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Neighbour's cat. He visits us everyday for a drink. The best part, whenever he comes he will be meowing outside, kind of calling us.
These two wild turkeys were locked in quite the battle.One of them would charge the other then end up with almost the whole head of the opponent down its throat then run around jostling and shoving and pushing and jousting for the longest time then back off and do it all again. I've never seen this behaviour before. I'm guessing it's some form of territorial challenge. All the other turkeys in the flock seemed wholly oblivious to the battle even though they were pretty much in the middle of the fray.
We were exceptionally fortunate to encounter two young male leopards. The length of the grass made the photography difficult and spoiled many opportunities for great images of these beautiful but very elusive cats.
Leopard Panthera pardus
The leopard is one of the five "big cats" in the genus Panthera. It is a member of the family Felidae with a wide range in regions of sub-Saharan Africa, West Asia, the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia to Siberia.
The leopard's success in the wild is due to its well camouflaged fur; its opportunistic hunting behaviour, broad diet, and strength to move heavy carcasses into trees; its ability to adapt to various habitats ranging from rainforest to steppe and including arid and montane areas; and to run at speeds up to 58 kilometres per hour (36 mph)
This image was captured close to the Grumeti River, Serengeti, Tanzania while on photo safari with CNP Safaris. www.cnpsafaris.com
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I went looking for migratory birds outside of the city, and the only thing that let me down was the weather. I had taken a few days off work after a difficult file had ended, and I wanted to be away from the crowds flocking to Mud Lake. The plan was to be alone, in woods or on water, and to just try out some different places. I packed food and had no interactions with people.
Of course the weather was not entirely cooperative. On this afternoon, fog blew in as the skies darkened, and after I had staked out a natural hide of the edge of some water. In for a penny, in for a pound; and then a small flock of Red-breasted Mergansers joined me. While the surface-level fog was a pain it was also kind of neat.
I think these birds are very beautiful, and they were engaging in their distinctive mating behaviours (the males extend their necks in awkward ways and partially submerge - it is worth looking for on youtube and it is tough to explain). I got a lot of different images, but this one is my favourite. This bird is one of the ‘losers’ in the mating behaviours, chased to the shore so that more dominant males could compete for the lone female. He was standing in a couple of inches of water behind some raised earth, looking on, and the fog shrouded him. I was a bit of a loser too as I rolled into the water (accidentally) to secure this image.
I may post another image from this experience. Lying on the edge of the water is an ‘all-in’ commitment: you are going to photograph water birds, you are going to get mucky, and there may be all kinds of other things happening that you will miss. You can’t suddenly sit up because you saw a great Warbler, or you frighten away the water birds from whom you had been hidden. It is great when it works out though. And sometimes there are surprises.
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Si quelque diptérologiste patenté traîne par là, je suis preneur d'une identification... (pour les deux protagonistes de la scène).
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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I was driving and I have seen him landing. Then, he has been in this position during a lot of time, very quiet... I had never seen this kind of behaviour before, in a bird of prey. Maybe he was just enjoying the sun... or trying to get rid of some feather parasites?
Pantanal - Mato Grosso - Brasil
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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.
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 😆.
male Leopard between mating sessions in Kruger National Park, South Africa
The Flehmen response (also called the Flehmen position, Flehmen reaction, flehming, or flehmening) is a behaviour whereby an animal curls back its upper lips exposing its front teeth, inhales with the nostrils usually closed and then often holds this position for several seconds.
It may be performed over a site or a substance of particular interest to the animal (e.g. urine or faeces) or may be performed with the neck stretched and the head held high in the air.
Flehmen is performed by a wide range of mammals including ungulates and felids.
The behaviour facilitates the transfer of pheromones and other scents into the vomeronasal organ located above the roof of the mouth.
panthera pardus
IUCN RED LIST STATUS: NEAR THREATENED
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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!
Two curious little black lambs - fascinated by the strange behaviour of humans... not surprised - I'm puzzled myself :o)
Mission Creek, Kelowna, BC.
A series of record shots, I'm afraid. Not up to the great level so many of my Wet Coast colleagues have managed!
While I've long been aware of the AMDIs in this part of the Creek, however, this is first time I've had such any chance to photograph one so close to home. Unfortunately the light was quite poor and the photos are nowhere nearly as sharp as I'd like. When I returned the next day with much more sunshine, the Dipper had dipsapeered (sic)! I'll be on the lookout, however. They should be around for a couple of weeks at least. The most maddening aspect was that this one was working on the north side of the creek where I had the best possible access to it from what only a couple of weeks ago was still creek bottom and is now rocky shoreline.... Still, I enjoyed watching the behaviour of this engaging and industrious bottom feeder....
A couple more photos of Little Owls from my time spent with them recently. It's been fantastic to watch their behaviour and seeing the Owlets for the first time.
I've just uploaded a new album to my website showing some of my 'better' Little Owl photos...
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Long-tailed Tit - Aegithalos Caudatus
The long-tailed tit is globally widespread throughout temperate northern Europe and Asia, into boreal Scandinavia and south into the Mediterranean zone. It inhabits deciduous and mixed woodland with a well-developed shrub layer, favouring edge habitats. It can also be found in scrub, heathland with scattered trees, bushes and hedges, in farmland and riverine woodland, parks and gardens. The bird's year-round diet of insects and social foraging bias habitat choice in winter towards deciduous woodland, typically of oak, ash and locally sycamore species. For nesting, strong preference is shown towards scrub areas. The nest is often built in thorny bushes less than 3 metres above the ground.
The nest of the long-tailed tit is constructed from four materials - lichen, feathers, spider egg cocoons and moss, with over 6,000 pieces used for a typical nest. The nest is a flexible sac with a small, round entrance on top, suspended either low in a gorse or bramble bush or high up in the forks of tree branches. The structural stability of the nest is provided by a mesh of moss and spider silk. The tiny leaves of the moss act as hooks and the spider silk of egg cocoons provides the loops; thus forming a natural form of velcro. The tit lines the outside with hundreds of flakes of pale lichens - this provides camouflage. Inside, it lines the nest with more than 2,000 downy feathers to insulate the nest. Nests suffer a high rate of predation with only 17% success.
Outside the breeding season they form compact flocks of 6 to 17 birds, composed of family parties (parents and offspring) from the previous breeding season, together with any extra adults that helped to raise a brood. These flocks will occupy and defend territories against neighbouring flocks. The driving force behind the flocking behaviour is thought to be that of winter roosting, being susceptible to cold; huddling increases survival through cold nights.
From July to February, the non-breeding season, long-tailed tits form flocks of relatives and non-relatives, roosting communally. When the breeding season begins, the flocks break up, and the birds attempt to breed in monogamous pairs. Males remain within the winter territory, while females have a tendency to wander to neighbouring territories.
Pairs whose nests fail have three choices: try again, abandon nesting for the season or help at a neighbouring nest. It has been shown that failed pairs split and help at the nests of male relatives, recognition being established vocally. The helped nests have greater success due to higher provisioning rates and better nest defence. At the end of the breeding season, in June–July, the birds reform the winter flocks in their winter territory.
Population:
UK breeding:
340,000 territories
Whilst staying on North Uist we had a couple of visits to the fantastic RSPB Balranald Nature Reserve. On one occasion Max and I had a lovely encounter with this male Wheatear in a field of daisies.
Wheatears are quite curious birds, so if you exhibit non-threatening behaviour by getting down low and staying quiet, they may let you approach or even approach you like this individual. - He even put on a show for us by stretching his wings out.
Named due to their behaviour of turning stones over with their beaks to feed on insects, crustaceans, and molluscs. They are particularly well camouflaged and tricky to spot and photograph.
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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.