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ok so not great shots – as explained before, these are through glass and far away so as not to disturb them
these are my blue tit parents i mentioned the other day – nesting with me for the first time in eight years!
they have been so busy for the last few days, the pair of them in and out with food constantly!
mostly these green caterpillars but on the above occasion a spider!!
the below shot is the pair of them on a feeder near their box, they use it as a lookout post before going inside with food
on a couple of occasions the pair of them met on here and did a tweety-flappy dance to each other – flapping their wings slightly but very fast while calling – very like the behaviour of the chicks when they want food – but as you can see they both had a caterpillar?
does anyone know what this behaviour is?
they could be nervy as my cats were staring them out from the window sill – however i think they are used to the cats now – and the cats do keep away the crows and jackdaws – so they literally are the blue tit’s very own scarecrows!
(PLEASE NO AWARDS OR PICTURES OR FLASHY BADGES)
Unfortunately because of anti-social behaviour I decided that it was best to move on so I did not get the opportunity to explore this park which was a pity.
The park has many fine mature trees, beautiful flowers, horticultural displays and grassland areas.
In June 1866, Belfast Corporation (now Belfast City Council) purchased 101 acres of land on Falls Road from the Sinclair family. Some of the land was set aside for the building of Belfast City Cemetery, but the rest was earmarked for a new park.
However, because the land initially fell outside the Belfast city boundary, the area was not considered a public park until the Public Parks (Ireland) Act was passed in 1869.
The area, now known as Falls Park, was eventually established in 1873.
In 1924, an outdoor swimming pool, known locally as ‘the Cooler’, was added to the park. It cost £3,000 to build and was fed by the Ballymurphy Stream, which still flows through the area today. The pool closed in 1979 for public health reasons.
If you ever get close to a human
And human behaviour
Be ready be ready to get confused
There's definitely definitely definitely no logic
To human behaviour
But yet so yet so irresistible
And there's no map to human behaviour
They're terribly terribly terribly terribly moody
Then all of a sudden turn happy
But, oh, to get involved in the exchange
Of human emotions
Is ever so ever so satisfying
And there's no map
And a compass wouldn't help at all
We get Blue Tits every year in our nesting box and often have very early fledglings. I have seen this behaviour before... Its as if it is checking out if it safe enough to enter before taking the plunge.
Family: Lasiocampidae
Dozens of the diurnal males (smaller, orange moth) were flying low over vegetation at Pewsey Downs. When two went to ground at the same spot, I found the female photographed here. There did appear to be some element of active competition for mating, which followed the successful male "nuzzling" the females abdomen.
Governments around the world are drawing on behavioural insights to improve public policy outcomes: from automatic enrolment for pensions, to better tax compliance, to increasing the supply of organ donation.
But those very same policy makers are also subject to biases that can distort decision making. The Behavioural Insights Team has been studying those biases and what can be done to counter them, in collaboration with Jill Rutter and Julian McCrae of the Institute for Government.
The report was launched with remarks from Alex Chisholm, Permanent Secretary at the Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy.
Dr Michael Hallsworth, Director of the Behavioural Insights Team in North America presented the key findings.
The findings, their relevance to policy making today, and what they mean for the way governments make decisions were discussed by:
Polly Mackenzie, Director of Policy for the Deputy Prime Minister, 2010–15 and now Director of Demos
Dr Tony Curzon Price, Economic Advisor to the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.
The event was chaired by Jill Rutter, Programme Director at the Institute for Government.
#IfGBIT
Photos by Candice McKenzie
There is some confusion as to the name of this memorial park as there is a nearby park known as the "Croppies Memorial Park" which includes a pond.
The good news is that this park is now open 24 hours a day but I would exercise a degree caution if visiting after dark as it is still a magnet for anti-social behaviour.
It was closed to the public for quite some time now, owing to anti-social problems. However, following discussions in 2013 with the Office of Public Works it was agreed that the management of the 4.3 acre Park would transfer from the Office of Public Works to Dublin City Council.
There is a memorial park near the site of Collins Barracks Dublin (now a part of the National Museum of Ireland) known as the "Croppy's Acre", beside the Liffey into which the bodies of executed rebels were flung after the 1798 rebellion.
Croppy (sometimes spelt croppie) was a derogatory nickname given to Irish rebels during the period of the 1798 rebellion.
The name "croppy" derives from Ireland in the 1790's as a reference to people with closely cropped hair, a fashion which was associated with the anti-wig (and therefore, anti-aristocrat) French revolutionaries of the period. Those with their hair cropped were automatically suspected of sympathies with the pro-French underground organisation, the Society of United Irishmen and were consequently liable to seizure for interrogation by pro-British forces. Suspected United Irish sympathisers were often subjected to torture by flogging, picketing and half-hanging but the reactive contemporary torture, pitchcapping, was specifically invented to intimidate "croppys". There is evidence of United Irish activists retaliating by cropping the hair of loyalists to reduce the reliability of this method of identifying rebel sympathisers.
Bronica S2A - Ilford Delta 3200
Rodinal - 16-22C for 13 mins.
Human life before the conecept of posing is understood, hooray!
It's fun to see Ava's personality and quirks emerge as she's getting bigger. She has 2 behaviours that are trademark of each of her parents. The first being how she lays down with one paw pulled in a bit closer to her - totally momma Nina's repose.
The other is water. Water brat. Water rat... it's hard to keep this puppy dry. She's in the water dish every chance she gets with both legs and starts to bale it out, hence all the towels on the floor near the low dish. I'm changing the pups to a hanging water bucket but she's still trying to get into that feet first.
The water bowl is her favourite place to nap with a leg or ear leather in the water getting wet or draping herself around it like a cat. None of her brothers abuse the water dish as they're play pool. The desire to splash water is completely daddy Chase's spiel. I may need to buy more towels.
We're in the midst of a deep chill, can hardly wait until I can get Ava and her siblings outside for pictures instead of everything in the house.
Ava stats: 50 days old, 10.65 lbs (almost maxing my accurate baking scale in weight) and she's wet as often as often as she's dry.
Hand-painted earthenware plate designed for the tile manufacturer Fabrica Sant'Anna, Lisbon. Signed Mário da Graça, 2015.
It's large-sized. You can serve your enemy's head on it.
At Whyalla, i witnessed an amazing behaviour by some juvenile cuttlefish. A group of about five cuttlefish were playing keepings off with a cuttlefish bone. One cuttlefish would grab the bone, and the others would be in hot pursuit trying to get it. If the cuttlefish let it go, the natural bouyancy of the cuttlefish bone would force the bone to the surface, and all the cuttles would chase it to the surface. The winning cuttle would grab it in its tencticles/arms and bring in back down into about 2-3 m of water, where it would release it and the cycle would begin again. It reminded me of watching a squid taking the bait off a fisherman i saw only days earlier, and i believe this play was a lesson to teach young cuttles how to capture prey and feed. The fact that the learning tool is potentially the bone of its predecessors (possibly even its parents) that come here to give birth to them and then die, i find truly amazing.
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I cannot confirm it but to the best of my knowledge this is the Curraheen Walkway and I was at Lee Fields when I found it.
Sadly there were many signs of anti-social behaviour and I suspect that items of street-furniture such a litter bins and signage had been set alight.
A person that I met on the trail mentioned that I might see an a coypu and I had no idea what he was talking about. Later, on my return to the hotel, I checked online and found the following “The public has being asked to report sightings of any coypus, sometimes mistaken for otters, after one was spotted in or near the River Lee near the Lee Fields in Cork City recently”.
I did not see any big rodents but there were many horses and dogs to be seen.
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4 immature
Snow Goose SNGO (Chen caerulescens)
off of
Sidney Waterfront
Sidney, British Columbia
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These geese were feeding in flotsam of a tideline way out there --- as we sometimes see Black Brant doing
This is my first time seeing SNGO doing this...
It was a bit of a surprise in the Scope
:)
I did a look in my best/most trusted references and could NOT see ANY references to SNGO feeding out in a marine environment over a couple of miles from shore
looked to be about 1/2 way or more ...the distance from Sidney to Sidney Spit...
but was N of the Spit from my view point
Sidney Spit is
9.7 km
6 miles
from
Sidney
I was up at one of our local churchyards for my walk this morning when I noticed this female Mallard.
She was quacking away and then flew up into a hole in a tree, if she's nesting there I worry about the babies when they hatch.
The pond is just across a fairly busy road if they try to get there.
Inspector Steve Palmer and some of the crushed bikes.
The Longsight and Ardwick Neighbourhood Policing Team of Greater Manchester Police's Metropolitan Division struck a crushing blow to anti social behaviour on the Coverdale Estate last weekend.
Over the last few months residents have informed the police and local council that there has been numerous incidents involving mini motorbikes. This has caused great concern and has had an impact on the quality of peoples lives in the area. In response the local police team have stepped up patrols in this area and seized more than 20 bikes.
The bikes were crushed at an event on Cringleford Close on Saturday 5th February.
Invitations were sent out to local people to come along and see the work in progress and meet their local officers.
For more information about Policing in Greater Manchester please visit our website.
Tracklist:
A1 Nuclear Burn 6:23
A2 Euthanasia Waltz 5:42
A3 Born Ugly 8:14
B1 Smacks Of Euphoric Hysteria 4:30
B2 Unorthodox Behaviour 8:29
B3 Running On Three 4:38
B4 Touch Wood 3:04
Y no hay mapa para el comportamiento humano, son terriblemente caprichosos; luego, de repente se transforma en felicidad; pero, oh, nos vemos envueltos en el intercambio de las emociones humanas; cada vez de manera satisfactoria. Y no hay mapa, y una brújula no ayudaría en absoluto...
The boat gently leans into a turn, rather like a motor cycle - except in this case it is automatic. The mechanism is not widely agreed, but I strongly believe that when the boat turns at speed, the side of the boat on the inner side of the turn is subject to low pressure underwater. This gently pulls the boat downwards on that side, causing it to lean into the turn. The behaviour is beneficial, because it helps to prevent people being thrown overboard on sharp turns. Incidentally, as predicted, the boat still leans into the turn with the mast up, overcoming the centrifugal force from the mast.
Umpiring at a Rowing Regatta at Dorney Lake and one of the officials is feeling naughty. Taken on Fuji X-H1 with Fringer adapter and Canon 100-400 L f/4.6-5.4
Album Title: Exotic Behaviour
Model: 虹羚
Photographer: Edwin Setiawan
Place: 士林官邸
Date: 2009/07/12
Just about Photography: edwinsetiawan.wordpress.com
Edwin Setiawan Photography: www.edwinsetiawan.com
Album Title: Exotic Behaviour
Model: 虹羚
Photographer: Edwin Setiawan
Place: 士林官邸
Date: 2009/07/12
Just about Photography: edwinsetiawan.wordpress.com
Edwin Setiawan Photography: www.edwinsetiawan.com
Gesture, attitude, behaviour : a workshop with dancers Mauro Paccagnella and Alessandro Bernardeschi on march 6, 2007 at Erg (Ecole de Recherche Graphique, Brussels) for bachelor 1 students. Professors : Sabine Voglaire and Marc Wathieu. Pictures by Yves André.
Wilson's Snipe WISN (Gallinago delicate)
Sluggett Reservoir
Maber West
Central Saanich
BC
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Vid Doc taken on September 6, 2017
Gesture, attitude, behaviour : a workshop with dancers Mauro Paccagnella and Alessandro Bernardeschi on march 6, 2007 at Erg (Ecole de Recherche Graphique, Brussels) for bachelor 1 students. Professors : Sabine Voglaire and Marc Wathieu. Pictures by Yves André.
This is exactly what tourist snorkellers and divers should NOT be doing, riding a turtle!
This Russian woman had no idea what she was doing was wrong/ stupid/ or threatening to the turtle. On the beach, she came and asked me for the photos i took, and i told her very bluntly no, and explained in simple english and sign language that what she'd done was stupid, wrong, and harmful. Hopefully she got the message!