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Green Bee-eater हरियल पतरिंगा, पतुरी (Merops orientalis), like other bee-eaters, is a richly coloured, slender bird. It is about 9 inches (16–18 cm) long with about 2 inches made up by the elongated central tail-feathers. The sexes are not visually distinguishable. The entire plumage is bright green and tinged with blue especially on the chin and throat. The crown and upper back are tinged with golden rufous. The flight feathers are rufous washed with green and tipped with blackish. A fine black line runs in front of and behind the eye.
Bird Facts: Green bee-eaters may be capable of interpreting the behaviour of human observers. They showed an ability to predict whether a human at a particular location would be capable of spotting the nest entrance and then behaved accordingly to avoid giving away the nest location. The ability to look at a situation from another's point of view was previously believed to be possessed only by primates.
I had read about this behaviour by this species of hoverfly but had never seen it before. The male hovers closely above a female feeding on a flower and gets very aggressive towards anything else flying in the vicinity.
Photographed at Burton Mere Wetlands RSPB reserve.
The cabbage bug (Eurydema oleracea) is known by several other names: The crucifer shield bug, the brassica bug - and quite unforunately, the rape bug. This name isn't because of behaviour, but rather that they like rape seed plants as food, but it's still not very pretty.
The actual bug is quite pretty though and can vary a bit in colouration as evidenced by this pair on top of a ox-eye daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare) which have quite different markings from each other. These guys can even change in markings with age.
Part 1 here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52350311106/
Rhinoceros Auklet RHAU (Cerorhinca monocerata)
Strait of Juan de Fuca
Salish Sea
BC
DSC_5084 - Copy
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
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.
Telemonia male jumping spider courtship show, there is a female telemonia jumping spider in the opposite side! Will post the other image soon!
Some trees escaped the bedevilment of last November's late frost: white transparent apple, medlar, quince, this crabapple and the later olives. I got the apples, the sulphur-crested cockatoos took the quinces in one early morning raid on the day I planned to spread its net, nothing touches and unripe medlar and the olives flowered when it was cruelly dry; limiting for a tree that needs a drink.
Crabapples, like the medlar are a pretty unattractive proposition for a snack until they swell and soften, always set too many fruits, and have limited culinary uses. I was intending to make verjuice this season from the Riesling grapes until Jack Frost changed my plans. I didn't need any pickled crabapples because there's still some stuck away in the pantry, and momentarily thought instead to adopt the English position — verjuice from crabapples. Or, I could leave the net pulled back, and let the birds have them.
Crimson rosellas, and pied currawongs make good use of them. But what drew my attention to this — one of the few fruits remaining on this tree — was the gentle chatter of the king parrot couple: Charles and Camilla.
The crabapples are all gone now, so the bird attractants are few. I'll let you in on a behavioral trait I've observed consistently over the years. Sulphur-crested cockatoos, and short-billed corellas are the laziest flying white rats on the planet! An unregulated feedlot near me wastes so much feed that some days there are so many cockatoos and corellas on the ground that it looks like it has snowed. But on grey days, like today, they are too **beeping** lazy to sift through the cow pats and instead set about pulling out roof screws, stripping trees of shoots, leaves and bark, or taking desperately to chewing up olives. The olive is a disgusting, bitter thing straight off the tree. They know this. But smart enough to know it's fruit, and too stupid to learn that all olives are the same, they pick one, don't like it, and so keep doing the same thing over and over in some vain lunacy that they'll find a good one. They never do.
A crazy person squirting them up the date with a high pressure hose, or charging about wielding a leaf rake while making the sort of screech you imagine says banshee or bunyip, causes them to set up an alarm call, and scatter the flocks. A few will resettle, but this only happens a couple of times before they get even more bored than when they started, and leave. I am, it seems, not a bird attractant after all.
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.
More of beautiful Bo, the hare I've been following as she transitions from her winter to summer pelage.
* On Tuesday I spent a pleasant morning turning over my three compost bins yes I have an exciting life . I was joined by a very friendly robin and I broke off from time to time to photograph him . The only problems with friendly Robins is that they get so close you have to be careful not to stand on the little fellas . I am curious do American robins have this sort of behaviour . Robins are the only wild birds in England that interact so closely with humans. They don't seem to learn this behaviour as their life span is only about a year, it seems positively hard wired .
As for the photo the ugly white bucket is a bit of an eyesore but I could not face the time consuming job of trying to paint it in PS. The bird is sharp at least and has not been cropped as it was only about three feet away from me
An extract from the RSPB site on Robin behaviour
In Britain robins are often associated with gardeners, following them around as they dig the ground. People may even have robins in their gardens that are tame enough to feed from the hand.
There are a few reasons which may explain why robins appear friendlier than other birds. When robins live in the wild in woods or forests they are known to follow large mammals, such as wild boar or deer, using their inbuilt curiosity to find new ways to find food.As the animals move around they disturb the ground bringing worms and insects to the surface which robins can easily forage on. In more urban areas robins are mimicking this behaviour by following humans, taking advantage of the freshly dug up soil to find food.
It is interesting to note that in the rest of Europe robins are much more shy and rarely leave the confines of the forest. There has long been a tradition of hunting and trapping small birds on the continent so robins have remained fearful of humans whereas in Britain robins have co-existed with humans for many years and learned that there is no threat in being close to us.
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A behaviour common to birds - find a way to seem larger than you are - but one I had never seen before in a Wood Duck: this male stuck his neck out and raised his head as high as he could, as another male floated into range.
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
Astronauts from five space agencies around the world are taking part in ESA’s CAVES training course – Cooperative Adventure for Valuing and Exercising human behaviour and performance Skills.
The two-week course prepares astronauts to work safely and effectively in multicultural teams in an environment where safety is critical.
As they explore the caves of Sardinia they will encounter caverns, underground lakes and strange microscopic life. They are testing new technology and conducting science – just as if they were living on the International Space Station. The six astronauts relying on their own skills, teamwork and ground control to achieve their mission goals – the course is designed to foster effective communication, decision-making, problem-solving, leadership and team dynamics.
This year is the first international space cooperation to involve astronauts from China, Russia, Japan, ESA and America, with cosmonaut Sergei Vladimirovich, ESA astronaut Pedro Duque, taikonaut Ye Guangfu, Japanese astronaut Aki Hoshide and NASA astronauts Ricky Arnold and Jessica Muir taking part.
This picture was taken on the second day underground for the ‘cavenauts’. They will spend six nights without sunlight, setting up basecamp in the Sa Grutta cave in Sardinia, Italy. As with any astronaut mission, science and technology are an important part of the undertaking. The astronauts are making 3D maps of the caves they explore using photograph-based measurements.
Follow CAVES via twitter @ESA_CAVES or with #CAVES2016 or on the CAVES blog.
Credit: ESA-V.Crobu
BLOY Warrior Point Behaviour Doc Collage
Black Oystercatcher BLOY (Haematopus bachmani)
Warrior Point
North Saanich
Vancouver Island
British Columbia
So as this individual was foraging ..repeatedly submeged head...
when it came up with a prize i attempted to photo doc.
Here we see that it is a bit like the song "Hole in the bottom of the Sea" (if you know that one)
Here we see there's an..""Oyster on a Mussel on the Bill of a Bird out at Warrior Point""
after which The BLOY walked over to a rocky area above waterline and dislodged the Mussel from the Oyster and then Dislodged the mussel from off of its own beak ,,,then dislodged the meat from the mussel shell...
Then down the hatch
:)
The older they are getting the lazier they are becoming.
Even though Milo and Misty are just over 2 years old they really have changed into adult lions and their behaviours of always on the go and ready to play are now more like, we will play when we want and this rock is the a perfect spot to spend the day .