3200nd @ f/11. ISO 3200. EV = 0.0.
A una in Paradiso
Eri per me quel tutto, amore,
per cui si struggeva la mia anima -
una verde isola nel mare, amore,
una fonte limpida, un'ara
di magici frutti e fiori adornata:
e tutti erano miei quei fiori.
Ah, sogno splendido e breve!
Stellata speranza, appena apparsa
e subito sopraffatta!
Una voce del Futuro mi grida
"Avanti, avanti!" - ma è sul Passato
(oscuro gugite!) che la mia anima aleggia
tacita, immobile, sgomenta!
Perchè mai più, oh, mai più per me
risplenderà quella luce di Vita!
Mai più - mai più - mai più -
(è quel che il mare ripete
alle sabbie del lido) - mai più
rifiorirà un albero percosso dal fulmine,
nè potrà più elevarsi un'aquila ferita.
Vivo, trasognato, giorni estatici,
e tutte le mie notturne visioni
mi riportano ai tuoi grigi occhi di luce,
a là dove tu stessa ti porti e risplendi,
oh, in quali eteree danze,
lungo rivi che scorrono perenni.
Edgar Allan Poe
All our behaviour has changed since the pandemic started.
- We have no more group gathering
- We do not visit our friends and families any more
- We work from home
- We do not eat out
- We use technology to avoid interaction in person
- We wear mask
In regard to mask wearing, I believe we still have to do this at least for year 2021!
Have a good day!
Fuji X-T3
Fuji XF 35mm F2
ACROS B&W with red filter
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 species nests in our far northwestern states (including Alaska), and we don't see them until their fall migration southward. Some falls the migrating Rufous Hummers seem to outnumber our local breeding Broad-taileds. This young Hummer is a juvenile Rufous male. Both sexes of this species start out looking much like Mom. The males gradually assume more of the tomato-red coloring as they age. They adopt the same aggressive behavior as their Dads... even at this very young age, attempting to drive away other males that visit the nectar feeders. Some are quite successful at this activity! This aggression must be in their genes!
IMG_9356; Rufous Hummingbird
University Hall, seen from the shadows of the Behavioral Sciences Building at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Colombia
Adult male golden-collared manakins (Manacus vitellinus) show off their bright-yellow throat and beard to attract the attention of females. They strut their stuff in groups called leks in a defined display area on the forest floor, which they carefully clean by removing dead leaves and foliage that obstruct the female's view.
During the courtship display, males perform complex acrobatic moves, leaping from one sapling to another, while making conspicuous "snapping" sounds by forcefully beating their wings together above their heads. (phys.org/news/2017-09-cleanliness-sexiness-golden-collare...)
I took this picture while on a photo tour led by Jeff Munoz of Rainforest Photo Tours (rainforestphototours.com).
Puddling
Is male puddling behavior of tropical butterflies targeted at sodium for nuptial gifts or activity?
ABSTRACT
An apparent sexual difference in adult feeding behaviour in many species of Lepidoptera relates to puddling on mud, dung and carrion. In most butterfly species, puddling is exclusively a male behaviour. A possible explanation for this division in feeding behaviour is that nutrients derived from puddling are transferred to the female in the spermatophore during mating as a nuptial gift. Sodium derived from puddling has been shown to act as a nuptial gift in a few Lepidoptera species. It can also be used for neuromuscular activity in both males and females and may therefore correlate with flight morphology. In this study, we examine the generality of these two hypotheses in comparative work on a community of African fruit-feeding butterflies. We investigated puddling behaviour of males and females on carrion and dung together with sodium preferences, polyandry, relative wing-size, sexual size dimorphism and sodium concentrations in the bodies and spermatophores of several species. The results show that sodium as a nuptial gift can explain the sexual division in puddling in some species, but not in all. Species in which both sexes puddle transfer little sodium in the nuptial gift, which is consistent with the nuptial gift theory. Wing loading and puddling are not significantly correlated, but the trend followed the direction predicted by the activity hypothesis. However, the sodium concentration in the species with the smallest wing area to thoracic volume (WA/TV) ratio (the largest Charaxes spp.), was relatively low. Moreover, in all investigated species, the sodium concentration was higher in the abdomen than in the thorax. The results are discussed in the light of differences between the sexes in foraging behaviour in both larvae and adults, and with respect to alternative explanations for puddling. © 2005 The Linnean Society of London, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2005, 86, 345–361
Is male puddling behavior of tropical butterflies targeted at sodium for nuptial gifts or activity? (PDF Download Available). Available from: www.researchgate.net/publication/227807570_Is_male_puddli... [accessed Jan 15, 2016].
"So we'll piss off the neighbours
In the place that feels the tears
The place to lose your fears
Yeah, reckless behavior
A place that is so pure, so dirty and raw..." - Zayn
The February challenge was to find 10 shots at one place. Check out our shots here : www.flickr.com/groups/ajac/pool/
Just a simple testimonial, a modest tribute to Women.
Women at work to feed the family, as everywhere on earth.
Their daily behavior speaks louder than words.
We are now seing the world through our mobile phone. The space it looks in our life now is just amazing compare to few years ago when we were using it to pickup a call or send a SMS. With the rise of smartphone, we have the privilege to have internet in our pocket, anytime, everywhere.
We are now more focus on what is happing elsewhere "online" than what is happing just in front of us, in the real world...
Living in China has strengthened this vision of the evolution of our society, in a country where the mobile technology is far away more advanced compare to the occident, for good and for bad.
This is China~~
Instinctual Behavior shapes the Beast, conduct and cognition shape the Man .... Quotes by Patricia Bechthold
"Robert The Bruce of Scots " 1316- 1329
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This popular urban park is heavily visited by the Albuquerque public. Many of these well-meaning people bring food like popcorn and bread to feed the ducks. While I don't personally approve of feeding wildlife, I don't judge these people too harshly... they truly mean well, and the ponds also include many domestic waterfowl. I regularly take advantage of the altered behavior of the wild waterfowl... in time they become fearless here, and often approach to within a few feet of my location on shore. They have to smarten up in a hurry to survive the hunters' guns when they leave this park in the spring!
IMG_9781; Wood Duck