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This building is the work of two former students of Mies Van der Rohe. It shares the basic concepts put in practice by Mies in many of his buildings, but in this case the structrure is covered by a pronounced, curved skin.
A male leafcutter bee, probably Megachile centuncularis (patchwork leafcutter bee), feeding on the pollen of a calendula flower in my garden over the summer. I often saw these males (and female Megachile centuncularis, which are far easier to ID) at these stunning flowers; what a pretty place to enjoy a meal! The flower was sooooo orange, I actually had to desaturate this image a little!
Birds of prey are fascinating and majestic animals. They can generally be defined as birds that feed on animals that they catch alive. Representatives of these two orders can be found almost everywhere in the world. Although these groups are distantly related, the behavioural and anatomical characteristics they share appear to be mainly the result of parallel evolution.
experiencing some behaviour that I have never seen before from young red squirrels. These kits were unafraid of the water and would enter without any fear
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This is at St. Andrew's Lock and Dam at the Red River, a popular fishing spot for American White Pelicans.
When you are at the top of the stairs, you can see the water rushing down the dam. It is there that the pelicans line up and go fishing. There are some huge fish that are swimming towards the pelicans. The water falling down the dam is quite loud so the birds aren't disturbed by the clicking of cameras. These are mostly young pelicans. Next post will be a closer up view. I must admit it was rather fascinating to watch from above. It was challenging because the space was barely large enough for my lens.
If you want to see how large some of the fish get, check out this previous post! It is a shot of a pelican with a HUGE fish!
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The courtship display of a male Sharp-tailed Grouse includes rapid stamping with the feet, with wings outstretched and pointed tail held up. This aspect of their behaviour was recognized by First Nations peoples and incorporated into their dances. The males also inflate a purplish air sac (as seen here) and make low booming and ‘clucking’ sounds, as well as raising yellow eye combs. This bird was at a lek (courtship display site) in southern Alberta, Canada.
A juvenile Barred Owl being preened by the adult. Occasionally the adult would stop to look around as there were a couple of noisy jays in the area.
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Eared grebes have a variety of interesting bonding behaviours. I'm going to try to describe one of them. This images shows shows a single frame from a sequence (wish I had a video) where the male and female grebe face each other and are slightly puffed up. They vocalize, turn their heads, tilt their heads down and away from each other and do a quick bit of preening on their own neck area, face each other again, turn to the opposite side, and preen again. This is repeated a few times. Quite intriguing.
in my garden....a tiny Australian native bee, a honey bee and a few ants go about the business of living, on a Eucalypt (now Corymbia) flower.
Honey bee is about 15mm
Tetragonula carbonaria bee about 5mm
Ant about 3mm
The honey bee is headfirst into the nectar, looks as though the Tetragonula is after the pollen and the ants go for the nectar....sometimes drowning in it! There were a few more bees and ants in the other flowers.
It's an amazing world, - flowers, nectar, pollen, insects and so on and on and around again....
The insects... perhaps one could say that each one tolerates the others, I've never seen any aggressive behaviour no matter how crowded with insects some flowers can be.
The flower is a Hybrid Corymbia (formerly Eucalyptus) that is flowering out of season, normally it flowers profusely around December/Christmas.
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Hypopyrrhus pyrohypogaster
(Red-bellied Grackle / Cacique candela)
La Ceja, Colombia
Some male birds will bring food to a female as part of courtship to show he can provide for any chicks she may produce. He may simply bring the food for her to eat or in some cases actually transfer it directly to her mouth just as he would to hungry nestlings.
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The robin is on high alert. There was another robin in the garden and he did not like that one bit. So after chasing him around and making him leave the garden he found himself a high perch to stand guard :-). You gotta love them
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Scarlet Backed Flowerpecker
Scarlet-Backed Flowerpecker, Dicaeum cruentatum, Sepah Puteri Merah
Common bird in gardens, parks and cultivated areas, even in the cities. Because of its tiny size and fast moving behaviour, it is not easy to get a good photo of this bird. Usually moves in pairs feeding on flowers, insects and small fruits.
Sepah Puteri adalah burung kecil yang bergerak pantas dari pokok ke pokok mencari makan sambil berbunyi bising. Selalunya boleh dijumpai di kawasan taman dengan pokok pokok bunga dan berbuah, terutama yang ada banyak pokok dedalu sebagai tumbuhan tumpang.
Radiohead - „There, There“
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In pitch dark
I go walking in your landscape
Broken branches
Trip me as I speak
Just ′cause you feel it
Doesn't mean it′s there
Just 'cause you feel it
Doesn't mean it′s there
There′s always a siren
Singing you to shipwreck
(Don't reach out, don′t reach out)
(Don't reach out, don′t reach out)
Steer away from these rocks
We'd be a walking disaster
(Don′t reach out, don't reach out)
(Don't reach out, don′t reach out)
Just ′cause you feel it
Doesn't mean it′s there
(Someone on your shoulder)
(Someone on your shoulder)
Just 'cause you feel it
Doesn′t mean it's there
(Someone on your shoulder)
(Someone on your shoulder)
There, there
Why so green
And lonely, and lonely
And lonely
Heaven sent you
To me, to me
To me
We are accidents
Waiting, waiting
To happen
We are accidents
Waiting, waiting
To happen
I know that hundreds of Northern Hawk Owl images have been posted, over the last couple of months, but I wanted to share this one as well. I hope that you don't mind.
It shows the behaviour of caching. If prey is abundant, Northern Hawk Owls will take advantage of this by caching food for later consumption.
This owl had caught a vole and flew to this branch. It spent nearly 5 minutes attempting to stuff the vole into the crack of this broken limb. It rotated the vole several times trying to make it fit. Ultimately it was unsuccessful and finally flew off to try another location.
Image created on Jan 8, 2020 west of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Image cropped slightly for composition.
Behaviour:
White-tailed eagles spend much of their day perched on trees or crags, and may often not move for hours. Perhaps up to 90% of a day may be spent perched, especially if weather is poor. Also, they will alternate periods of soaring with perching, especially flying over water or well-watered areas, but do considerably less soaring on average than do golden eagles. Pairs regularly roost together, often near to their nest, either on a crag or tree or crevices, overhung ledges or small isolated trees on a crag.
White-tailed Eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) Apetlon, Burgenland Austria_7512
Species: Cinclus cinclus.
Upright posturing - associated with courtship behaviour - with the bill raised vertically and wings slightly open and shivering.
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I think this one wins the cute factor. Moorhen feeding it's chick. There were in fact 4 chicks around but I only caught this one being fed.
These Cedar Waxwings were so hard to capture, I spent at least 2 hours waiting for them to be in the clear. I was dying seeing all that passing of the flower petal to the partner and could not capture this wonderful behaviour because of so many branches in front of them and being unable to move around. I had to crop a lot for some shots. So these images became behaviour shots only.
A few days at this time of year can bring a big swing in weather conditions. This photo was taken three days after the image in my previous post, when it was relatively warm (around freezing) and the owl was bathed in the warm glow of the setting sun. No sun on this day and the owl was showered by snow all day long.
The condition of the vole in its beak shows how much pressure it can exert on its prey. Between its talons and the beak, it has no problem dispatching voles, or other rodents.
My 3rd attempt in 3 years trying to find the Iberian Lynx. Studying animal behaviours before you go and picking the right time of the year is crucial. They are more visible and vocal during the mating season in January/ February. They were on the brink of extinction in 2002 with less than 100 left in Spain and none recorded in Portugal. A story of Hope where Countries unite to reverse and prevent species, habitat loss and climate change. This is a beautiful Feline medium sized wild cat with its spotted coat and tufted ears really enthralled me to try once again to photograph and aid in the conservation effort.
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Doi Suthep-Pui N.P., Chiang Mai, Thailand
Order : Lepidoptera
Family : Pieridae
Sub-Family : Pierinae
Genus : Delias
Species : Delias pasithoe pasithoe
An unusual behaviour that I have noticed only with this species. Early in the morning and standing in the shallows of a moving stream and appearing to be taking on water. There is no sand or mud and so they are not technically 'puddling' for minerals. They are possibly freshly eclosed (all the ones I have seen have been in excellent condition) and have a need to hydrate. I don't know but I have never seen any other species doing the same thing.
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Snapped this fella ( a polecat ) in a bit of autumnal sunshine, coming out of his home in a drystone wall, he gave me the look; good job he wasn't the size of a dog or I might have been in trouble, lol. Taken in Wales a while back. Polecat - Mustella putorius
...after you smell your own bottom.
Little Africa was grooming herself and was at the bathroom end when she got a whiff of, well herself.
"The flehmen response is an animal behavior in which the animal curls back the upper lip. This exposes the front teeth and gums of the animal. This is actually a means through which the pheromones and certain scents are transferred into the vomeronasal organ."
After 4 bird shots with interesting behaviour and/or action, this one is definitely second tier. But it's my first decent Say's Phoebe shot, and my first from Grasslands National Park - we don't see them often in my area. I was able to walk right up to this bird as it perched on top of a collapsing old ranch building on the former Larson holdings (Walt Larson was the first local rancher to agree to sell when Parks Canada began acquiring land for the new park in the 1980s, always on a willing buyer, willing seller basis).
That's nothing but sky in the background, btw. I promised to end this series of "birds on blue" with a water background, and that's coming right up, probably later today, a rare double upload day for me.
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"Heartbreaker, real faker
Getting off on bad behaviour
I know you inside and out, out, out
You're losing your temper
Do you think they won't remember
You're only sorry when you're coming down
Real hearts don't lie
Take it from me
You'll see in time
Take it from me
It's funny how it all goes down
Don't be sorry when it comes around
I'm like "Oh my god, I think it's karma"
Ain't it funny how it all adds up
When you're always trying to push your luck?
I'm like "Oh my god, I think it's karma"
"Oh my god, I..."
"Oh my god, I think it's karma"
“Even chance meetings are the result of karma… Things in life are fated by our previous lives. That even in the smallest events there’s no such thing as coincidence.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
Picture made with Leonardo in my nightmares of getting lost in a strange place
Mallotus villosus, know in eastern Canada as capelin, breed on the stony beaches of Newfoundland each summer. They 'roll' up onto the beaches on the incoming waves in massive numbers to lay their eggs, after which they catch the next wave back into the ocean.
However, some do get stranded too high on the beach. The fish will then flip and flop to try getting back down to where the water is. Some fail. There are three basic techniques they seem to use. Some will twist/roll. Others employ a 'moonwalk' technique where they undulate their bodies, tail first, down the beach. They will also pivot on their nose, as shown in this image.
The fish prefer to breed on beaches with smaller gravel, like this one. All the little whitish/brownish balls you see, that looks almost like sand, are eggs, but the individual in the photo is a male so it only contributed the milk that contains the spermatozoa that fertilizes the eggs. The males develop stronger colours on their back and enlarged pelvic fins. Females are more silver/white on the sides and will have a swollen abdomen due to all the eggs. If conditions are not right, they will also breed off-shore.
The photo isn't the best, but does illustrate most of the points noted above.