Mom, pop and seven or eight goslings.

Cowbirds are known as a "brood parasite" because they lay their eggs in other birds nests, alongside the other bird's eggs. When hatched they are raised by the other birds mother. Very confused children.

Mom said he had been out courting at night lately. Probably got into a fight with some other male cats in the village

but is she not the sweetest? I can't stand it!

i love amanda's new pretty basics actions- this is the basic bw with retro tone

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Helvellyn range, Cumbria

First snow of the winter fell up on the peaks on Saturday night. I was out shortly after dawn on Sunday...

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Muck and reflection of the sky come together at Glencoe Lochan

Brood V cicadas are starting to emerge in West Virginia, I stumbled across this little fellow clinging to a daisy in Kanawha County this morning.

Day 189/366 of Project 365 (Tuesday, 2020 July 7 - 58th consecutive daily photo): A hen Mallard scurries away from the photographer with her brood of eight downy youngsters after being flushed from the cover of lily pads.

I will have to wait 17 years to once again see the tree-branch tip damage from Brood X cicada oviposition. Their numbers at this location in the Catoctin Mountains was impressive. Frederick County, Maryland

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Herman Brood Museum Zwolle

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Brooklyn Bridge, New York

She just all of a sudden decided to start brood. She has lived with us since a small chicken and never before showed any intention to brooding. Today it's day 17 and there's few more days to do, hens usually brood about 21 days. She has 7 eggs under her.

She's been sitting so patiently at her nest, which we made of a cardboard box and put it in a private cage so she can be alone and other hens don't disturb her. She only comes out one or two times a day, eats, drinks and streches herself a bit and then she climbs back.

And to our great surprise one of our younger chickens just started to brood as well few days ago, she has 5 eggs under her and her due date is at week 29. We built a private cage for her and her hopefully forthcoming chicks.

This is all very exciting, but now I hope nobody else of our hens would start to brood this summer, because we'll run out of space if it's tens of chickens around!! So far, if all goes well, there could be 12 chicks before July is over. I still don't believe all those eggs are fertilized, but who knows?

The female Ruby-throated Hummingbird is showing her brood patch. Her nest is nearby.

with dark clouds and trees - no Photoshop manipulation

Bumble Bee Pollinating a Flower

Wadewitz Park, Wisconsin

A bumblebee, also written bumble bee, is a member of the bee genus Bombus, in the family Apidae. The brood parasitic or cuckoo bumblebees have sometimes been classified as a subgenus or genus, Psithyrus, but are now usually treated as members of Bombus. This genus is the only extant group in the tribe Bombini, though a few extinct related genera (e.g., Calyptapis) are known from fossils. Over 250 species are known, found primarily in higher latitudes or at higher altitude in the Northern Hemisphere, although they also occur in South America; however, a few lowland tropical species are known. European bumblebees have been introduced to New Zealand and Tasmania.

Bumblebees are social insects which form colonies with a single queen. Colonies are smaller than those of honeybees, growing to as few as 50 individuals in a nest. Female bumblebees can sting repeatedly, but generally ignore humans and other animals. Cuckoo bumblebees do not make nests; their queens aggressively invade the nests of other bumblebee species, kill the resident queens and then lay their own eggs which are cared for by the resident workers.

-wiki

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Some clouds starting to kick up a fuss over Papamoa.

A light rain sweeping across Pen yr Helgi Du (Hill of the Black Hunting), Pen Llithrig y Wrach (Hill of the Slippery Witch) and Creigiau Gleision. Taken from the foothills of Moel Siabod above Capel Curig in Snowdonia, North Wales.

A newly emerged Brood X cicada

Clumb of leaves still hanging on.

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Record year for these in my books, . Caught this recently emerged specimen at Strumpshaw today

Hardwick country park.

Sedgefield.

I guess I wasn't using my tripod to shoot at ISO 12800. Or perhaps I just went to sleep on the job. 😀

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For generations women would gather on "Ladies Lookout" to watch for signs of their husbands boats returning home from the fishing ground on the Grand Banks off the coast of Newfoundland.

The view in this photo is of Cuckold's Cove Head as seen from Ladies Lookout.

View in Light Box

This Magicicada tredecim was emerging from its nymphal case about 10 p.m. on the wall of my house, along with several others. I caught a few shots of the process, and then kept it in an enclosure, perched on a stick, so I could observe the adult in the morning.

The magnificence of nature but the reality...

It's about to rain and the washing is on the line!

Is this one brooding? We'll never know! I so enjoyed watching the primates, far more than I would have suspected, as ellies and lions were my top desire. But the OLIVE BABOON was around a lot and quite intriguing. And as I've said before, like humans or as the Ferengi say "HUU-MAWNS" the most fighting, screaming, threat displays, and chaos that I witnessed among all the animals I saw...was these guys. LOL.

Eerste foto voor een expositie van in totaal negen foto's binnen een week te fotograferen. Dat wordt doorwerken.

Clouds gather over the destination of my path onwards.

(contax IIa, prewar 135mm F4 Sonnar, delta 400, tmax dev)