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Since it's wednesday, I decided to give something real bokehlicious. It's a little bit out of focus but I like it anyway. Have a great day!
The crowned lapwing (Vanellus coronatus), or crowned plover, is a bird of the lapwing subfamily that occurs contiguously from the Red Sea coast of Somalia to southern and southwestern Africa. It is an adaptable and numerous species, with bold and noisy habits.
Crowned lapwings prefer short, dry grassland which may be overgrazed or burnt, but avoid mountains.
The crowned plover opportunistically forages on a wide variety of insects, but mostly ants and termites. These insects are often extracted from the dung of large mammals. They feed mainly by surface pecking as opposed to digging. One curious feeding habit of all plovers, which has not fully been analyzed, has been called foot paddling or foot trembling. The plover stamps the ground with its foot. Worms mistake the noise for the pattering of rain and burrow up to the surface where they are eaten by the plover.
This lovely Lapwing was captured during a photography safari on an early morning game drive in the Maasai Mara Game Reserve, Kenya.
A common Blackbird foraging in the wet grass of the botanic gardens. It was quite used to people judging by how close it came to me.
HBW! Sorry I haven't been commenting for a while. First days of school have been quite busy. I'll try to visit your streams really soon.
It's been a while since I last posted a purple shot so (ehe-hem Dan Almaral) hush :P
The Grey-headed Kingfisher (Halcyon leucocephala) has a wide distribution and is found in tropical and semi-tropical Africa and the Arabian Peninsula..
A dry-country kingfisher of scrub and woodland, solitary or in pairs, often found near water, but unlike most kingfishers is not aquatic. Perches on a branch, unmoving for long periods while watching the ground for signs of insects or small lizards, bobbing head before diving on prey. Nests in holes in steep riverbanks and is aggressively protective of its nest by repeated dive-bombing of foraging monitor lizards.
This beautiful Grey-headed Kingfisher was captured on a photography safari and was photographed on an early morning lovely golden light on a game drive in Lake Nakuru National Park, Kenya.