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Sympetrum striolatum on the lounger
They were still mating on 11 October! I was watching a pair in the hopes of a pic when suddenly the female vanished. I lifted a lily leaf to see if she had drowned and found her wings sticking out of a frog mouth...sadly it was off before I got a photo!
The Common Whitetail is literally a Pondhawk, that is, a dragonfly that will protect the female that he *thinks* is his mate though she may have mated with 10 other Common Whitetails just that morning. As I pointed out once before, the last male to mate will force out any previous partners' sperm and it is he who becomes the "father." In the meantime, since no one Whitetail knows who was last in line, no one knows who's really the mate. Therefore, you could have 10 males patrolling the territory after the female lays her eggs. If you're thinking, "hell of a system," you're not thinking like a dragon or damsel. Obviously, 300 million years of history says something about the success of the Dragonfly Draft. They only have six months, so gather ye rosebuddies and damsels while ye may and the line continues. You're no even around long enough to pick out names.
By the way, judging by the lack of color on the abdomen and the bright colors on the thorax, this male hasn't been around for more than a day or two. If he catches the light just right, it's almost as though there are prisms of color like diamonds where his wings meet. He will become whiter, glossier, and then light blue just before the end of his days. The dragonflies' lives as adults are highly compressed.
Common Redpoll (Carduelis flammea) male in the mixed woods of the aspen parkland region near Thorhild, Alberta, Canada.
21 February, 2013.
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Taken beside the River Orwell at Shotley, Suffolk.
The common ringed plover was formally described in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the 10th. edition of his Systema Naturae.
It is a small, dumpy, short-legged wading bird, Adults are 6.7 to 7.7 in. 17 to 19.5 cm) in length with a 14 to 16 in. (35 to 41 cm) wingspan. They weigh 2.25 oz. (64g).
They have a grey-brown back and wings, a white belly, and a white breast with one black neckband. They have a brown cap, a white forehead, a black mask around the eyes and a short orange and black bill. The legs are orange and only the outer two toes are slightly webbed. Juvenile are duller than the adults in colour, with an often incomplete grey-brown breast band, a dark bill and dull yellowish-grey legs.
They are commonly found both in low coastal plains and in cold uplands with sparse vegetation, in open habitats with little or no plant cover, where they nest on the ground.
Common ringed plovers are migratory. Birds from Europe winter in Britain, and birds from Greenland and Canada pass through Britain on migration to coastal areas south to Africa. Many birds in Britain and northern France are resident throughout the year.
These birds forage for food on beaches, tidal flats and fields, usually by sight. They eat insects, crustaceans and worms and forage both by day and by night. They sometimes use foot-trembling to reveal the location of prey.
Common ringed plovers are solitary nesters and are territorial. Egg laying generally begins in May but the date varies depending on the region. The nest is a shallow scrape lined with pebbles and pieces of vegetation. The clutch is of 3 to 4 eggs, which are speckled to look like pebbles and blend into the surrounding sand and shingle. This makes them hard for predators to spot, but also vulnerable to being trampled underfoot. The eggs are laid at intervals of 1 to 3 days and are incubated by both parents. They hatch after 21 to 27 days. The downy chicks are grey-buff mottled with cinnamon-buff above and white below. The young are cared for by both parents and can feed themselves. While small they are brooded at night and in bad weather. They fledge when aged around 24 days. A chick can expect an average lifespan of 5 years. If a potential predator approaches the nest, the adult will walk away from the scrape, calling to attract the intruder and feigning a broken wing.
The UK population of breeding birds is 5,450+ pairs and the
UK wintering population is 42,500 birds.
The common ringer plover has an extremely large range with a large population size and is therefore evaluated by the International Union for Conservation of Nature to be of 'Least Concern'.
Common Bullfinch! Latin: Pyrrhula pyrrhula; Swedish: Domherre! december 2024, Arvidsjaur, Lapland, Sweden!
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Common Blue females are often plain brown with only slight blue streaking, close to the body. This one is exceptionally blue
Original size viewing is recommended.
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Common Gallinule (Gallinula galeata) ~ Polk County, Florida
On the subject of gallinule closeups - this is the immature Purple Gallinule's more aggressive and 'common' cousin.
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Common Honeysuckle or Woodbine (Lonicera periclylmenum)
at Irwell Vale on the East Lancashire Railway.
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I have not seen this one in my yard before. Thanks to my iPhone that helped to id this one for me. I got a bonus wee insect on the plant as well. Taken with the Sigma 105mm f2.8 macro lens on a Canon EOS 5D Mark II.
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Common Teal / anas crecca. East Yorkshire. 21/08/19.
Too close to fit in the frame but I'm not complaining as I was able to capture some amazing feather details and colours. Viewed large you can still see a trace of the former green eye patch ... and the eye itself is as bright as a button!
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Common wasp, Vespula vulgaris. This is a queen. 21 April 2021. Ealing, London, England, UK.
The backstory is that I found this queen common wasp in the house in the morning. It was very sluggish, not because it was cold but probably because it needed an energy fix. I put a drop of sugar water near it which it took readily, and then put it in the sun. After two or three minutes it was as right as rain and flew off, hopefully to start a new colony.
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Those raggedy figures out in cornfields may be called scare-crows, but grackles are the #1 threat to corn. They eat ripening corn as well as corn sprouts, and their habit of foraging in big flocks means they have a multimillion dollar impact.
Common kestrel (Falco tinnunculus)
Meaning behind the name:
Falco = Latin for Falcon. This originated from around 300AD and appeared with the art of falconry (training birds of prey) and the name is connected with falx, as "falc-sickle" understood to litterally mean "sickle bearer" - referring to the curved talons on their feet.
tinnunculus = Latin meaning "Shrill sounding" (based on its call)
The English name was also spelt as "Kastrel" (or Castrel) and was in use by 1544. The name originates from French in the form as "cre'cerelle" which gave birth to the earliest form in English as "Casserel" and has a poetic origin from the courtship call that is often heard "Keelie."
Other names include: stanniel and windhover
The Common Buckeye (Junonia coenia) is found commonly throughout much of North America, and is related to Red Admiral and Peacock. This genus Junonia has about 35 species in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australia, including this rather similar Grey Pansy I photographed in Malaysia: www.flickr.com/photos/timmelling/4448012034/in/photolist Most of the Buckeyes I saw in California looked worn and tatty but I managed to find this fresh individual near Monterey.
And one final thing, prior to 1717 an unusual butterfly was caught on Hampstead Heath by entomologist Eleazer Albin and was illustrated in several of the early butterfly books as Albin's Hampstead Eye. It was even given the scientific name Papilio hampsteadiensis (Jermyn 1824). The mystery surrounding the identity of this butterfly persisted for more than 200 years, but was eventually identified as an Indo-Australian butterfly, now known as the Meadow Argus (Junonia villida), that is related to the Buckeye. The specimen still exists in James Petiver's collection in the Natural History Museum in London. But how it came to be flying on Hampstead Heath in the early eighteenth century is anyone's guess. Albin was a respected author and illustrator so deliberate fraud seems unlikely, but he may have confused the specimen with something he did catch on Hampstead Heath. Here's a photo of Junonia villida taken by my friend Jenny Thynne in Australia: www.flickr.com/photos/58356728@N07/8668613641/in/photolist