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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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I think this is a female looking pretty on a bright sunny day. There are quite a few of these guys around and their courtship behaviour is fun to watch. I watched two sitting on the same branch, facing each other while quickly moving their heads side to side.
Shorebirds of Ireland, Freshwater Birds of Ireland and The Birds of Ireland: A Field Guide with Jim Wilson.
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There are three species: the Bohemian waxwing (B. garrulus), the Japanese waxwing (B. japonica) and the cedar waxwing (B. cedrorum). The Bohemian waxwing is a starling-sized bird. It is short-tailed, mainly brownish-grey, and has a conspicuous crest on its head. The male of the nominate subspecies has a black mask through the eye and a black throat. There is a white streak behind the bill and a white curve below the eye. The lower belly is a rich chestnut colour and there are cinnamon-coloured areas around the mask. The rump is grey and the tail ends in a bright yellow band with a broad black border above it. The wings are very distinctive; the flight feathers are black and the primaries have markings that produce a yellow stripe and white "fishhooks" on the closed wing. The adult's secondaries end in long red appendages with the sealing wax appearance that gives the bird its English name. The eyes are dark brown, the bill is mainly black, and the legs are dark grey or black. In flight, the waxwing's large flocks, long wings and short tail give some resemblance to the common starling, and its flight is similarly fast and direct. It clambers easily through bushes and trees but only shuffles on the ground.
The range of the Bohemian waxwing overlaps those of both the other members of the genus.
The Bohemian waxwing's call is a high trill sirrrr. The Bohemian waxwing has a circumpolar distribution, breeding in northern regions of Eurasia and North America.
This waxwing is migratory with much of the breeding range abandoned as the birds move south for the winter. Migration starts in September in the north of the range, a month or so later farther south. Eurasian birds normally winter from eastern Britain through northern parts of western and central Europe, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and northern China to Japan. North American breeders have a more southeasterly trend, many birds wintering in southeast Canada, with smaller numbers in the north central and northeastern US states. Birds do not usually return to the same wintering sites in successive years. One bird wintering in the Ukraine was found 6,000 km (3,700 mi) to the east in Siberia in the following year.
In some years, this waxwing irrupts south of its normal wintering areas, sometimes in huge numbers. The fruit on which the birds depend in winter varies in abundance from year to year, and in poor years, particularly those following a good crop the previous year, the flocks move farther south until they reach adequate supplies.They will stay until the food runs out and move on again. (wikipedia)
Always a pleasure seeing Waxwing. This bird was one of a flock of 50 in an industrial estate on the outskirts of Dublin city. Every few years there is a larger invasion into Ireland when the food supplies in their normal winter range is exhausted prematurely. Flocks of up to 400 Waxwings have been recorded in Ireland. This year seems to be one of those irruptive years for the species.
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
May is going to be images made at either Las Canteras or Maspalomas Beaches, Gran Canaria.................all are done this year, an attempt has been made to contrast the freedom of Las Canteras with the "Organised" behaviour of Maspalomas
Arrrghhh!! It's gone from bright red on my Mac to a sort of dull pink on Flickr... sorry.. :(
from the phrase 'painting the town red' - Meaning: Engage in a riotous spree.
Origin: The allusion is to the kind of unruly behaviour that results in much blood being spilt.
www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/paint-the-town-red.html
HSS!
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.
...not the birdie
Poppy, my dog, had a better idea than to look at the camera as I'd asked her, instead watching the pretty buttercup catching the sunlight. As is often the case (with her being half collie), her idea was superior to mine, and resulted in a better composition than I'd planned originally, confirming to me, yet again, that the IQ is most definitely on the wrong end of the lead! :D
This Crow had dumped something in the birdbath and was disturbed by Harry who ran down the backyard barking. I called Harry back not really realising what was going on. It came back and I clicked a few shots, after review I realised that this is a baby bird the Crow was devouring. I hope it wasn't from my backyard!!
Doing what cockatoos like to do best, Little Corella ripping cones to pieces in pine trees. Adelaide Botanic Garden.
This was taken at about 8 am, with a bright sun creating really high contrast. I was surprised an owl would still be up and hunting at that time but maybe he was after one final rodent before calling it a night.
This was also the photo shoot where I was trying to be as inconspicuous as possible but we were interrupted by the Ornithologists. Right when I was anticipating the great grey swooping down on his unsuspecting prey, he was spooked and was flushed to another perch, on top of a power pole.
I previously stated my version of the events immediately before and after this photo, so I won't go into that again. One of my good flickr friends forwarded my story on to the president of the BCFO, who responded as follows:
"I am responding to your message sent to the BCFO web site regarding a Great Grey Owl siting near Tumbler Ridge.
First, I looked at your flickr site where you posted your excellent photo of the owl.
I can appreciate your frustration and disappointment when you were observing this bird in solitude and then a group stopped to observe the bird as well.
I contacted three people who were in that group and asked them to relate what they saw of the birders’ behaviour while viewing this bird. They all said that they felt you probably wouldn’t be happy that a group of people stopped while you were photographing the owl. However, their description of the birders’ activity while viewing the owl did not indicate any inappropriate behaviour. The movement of the owl to a post and eventually flying away was likely due to the presence of the group. When I read your description to them, they all indicated that they did not see behaviour that you described, other than enthusiasm for seeing this bird.
The BCFO meets annually in different areas of the province to provide our members with the opportunity to view and enjoy wildlife and we organize our members into groups for field trips. Any time a group stops to view wildlife, it is not going to be the same experience as it would be as an individual. It was unfortunate timing that you and our field trip were viewing this owl at the same time."
Mike McGrenere
President, BCFO
The parent seemed to be teaching the juvenile to scavenge for food.
The adult (female I think?) Great Spotted Woodpecker appeared to
1) collect food from a feeder
2) stash the food in a crevice on the wooden pole
3) feed it to the juvenile
I watched (and photographed) this behaviour several times. (I selected the photos from different bursts)
At one point I photographed two juveniles at the site.
Taken late evenng. The fish is about to eat a worm which is a little strange as I understand this type of parrotfish browses on algae.
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Named because of their well known love of jocularity, frivolous behaviour and general all-round hilarity, as shown in this candid photo above. The Twins, Algernon and Alistair, are famous for their crime sprees, leaving a trail of looting, pillaging and bad puns in their wake. They are currently still at large as authorities are baffled by their humourous anecdotes.
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!
... all through the holiday season is to be drunk. The drunkenness culminates on New Years’ Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you’re married to.
~P.J. O'Rourke
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Happy, happy New Year my Flickr friends, both near and far.
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A little artistic licence with this one by using Photoshop to combine two shots. Cheating or all part of the creative process?
St Aidan's Nature Park
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.
I watched these two carrion crows for over half an hour the other weekend. They were constantly pecking each other and would not let go and were still at it when I left. It was interesting watching the behaviour of the other crows as they occasionally ventured close seemingly intrigued with what was going on
Shorebirds of Ireland, Freshwater Birds of Ireland and The Birds of Ireland: A Field Guide with Jim Wilson.
www.markcarmodyphotography.com
The great black-backed gull (Larus marinus) is the largest gull in the world. It is 64–79 cm (25–31 in) long with a 1.5–1.7 m (4 ft 11 in – 5 ft 7 in) wingspan and a body weight of 0.75–2.3 kg. it is a very aggressive hunter, pirate, and scavenger. It breeds on the European and North American coasts and islands of the North Atlantic and is fairly sedentary, though some move farther south or inland to large lakes or reservoirs. The adult great black-backed gull has a white head, neck and underparts, dark grey wings and back, pink legs and yellow bill.
This species can be found breeding in coastal areas from the extreme northwest portion of Russia, through much of coastal Scandinavia, on the Baltic Sea coasts, to the coasts of northwestern France, the United Kingdom and Ireland. Across the northern portion of the Atlantic, this gull is distributed in Iceland, the Faroe Islands, southern Greenland and on the Atlantic coasts of Canada and the United States.
Great black-backed gulls are opportunistic feeders, apex predators, and are very curious. They will investigate any small organism they encounter and will readily eat almost anything that they can swallow. Unlike most other Larus gulls, they are highly predatory and frequently hunt and kill any prey smaller than themselves, behaving more like a raptor than a typical larid gull. They get much of their dietary energy from scavenging, with refuse, most provided directly by humans, locally constituting more than half of their diet. (wikipedia)
The Great-black backed Gull is resident along all Irish coasts. Less frequently seen inland, usually only following storms. They follow trawlers and other fishing boats along the coast, even hitching a ride on smaller lobster and crab fishermen's boats, just like this one. This was off Dun Laoghaire, Dublin.