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This warbler is found year round in SoCal.
This male is very territorial each spring and is looking for male interlopers in his territory.
interloper (noun): one that interlopes, such as one which intrudes in a place or sphere of activity.
Also are often called a photobomber (noun). ;-)
PS: although the beetle could easily point out that I was the interloper...
Project 365-199
Someone got him upset.
More expressive than impressive, this Mule Deer buck was not about to tolerate a lesser rival coming anywhere near his does. One sudden charge and the interloper fled.
I love the look of wildlife in falling snow. I don't get many chances like this; often the snow is too thick or the roads too slippery or the wildlife not present. A few days after I made this shot, I was out looking, with a snow squall on the way, and to my great disappointment, the only mammal dumb enough to be out in that was me.
Yesterday I couldn't reach this location due to snow drifts across the road. Thought about trying, but turned back. I've had to dig myself out more times than I care to admit. Not fun. Thought of a new strategy for today, but last night it hit -32°C and this morning I'm not going anywhere. Maybe tomorrow.
Winter's like that. The windows when you can shoot comfortably are rare, but when they come, it can be exceptional. I've had a productive week shooting the onslaught of winter; photos to follow. But first, I'm going to pull a few Mule Deer shots from the archive - some of my favourite shots from years past. Stay tuned!
Photographed in Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission © 2025 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
New Idria, Ca. (ghost town) New Idria is in a remote part of San Benito County. It was established as a mine site for mercury. It was a company owned town with housing for employees and all the necessary facilities. A fascinating and somewhat dangerous place to explore. At the time this image was taken, there was only one inhabitant that I know of. I never saw him, but was told that he roamed the area armed and chased off any interlopers. The area became a superfund site. Search "New Idria" and you will see many images that make it obvious of the environmental damage.
I had an account with Flickr starting in 2006, but somehow it got messed up and I could no longer log into it. So I have created an album on my current Flickr with some of those images. I haven't been transferring any lately, but I'm now trying to see if there are some things that are worth adding to this Flickr account. I'll be posting more as I can.
This red admiral was on high alert today, chasing away all invaders to his territory in our garden.
After each energetic aerial battle he'd return to his perch high above the ground (twine surrounding our chicken area) to wait for the next interloper. Thrilling stuff!
Got to RSPB Titchwell at close to a very high, high tide which meant less of a trek to watch the waders feeding along the tideline. a picture of sartorial elegance in my waterproofs and wellies, I just sat amongst the debris and let the birds come to me.
Occasionally they would be spooked by a dog walker or other interloper, but at least that was a chance for some flight shots.
Eastern Screech-Owl [Megascops asio] occupying a Wood Duck box
Peace Valley Park
Doylestown, PA
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In La Jolla, a nice dry rock ledge is a prize location at least for a sunning Sea Lion. This one vents its anger as an interloper tries to take it over. Unfortunately the present occupant has the high ground.
Alvin's eyes go wide as the tip of the Warlock's staff begins to glow and absorbs the electrical energy being sent towards it. This masked interloper appears to have much more power and skill than Alvin was originally willing to give him credit for.
The Swedish artist Henrik HÃ¥kansson (*1968 in Helsingborg, S; lives in Berlin and Falkenberg, S) became internationally famous with his installations. They deal with the consequence of the human influence on the environment. He combines cinematic and sculptural elements and acquires the role of the interloper and the destroyer, as well as the creator and carer of the growth of nature.
In the centre of the exhibition A tree (suspended) will stay a beech, which was already discharged by the forester. By request of the artist the beech was removed with the rooting.
Mosquera is a tiny island (about 120 meters / 393 feet by 600 meters / 1,968 ft) between Baltra and Seymour.
There's no trail, but visitors land on the beach to see (or swim with) the sea lions.
Keep your distance – males are territorial and may charge or swim into you if you get too close to females or young.
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The most abundant marine mammal in the Archipelago, Galapagos sea lions can often be seen sleeping on the beaches or swimming close to shore.
The Galapagos sea lion is a species that primarily breeds in the Galapagos Islands, although some breeding colonies also occur on Isla de la Plata just off of mainland Ecuador. They are one of two types of seal found in Galapagos and are part of the eared seal family – having external ear pinnae. They are not ‘true’ seals, as they are able to rotate their hind flipper under their pelvic girdle and lack the characteristic long, finger-like claws of true seals. The configuration of their pelvic girdle allows them to ‘gallop’ across land, reaching speeds exceeding that of a running person on rocky terrain.
There is a large degree of sexual dimorphism, with males weighing up to four times that of females. The males also have a prominent bump on their forehead, making them easy to distinguish from the females. All members of this species have brown or grey fur, females generally being a lighter shade than males, and newborn pups being chestnut brown. The sea lions have a smooth and streamlined body shape, making them efficient hunters, especially of sardines which are their main prey. They can dive to depths of up to almost 600 m and can stay underwater for over ten minutes. They spend a lot of their time resting on beaches or playing, and are generally inquisitive.
Males tend to hold territories on beaches where females live, as opposed to holding direct harems. The more dominant the male is, the more land he has in his territory, and therefore the more females are available for him to mate with. The bulls aggressively defend these territories from other male rivals or interlopers, and the bulls that don’t manage to acquire a territory containing females tend to form bachelor colonies away from the female haul outs. The mating season usually occurs between July and December, but can differ from island to island. Females come into oestrus three to four weeks after pupping, when they will mate with the males, however, implantation of the fertilised egg is delayed for two months. After the single pup is born, it bonds with its mother for the first week, developing a unique call to distinguish it from the rest. The mother then starts to forage by day and suckle the pup in the evening, until the fifth week when the pup moults its baby coat and begins to feed inshore. Pups are still dependent on their mothers for the first year of their life, being weaned when they reach eleven to twelve months old.
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A Spotted Towhee (Pipilo maculatus) keeping his eye on an interloper in his territory. They had been chasing each other around for awhile. Then a break in the action as the other male left.
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Like many railways around the world Caltrain who operate the suburban passenger services out of San Francisco are now in the process of converting to electric traction. This in theory will make services quicker, allow more to operate at the same time, enable operation through a new tunnel and of course be better for the environment. The project kicked off in 2017 with a proposed budget of $2.44 billion. As for progress I'm not sure what date is scheduled for completion.
In the meantime, here's a photo taken in 2013 which shows what was the new and old traction of the date. EMD F40-PH's dominate the scene but a more modern interloper is seen looking somewhat sleeker.
I actually caught this Red Poll in mid scratch. Even birds get itchy.
The way his little claws appear it is as if he is giving the Peace Sign that many of my generation may recall from the "make love not war" days. In World War II of course it was the Victory symbol and depending on the way your hand appears it can have different meanings. As the bird only has a claw and not a hand, I am taking it to be he is giving me the international peace sign.
Let's hope and pray that the little bird's peace sign here is a sign that a peaceful solution for the current situation in Ukraine which, is having an effect on all the inhabitants of our little blue planet.
I appreciate each and every visit, comment and fave here on my little corner of the world as seen through my lens.
A Robin of course has a powerful & delightful song but although it sounds lovely to our ears he is really telling interlopers to clear off and to stay out of his territory!
Taken today in Devon.
Lovely little interlopers. Scaly-breasted Munias are known in the pet trade as Nutmeg Mannikins or Spice Finches. It is endemic in Asia from India to the Philippines.
Here they are in Torrance. And countable.
We found this guy with his head buried in the bird feeder, occasionally chased away by a sparrow or goldfinch.
This handsome male was "cheating" by standing on the petal of the Bombax flower taking it's time slurping the sweet nectar between chasing away the interlopers.
This beauty of a male was taking a well deserved break after a morning of chasing off interlopers that were after his nectar.
The squirrels drive our 92% Hound insane. The baying, the treeing, the obsessive watching...Sure is cute though!
I like the way the greenery interrupts the orange patterns on the wall.....
One of the things I love about photography is that it makes you look at things in new ways, and notice things that you would have walked right past before.
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This is not something I'd seen before, a hummingbird kept trying to chase this butterfly out of the dahlias, but it ignored the smaller butterflies. Apparently the swallowtail was big enough to register on the hummingbird's "potential rival" senses, and hummingbirds being the aggressive little bastards they are it tried to chase the interloper away. The butterfly didn't care, it just fluttered a bit and went back to eating lunch.
Sonoma Garden Park, August, 2020.
Who doesn't belong is this photo? My opinion is that the zebras are the interlopers, perhaps trying here to mix in the impala, with whom they have little in common beyond the grass they eat. From a 2017 safari to Serengeti National Park. ©2017 | John M. Hudson
A-Class 36 Slot Hauler perched atop a rocky outcrop.
Our intrepid interloper relaxes for a moment from his daily grind to feel the wind whistle and hear the ca-caw of distant flying things.
No Man's Sky Next
The Wood Stork eventually got tired of of the challenge of a would-be interloper and attacked him viciously.
Canon EOS 7D Mark II, EF300mm f/4L IS USM, f/8, 1/1600, ISO 1000
Interlopers on the Rio Grande.
Westbound approaching the new alignment above Thistle and through the mountain that buried Thistle.
6-94
Loads of purple iris blooming, and when I went out to look, this little thing was there-only one...It seems like a hybrid and is smaller? Well, it is welcome anyway! :-)
A wise man once said, nothing at all.
A-Class 36 Slot Hauler landed on a grassy hilltop.
Our intrepid interloper contemplates the evils that men do.
No Man's Sky Next
Godrevy Point & Lighthouse, Cornwall
When you have an audience with 'The King of Godrevy' you set off with some trepidation! I'd arranged to meet up with fellow Togger and Flickrite Dom Haughton during my recent visit to Cornwall.
"Where do you want to meet up?" he kindly WhatsApped the interloper from the foreign land of Hampshire. Well I thought for a few seconds and replied with a certain level of deviousness..."How about Godrevy?" Why devious? Well a number of places in Cornwall are easier to find compositions and knowing Dom lives and breathes Godrevy I thought I could try to pick his brains. It helped that Godrevy was about 20mins from where I was staying so had that going for it too.
I was advised to look out for some sort of Red Renault van in the field car park so once I'd found a parking spot and gone back for my wellies (my memory!!) I headed off trying to find the preverbally needle in a haystack. Low and behold tucked into the far corner I see a red shoe box with a couple of people relaxing and obviously waiting for someone. A distant hand goes up and with trepidation I go for my audience with His Majesty!
As you can read from Dom's post www.flickr.com/photos/126574513@N04/53186344022/in/feed-1... we had ideas of scouting out numerous locations but ended up 'on the rocks' and I have no idea where the time went! I certainly appreciated the guidance on good spots to shoot from in-between all the comments on how jealous he was of my upcoming 5 day Iceland trip when his most recent one seemed to be around 3 weeks if I recall correctly.
I thanked him for his pasty advice and I can recommend 'Ann's Pasties' from the little retail park on the outskirts of Helston if you are in the area. (If you are reading this Ann....."get in touch" as a certain YouTuber is prone to say!)
We never got any epic skies that evening and one of the compositions I wanted I just couldn't get at because another Tog was already set up for the night but this was one of the main compositions I shot whilst playing with shutter speeds. The above is a 3 image time-lapse composite. Two images for the main scene and a third to show 'The King' in position and surveying his kingdom.
Thanks again Dom, I had a great afternoon of shooting and chatting.
© All rights reserved Steve Pellatt. Please do not use this image on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit written permission.
56034 'Castell Ogwr Ogmore Castle' leads 7o83, the 1209 Whatley Quarry to Fareham stone train past Norton Bavant, south of Warminster on 18th April 1989.
After the arrival of Foster Yeoman's class 59s in 1986, Mendip stone traffic was hauled by both the new private sector GM interlopers and by British Rail traction. Class 56s continued to operate lost such trains until the arrival of the ARC/Hanson-owned class 59/1s in November 1990.
My image of the same train in 1992 ( flic.kr/p/2hHwWPn ) was taken from the bridge in the distance; Scratchbury Hill from where I took the image flic.kr/p/2hGGJxX rises steeply behind the trees on the right.
In 2019 while stone trains continue to run from Whatley Quarry to Fareham, they pass through the Wylye valley before 6am. This view is somewhat compromised by mature trees along the railway's fence boundary on the left.
This Allen's Hummingbird needed a rest after chasing interlopers away from its territory. Seen at the Los Angeles County Arboretum.
Hit "L" for a closer look.
Trying to find a warbling vireo eating their favorite local berries was not hard.
Trying to get a photo of one that did not have twigs or leaves between me and them was hard.
One interesting note I read about this little songbird is that
Brown-headed Cowbirds frequently deposit their own eggs in the nests of Warbling Vireos. In some instances, the vireo pair incubates the alien egg and raises the young cowbird until it fledges. YET female vireos in some eastern populations, however, tend to puncture and eject interlopers’ eggs.
-Vireo gilvus