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Jerusalem residents were greeted with a rare snowfall Friday when a storm dumped 10 inches on the city.
Historically, the city sees an average of just four inches a year!
Interesting behaviour. These Hoopoes were chattering and displaying while the same time feeding their nestlings in hole of a tree. The green wood hoopoe is a cooperative breeder and common resident in most of sub-Saharan Africa. It is found in groups of up to a dozen or so birds with only one breeding pair. The breeding female lays two to four blue eggs in a natural tree hole or old barbet nest and incubates them for about 18 days. On hatching, she and the nestlings are fed by the rest of the group, even after they have fledged and left the nest hole. The group is fearless in defence of the nestlings against intruders.
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.
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It isn't always easy to puck a fish from the water, it often takes skill and patients. George being very skilled at fishing may spend an hour checking different locations within the estuary. If the fish stays still it has a better chance if it runs...game on. By the way that is also true of people, never run from a bear. : )
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A vigil was held at Valley Gardens for Sarah Everard who was killed by a police officer who now been charged at the magistrate court in London.
It was planned and special measures were supposed to be in place. However, the authorities objected to the planned vigil resulting in cancellation.
Although it was officially cancelled but many Brightonians arrived to pay tribute. Emotion was high. Police attempted to clear the crowd and made arrest. It also happened at a larger scale in Clapham Common, London.
Next day, the Brightonians stood in solidarity with those at Clapham Common in a sit in protest in front of Brighton’s police station for about an hour before marching in the streets to voice their dissatisfaction and anger of how the authorities had acted. The march ended at the place of vigil to ensure the continuation of what was prematurely disrupted by the police.
As a result of their disapproval, women from across the country joined other 70 groups of various protesters that came together to protest against the new bill that was debated last night in London.
It is reported that another similar protest is taking place in London this evening. Women from other countries also stood in solidarity and protested in their native land.
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March 2021
This was interesting behaviour. The Kite was more than happy to sit on fence posts all around us and very close but was not happy to be on the ground. It would swoop off the posts and snatch things off the ground and return to a different post.
Initially we thought that it was going after prey but each time it came up with a stick of some variety. It would transfer the stick from it's claws to it's beak in flight and then land on a post. It would then peck at the stick, sometimes snapping bits off. At this point we thought perhaps nesting behaviour, but every time it eventually discarded the stick and started the process again. Maybe there was some food involved.
These three photos show the foot to beak transfer.
(Clare)
During spring adders will engage in a behaviour known as the ‘dance of the adders’, this is when two adders rise up and sway back and forth with entwined bodies. This display is usually between two males combating for the scent of a female.
April 2021
A quick capture before I adjusted the camera settings, surprised to get it at 1/40sec inbuilt image stabilization worked well, funny turned out to be the best one.
Always entertaining to watch but once you see them coming together you've missed it, just managed to spot the build up with this pair.
St Aidan's Nature Park.
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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Partially hidden by the foliage meant AF was difficult to say the least but luckily it snapped into focus just when I was about to give up.
St Aidan's Nature Park.
Prees Heath Nature Reserve in Shropshire (UK) (9312J)
UK Butterflies 2017 winner (category: behaviour)
Shorebirds of Ireland, Freshwater Birds of Ireland and The Birds of Ireland: A Field Guide with Jim Wilson.
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The Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo) is a widespread member of the cormorant family of seabirds. It breeds in much of the Old World and the Atlantic coast of North America. In European waters it can be distinguished from the Common Shag by its larger size, heavier build, thicker bill, lack of a crest and plumage without any green tinge. In eastern North America, it is similarly larger and bulkier than Double-crested Cormorant, and the latter species has more yellow on the throat and bill. Great Cormorants are mostly silent, but they make various guttural noises at their breeding colonies.
Many fishermen see in the Great Cormorant a competitor for fish. Because of this it was nearly hunted to extinction in the past. Thanks to conservation efforts its numbers increased.
Cormorant fishing is practiced in China, Japan, and elsewhere around the globe. In it, fishermen tie a line around the throats of cormorants, tight enough to prevent swallowing, and deploy them from small boats. The cormorants catch fish without being able to fully swallow them, and the fishermen are able to retrieve the fish simply by forcing open the cormorants' mouths, apparently engaging the regurgitation reflex.
In North Norway, cormorants are traditionally seen as semi-sacred. (wikipedia)
There are many Cormorants that fish along the shoreline of Dublin Bay. This adult was coming into the base of the east pier, Dun Laoghaire, Dublin.
These guys were not playing, the dust they were kicking up , the heat haze off the path, plus a large crop, messed with things here, as did having to quickly drop to one knee and hand hold., these excuses aside, worth sharing I thought.
Taken at RSPB Titchwell, on the main path, MORE IN THE SERIES BELOW IN COMMENTS
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This Robin swayed and rocked from side to side for quite a while (minutes at least) with puffed feathers and beak slightly opened, displaying to another one sitting just above it. Amazing behaviour to witness. Had never seen this before.
Self-anointing is a behaviour exhibited by all species of Hedgehog, but nobody really knows why they do it. I have never seen a wild Hedgehog self-anoint, but rearing this orphaned youngster has given me plenty of opportunities to witness it. They create a foamy saliva then undergo contortions to cover those hard-to-reach bits using their surprisingly long tongues. You can see the foamy saliva on that ridge near her tongue. My Hedgehog self-anoints when she tastes or smells something new, such as the first time she tasted cat-food, a worm, marjoram, and even after licking my son's feet. But sometimes she just does it for no apparent reason. The term self-anointing was coined by Maurice Burton, and was first used in a 1958 paper in New Scientist documenting the behaviour. But the behaviour was first recorded by German zoologist Ludwig Heck in 1912, when he called it selbstbespuchen, or ‘self-spitting’. Various theories have been put forward to exlain it (eg masking their smell, creating an extra irritant for would-be predators, deterring parasites) but for each idea there are examples that run counter to it. Anyway, there seem to be very few photographs on Flickr showing this behaviour, and it is something I wasn't previously aware of, so I thought I would share it. If you want to read more about the various theories attempting to explain the behaviour this is the best site: www.wildlifeonline.me.uk/animals/article/european-hedgeho...
House Finches
April 8, 2025, Rondeau Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada.
In the hedge in the yard a pair of house finches displaying courting behaviour with the male giving seeds to the female.
Haemorhous mexicanus
The red of a male House Finch comes from pigments contained in its food during molt (birds can’t make bright red or yellow colors directly). So the more pigment in the food, the redder the male. This is why people sometimes see orange or yellowish male House Finches. Females prefer to mate with the reddest male they can find, perhaps raising the chances they get a capable mate who can do his part in feeding the nestlings.
House Finches feed their nestlings exclusively plant foods, a fairly rare occurrence in the bird world. Many birds that are vegetarians as adults still find animal foods to keep their fast-growing young supplied with protein.