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Sabi Sabi Game Reserve
South Africa
Near Kruger National Park
The waterbuck (Kobus ellipsiprymnus) is a large antelope found widely in sub-Saharan Africa. It is placed in the genus Kobus of the family Bovidae.
The thirteen subspecies are grouped under two varieties: the common or Ellisprymnus waterbuck and the Defassa waterbuck. A sexually dimorphic antelope, males are taller as well as heavier than females.
Waterbuck are rather sedentary in nature. A gregarious animal, the waterbuck may form herds consisting of six to 30 individuals. These groups are either nursery herds with females and their offspring or bachelor herds. Males start showing territorial behaviour from the age of five years, but are most dominant from the age of six to nine.
The waterbuck cannot tolerate dehydration in hot weather, and thus inhabits areas close to sources of water.
Predominantly a grazer, the waterbuck is mostly found on grassland. In equatorial regions, breeding takes place throughout the year, but births are at their peak in the rainy season. The gestational period lasts for seven to eight months, followed by the birth of a single calf.
Waterbuck inhabit scrub and savanna areas along rivers, lakes and valleys. Due to their requirement for grasslands as well as water, the waterbuck have a sparse ecotone distribution. The IUCN lists the waterbuck as being of Least Concern.
The population trend for both the common and defassa waterbuck is downwards, especially that of the latter, with large populations being eliminated from certain habitats because of poaching and human disturbance. - Source Wikipedia
These huge boulders are called glacial erratics ... dropped here like this eons ago when the glaciers that covered the island during the last ice age melted.
This is not really erratic behaviour for erratics, since it is not uncommon to find them perched in precarious places such as this. These are up on top of the Annieopsquotch Mountains. I have a photo on my photostream taken from the other side. A photo that really is an optical illusion. This one is a straight on photo taken just today.
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Aggressive behaviour at the lake between the grebes. The dominant one tried to drown the other one, holding it under the water while it struggled frantically to escape. In the finish it did get away, very much doubt it will go into that territory again.
I spent a beautiful day in Parc Omega observing the behaviour of native animals. The best medicine for the soul that is tired of the pandemic.
Marchikoma 2019
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The front gates are actually fixed allowing only a narrow passage giving room for only one person at a time to pass though the gates. I have heard two different explanations for these very usual gates.
One suggests that when Osgoode Hall was built there was open pasture land nearby and the gates were intended to preclude cows wandering onto the grounds.
The second which is the one I lean towards is that it would make it very difficult for a mob to access the grounds. Layers were deeply in politics of the time and latter was a decidedly unruly affair with violent behaviour not unknown.
I found these two trees while walking in a local forest park. The pair looked out of place in amongst the conifers, especially with the larger tree apparently reaching out a spindly almost threatening “hand” while looming over the smaller timid looking tree........ strange what tricks your mind plays on you while alone in the forest 😆.
Five Black Drongos - Chennai, India.
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The Black Drongo (Dicrurus macrocercus) is a small Asian passerine bird of the drongo family Dicruridae. It is a common resident breeder in much of tropical southern Asia from southwest Iran through India and Sri Lanka east to southern China and Indonesia. It is a wholly black bird with a distinctive forked tail and measures 28 cm (11 in) in length. Feeding on insects, it is common in open agricultural areas and light forest throughout its range, perching conspicuously on a bare perch or along power or telephone lines. The species is known for its aggressive behaviour towards much larger birds, such as crows, never hesitating to dive-bomb any birds of prey that invades its territory. This behaviour earns it the informal name of King Crow. Smaller birds often nest in the well-guarded vicinity of a nesting Black Drongo. Previously considered a subspecies (Dicrurus adsimilis macrocercus) of the African Fork-tailed Drongo (Dicrurus adsimilis), it is now recognized as a full species.
The Black Drongo has been introduced to some Pacific islands, where it has thrived and become abundant to the point of threatening and causing the extinction of native and endemic bird species there.
Source : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Drongo
About 8 years ago I made some rather basic clay and sand bee hotels in old plastic tree seedling pots in the hope of persuading Amegillas to use them. Nothing happened for the first 3 years, then in 2016 I noticed some investigatory visits from them, and in 2017 they started nesting in the pots. Two different BBB species have used the nest pots: Amegilla cingulata and Amegilla pulchra.
In early October 2021 I noticed a number of A. pulchra investigating and entering holes in the hotels. Then on 23/10/21 I witnessed some long awaited bee behaviour: a female cleptoparastic Thyreus nitidulus (neon cuckoo bee) inspecting Amegilla nests for potential egg laying sites. She was flying around, then resting on pots or leaves of nearby salvias to watch the Amegillas. She entered most of the holes, as well as landing in other places close by nearby where she could presumably see which holes the Amegillas were entering and when they left.
Recently there has been a lot more activity. The busiest place at the moment is a piece of clay from an old pot which originally had a pond plant in it. I tried to make a few holes in it, and stuck it in a container next to a couple of other Amegilla hotels. The Amegillas are going in behind the clay and obviously have nests there, as the neon cuckoos have been going in there, too. The Amegillas also chase the neon cuckoos away when they see them.
I dedicate this little photo composition to my friend Denis,
who I follow since pretty long, both personally and as a fan of
his creative and versatile work on Flickr.
This pic shows me in one of the T-shirts that I "design".
(Don't imitate my creations please!).
Denis is my biggest fan of this particular concept. And he used it as his nickname when he started to show his artistic work here on Flickr : could I get a bigger honour!?
I like it when people are fans of each other's creativity!! :)
DITCH THE KITSCH :
The idea behind this T-shirt is
that it is better to be yourself, to be natural, open and true, instead of showing imitative or fake attitudes!
We're all human, and no-one is flawless, most of us do our very best, and that's all that matters; we don't need to pretend that we're perfect or like others, we need to be ourselves.
Originality is more valuable than being cheap copies of other people.
Surely Denis is to be considered an original human being! And he lives up to this motto, that he gladly adapted as his own! :)
As he loves life and creativity, and has a big heart, I believe these bright colours are very suitable for his personality too. TQM, Denisito!
This pic: Mr. Wim closing his eyes for pretentious, superficial or fake behaviours.
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link to Denis' mentioning and explanation (from Wikipedia) of "kitsch" :
Photo taken in downtown Reykjavík.
P.S. Many of those people are foreign visitors.
Tourism to Iceland has formally exploded in the years after the famous volcanic eruption in the glacier Eyjafjallajökull, which caused delays in flight all over North and Western Europe. Foreign tourism has remained at an extreme level; today more than a million tourists visit Iceland yearly, while the population is only about 330.000 - was around 200 thousand a decade and a half ago.
Hi Folks.
Just wondering if any of you have seen this behaviour before ?
Could this teal be feeding in an air bubble of her own making ?
She seem too be able to hold her breath for a really good time and when she came up for air only the tip of her beak had mud on it.
Would love to hear your thoughts :-)
Thank you for taking the time to view.
My best regards .. Martin
Pffft, the weather is so, so miserable here at the moment, so here's another shot of Dusty, our house rabbit, having fun bouncing around the garden when the weather was better.
A small group of Oystercatchers flew overhead and were showing signs of coming in for a landing in this spot, yelling continuously. These two were having none of it, and responded by doing some yelling of their own, repeatedly alternating between holding their heads high and then bowing down. The small flock went away after much screeching and never did land here.
Mountain hare (lepus timidus) leveret (well on the way to adult-hood) in the Scottish Highlands, October 2020
Puss moth (Cerura vinula) caterpillar shedding its skin and then eating it. Surrey, UK.
Took about 30 minutes.
After a very busy period I now have a bit of time off, so this morning made a trip up to Charterhouse on the mendips to see what was about. There is plenty to see now and looking around the long grass I found this mating pair of Blackneck moths, a beautifully marked and quite distinctive looking moth, yet quite difficult to spot in the long grass. Another new one to my list.
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Mud-puddling is the phenomenon mostly seen in butterflies and involves their aggregation on substrates like wet soil, dung and carrion to obtain nutrients such as salts and amino acids. This behaviour is restricted to males in many species.Males seem to benefit from the sodium uptake through mud-puddling behaviour with an increase in reproductive success.