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PURE PLAY, inspired by the setting sun. There is hardly any practical functionality in this behaviour of wild geese. The end of the first March day this year.
Took my old E-M1 gen.1 with me, with stills on my mind. The camera has poor video, but the scene was irresistible.
Wild geese make a distinct sound and have a demeanour which is not always the same. I often hear them at night, when they fly in small groups low above my flat 25 m high. Then it's more like navigating, a kind of sound radar. Or encouraging each other. Yesterday evening (5 March, not this recording) I was late coming back from the river shore, and the geese had been conspicuously calm for an hour... when I was at the middle of that big field populated by them, it was almost completely dark already. Camera already packed in my bag. Then something like exploded. The whole flock of around thousand or more wild geese put up a play for me. They suddenly burst into flight from the field on my right hand side and flew right over my head to the other half of the field where they all majestically landed. It was a sound of the thunder, all those huge wings flapping above me and the geese honking and calling. Like ƒƒƒ tutti of a large symphony orchestra. There were many many more birds than could fit in my lens even if I had the camera ready and small µ4/3 sensor somehow probing the dark. –Maybe I should take a sound recorder with me the next time... :)))
The occurrence on March 5th (not the modest one filmed here) brings me to my photographic Murphy's law: My greatest pics and videos are the ones I did not take. That's a rule that's haunting me for years and decades; my whole life actually. Like that one in the caption, just four days after this recorded clip. Please read the paragraph above, it does not pertain to the video clip above. Somehow, the birds always wait just enough —5 or 15 minutes after the sunset— for the light to fade out and then they appear in majestic formations and formidable numbers, to perform their low passes, big turns, amplified rhythmic calls, terrific landings and what not. Exactly that fraction too late when I can NOT film them any more with my modest µ4/3 gear, but can still observe the spectacle. No, they don't do it to spite me; it's just to keep their worthiest artistry beyond our proud-spirited set of captured things. It's rewarding enough to witness them. I am humbled and remain with my reoccurring phenomenon. Birds appearing just before sunrise or just after sunset with the regularity of Newton's physical laws.
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P. S. Contemplating the purchase of the G9 Mark II ever since... Now you know it's not the GAS (gear acquisition syndrome), but the GIS (gees inspired syndrome).
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Signal Crayfish, Pacifastacus leniusculus. Amazed to meet this on a footpath, never seen a Crayfish out of water relocating from a dried-up pool. _MG_2562
Taken @ Bellvue NL
Ruddy turnstones engage in a variety of behaviours to locate and capture prey. These behaviours can be placed into six general categories:[10]
Routing: The turnstone manipulates piles of seaweed through flicking, bulldozing, and pecking to expose small crustaceans or gastropod molluscs hidden underneath.
Turning stones: As suggested by its name, the turnstone flicks stones with its bill to uncover hidden littorinids and gammarid amphipods.
Digging: With small flicks of its bill, the turnstone creates holes in the ground substrate (usually sand or mud) and then pecks at the exposed prey – often sandhoppers or seaweed flies.
Probing: The turnstone inserts its bill more than a quarter-length into the ground to get at littorinids and other gastropods.
Hammer–probing: The turnstone cracks open its prey's shell by using its bill as a hammer, and then extracts the animal inside through pecking and probing.[11]
Surface pecking: The turnstone uses short, shallow pecks (less than a quarter bill-length) to get at prey at or just below the ground's surface. Wikipedia
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.
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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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Shadowed by a Coastal or Longfin Trevally (not possible to distinguish which without disection). This is opportunistic behaviour and allows the Trevally to snatch any suitable creature disturbed by the Puffer as it rummages in the sand which it does pretty constantly searching for food
I observed this Foxes behaviour while it followed its prey under the snow. Jumping up and then down and digging under the snow, while being followed by an opportunistic Magpie to the left of the image.
Foxes are, in visual terms, arrhythmic (or 24-hour) mammals, meaning they can be active at any time, day or night (compare this to most squirrels, who are almost totally blind at night and can only be active during daylight). There are several adaptations that allow for this activity pattern; all help control the amount of light available to the animal.
Foxes, unlike most canids, have vertically-slit pupils, which provide them with three significant advantages over hunters with round pupils. Primarily, vertically slit pupils can be closed more tightly than rounded ones and this, in conjunction with eyelids that close horizontally, allows their owner to more precisely regulate the amount of light entering the eye, helping them hunt across a wide variety of different light conditions.
During a fishing trip off the west coast near Prince Rupert, British Columbia, Canada we had a pod of Humpback Whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) swim by the boat under the surface of the water and circled in front of out boat and blowing bubbles. This is referred to as "Bubble Net" feeding where the whales swim in a circle around a mass of bait fish, "Herring" in this case, and cause them to bunch together in a tight mass. The whales then swim up to the surface through this mass of fish with their mouths wide open and break the surface of the water in a group with their mouths full of bait fish.
It was my first experience in viewing this behaviour and was incredible to view. There were at least four whales in this feeding activity.
23 July, 2019.
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Black Guillemots / cepphus grylle. Oban, Scotland. 15/05/22.
I watched Black Guillemot courtship behaviour whilst pairs were swimming and also, when they flew to the top of the esplanade wall. The short displays were very intense and animated and I think would become more protracted as the month advanced.
The pair shown here had suddenly flown up from the sea and were vocalising to each other, beaks pointing slightly downwards. Moments later the male started a high-stepping walk around the female, his beak angled more acutely downwards. She immediately crouched submissively, but copulation didn't take place. It was early days for them and the behaviour more about strengthening their pair bond than procreation.
What a striking pair they made!
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No doubt about the ID on this guy. Looks like I caught him after some heavy-duty maintenance. Although there is no action here, as it has already taken place, I am happy with this one because of the suggested behaviour of preening.So although it is a statitic shot, it is at least closer to what my objective was this year in capturing some kind of behaviour.
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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 😆.
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!
Scorpion fly female (Panorpis communis) stealing prey from spider's web. Dorset, UK.
Scorpion flies are 'kleptoparasites' and often steal prey from spiders' webs. It was spinning like a top in the breeze at the end of this silk thread.
Double trouble....
Typical behaviour for these mallards they had teamed up to bully and attack others....
Mallard
Scientific name: Anas platyrhynchos
The mallard is the most familiar of all the dabbling ducks, found right across Europe, Asia and North America. They have also been introduced to South Africa and Australia. Mallards are a common sight at our local parks and ponds, and are often very tame, being fed by the public regularly.
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.
D-Longlegs tracking movement on the water below. I find nothing is more captivating than watching these magnificent bears move on the hunt.
Young mountain hare that I've followed since he/she was still a leveret. Lovely to see in winter pelage looking stunning!
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.
Juvenile
Brown Thrasher BRTH (Toxostoma rufum)
tentatively or
experimentally feeding
Carmichael, Saskatchewan, Canada
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Mike McGrenere found one in Greater Victoria July 11th...Great Find Mike!
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)