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Halloween 2013
It's been over month since my last photo. Way too much for me. Hope now, when I'm ok with situation, things will go better. Happy Halloween, Guys!
Scientific name : indopadilla sp
Family : Salticidae
📷Olympus OM-D EM-5 Mark III
📷M.Zuiko Digital ED 60mm f2.8
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This mallard carried this dead frog and dropped it near the waters edge.
After a little research it seems Mallards do eat frogs with females hunting them and the drakes often stealing there catch, the meat helps sustain them during nesting.
American Coot AMCO (Fulica americana)
Adult with 2 chicks
"'Greater' Edmonton Area"
St Albert's Riel Wetlands:
Big Lake and John E. Poole boardwalk
Location: west side of St Albert
St. Albert,
Alberta, Canada
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Interestingly(bizarre) the Parent fed one constantly and persistently ignored constant begging of the other
PS
i like the feet detail visible in this shot
Over-sized Juvenile feet still appear chicken-like - while parent bird shows fully developed lobed features
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Bald head won't win the chicks any cutie-beauty pageants
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Badger follows Coyote through a prairie dog town. Badger isn't as close as he looks; the telephoto has compressed the distance between them. I've observed this behaviour on three occasions, although not yet at close range. These two species have a long history of tandem hunting (I think "co-operative" hunting would be too presumptive).
I discussed this with a biologist friend a few years ago. He told me that he had seen a badger nab a prairie dog this way, twice. He thought that perhaps the prairie dogs became aware of a predator coyote in their midst and were thinking "coyote" and looking for a taller profile. Badger came in lower and surprised them.
For Coyote to tolerate another species this way, he must derive some benefit (beyond entertainment value), I suspect. Looking at their respective abilities, Coyote is quick and agile, capable of a lightning fast response if he catches a prairie dog too far from the safety of its burrow. Badger, on the other hand, is the supreme digger: I've watched badgers digging at both the main entrance and backdoor escape exit of a prairie dog burrow, rushing back and forth between the two, clearly trying to frighten the rodents into panicking and making a mistake. I can imagine Coyote as the opportunist here, hanging around to snap up a panicked prairie dog. But I haven't seen this. Yet.
Photographed in Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan. Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission © 2016 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
Harris hawk
The Harris hawk or Harris's hawk is unique amongst the raptors for hunting in family groups. This co-operative behaviour allows it to capture larger prey than would otherwise be possible.
Found from the southwestern United States down to Chile and central Argentina, Harris hawks are medium to large birds of prey with dark brown and chestnut plumage and a white-tipped tail. They occupy sparsely covered habitats including semi-desert, woodlands, marshlands and mangroves. Some individuals are sighted in Britain; however these are likely to be escapees from falconry, a purpose for which they are one of the most popular hawks.
Shorebirds of Ireland, Freshwater Birds of Ireland and The Birds of Ireland: A Field Guide with Jim Wilson.
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The European Stonechat (Saxicola rubicola) is a small passerine bird that was formerly classed as a subspecies of the Common Stonechat. Long considered a member of the thrush family Turdidae, genetic evidence has placed it and its relatives in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae. It is slightly smaller than the European Robin. Both sexes have distinctively short wings. The summer male has black upperparts, a black head, an orange throat and breast, and a white belly and vent. It also has white half-collar on the sides of its neck, a small white scapular patch on the wings, and a very small white patch on the rump often streaked with black. European Stonechats breed in heathland, coastal dunes and rough grassland with scattered small shrubs and bramble, open gorse, tussocks or heather. They are short-distance migrants or non-migratory. The male's song is high and twittering like a Dunnock. Both sexes have a clicking call like stones knocking together. Saxicola rubicola hibernans occurs in northwestern Europe in Atlantic coastal areas, in southwestern Norway, Great Britain, Ireland and northwestern France. (wikipedia)
A male with a demanding fledgling along the south Wicklow coast.
They are also known as Cobra Chickens, Viper Chickens or of course as their name many know them by - Canada Geese. They are nasty with one another especially if they try to invade the space of others.
Canon EOS RP with a Canon RP 800mm f/11 IS STM lens and processed in Lightroom Classic.
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