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PCSO Dominique Grimes of Greater Manchester Police’s Middleton Neighbourhood Policing Team pictured on her Alkrington beat.
Her dedication and commitment proved so effective that there was a major reduction in anti-social behaviour within four months of her taking on her current role.
PCSO Grimes and her colleague PCSO Adrian Hazelhust were named winners in the Chief Constable’s Excellence Awards 2009, in the Citizen Focus category.
The Excellence Awards - the Force’s equivalent of the Oscars – are judged by the Chief Constable alone and represent the highest recognition for good work.
They received their award at a ceremony held at Manchester Town Hall earlier this year.
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A Tawny Frogmouth trying to "hide".
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While in Ohio at the Midwest Birding Symposium we saw ring-billed gulls landing in dog wood trees and eating the berries.
Gulls are scavengers but I didn't know they would eat fruit.
It may be possible they were eating insects and not the berries but that isn't what it looked like.
Scientific stuff
Larus delawarensis
From Cornell Lab of OrnithologyFamiliar acrobats of the air, Ring-billed Gulls nimbly pluck tossed tidbits from on high. Comfortable around humans, they frequent parking lots, garbage dumps, beaches, and fields, sometimes by the hundreds. These are the gulls you're most likely to see far away from coastal areas—in fact, most Ring-billed Gulls nest in the interior of the continent, near freshwater. A black band encircling the yellow bill helps distinguish adults from other gulls—but look closely, as some other species have black or red spots on the bill
Many, if not most, Ring-billed Gulls return to breed at the colony where they hatched. Once they have bred, they are likely to return to the same breeding spot each year, often nesting within a few meters of the last year's nest site. Many individuals return to the same wintering sites each winter too.
The documentary shots one gets late at night...
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Spiny mason wasp (Odynerus spinipes) at nest burrow in clay gully. Dorset, UK.
An especially long one this.
Looks like springs on the way with these Chaffinch squaring up to each other in an attempt to gain the upper hand.
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Scrutiny and harassment by a group of crows on Parksville Bay, Vancouver Island. We had a peaceful walk in late morning along with a few paired residents and many varieties of birds. The structure was erected by an anonymous person on an island in the bay that comes and goes at the whim of the tide, currents, and wind.
Usually as in this case the Black Headed Gulls plunge in and grab a piece of vegitation or if there lucks in perhaps a small fish such as a Stickleback either way any gulls in the vicinity will begin the chase to try and steal it's prize.
Ebony Jewelwing (Calopteryx maculata) female and male behaviour (rough cut).
Backus Woods, Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada.
June 25, 2020.
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Ebony Jewelwings have very sophisticated courtship and ovipositing rituals.
Females line the stream banks to watch males "joust" for their attention. FEMALES pick their partner based on these competitions. That's rare in the dragonfly-damselfly (Odonate) world. Typically, the male literally grabs a female by the scruff of her neck and hopes she doesn't hurl. ;-)
The reason these jousting sessions are so important to the females is because the male "hoverguards" the female he fertilized, to ensure that HIS eggs are safely laid in the stream, on partially submerged logs, twigs or leaves. She depends on the male's ability to defend her while she lays her eggs.
Ebony Jewelwings (Calopteryx maculata) prefer relatively clear, fast-moving streams. The male sentry chases away any other male that tries to interfere while she's laying her eggs underwater (their nymphs are aquatic).
I've watched and taken stills of hoverguarding behaviour, but this is the first time I've attempted to shoot video. And it's the first time I've seen a male attack a female and prevent her from laying eggs.
These beautiful and fascinating creatures never cease to amaze! ❤
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When some children are randomly selected and their teacher is told they are likely to bloom intellectually over the next few months, they do.
This is the self-fulfilling fulfilling prophecy.
(It happens probably because the teacher expects the child to learn faster so gives it more challenging tasks)
(Rosenthal, 1985)
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I crossed the Cheshire - Staffordshire border yesterday and visited Westport Lake with the hope of seeing a Water Ballet.
I managed to catch this pair in rehearsals for the main event. The ballerina and ballerino were practicing the head shaking and bobbing as a cold wind blew across the lake.
I should think they have got this part well covered now and are waiting for a warmer and calmer day to move on with their routine.
From Wiki:- The great crested grebe and its behaviour was the subject of one of the landmark publications in avian ethology: Julian Huxley's 1914 paper on The Courtship‐habits of the Great Crested Grebe.
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Shorebirds of Ireland, Freshwater Birds of Ireland and The Birds of Ireland: A Field Guide with Jim Wilson.
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Audouin's gull (Ichthyaetus audouinii) is a large gull restricted to the Mediterranean and the western coast of Saharan Africa and the Iberian Peninsula.
In the late 1960s, this was one of the world's rarest gulls, with a population of only 1,000 pairs. It has established new colonies, but remains rare with a population of about 10,000 pairs.
This species, unlike many large gulls, rarely scavenges, but is a specialist fish eater, and is therefore strictly coastal and pelagic. This bird will feed at night, often well out to sea, but also slowly patrols close into beaches, occasionally dangling its legs to increase drag.
The adult basically resembles a small European herring gull, the most noticeable differences being the short stubby red bill and "string of pearls" white wing primary tips, rather than the large "mirrors" of some other species. The legs are grey-green. It takes four years to reach adult plumage.
This species shows little tendency to wander from its breeding areas, but there were single records in the Netherlands and England in May 2003, and one spent from December 2016 to April 2017 in Trinidad.
It is listed as vulnerable by the IUCN. (wikipedia)
I was fortunate to bump into a small flock of Audouin's Gull on a morning walk in Portugal in the early summer of 2023. One of the nicest looking of the gull species.
Marsz Pamięci
A ceremony of remembrance is held every year on 5th August at the Monument to Victims of the Wola Massacre (In Polish: "Pomnik Ofiar Rzezi Woli"), which is located in a small square ("Skwer Pamięci") near the intersection of Solidarity Avenue (Aleja Solidarności) and Leszno Street in Warsaw.
The ceremony is followed by a memorial march to Warsaw Insurgents Cemetery....
The Wola massacre: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wola_massacre
A stereotypy is a repetitive or ritualistic movement, posture, or utterance, found in patients with mental retardation, autism spectrum disorders, tardive dyskinesia, frontotemporal dementia and stereotypic movement disorder. Stereotypies may be simple movements such as body rocking, or complex, such as self-caressing, crossing and uncrossing of legs, and marching in place. Several causes have been hypothesized for stereotypy, and several treatment options are available.
Stereotypy is sometimes called stimming in autism, under the hypothesis that it self-stimulates one or more senses. Related terms include punding and tweaking to describe repetitive behavior that is a side effect of some drugs.
I need a lover with a slow hand!
I need a lover with an easy touch...
Ok you can hum the other bits.😘
Mute Swan - Courtship and Copulatory Behaviour
The Mute Swan (Cygnus olor) is a species of swan native to much of Europe and Asia.This large swan is wholly white in plumage with an orange bill bordered with black. The name 'mute' derives from it being less vocal than other swan species. The population in the UK has increased recently, perhaps due to better protection of this species. Around 5,800-7,000 pairs breeding annually in UK.
Mayesbrook Park (Barking), Britain’s first climate change park, is an attractive nature reserve with a newly restored river landscape. The Mayes brook has been brought back into the park within a widened meandering river channel creating an attractive river landscape to help the park to cope with more extreme changes in climate including heavy rainfall and drought. This new river system, with a gravel river bed and banks, provides an ideal wetland habitat for wildlife and at times of high rainfall it is able to rise in a controlled and natural way within a newly created floodplain.
The southern section of the park features two large lakes which are rich in wildlife. Aquatic plants such as reeds and rushes have been planted in ponds and backwaters, creating a rich habitat for wetland species. With over 40 hectares of open space, the park recently received a Mayor of London Safer Parks Silver award for high standards of site safety and policing.