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Cormorants diving for fish and Egret catching the fish that almost escaped ... :-D
Taken at Rye Harbour, East Sussex, UK.
The normal behaviour for emerald wasps (aka cuckoo wasps) is to never be still. They dart around all the time which makes them difficult to shoot - something which is unfortunate with their amazingly coloured armour.
This one which I found at the bee hotel in the garden was a little different. She was watching a solitary wasp crawl into one of the holes and prepare it for her egg/larvae.
Emerald wasps are kleptoparasites and this one was staying still outside the hole, planning to dart in there and place her own egg and take advantage of the other wasp's hard work.
She stayed still for sevaral minutes - but I can't say she was diffucult to spot with such a rainbow of colours.
There was a wire mesh in front of the logs to prevent birds from making a smörgåsbord out of it, but I managed to shoot through the holes of it and just reach the wasp with the focus at the maximum available distance (this lens can't focus further away than 101 mm / 4").
There are several very similar-looking species in the Chrysis ignita complex, but the best guess my expert has come up with was Chrysis schencki with a big maybe in front of it.
One from yesterdays visit to Draycott Sleights, I was just about to pack up when I noticed a pale white blob in a patch of brambles and surprised to find a mating pair of Small Whites. A nice find to finish the morning on.
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This male Pileated Woodpecker had just taken a bath but was also molting in the neck. He kept on scratching its head against the tree trunk. It would lift the bark a bit and scratched on it. It looked like it was extremely itchy. Poor thing.
The image of the same male Common Blue butterfly just before and after the sun comes out from behind the clouds, the butterfly open his wings to absorb the warmth... and who could blame him. The left image was flipped and merged with another. Bath, England
This is behaviour I've not witnessed before. This pair of Robins are building a nest in our garden. For the last few days the male has been taking food from me and flying across the garden to present it to the female. I finally caught them in action today!
20+ lightpainted domes in a row, down a flight of steps off a footbridge, in a heavily light polluted area.
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Fabulous encounter with a wonderful, totally relaxed mountain hare in the Scottish Highlands, July 2019.
Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes)
Hello everyone! This young fox had been licking the ground. It took me a few moments to realize it was licking the remains of roadkill from the road. You'll see a streak of blood near its feet. No doubt the fox finished every little bit of it before moving on.
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Fabulous encounter with a wonderful, totally relaxed mountain hare in the Scottish Highlands, July 2019.
I don't know what's gotten into the Canada Geese lately! They are all very vocal & looking for a fight! : )
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Shottisham, Suffolk, 6 February 2020 (other hoverflies were also seen exhibiting this behaviour - a second E. tenax, three Episyrphus balteatus and a Syrphus torvus)
Last shot of this guy from the first encounter with Elk on this early morning visit to Elk island National Park.
I am quite a rookie when it comes to Elk, but with its posture here, I am guessing that it is smelling the air. It is that pose and assumed behaviour that I found most interesting as I did not have a shot anything like this before.
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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Here's 6 photos all taken at Hogganfield Loch on 10 February 2009 - during a big freeze, when the loch was mainly frozen. That brought the birds much closer to the lens than they would normally be.
ESA engineers need to be certain of the strength and tensile behaviour of candidate materials for coming space missions – so they pull them apart.
This tensile testing machine (otherwise known as a universal testing machine) does exactly that: a test sample is placed between its two sets of ‘jaws’ and subjected to a steadily increasing pull force, until the moment of fracture.
The applied force and resulting deformation can be tracked precisely using a photogrammetry system – note the camera to the left – while the final fracture pattern becomes the subject of detailed analysis.
“Being able to measure the fundamental properties of a wide variety of materials is essential to good design, modelling and testing of spacecraft components,” explains ESA Materials and Processes engineer Nathan Bamsley. “Testing in an accurate and repeatable manner using calibrated equipment that you trust is absolutely vital.”
This tensile testing machine is part of ESA’s Materials and Electrical Components Laboratory, one of 35 technical laboratories based at the European Space Technology and Research Centre, ESTEC, based at Noordwijk in the Netherlands.
Made up of dozens of dedicated experimental facilities and hundreds of instruments overall, the Materials and Electrical Components Lab is dedicated to guaranteeing an optimal choice of materials, processes and electrical components for ESA missions and projects, bearing in mind the unique environmental challenges involved around designing for space operations.
A designated certification authority for materials and processes, the Lab is open to customers from all backgrounds for testing work. To find out more about working with ESA facilities, check our new website on the duties and resources of ESA’s Directorate of Technology, Engineering and Quality.
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I was poking about in the rocks yesterday afternoon, when this limpet (with another riding on its back) suddenly reared up on its hind legs. I grabbed this shot and got ready to take another, better composed. But the moment passed too quickly.
I spent all afternoon looking for the behaviour to be replicated in other individuals, and saw a few others, all with a 'rider' - doing something similar but none so exaggerated as this one.
What were they up to? Is this common limpet behaviour? Does anyone know?
Part dominance display showing strength to the female, part forceful copulation, the male crab holds the already egg bearing female while he fertilizes her eggs which can be seen as a reddish-brown mass mass beneath her. This holding pattern can last from hours to days, sometimes until the female's next moult.
Photo from the Jardin Botanico del Pacifico in the Colombian Choco.
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The European golden plover (Pluvialis apricaria), also known as the Eurasian golden plover or just the golden plover within Europe, is a largish plover. This species is similar to two other golden plovers: the American golden plover, Pluvialis dominica, and Pacific golden plover, Pluvialis fulva, which are both smaller, slimmer and relatively longer-legged than European golden plover, and both have grey rather than white axillary feathers (only properly visible in flight).
The European golden plover is quite thickset, with its wings only being slightly longer than its tail. Its most distinct feature is a white "s"-shaped band stretching from its forehead to its flanks.
The European golden plover is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies. (wikipedia)
There was a nice winter flock of Golden Plover off Blackrock, Co. Louth, in Dundalk Bay, coming to rest on the exposed mudflats at low tide. Such a great sight to see and hear, as they come wheeling down in loose flocks to settle.