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.

Wild deer herd

Knole is fortunate to be home to a 350-strong deer herd, which visitors enjoy seeing in their natural habitat all year round. While these beautiful creatures can appear to be friendly, they are wild animals - seen at their best from a respectful distance. They can move with great strength and speed and their behaviour can be unpredictable.

a new way to escape

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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I've seen this behaviour from other specimens as well - but I have no idea what they are doing.

To me, this female European wool carder bee (Anthidium manicatum) looks like she's doing the "dab" move which was popular a couple of years back. I doubt Mrs. Bee is doing that though.

Here she is coming in for a landing on a lambs' ears (Stachys byzantina), a plant which is a bit of a favourite for this species as they use plant hairs for their nests and there are few plants with more hair than lamb's ears have.

Over the years, I've gathered about fifty (at the time of posting this) shots of these bees and if you want to see them, I've put them in an album here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/albums/72157667862870066

Benimm ist reine Glücksache, eine gute Erziehung das ganz große Los ... ;-)

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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.

St Aidan's Nature Park

subfamily Vanellinae

Long Tailed Tits sharing food.

some territorial behaviour of a blue damsel, trying to interrupt the egg laying dragonfly

Rhinoceros Auklet RHAU (Cerorhinca monocerata)

Strait of Juan de Fuca

Salish Sea

BC

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DSC_5086 etc Publication1 RHAU power dive

Prey appears to be

Pacific Sand lance (Ammodytes hexapterus) aka Needle Fish

Initially i thought this bird was working on taking off.

It was not stressed by being too close to boat or anything like that ... just seemed to want momentum for a deep dive.

1st time i have seen that behaviour

Gannets

I think this clip will explain some of the mouth opening behaviour with the Foxes.

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.

A few photos about an interesting scene my husband and I witnessed last night when returning from Beaver Lake. We never previously witnessed a group of young creepers hanging to the bark of a tree and waiting to be fed by the parents. It caught our attention when we heard their typical high-pitched vocalizations. I had to crank up the ISO to over 6000 to barely obtain 1/60 second for some of the images. The images are not of great esthetic quality but rather a record of the behaviour.

Tophill Low Nature Reserve

Pretty low light amongst the branches and getting a reasonably clear view took a few attempts.

Telemonia male jumping spider courtship show, there is a female telemonia jumping spider in the opposite side! Will post the other image soon!

after a nap time

A little artistic licence for this one.

The Red Kites were circling together at one stage but I photographed them separately before combining them in Photoshop for this shot.

Photographed in the Scottish Highlands, November 2023.

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Red Squirrel, Scottish pine forest, Black Isle

I wen't down to check out the birdbath after and a few feathers remained. So sad really but that is nature right?

Psychologist Timothy Leary developed an interaction behaviour theory which demonstrated a strong and consistent interdependency of behaviour between people.

Based on his research Leary arranged a set of interpersonal variables into a circle and which lead to an interpersonal circumplex model for assessing interpersonal behaviour, motives and traits. The construct of the model is formed by two main dimensions:

-1 - the degree of dominance / submission and

- 2 - the degree of friendliness / unfriendliness.

The first set of behaviour is located on the orthogonal y-axe of the model; the latter set of behaviour is located on the orthogonal x-axe of the model. Interpersonal behaviour plotted in the model reflects the degree of friendliness and dominance of that specific person at a given moment in time.

7 Days of shooting

Week #39

Flowers

Shoot anything saterday

The Birds of Ireland: A Field Guide with Jim Wilson

Shorebirds of Ireland with Jim Wilson.

Freshwater Birds of Ireland with Jim Wilson

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The Black-tailed Godwit (Limosa limosa) is a large, long-legged, long-billed shorebird first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1758. It is a member of the Limosa genus, the godwits. There are three subspecies, all with orange head, neck and chest in breeding plumage and dull grey-brown winter coloration, and distinctive black and white wingbar at all times.

Its breeding range stretches from Iceland through Europe and areas of central Asia. Black-tailed godwits spend winter in areas as diverse as the Indian Subcontinent, Australia, western Europe and west Africa. The species breeds in fens, lake edges, damp meadows, moorlands and bogs and uses estuaries, swamps and floods in winter; it is more likely to be found inland and on freshwater than the similar Bar-tailed Godwit. The world population is estimated to be 634,000 to 805,000 birds and is classified as Near Threatened due to a decline in numbers of around 25% in the previous 15 years.

Godwits from the Icelandic population winter mainly in the United Kingdom, Ireland, France and the Netherlands, though some fly on to Spain, Portugal and perhaps Morocco. (wikipedia)

The bird depicted is the islandica race of Black-wits that breed in Iceland and winter in Ireland. In 2004, the population size of Icelandic Black-tailed Godwits was estimated to be around 47,000 individuals. Given the continued expansion since then, it is likely that there are now around 50-60,000 Icelandic Godwits. In a site in Cork Harbour called Harper's Island Wetlands, up to 2,000 of these beautiful birds may be found in winter, making this an internationally important wintering site for this species.

This photo is of one of the largest flocks of Godwits I have seen at Poolbeg, Dublin Bay.