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A pair of Semipalmated Plovers foraging at low tide
Fish Haul Beach, Port Royal Sound, Hilton Head Island, SC, USA
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This male Yellow warbler was having a early morning feast on aphids.
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A foraging male Eastern Bluebird was perfectly posed for a photo shoot and I was very happy to oblige.
Photographed on Hickory Forest beach , Hilton Head Island,
SC, USA
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Galah (Eolophus roseicapillus)
Galahs eat a lot of grass seed, this one was giving the gardeners at Vic Uni a hand by 'mowing' the lawns.
New Tattoo - Carol G - Jungle (Cosmopolitan)
Top to Bottom
Hair: Mina - Adanna
Head: Genus Project - Baby Face W002
Skin: NX Tres Beau - Hermosa
Hoops: Izzie's - Hoops
My walk to the beach went past a lagoon full of birdlife. Like a giant supermarket for wading birds I guess.
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Out with 24 Enchanted Lens Camera Club (ELCC) fellow Marauders… a great day for birders, bird and nature photographers at the Waterfowl Complex. Cranes and Snow Geese feeding in flocks. There are coyotes and deer around in the afternoon… as well as several other large and small bird species. The stars of the show are geese surgically landing in the corn stubble among their compadres.
Dove searching for spilt seed on the ground. A dreary December day, but the birds were feeding happily.
A Marbled Godwit foraging at Fish Haul Beach
Port Royal Sound, Hilton Head Island, SC, USA
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A ruff and redshank foraging for food on the edge of South Lake at Slimbridge Wetlands Centre this afternoon. It was a most enjoyable visit in the company of fellow flickr members Pete Blanchard and Paul Watts.
Butinage.. foraging..
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Young Canada Geese foraging Sea Lettuce, (Ulva spp.), at low tide (Tsehum Harbour, BC).
For a few years now, I had been thinking of show casing the awkward 'ugly duckling' stage of the Canadian Geese goslings, but hadn't come across an opportunity that pleased me until this past spring. Thankfully this family group knew me, and allowed me to approach fairly close. It still took an hour of shooting before the goslings started to approach me and close the gap a little more, which helped immensely on this heavy overcast day.
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A condition called leucism causes the Eastern Grey Squirrel to have white or blonde colour due to a lack of several pigments.
Lemoine Point Conservation Area, Kingston Ontario
A small group of Lesser Flamingo (Phoenicoparrus minor) was foraging in a muddy salty wetland with synchronous movements. Most delightful fact was that their every moves were reflected on the thin water layer in front. I love the network of long pink legs and necks staggered in between the water layers. I tried my best to frame their activities at the eye level. Pics was taken from a village in Little Rann of Kutch, Gujrat, India.
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A pretty rare bird in our country and the males are especially prized by birdwatchers. The Lesser Kestrel is migrant from Mediterranean, Afghanistan and Central Asia and winters in Africa / Pakistan. Few birds - literally a handful that can be counted with the fingers - winter in India.
The males are easier to distinguish from the Common Kestrel due to the easy to spot differences. But the female is hard to spot in the field. The behaviour and flying is similar to the Common Kestrel and in the are we visited, there were half a dozen Kestrels and couple of these males.
This was shot couple of years ago when I just started birding - the biggest lake on the outskirts of the city went dry and the lake bed become a magnet for raptors such as Peregrine Falcon, Bonelli's and Booted Eagle, many Common Kestrels and 1 of this are Lesser Kestrel. We had't had a situation like that again till date and the bird also wasn't sighted again.
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It might seem that Black Oystercatcher would be an inconspicuous species given its mainly dark plumage. It is anything but, between its large size, brightly coloured eyes and chunky bill, and what can be strident calls. This individual was foraging in the intertidal zone at Clover Point, Victoria, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
This warbler species can often be seen foraging acrobatically on vines, using it's sharp beak to work into curled up dead leaves.
A local feathery friend - a Pacific Black Duck - in the never ending hunt for something to nibble on.
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This species is North Americas' largest and most widespread plover. It is the one member of the "Shorebirds" family that can adapt to a drier habitat so can thrive on gravely or sandy shorelines, edges of creeks or ponds or in open agricultural fields, lawns, golf courses or old abandoned industrial sites.
Being a plover they employ the typical run-and-stop foraging technique. Their diet consists of insects including spiders and grasshoppers, earthworms, snails and crayfish. They are noted to be very proficient swimmers even in fast moving water for a species that appears to favor a dry habitat.
They are also noted for their very loud alarm calls as well as their injured wing act while bobbing up and down in an effort to lure predators away from their nest sites.
This pair of young chicks are two of a litter of four feeding in a barnyard where the recent rains have created puddling for them to play and forage in.
This male Yellow warbler was having a early morning feast on aphids.
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A large field of round bales of cornstalks which will be used for feed or bedding over the long winter to come.These have become increasingly popular in our area as an occasional alternative to hay.They have less nutrional value to hay,but if you are a little short on hay,they will work.We baby our cows,only the finest hay for them! LOL
Australian Spotted Crake (Porzana fluminea)
One from a visit to 'The Farm' aka the Western Treatment Plant (waste water)
"...Among the most clever of these cactus spine-dodgers is the desert cactus wren, which can perch upon the branches or dive into a tree of the awful Bigelow's cholla with perfect impunity. In fact, the cactus wren finds the company of cactuses so congenial that she not only spends a great deal of her time foraging for insects among their branches, but chooses to rear her family in a nest embraced and fortified by their needles. I doubt if there is a member of the wren family that better provides for the protection of her home.
Those who are used to associating the word "wren" with the tiny, sprightly, and vivacious bird of the Eastern States, with its happy, jocund, and joyous song, will find it hard to see how the cactus wren can be called a wren at all, for he is such a different fellow from the bird of their acquaintance. On the whole he is rather a coarse-looking bird with no prepossessing characters as to either form or color. Comparatively, he is rather a good-sized bird, having a length of eight inches from bill to tail-tip. The general color-tone is brownish gray with whitish under-parts prominently speckled with round and linear black spots, especially on the throat and fore part of the breast. The bill, like that of the rock wrens, is slightly bent. The song is an odd one and hardly musical, consisting generally of only a coarse prolonged clatter or low "chut-chut-chut." It is especially noticeable in the spring during the nesting season. The males are then unusually quarrelsome, hot-tempered, irascible fellows, pursuing one another in flight over long distances, scolding and giving vent to their peppery tempers and jealousies in shrill, angry, jaylike notes of warning."
Denizens Of The Desert
Edmund C Jaeger
On the first morning of our Sanibel stay I was cruising around one of my favorite spots, the Bailey Tract. Bailey Tract is part of the Ding Darling NWR and is a popular spot for critter watching, bike riding and hiking. One can find alligators, lizards, turtles, river otters, bobcats, coyotes and a myriad of bird species. I was looking for black-necked stilts, and even more specifically, baby stilts. I found a female that appeared to be tending a nest scrape, although it was hidden by some grasses. I watched for a while and moved on. Over the next few days, I saw a pair of proud and watchful parents and four tiny fluffballs. Unfortunately, they were always too far away to get any decent shots.
Fast forward to eleven days after I initially saw the female. The fluffballs had grown considerably and were venturing out all over the pond. (im)Patiently I stopped and waited and was soon rewarded by the chicks coming very close by me. Here, one is foraging through the shallow water, probing the mud for insects. My how fast they grow!
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