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Seen at the fringe of a shallow lagoon, a favoured habitat. Here on their winter holidays, Eurasian avocets breed from temperate Europe through to Central Asia.
The feeding behaviour is distinctive: the bird sweeps its tip-tilted bill from side to side through the shallow water to capture small aquatic invertebrates (insects, crustaceans, worms).
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A familiar and popular garden songbird whose numbers have declined markedly on farmland and in towns and cities. It's smaller and browner than a mistle thrush with smaller spotting. Its habit of repeating song phrases distinguish it from singing blackbirds.
Song thrushes will eat all kinds of food, but earthworms make up a large part of their diet. When the ground becomes too hard to get at them, song thrushes will eat snails instead. To get at the meat inside, they take the shell and crack it open by banging it against a stone 'anvil'. This behaviour is unique to these birds.
Taken @ Kidwelly Quay
Miners are highly gregarious, exhibiting complex co-operative and colonial behaviour. Social interaction includes 'corroborees', where numbers of birds congregate briefly with much wing waving and vocalisation.
Excerpt from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixteen_Arhats:
The Sixteen Arhats (十六羅漢) are a group of legendary Arhats in Buddhism. The grouping of sixteen Arhats was brought to China, and later to Tibet, from India. In China, an expanded group of Eighteen Arhats later became much more popular, but worship of the sixteen Arhats still continues to the present day in China, Japan and Tibet. In Japan sixteen Arhats are particularly popular in Zen Buddhism, where they are treated as examples of behaviour. In Tibet, the sixteen Arhats, also known as sixteen sthaviras ('elders') are the subject of a liturgical practice associated with the festival of the Buddha's birth, composed by the Kashmiri teacher Shakyahribhadra (1127-1225). They are also well represented in Tibetan art.
Watercolor Effect - “Quiet elegance in gray and white—the Dark-eyed Junco watches the world from its branch.”
If a mate can't walk on water he will be out of luck.
A combination of up to 20 steps per second, forceful slaps on the water’s surface with splayed feet, and an unusual stride help these grebes defy gravity
Isle Lake
Marsh Harrier attacking Buzzard which was sitting too close to the Harrier's nest site. Fascinating to watch. The Buzzard eventually gave up and left..
I had an amazing experience going out much later than I normally do: this turtle creating the site and then laying eggs. I saw it digging with its back legs from a distance, and then came back a little while later - I kept my distance and didn’t disturb her - to see her laying the eggs. I have never seen this behaviour before. Simply amazing.
The Sunflower plant was brought to Europe from the Americas in the 16th century and it was processed into sunflower oil and became widespread as a cooking oil and over a long period of time the production of this oil was transferred to Eastern Europe and these countries produced about half of the worlds seeds production. The plant is very erect and has many hairs on its stem and can reach up to 10 feet if the conditions it is growing in are ideal, such as being in full sun and getting plenty of water. I have read that these flower will face east in the morning and follow the sun as the earth moves during the day, this behaviour is called “heliotropism,” the Sunflower head is in itself a flower but each large flower has thousand to tiny, tiny flowers within it and they can contain as many a 1000 to 2000 seeds, the seeds have been milled to create flour also the seeds can be roasted and eaten and it is still used in this way today.
I only managed a snapshot of this interesting behaviour. I wasn't sure if these were two males, facing off, or a courting couple?
These aphids are hitching a ride on a caterpillar that looks like it has an egg on it's head. Not sure of the type of fly or wasp that lays it's eggs on caterpillar heads but pretty interesting parasitic behaviour if it is an egg. Sorry for the blurry picture.
I find this shot of the rather light coloured red deer stag quite amusing... I know why it's doing what it's doing but my 15 year old mindset can't help but think it's just being rather rude to the other deer!
Score! A Common Tern hits the water and comes up with a small fish. The fishing was good at this location, so I had lots of chances - also a good thing, because I missed most of them. Fast? These birds are fast! But they were tolerant, too, of a discreet human presence (sitting, or lying back against some comfy rocks for extended periods). A great day for the terns and for me.
When I was a kid, in my early and mid-teens just before I was old enough to drive, I would ride my bike alone along trails through the woods near my home in Quebec. In my twenties, in BC, I discovered wilderness backpacking, and often hiked alone into remote places. It isn't that I reject human company; far from it. But I appreciate solitude, especially in wild places, and that is what makes Saskatchewan so perfect for me at this late stage in my life: there are few remaining places where one can be alone.
I don't have to worry about whether this person will allow his dog to run the wildlife, or that family will leave a bunch of litter in their wake, or this bozo will decide it's a good idea to skip rocks across the water directly in front of me while I'm trying to photograph water birds. Fewer people means fewer conflicts and/or less necessity to try to educate people about behaviour in natural areas. For example, no bear jams. Admittedly, no bears. But twenty years ago when I started hanging out in prairie places, I was astounded to discover how much wildlife thrives here. It's Canada's best kept secret. Sshhh!
Photographed at Lonetree Lake, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2021 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
Red squirrel in the snow at my feeding station in the Scottish Highlands - please get in touch if you're interested in a workshop.
This female Harlequin Duck was seen on the Bow River in Carburn Park, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, on a late October day. This species has become more-or-less regular during winter in this stretch of water that stays open, whereas the “standard” behaviour used to be for them to fly west over the mountains and valleys to spend the colder months along the Pacific Coast after summer breeding. Seems to be a clear case of climate warming…
Near Mopani, there was a Bird Hide - I forgot its name, but will update as soon as I find my map :)
We saw this absolutely mad rush of a vast herd of Buffalo leaving dust clouds behind as they stormed the water's edge for a drink.
First it was a few, then a few more, and then more and more until they lined up, forcing crocodiles back into the water, Hippos disgruntledly grunting their complaints about the disturbance and birds to soar around in joy as they stirred up a whole bunch of previously hidden insects.
For close to an hour, this waterhole provided a lot of entertainment. Buffalo are one of the Big 5, and some people find them either ugly or boring.
Personally, I find them interesting - despite them being a black mass, each one has an individual face, personality, and behavioural patterns around this situation. Some were more skittish than others, some had practically beady eyes, others had more of a curious glint in theirs... No, despite their masses, their grumpy reputation, I do enjoy watching them (safely, from a bird-hide... or the enclosure of a car :) I don't think they'd appreciate a cuddle or a boop ;) )
I made an album cover for cactus island recordings.
This is an awesome compilation with beautiful music inside!
I'm very happy with this work, is very special to me and one of my song is on it.
Released: 16th february, close to valentines day ; )
more info: www.cactusisland.net
Grizzly Bear (Ursus arctos horribilis) pair in an amorous state prior to breeding. There were periods of gentle contact intermixed with biting along the neck of the female. Interesting behaviour to observed.
This took place during a guided trip to the K'tzim-a-deen Grizzly Bear Sanctuary in the Khutzeymateen Inlet along the west coast north of Prince Rupert, British Columbia, Canada.
The inlet is about a 30 minute flight by float plane, north of Prince Rupert. The tour of 6 wildlife photographers (including myself) was 5 days long and run by Ocean Light II Adventures. We stayed at the entrance of the reserve in a 72 ft sail boat (Ocean Light II) and accessed the reserve daily in a 19 ft Zodiac and spent most of the day looking for grizzly bear activity.
Our guide was amazed at the number of times we encountered this mating behaviour. He indicated that it was quite unusual to see this many breeding encounters as the bears tended to be more secretive in his past experiences.
26 May, 2015.
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Things are changing within the pride. The girls are growing up and because they are remaining at the zoo and not being moved to another zoo, they needed to be implanted so no inbreeding would occur.
This was the day that happened and Milo was far more concerned about his girls than Misty was.
Both Milo & Kiros walked by the den doors doing their low lion grunts.
It surprised me that the boys were more concerned than Misty the mum.
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Welcome one and all to the magnificent mysterious and often fantastical tour of the mind belonging to me... Today I am wanting to talk a little about change, and as this is a place for me to talk about, what ever I want... because it is my blog, and not yours... this is what we will be rambling around this afternoon.
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Manhole cover.
So I was striding down this local leafy lane on my Permitted Exercise, proving to myself quite successfully that zoomed multiple exposures in burst mode of local leafy lanes don’t work...
And my beady eye espied this curious piece of graphic design in the road. It was full of arrows - surely the most iconic of modern symbols: left, right, up, down, play, exit, this way, result, implication, inference, even - you’re lost really aren’t you?
To be fair I’d spotted this manhole cover many times before but mainly because of its curious behaviour after heavy rains. Then water emerges up and out of the cover and runs down the hill, a feature I think of a land drain blockage further down the hill. It’s been like that for years - presumably nobody has noticed or cared enough to do anything about it. Not that it really matters as the water disappears down the next cover.
High contrast graphic patterns like this are always good to play with I think, so this is for Sliders Sunday.
The effect is created entirely in Nik Color Efex by abusing the sliders in some of the more dramatic effects. The stack I ended up with is:
- Bi-color user Defined, orange bottom right to purple top left. I used this first to create a colour gradient across the image to add interest and variety to the pattern repeat.
- Solarisation. This one caused most of the colour drama. I have to admit that I am getting a little tired of the effects of this filter [Loud cheers are heard offstage...], but it does have a bit of an addictive colour-zap rush about it.
- Monday Morning - produces a dark moody glow, only applied to parts of the image to add to the tonal texture and variation.
- Low Key.
- Pro Contrast.
- Reflector efex.
These last four just toyed with the overall result.
So there we have it.
And, yes. You imagined it not. Your hapless correspondent has indeed sunk to the depths of talking about the local drains. He can descend no further… surely... please...
I’ll post a link to the in-camera original in the first comment so you can... er, well... add to your personal collection of manhole cover pics :)
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Sliders Sunday! :)
A petite female leopard is jumping with an impala which is bigger than a leopard. It looks like an impala is carrying a leopard on the back. Nobody believed that this small leopard will jump. It helped me to understand her behaviour and to be prepared because I have cats at home... ;-)
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