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A Great Gray Owl (Strix nebulosa) reading peacefully on a post along the edge of the roadway in the boreal woods north of Opal, Alberta, Canada.
30 October, 2018.
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Taken near Fort Langley, British Columbia, Canada.
This local celebrity is a rare bird for the Vancouver area and a *lifer* for yours truly.
Great Gray Owl (Strix nebulosa) patiently listening and waiting for some rustling of the grasses at the base of the perch by a rodent. This is in the boreal fringe near Thorhild, Alberta, Canada.
30 October, 2018.
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Great Gray Owl (Strix nebulosa) flushes from its perch in the quest for a rodent on the snow along a roadway in the boreal woods north of Thorhild, Alberta, Canada.
21 February, 2015.
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Three wolf cubs at the entrance of the den, France
Breeding occurs between February and April, only the alpha male and female will mate and she will give birth to the pups alone in her den. After the first month, they emerge from the den with her. It is the responsibility of all the wolves in the pack to help to raise the offspring. They will take turns caring for them while other members go out to hunt. Even with the entire pack caring for them, less than half of all pups survive the first year.
The pups in a wolf pack have a great deal of freedom and privileges. In fact, they are often able to do more and to benefit more than some of the adults within the pack that have a very low ranking.
When they are about two years old they are mature, and they may stay within their own pack and be given a place on the social ladder or they can also leave that pack and go to form one of their own. Males often leave while females choose to stay in the pack they were born into.
Walking in fog often provides a visual representation of my thought process. My brain constantly brings different topics into view, but in the process lets others slide into the periphery. Most of the time they are all still there, competing for my attention, but all in varying degrees. In fog I respond to the overall loss of clarity, but also the nuance that is created by relative distance. It's this layering effect I find most appealing as more distant objects eventually recede into nothingness...exactly the same as my mind reacts.
Walking outdoors this morning felt otherworldly. I love seeing familiar places rendered as ones I'm visiting for the very first time. A rich dichotomy as the serenity of fog is ripped apart by this visceral reaction. In these moments I invariably come up with camera angles that never would have occurred to me in normal circumstances.
Primavera ou Maria-branca
Gray Monjita (Nome em Inglês)
Xolmis cinereus (Nome CientÃfico)
Tyrannidae (FamÃlia)
Passeriformes (Ordem)
FREE BIRD
Parque Ecológico
Ermida Dom Bosco
BrasÃlia, Brasil
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We went to northern Minnesota to see many different birds, but mostly to see a great gray owl.
On our second morning (-29 degrees Fahrenheit) we saw one sitting in a tree. We tried to keep a good distance so it wouldn't fly away.
I got out of the car* and started taking some pictures. After a couple minutes, the owl flew right toward us and landed in the snow about 20 yards away.
*When it's REALLY COLD out... I've found that taking pictures from a car just doesn't work too well. The heat-waves from inside the car, and radiating from the engine, distort the image and cause focus issues. -29 was quite an experience.
Dumetella Carolinensis
Yeah, a catbird. Got to be one of the most annoying birds out there, but, I couldn't pass up this perch and background.
New Britain, PA
The blue-gray tanager (thraupis episcopus) is a medium-sized South American songbird of the tanager family, Thraupidae. Its range is from Mexico south to northeast Bolivia and northern Brazil, all of the Amazon Basin, except the very south. The breeding habitat is open woodland, cultivated areas and gardens. The blue-gray tanager lives mainly on fruit, but will also take some nectar, insects and other arthropods.
Costa Rica, La Fortuna
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I found this during my morning walk at Kasavanahalli lake in Bangalore, India.
It was quite noticeable for the prominent red mark on the head but I found out that this is called Grey-headed ...
The Gray Thrasher is the third purely endemic bird to Baja. Like other thrasher, it is frequently found on the ground where it searches out insects. The GT also favors scrubby areas where it will perch sometimes for the longest times. I found this bird to be very patient. The bird would simply sit and move only minimally as it might eventually look to one side or the other.