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Dumetella carolinensis
Pájaro-gato gris
Puerto Viejo, Sarapiqui
Historia Natural
Alimentación
Brinca sobre el suelo con la cola levantada y agita las alas en busca de insectos en el follaje; se mueve deliberadamente y en ocasiones tuerce la cabeza para revisar, y estira el cuello para alcanzar a sus presas. Se alimenta de muchos frutos, incluso de los de las bayas de jaboncillo (Phytolacca sp.) y Cordia curassavica y semillas ariladas.
Comportamiento
Durante la migración ocasionalmente se encuentran en bandadas dispersas. En el invierno se observan individuos sedentarios esparcidos.
Son tímidos y cautelosos, aunque pueden salir de su escondite al amanecer y al atardecer.
Ciclo anual
Es una especie migratoria neártica.
Habitat y Distribución
Habitat
Viven en áreas de crecimiento secundario denso, en setos vivos y bordes de bosque.
Distribución
Es una especie migratoria de otoño común, aunque discreta (a veces desde comienzos de setiembre, aunque no se vuelve común sino hasta mediados de octubre, hasta mediados de noviembre) en la bajura del lado del Caribe, sobre todo por debajo de los 500 m. de altura. Sin embargo, en cantidades más pequeñas puede ascender hasta los 1500 m. En el otoño y la primavera es ocasional en el Valle Central y al sur de la vertiente del Pacífico. Durante el invierno es de poco común a común localmente en las bajuras del Caribe y rara en la bajura del Golfo Dulce. Permanece hasta fines de abril o comienzos de mayo. El paso durante la primavera es apenas perceptible, y ocurre solo a lo largo de la costa del Caribe.
Distribución fuera de Costa Rica
Se reproduce en el sur de Canadá, este y parte central de E.U.A. Invierna desde el sur de E.U.A. hasta la parte central de Panamá y las Antillas.
Distribución de Area de conservación
Amistad CaribeArenalCordillera Volcanica CentralTortugueroAmistad PacificoHuetar NorteGuanacastePacifico CentralTempisqueOsa
Descripción
Descripción científica
Mide 20 cm. y pesa 35 grs. Es delgado, con la cola similar a la de cualquier soterrey o mirla.
Los adultos muestran el píleo negro. la cola y las alas negruzcas y el resto de la región superior gris pizarra oscuro. La región inferior es más pálida y las coberteras infracaudales son castañas. El iris es café oscuro y el pico y las patas son negras.
Por lo general, los individuos inmaduros son similares al tenerlos en la mano, y presentan unas pocas coberteras alares juveniles más cortas y parduzcas. Frecuentemente presentan el iris purpúreo oscuro.
Información taxonómica
Reino: Animalia
Filo: Chordata
Clase: Aves
Orden: Passeriformes
Familia: Mimidae
Género: Dumetella
This little guy and his siblings are wild foxes that live at the Springs Preserve in Las Vegas. The last few summers have been enhanced by the juvenile foxes I encounter that are born on property. They have 180 acres in which to run and play and I get immense pleasure when I catch a glimpse of them peeking at me from behind a rock or some shrubs. They are pretty fast so I have to have a fast focus finger to get them in focus before they are gone from sight.
Taken at Skandinavisk Dyrepark during the Nature photography workshop held by Morten Hilmer. Check out his workshops at mortenhilmer.com/produkt-kategori/fotokurser/. Highly recommended.
British autograph card. Photo: Eagle Lion.
Glamorous English film actress Sally Gray (1915-2006) appeared in many musical comedies of the 1930s and 1940s. The hazel-eyed blonde Gray was seen as ‘a British rival to Ginger Rogers.’ After a break from performing, she emerged in the mid-1940s as a sultry beauty who starred in a series of moody dramas and suspenseful thrillers. Later she became Constance Vera Browne, Baroness Oranmore and Browne.
Sally Gray was born Constance Vera Stevens in Holloway, London, in 1915. Gray was the daughter of Charles Stevens, who drove a motor cab, and his wife, Gertrude Grace. Her mother was a ballet dancer and her grandmother a "principal boy" in the 1870s. Her father died when Gray was young. As a child, she trained at Fay Compton's School of Dramatic Art, and began acting on stage at the age of 10. Gray made her professional stage debut at the age of twelve in All God's Chillun at the Globe Theatre in London, playing an African boy. When she was 14, Gray appeared in a minstrel show at the Gate Theatre in London. She made her film debut under the name of Constance Stevens with a bit part in the comedy School for Scandal (Thorold Dickinson, Maurice Elvey, 1930) starring Basil Gill and Madeleine Carroll. The now considered as lost film is the only feature-length film shot using the unsuccessful Raycol colour process. Sally then went back to school for two years, training at Fay Compton’s School of Dramatic Art, during which time she performed in cabarets. She appeared in The Gay Divorce (1933) on stage with Fred Astaire. Astaire gave her private dance lessons. The agent John Gliddon, who had discovered Vivien Leigh, saw the 18 years- old Gray in the musical Jill Darling (1934) and signed her. Gray returned to films in 1935, with a small part in the historical drama The Dictator (Victor Saville, 1935), starring Clive Brook. She could also be seen in the comedy Cross Currents (Adrian Brunel, 1935), the musical Radio Pirates (Ivar Campbell, 1935), the comedy Lucky Days (Reginald Denham, 1935) with Chili Bouchier, and the crime film Checkmate (George Pearson, 1935). She returned on stage and was spotted by multi-talented actor-producer Stanley Lupino, who fell in love with her. Lupino was part of a theatrical dynasty that went back to 1634, and he was the father of the actress Ida Lupino. Gray had the female lead in his comedy Cheer Up (Leo Mittler, 1936) with Stanley Lupino. She also had leads in the musical drama Calling the Tune (Reginald Denham, Thorold Dickinson, 1936), the thriller Cafe Colette (Paul L. Stein, 1937) with Paul Cavanagh, and the musical Saturday Night Revue (Norman Lee, 1937) with Billy Milton. In 1936 she was earning an impressive £150 a week. Gray had support roles in the thriller Lightning Conductor (Maurice Elvey, 1937), the musical Over She Goes (Graham Cutts, 1937) with Lupino. The Edgar Wallace thriller Mr. Reeder in Room 13 (Norman Lee, 1937), and the musical Hold My Hand (Thornton Freeland, 1938) with Lupino. Gray was the female lead in the drama Sword of Honour (Maurice Elvey, 1938), the RKO production The Saint in London (John Paddy Carstairs, 1939) with George Sanders as Simon Templar, the musical comedy The Lambeth Walk (Albert de Courville, 1939) with Lupino Lane, Stanley Lupino’s nephew.
During the war years, Sally Gray continued her career smoothly. She played a non-musical role in the thriller A Window in London (1940), starring Michael Redgrave. According to Tom Vallance in The Independent “she was convincing in her offbeat role as an illusionist's wife in a neatly constructed thriller”. Then she played Miss America in the comedy Olympic Honeymoon (Alfred J. Goulding, 1940) with Claude Hulbert, and had the female lead in another British RKO production, The Saint's Vacation (Leslie Fenton, 1941) this time with Hugh Sinclair as Simon Templar. She had a sensitive role in the romantic melodrama Dangerous Moonlight (Brian Desmond Hurst, 1941). Tom Vallance: “Particularly remembered for its theme music, Richard Addinsell's "The Warsaw Concerto", the story of a Polish pianist (Anton Walbrook) who joins an air squadron against the wishes of his girlfriend (Gray), loses his memory after being wounded in the Battle of Britain, but regains it (and is reunited with his sweetheart) when he starts playing the concerto, had great appeal for wartime audiences.” The same year she appeared in Lady Behave, London's first major musical since the Second World War began. Stanley Lupino, who had cancer, had written the musical and co-starred. The show had to close after a month because of Lupino's illness. Gray returned to the stage to star in My Sister Eileen (1942) with Coral Browne. Lupino died, leaving Gray £10,000. Gray had a nervous breakdown, resulting in her retirement for a number of years. Lupino had been not only her lover, but her mentor and friend. She returned to the screen in 1946 and made her strongest bid for stardom in a series of melodramas. Tom Vallance again in The Independent: “Her husky voice was particularly attractive, and distinctively different from other stars of the time.” She appeared in the hospital thriller Green for Danger (Sidney Gilliat, 1946) with Alastair Sim and Trevor Howard, the drama Carnival (Stanley Haynes 1946) with Michael Wilding and Stanley Holloway, the stylish, brutal Film Noir They Made Me a Fugitive (Alberto Cavalcanti, 1947) with Trevor Howard, and the drama The Mark of Cain (Brian Desmond Hurst, 1947), starring Eric Portman. Grey then made the thriller Silent Dust (Lance Comfort, 1948) and the Film Noir Obsession (Edward Dmytryk 1949). Ronald Bergan in The Guardian: “Arguably Gray's best and meatiest role came in the McCarthyist exile Edward Dmytryk's Obsession (1949), as the cheating wife of psychiatrist Robert Newton, who plans a slow death for her latest lover.” Her final film was the spy thriller Escape Route (Seymour Friedman, Peter Graham Scott, 1952) with ageing American tough guy George Raft as an FBI agent in England. RKO executives, impressed with Gray, authorised producer William Sistrom to offer her a long-term contract if she would move to the United States. However, she declined the offer and instead retired in 1952 after getting married. In 1951, Gray had married The 4th Baron Oranmore and Browne, an Anglo-Irish peer. They lived in a castle in County Mayo, Ireland. The couple kept the marriage secret until the 1953 coronation, at which she appeared with her husband. The final phase of Gray's life found her very much in the upper class, and she led a comfortable life, preferring not to talk about her acting career. In the early 1960s they returned to England and settled in a flat in Eaton Place, Belgravia, London. She tended assiduously to her gardening in later years. After 51 years of marriage, her husband died in 2002 at the age of 100. The couple had no children. Sally Gray died in 2006 in London, England. She was 91.
Sources: Tom Vallance (The Independent), Ronald Bergan (The Guardian), Gary Brumburgh (IMDb), Wikipedia and IMDb.
Playlist Song : Gray eyed bird - Slow Machete
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoZ7T20XHEM
Done at the Mannheim fun fair at ISO400, F2.8, 1/1000sec
Little Weener has been exploring her Slantways surroundings. Lets hope her wandering doesn't get her in too much trouble.
Tyrannus dominicensis
This Gray Kingbird went wayyyy off track and settled for a time in Lancaster County PA. Its normal range is southern Floriday for breeding and then migrates to Central and South America, so PA is obviously far north of their normal range. As is typical with discovered rare birds like this, he became an instant celebrity and fortunately wasn't very shy. Seemingly just going about the normal business of what kingbirds do (mostly scanning the ground for grasshoppers and eating them from what I observed) and unaffected by all the human attention.
I believe the last sightings of this bird was at the end of November or beginning of December. Hopefully he's found his way home and is okay.
Direct eye contact with the photographer often leads to a more dramatic image for the viewer. I actually appreciate moments like this one even more, because I know the subject is relaxed and acting naturally. This little fox went about her business for several minutes while I observed and photographed her. She never appeared to be uncomfortable, which is my primary goal when viewing a wild animal.
autumn is so colorful on the Cape and not only do the leaves change color, but the marsh grass does as well. In late afternoon, it is especially beautiful as it turns a rich golden color with shades of orange and red. There is a boardwalk that stretches over this marsh and it is a perfect place to watch the sunset. This is the best time of year, especially because there aren't any biting insects!
Gray Wolf -
The Wolf to the right might be the most handsome I've ever seen.
Yellowstone National Park
Gray Fantail (Rhipidura albiscapa) flying into some bushes. It looks a bit like a painting because I was panning and there were some bushed in front of the bird, but the camera somehow managed to stay focussed, so it is almost as if there was a filter on the lens.
I went for a long drive today with Raymond Lee and Glenn Parker. We found a beautiful male Snowy Owl west of Morinville and a Great Gray Owl northwest of Opal as well as a Northern Shrike and Ruffed Grouse. I got no good shots on a great drive today, so these are images courtesy of the Hawrelak Park regulars from earlier this week.
Gray Treefrog
Scientific name:
Hyla chrysoscelis and Hyla versicolor
Features:
Gray treefrogs are Missouri’s most common species of treefrog. Two species of gray treefrogs occur in Missouri: Cope’s gray treefrog, Hyla chrysoscelis, and the eastern gray treefrog, Hyla versicolor. There is always a large, white marking below each eye. Large, adhesive toe pads are present on fingers and toes.
Color:
May be gray, greenish-gray or brown. Bright green specimens are
often seen. The inside of each hind leg is washed with yellow-orange.
Size:
Average from 1 ¼ to 2 inches in head-body length.
Habitat:
Forest-dwelling
Breeding:
Late May and early June in fishless, woodland ponds.
Call:
These two species are nearly identical in appearance and are best separated by their calls. Cope’s gray treefrog sounds like a buzzer, while the eastern gray treefrog has a birdlike, musical trill.
Information Taken from:
Gray Jays
Pen and ink drawing by John Wiseman
Framed and matted print, number 84 of 200
Size: 18 inches by 19 inches
$225.00
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An unexpected visit from a gray fox and her kit yesterday afternoon. The kit was watching from some shrubs above me trying to blend in. :)