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Cretin Behaviors.
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Trajectory Bewusstsein angreifen Vertreter politische einzigartige Beiträge Zaudern Stimmen,
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الجمالي سر الاستقامة الفن دخول بوابات الأرجواني حبل المشنقة المخزية العدالة الميتة الفخر وحشية,
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錆びたびっくりする声、恐怖を吹き飛ばす、口元が残っている、一口の結果、音楽の騒ぎ、神秘的な年.
Steve.D.Hammond.
The squirrels and chipmunks help the ground-foraging birds (mainly Juncos and Jays) to clean up the spilled seed from the feeders. I enjoy watching them handle the small seeds... their finger dexterity is amazing! This guy is as close as that allowed by my tele lens (~6 ft.). I often have to retreat to achieve focus... after many years these engaging rodents are now totally accepting of my presence! I actually believe the pups learn this trust from their parents... the kids are usually even more accepting!
IMG_2046; Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel
Gotta give this house finch props for really working hard to get the female's attention - in the end, however, she flew off.
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.
This is the first in this series of images I was privileged to witness on this day in the wetlands.
I came upon this little group and these 2 were off by themselves biting each other and holding on to there beaks as shown. It became pretty intense as you will see, and hope you find it as interesting as I did.
Hope the weekend was a good one as your days ahead will be, and thanks for the visit.
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!
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.
Her folks is where the action ot a little heated as he tried to cover her with his wing, and yes she is under there somewhere as you will see tomorrow.
I followed the action very closely and the one your seeing is the male, and you will see that as well. It was so very interesting and a behavior I myself have not witnessed, it was remarkable indeed. Thank you all for stopping by, have a great day, and thank you for the response so far on this series, and all graciously accepted for sure.
Even the smallest and/or prettiest of creatures can be territorial and exhibit more than just a little bit of visciousness in the daily fight for survival. Heaven knows I've experienced it within the human workplace, hence the sarcastic title.
I've been rescuing photos from a dying portable hard drive. The hummingbird images I captured between 2012 - 2014 are favorites of mine and they needed to be saved to another drive.
As a photographer, you can learn quite a bit about birds or other wildlife by simply watching and photographing them on a regular basis. During that span of years my mother and I hung out those hummingbird feeders in Texas, I would be over there every morning and/or evening to photograph these soft, tiny little birdies. The more I watched, the more I learned they aren't quite as sweet as everybody might think. Luckily, this extended observation led to some very interesting photos.
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Last winter, we visited Grand Teton NP, for our usual images of wildlife in the snow ... and some winter landscapes as well. We hit various types of weather from blowing blizzard-like snow to gorgeous atypically warmer sunny days. This image was from one of those. See I came across some swans that were taking a leisurely swim in the river. Alongside them were the often overlooked mallards. After some time, my eyes kept returning to the mallards, which were becoming increasingly beautiful to me. This particular one captivated my lens. I just loved the way its head would glisten in the sunrise as it would bob in and out of the water as it foraged for food. Made me realize the power of observation in that as I watched, it became more predictable as to its actions and more intriguing to me. Such a beautiful bird.
Happy Weekend everyone. Hope that you have some fun things planned.
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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.
Come back when you can. Your visits are much appreciated.
This was taken on Mulberry between Prince & Spring, in the SoHo district of Manhattan.
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This set of photos is based on a very simple concept: walk every block of Manhattan with a camera, and see what happens. To avoid missing anything, walk both sides of the street.
That's all there is to it …
Of course, if you wanted to be more ambitious, you could also walk the streets of Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, and the Bronx. But that's more than I'm willing to commit to at this point, and I'll leave the remaining boroughs of New York City to other, more adventurous photographers.
Oh, actually, there's one more small detail: leave the photos alone for a month -- unedited, untouched, and unviewed. By the time I actually focus on the first of these "every-block" photos, I will have taken more than 8,000 images on the nearby streets of the Upper West Side -- plus another several thousand in Rome, Coney Island, and the various spots in NYC where I traditionally take photos. So I don't expect to be emotionally attached to any of the "every-block" photos, and hope that I'll be able to make an objective selection of the ones worth looking at.
As for the criteria that I've used to select the small subset of every-block photos that get uploaded to Flickr: there are three. First, I'll upload any photo that I think is "great," and where I hope the reaction of my Flickr-friends will be, "I have no idea when or where that photo was taken, but it's really a terrific picture!"
A second criterion has to do with place, and the third involves time. I'm hoping that I'll take some photos that clearly say, "This is New York!" to anyone who looks at it. Obviously, certain landscape icons like the Empire State Building or the Statue of Liberty would satisfy that criterion; but I'm hoping that I'll find other, more unexpected examples. I hope that I'll be able to take some shots that will make a "local" viewer say, "Well, even if that's not recognizable to someone from another part of the country, or another part of the world, I know that that's New York!" And there might be some photos where a "non-local" viewer might say, "I had no idea that there was anyplace in New York City that was so interesting/beautiful/ugly/spectacular."
As for the sense of time: I remember wandering around my neighborhood in 2005, photographing various shops, stores, restaurants, and business establishments -- and then casually looking at the photos about five years later, and being stunned by how much had changed. Little by little, store by store, day by day, things change … and when you've been around as long as I have, it's even more amazing to go back and look at the photos you took thirty or forty years ago, and ask yourself, "Was it really like that back then? Seriously, did people really wear bell-bottom jeans?"
So, with the expectation that I'll be looking at these every-block photos five or ten years from now (and maybe you will be, too), I'm going to be doing my best to capture scenes that convey the sense that they were taken in the year 2013 … or at least sometime in the decade of the 2010's (I have no idea what we're calling this decade yet). Or maybe they'll just say to us, "This is what it was like a dozen years after 9-11".
Movie posters are a trivial example of such a time-specific image; I've already taken a bunch, and I don't know if I'll ultimately decide that they're worth uploading. Women's fashion/styles are another obvious example of a time-specific phenomenon; and even though I'm definitely not a fashion expert, I suspected that I'll be able to look at some images ten years from now and mutter to myself, "Did we really wear shirts like that? Did women really wear those weird skirts that are short in the front, and long in the back? Did everyone in New York have a tattoo?"
Another example: I'm fascinated by the interactions that people have with their cellphones out on the street. It seems that everyone has one, which certainly wasn't true a decade ago; and it seems that everyone walks down the street with their eyes and their entire conscious attention riveted on this little box-like gadget, utterly oblivious about anything else that might be going on (among other things, that makes it very easy for me to photograph them without their even noticing, particularly if they've also got earphones so they can listen to music or carry on a phone conversation). But I can't help wondering whether this kind of social behavior will seem bizarre a decade from now … especially if our cellphones have become so miniaturized that they're incorporated into the glasses we wear, or implanted directly into our eyeballs.
If you have any suggestions about places that I should definitely visit to get some good photos, or if you'd like me to photograph you in your little corner of New York City, please let me know. You can send me a Flickr-mail message, or you can email me directly at ed-at-yourdon-dot-com
Stay tuned as the photo-walk continues, block by block ...
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.
Two African Lions (Panthera leo) rub in reinforcing the bond early one morning at the Goas waterhole in Etosha National Park of Namibia.
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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 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.
There are four species of nuthatches in North America. Only two are wide spread: this species and the Red-breasted. The Pygmy is strictly a western bird and the Brown-headed is restricted to the east. This is the most viewed Nuthatch up here, although Pygmies are also regular. It often visits our created bird oasis. While pros can sometimes determine Nuthatch sexes in the field, the color intensity differences are very subtle, and they probably need ideal lighting. (I believe this one to be male.)
IMG_1874; White-breasted Nuthatch
A dominant Whitetail buck flips his tail while preparing to reach for a licking branch in a Northern Autumn setting.
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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.
Island Of Madagascar
Off The East Coast Of Africa
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Female Ring-tailed Lemur with a youngster on her back.
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The ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta) is a large strepsirrhine primate and the most recognized lemur due to its long, black and white ringed tail. It belongs to Lemuridae, one of five lemur families, and is the only member of the Lemur genus. Like all lemurs it is endemic to the island of Madagascar. Known locally in Malagasy as maky ([makʲ] , spelled maki in French) or hira, it inhabits gallery forests to spiny scrub in the southern regions of the island. It is omnivorous and the most terrestrial of extant lemurs.
The animal is diurnal, being active exclusively in daylight hours.
The ring-tailed lemur is highly social, living in groups of up to 30 individuals. It is also female dominant, a trait common among lemurs. To keep warm and reaffirm social bonds, groups will huddle together. The ring-tailed lemur will also sunbathe, sitting upright facing its underside, with its thinner white fur towards the sun. Like other lemurs, this species relies strongly on its sense of smell and marks its territory with scent glands. The males perform a unique scent marking behavior called spur marking and will participate in stink fights by impregnating their tail with their scent and wafting it at opponents.
As one of the most vocal primates, the ring-tailed lemur uses numerous vocalizations including group cohesion and alarm calls. Experiments have shown that the ring-tailed lemur, despite the lack of a large brain (relative to simiiform primates), can organize sequences, understand basic arithmetic operations and preferentially select tools based on functional qualities.