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Yellow Wagtail - Motacilla Flava
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The yellow wagtail can be spotted running about, chasing insects on lowland damp marshes and meadows during summer. As its name suggests, it does wag its tail!
Classified in the UK as Red under the Birds of Conservation Concern 4: the Red List for Birds (2015).
The Yellow Wagtail likes damp marshes, meadows and farmland, and spends much of its time running about on the ground, chasing insects disturbed by the feet of livestock. Yellow wagtails nest on the ground or in long grass, using plants, grasses and stems to build a cup-shape which they line with fur. They can have up to two broods, each with five or six eggs. A summer visitor, they arrive from their African wintering grounds from March onwards.
The yellow wagtail is olivey-green above and yellow below, with a yellow face and a black-and-white tail. Males are brighter than females. The similar grey wagtail also has a yellow belly, but has a grey back and black wings. Yellow wagtails have much shorter tails than the other two species of breeding wagtail in the UK.
Distribution
Widespread, mostly in the lowlands of Central and Eastern England, Wales and southern Scotland.
Habitats
GrasslandFreshwaterFarmlandWetlands
Did you know?
Eight different subspecies of yellow wagtail can be found in Europe, differing in the colour of the males' heads. For example, in France and Germany, you will find the blue-headed wagtail; in Italy, the grey-headed wagtail; and in Finland, the ashy-headed wagtail.
After a drought that lasted until about a month before this was shot last year left the countryside green instead of the usual dried frosted longer grasses
It offered some beautiful luminous colour contrasts in the late afternoon light
This is a five shot stitch
Yellow Wagtail - Motacilla Flava
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The yellow wagtail can be spotted running about, chasing insects on lowland damp marshes and meadows during summer. As its name suggests, it does wag its tail!
Classified in the UK as Red under the Birds of Conservation Concern 4: the Red List for Birds (2015).
The Yellow Wagtail likes damp marshes, meadows and farmland, and spends much of its time running about on the ground, chasing insects disturbed by the feet of livestock. Yellow wagtails nest on the ground or in long grass, using plants, grasses and stems to build a cup-shape which they line with fur. They can have up to two broods, each with five or six eggs. A summer visitor, they arrive from their African wintering grounds from March onwards.
The yellow wagtail is olivey-green above and yellow below, with a yellow face and a black-and-white tail. Males are brighter than females. The similar grey wagtail also has a yellow belly, but has a grey back and black wings. Yellow wagtails have much shorter tails than the other two species of breeding wagtail in the UK.
Distribution
Widespread, mostly in the lowlands of Central and Eastern England, Wales and southern Scotland.
Habitats
GrasslandFreshwaterFarmlandWetlands
Did you know?
Eight different subspecies of yellow wagtail can be found in Europe, differing in the colour of the males' heads. For example, in France and Germany, you will find the blue-headed wagtail; in Italy, the grey-headed wagtail; and in Finland, the ashy-headed wagtail.
A Lechwe on the look out for the doom bringer lurking somewhere in the long grass in Kanana Nature Reserve.
this male cub had probably already heard a contact call from his mother
The greeting between mother and cub was a marvelous sight but it took place in long grass between some thickets
Kruger NP, South Africa in November 2009
Leopard
panthera pardus
luipaard
léopard
Leopard
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The wild flowers mixed with long grass looked so green and beautiful.
Thanks for all the lovely comments and favs on yesterday's flower shot :)
What a thrill to have a close encounter with a Leopard as she passed us in the long grass close to the path in Kanana Nature Reserve.
A male brimstone seen in Cirencester Park in some long grassland on the edge of woodland beside the polo field.
The Gannets at Bempton will often collect grass,for their nests and for bonding with their mates.
This individual landed extremely close to the path with several others.They were largely hidden by the long grass but this one moved into partial view giving me the chance to get this close-up shot and I was delighted when I saw he had collected some flowers with the grass.
My favourite mower. As long as the ground is dry (it's a heavy mower) this will cut really long grass with ease.
A waterbird and a member of the rail and Crake family, this is a large bird around 40-45 cms long and weighing half a kilo or more. They are quite large compared to the other waterbirds here, but they are so impossible to sight in the green fields where they reside. They are easily identified by the frontal red shield and calls.
The birds stick to the foot long grass in the countryside and hence very hard to spot - any sighting in our region is considered rare. I had sighted this bird many times, but just could manage a distant poor shot.
But y'day early morning, on an open riverside road surrounded by grass and fields, several males were calling out and flying from one side of the road to the other. I was lucky to be able to get some shots of the bird much to my satisfaction. This one is a male, the female is more brownish in color.
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After feeding on leather jackets ( Crane fly Larvae ) for about five minutes she crossed the path passing close by me she then spent another five minutes searching the long grass for mice . .
This is one of my favourite red squirrel photos from the photography day at the British Wildlife Centre last month.
At this point in the trip we were staying in Oliphants Rest Camp. It was a cloudy afternoon and very atmospheric. There is something wonderful about big African skies. We drove for a few hours, seeing giraffe, a fish eagle and a few elephants including this one. Not long after that a kori bustard and Wahlberg's eagle before heading back to camp as the day drew to a close.
I was pleased with this image and particular like it in monochrome, bringing out the textures in the elephants skin.
Other photos from this trip can be found in this album:
A photo that I took two years ago during a two-day workshop at West Country Wildlife Photography in Devon
Resting down in the long grass on the hillside at Ballard Down near Swanage in Dorset (UK) (5559). A rarity in the UK, confined to the Dorset coast, but locally very common during July.
One of the hedgehogs at the British Wildlife Centre investigating the long grass around the roots of a tree - in search of something edible maybe.
South Shields
this was a very grainy shot, taking out the 'noise' has turned it into a painted effect.
I know that I post quite of lot of photos of the Dragon in the grass and there will probably be many more as he LOVES the lawn. When I took this photo the grass was rather long, just perfect for the Dragon. In the meantime the lawn mower has done its job but the good thing about grass is that it will grow again (far too quickly for my taste).
I arrived at Dalkeith waterhole well before sunrise in the Kalahari Semi Desert. Total silence for 10 minutes when I saw a lioness approaching from afar along the road ..Great she must be coming to drink..Not so she lay down in the road 50 metres away ..Suddenly her 2 until then unsighted cubs emerged from the long grass after unseasonal rains and arrived at the drinking place right next to me. I let them settle and only then took only 5 images so as not to frighten them ..10 minutes before actual sunrise over the Sand Dune
The very handsome and highly alert Basil, photographed at British wildlife centre, UK
I mean.. who doesnt love a Fox??
Just what our garden frogs like nice and damp. Very careful before cutting the grass. You never know who's lurking in there … :-D