Nice week-end to everyone 💐

Competitors do not sleep

This egret had no sooner settled down to a nice fishing spot on the creek than a heron came swooping in to take it away from him.

RKO_8602. The fight!

Nikon D850, F9.0, 1/5000, ISO500.

Last week I focused on the courtship behavior of some Great Crested Grebe in the pond/ditch behind my house. In this courtship process the males try to get the attention of the females. Often there are fights between the males, sometimes resulting in injury and even in death of one of the males.

Many times I've taken my camera to the deck on the ditch behind my house anticipating courtship behavior or a fight between male competitors. Almost always without succes, until last night.

While inside my house all of a sudden there was a lot of noise and looking out my window I saw two male GCG fighting with each other just next to the deck. A female GCG was observing the whole spectacle at close distance.

While prepared to take some shots at distance (long lens attached to the camera) I grabbed my camera and ran to the deck to try and capture the fight. Laying flat on my deck and adrenaline to the max, I managed to get some reasonable shots with a way too long lens...... Preparation is key and next time I should have another camera with shorter lens available.....

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Geranium himalayense (Storchenschnabel) frequently visited by our little friends.

Competitors in the Annual Seniors Fell Race, Farleton Knott, Cumbria, 07/08/22

ATC meeting - Tournai - Belgium

Short eared owl and harrier contesting the territory

Happy Truck Thursday -The two best selling vehicles in America parked next to one another in an Illinois State Park. Five exposure HDR processed with Nik HDR Efex Pro 2

Puffins on Skomer Island

If you don't like Puffins then apologies as I'll be posting quite a few shots of the flying clowns. If you love them you will hopefully be in for a treat😁.

I hate to think how many thousands of images I came back with. Even mostly only holding the shutter down for half a second at a time gives you a hell of a lot of photos when you have 5hrs on Skomer and your camera can shoot at 40fps!

Doing some culling as I go but it's gonna be a long process😂

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This Blue Jay was a very aggressive competitor for our peanuts, pushing away the Titmouses and Chickadees.

This may look friendly but seconds after I took this photo these 2 were at it over a female mallard

QE009 and QE010 arrive into Goulburn with empty Qube Logistics grain train 9361.

Both locomotives will be serviced at the Rail First Goulburn site before then travelling onto Junee.

Pacific National's 81 and 8155 wait in the Up Refuge for crew availability with a loaded grain train to Inner Harbour.

Friday 8th November 2024

Competitor in a race from Thurne Mouth.

Springbok battling it out for dominance, lower Nossob, Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, South Africa.

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be goow !!

Competitors in the annual three rivers race (Bure, Ant and Thurne rivers, Norfolk). typical Norfolk sky, clouds forming as the sea breeze hits land.

Chatsworth Horse Trials 2017

You can tell the two most used door keys in the United States by their shapes. Top key is a Schlage while the bottom key is a Kwikset. For the Macro Mondays Group, topic: Silhouette. Happy Macro Monday!

Chatsworth Horse Trials 2017

Závodnice

Having just seen off a competitor feeding within what it considers to be its own space.

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Chatsworth Horse Trials 2017

Follow the leader, leader, follow the leader

Gas prices last year at this time. Pocatello, Idaho.

IFBB, NPC

This weekend I had the pleasure of watching my friends granddaughter Ava, ride and compete. She came in first place in the jumping competition.

Bravo Eva!

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Tango competition in Buenos Aires.

Mundial de Tango

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Competitors of the 3/12/2023 Shepparton Duathlon, held by the Shepparton Triatherlon Club at lake Victoria Shepparton Australia.

The youngest rider out there was also the most impressive.

Explored # 241 on June 25, 2017

Shot with Canon EOS 400D + Canon 50mm f/1.8

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Competitors!

I did not know how, colored are annoying insects

The sprint of the horses

Lecking ruffs in Northern Finland

1946 Ford sedan and a '46-'48 Plymouth at the 2016 Back to the Fifties car show.