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Behaviour is the mirror in which everyone shows their image-
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
Nothing better than having fun in an old asylum! Another day on the weekend of missions, visited with AlternativeDayOut, Luckypants and proj3ctm4yh3m :)
This Orthodox Jewish man walked across the stones and water and seemed to be about to end it all. But he looked up to the sky for a few moments, turned round and walked back to the beach. Just a phone snap.
These are marvellous wee birds. Many people call them dull, but they are anything but, in both appearance and behaviour. With "private" lives that read like the script for a TV soap your garden hedge may be more interesting than you thought. Their song, like a squeaky wheelbarrow is one of the true harbingers of spring
Cormorants diving for fish and Egret catching the fish that almost escaped ... :-D
Taken at Rye Harbour, East Sussex, UK.
Fabulous encounter with a wonderful, totally relaxed mountain hare in the Scottish Highlands, July 2019.
One of the strange behaviours of male Ruddy Ducks. This instant bubble bath routine is supposed to drive lady Ruddys mad with passion.
20+ lightpainted domes in a row, down a flight of steps off a footbridge, in a heavily light polluted area.
Single exposure.
Do you dome? Here's how
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Flock behaviour is fascinating. How they manage to synchronise turns or decide on the next action or direction is a mystery. The synchronism is impressive. Here and below, all birds have closed wings at the same time, becoming little projectiles.
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)
This bird was one of a flock of a dozen feeding on some fruit trees in a quiet estate in the suburbs of Glasnevin, Dublin. 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.
Spent last few days in the New forest national park, UK, photographing the Red deer when this magnificent fellow crossed this Autumnal forest path just thirty metres from me and a couple of other nature lovers; it was one of those moments ! His harem of twenty hinds and some of their young had already crossed before him, he was bringing up the rear. Love the New forest.
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He can lose up to a third of his body weight during the rut, eating little as he strives to keep his females with him, taking on all comers, roaring loudly to announce his presence and attract other hinds in the area to join him.
There was some bigger stags about, but he was one of the most confident looking ones.
He was a real beauty. Red deer, cervus elaphus.
Thanks for looking !
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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)
Since they are often "frozen" still in "don't detect me" mode , it is always enjoyable to see them just carrying on "being snipe". Moreso if there are more of them.
Wilson's Snipe WISN (Gallinago delicate)
& also
Mallard MALL (Anas platyrhynchos)
Welch Pond
Martindale Flats area
Saanich
Greater Victoria BC
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This species is not known for their gatherings mostly because they are so cryptically shy & camouflaged
This location was a stake out for a local rarity a Black Phoebe...which i did not see on this occasion but the snipe obs were great
Also--
Quickest way to "find" a helicopter is to try to do a video or audio clip..?
what's with that?!?