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5th January 2018

Maldon promenade

A visit to Bushy park very early this morning. This was the only Fallow stag who tolerated the Magpies...

 

Magpies are known to pick ticks off of the backs of deer, and other large mammals. It is mutually beneficial for both species — the Magpie gets a meal, and the deer gets rid of ticks...

Barbary Macaque taken through the windscreen yesterday at Woburn Safari Park. He was happy to stay there for ages & my grandchildren loved it. No damage to the car thank goodness.

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Still being unable to get out I am continuing to delve into my archive. This time though I only go back a couple of years to a visit to the local reserve at St Aidans. Alas the photo was taken through some reeds which are just visible in the image.

 

The subjects are a pair of little humbugs seen hitching a ride on a parents back. After the chicks have hatched black-necked grebes will desert the nest and the chicks live on the parents backs for about 4 days. After about 10 days the parents will split the chicks up with each parent taking care of half of the brood. They are independent after another 10 days and fledge in about 3 weeks.

 

The latest news from the reserve is that 18 were spotted on 30th March. Fingers crossed we will be treated to a repeat of such sights in the near future.

Australasian Grebe (Tachybaptus novaehollandiae)

 

Great to be able to see the Grebes again today. It looks like just the two chicks in this clutch. I didn't see any of the five chicks in the first clutch actually riding around on the parents back like this so was happy to get this image.

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The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.

-Jacques Yves Cousteau

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I've always admired the beauty and grace of the sadly now-endangered Whale Shark, and growing up remember watching diving films of curious diving teams encountering them in the wild and hitching a ride. Its distinctive markings still divide the scientific community however, so much is still a mystery.

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Happy Crazy Tuesday

Zebras and birds coexist peacefully together and seem to enjoy each other's company.

 

Cheeky wild red squirrel trying to hitch a ride and stowaway

We took the car ferry to get to my daughters from Port Bolivar to Galveston, TX and I looked up and noticed this crew of hitch hikers taking a free ride. I liked the light and the red, white and blue.

 

Happy Friday and have a nice weekend!

Blue damselfly going nautical....

Thie smaller Eastern Painted Turtle was resting atop the larger turtle as they sunned themselves. The bigger one appears to be a Red-eared Slider.

Found in Orvieto, Italy. A highly recommended town.

 

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As my grandson and I crossed Port Phillip Bay on a ferry this Silver Gull stayed on the rail for most of the journey.

  

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Takes awhile for me to get a decent shot of this hitch hiker. Now I had completed my collections of 3 Australian grebes hitch hikers. Only takes me 4 years😅

An old Little Grebe photo from London Wetlands used by The Guardian to celebrate the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust's 70th Anninversay.

www.theguardian.com/community/gallery/2016/nov/10/otters-...

 

Baby Alligator riding on Mom's back. Alligators are good mothers and go to great lengths to protect their babies from predators. At one point three babies were riding, one actually straddling the Mom's head. Quite remarkable as I've never seen this behavior before, although it is well documented.

This arch has an interior length of 13 feet and a height of 3 feet.

 

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Mamma baboon with young in the Masai Mara.

An American bittern contemplates the fate of a small spider.

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One cygnet was just too tired to carry on.

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processed with DDG, framed in FilterForge]

 

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This Zebra Dove was looking for a ride to the North Shoe, on Oahu, Hawaii.

Playing with textures and color again today. Hoping your day is filled with light.

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Black Sexton Beetle (nicrophorus humator) giving a free ride to a mite.

 

The Sexton beetles are the undertakers of the insect world. They fly to carrion, attracted by the smell (check out the antennae!). If the dead animal is small, such as a mouse, they crawl underneath and excavate the soil so that the corpse gradually sinks into the ground. They then lay eggs nearby, and stay until the larvae hatch, and even feed them.

 

They are on the wing maily from April to September.

They are able to fly long distances to feed on carrion and so can be seen a wide variety of habitats depending on where their food is to be found.

   

Mule team; previously posted in color; I much prefer in black and white.

These mules are half sisters.

Clark County Mule Festival 2022

Kahoka, Missouri

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