This spider was small to medium sized and was ballooning its silk secreted from its butt (silk gland at the tip of its abdomen) to travel from this leaf to another one.

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

Yay at last! A first for me! I have been trying to get a picture of this butterfly for ages!

The Wall gets its name from the characteristic behaviour of resting with wings two-thirds open on any bare surface, including bare ground and, of course, walls! Many people will have come across this butterfly on footpaths, especially in coastal areas, where the butterfly flies up when disturbed, before setting again a few metres ahead.

The basking behaviour of this butterfly allows it to benefit from the full warmth of the sun whose rays shine directly on the butterfly, but also get reflected back onto the butterfly from whichever surface it is resting on. This habit allows the butterfly to raise its body temperature sufficiently high for it to fly. In particularly hot weather, however, such basking is avoided and the butterfly may even retreat to a suitably-shaded spot to avoid overheating.

This species was once found throughout England, Wales, Ireland and parts of Scotland. Today, however, is a very different picture, with this species suffering severe declines over the last several decades. It is now confined to primarily-coastal regions and has been lost from many sites in central, eastern and south-east England.

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.

Teaching a day of one-on-one tuition at Australia Zoo

Two male shovelers possibly mating. Not sure if this is aggression or homosexual behaviour.

VeM Shady Behaviour Top Exclusive Patterns BLOGGER Pack ((legacy))-- Versois et Mailloux

MONA - B*tch Beauty Bag - Pink-- TRES CHIC EVENT

WINGS-HAIR-ES0501 Variety & Omber (Pack)-- Fameshed

KYLE ARTIC SET :: LYBRA :: (unpacked)-- Lybra L$75 pack

RJ - Garter ,FatPack

WarPaint* Naked Lips 3 - set 1 [LeL Evo/EvoX] (add) (unpacked)

Lexa - Ximi Coffin Nails UNPACK

Focus. Dubai Rooftop Pool Backdrop

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!

Gannet pair renewing there bonds at the nesting colony.

RSPB Bempton Cliffs, East Yorkshire.

after a nap time

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Styling/Graphics ::: Clix

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Red Squirrel, Scottish pine forest, Black Isle

Crestie photographed at my feeding station in Inverness-shire. Please contact me if you're interested in photographing these wonderful birds (Oct-early March)

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Not long after this Magpie Lark exhibits the same behaviour as the Wattlebird

Both talons are locked on the fish.

This is a good time of the year to find this species of shield bug in the long grass and bushes on the mendips and it has almost become an annual ritual to see if I can find feeding individuals. This is quite a common site with them feeding mainly on caterpillars and sawfly larvae, occasionally adult butterflies or moths.

Best viewed very large.

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You can see more of my images on my other flickr account Heath's moth page

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

On black

One of the many ground squirrels (aka marmots or groundhogs) of the Grand Canyon. Taken on the South Rim trail with a 55mm (equiv. 82mm), no crop. Despite the signs, the cute furry balls are clearly fed by the hords of tourists, otherwise they wouldn't display this behaviour (and size !).

Part of my US West Coast set.

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

St Aidan's Nature Park

Matti-Jay asked for photos of her playing with the lock to the tools shed at Memorial park back in December. Bit cheeky really, I'm not sure she would have had such a grin if park maintenance turned up :)

I was delighted to note that she's wearing the flower earrings I made many moons ago that I gave her for Christmas. Boxing Day 2017.

HFF

Doing what cockatoos like to do best, Little Corella ripping cones to pieces in pine trees. Adelaide Botanic Garden.

One from my archives taken during the summer of 2019.

St Aidan's Nature Park.