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A pair of chalkhill blue butterflies mating at Swelshill Bank near Stroud. This was taken last Tuesday morning when I met up with fellow flickr member Rod Holbrook
A big male Fox Squirrel chasing a female White Squirrel. He was relentlessly chasing her from tree to tree to mate with her.
Dragonflies.
Scientific name: Sympetrum striolatum.
Mating is often performed whilst perched on waterside vegetation and this process can last up to fifteen minutes. Once the female has received the sperm she will disengage to allow her to lay eggs but the male continues to hold onto her to make sure she doesn't fly off and mate with any of his competitors.
Info: Saga.
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A pair of dingy skipper butterflies mating in the masts field at Prestbury Hill nature reserve near Cheltenham. This was taken on a visit back in May when I met up with fellow flickr member David Oliver "Davolly"
Here's what happens in Spring when male and female American Avocets get together. It's quite a beautiful ritual - she tells him she's ready, and he goes through a bunch of moves before he hops on, finished off with a loving cross of those upturned beaks.
It was dark and drizzling on this early morning. I couldn't even tell where the light source was actually coming from. So, you might note the ridiculous ISO here: 4000. I actually used a combination of Lightroom's noise slider and the Topaz add-on Denoise AI on this image.
Styria, c. 1520
Lime wood, baroque paint and gilding, life-size
Lower Belvedere, Palace Stables (Prunkstall)
On loan from the parish church of Maria am Waasen, Leoben
Taken from a boat around the Farne Islands.
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Picture for the MacroMondays group theme on November 28th, 2016: Beetles.
These 2 red bugs are beautiful beetles and only can be found in spring time. I was luck of shooting them mating.
最近一直生病中，好容易恢復健康，又多陰雨，只好再來玩微距了！
~巴陵, 桃園縣
Balin, Taoyuan County, Taiwan
- ISO 640, F5.6, 1/640 sec, 100 mm
- Canon 5D Mark III with EF 100 mm f/2.8 Macro L lens
- Shot @ 10.36am
This is a mated pair of Canada geese that stays in this place on Lake Champlain to raise a family. They hang out, separate from the rest in the reeds by the road. Same routine each year.
The rest of the geese here are getting R&R during their migration.
A pair of brown argus butterflies mating on some salad burnet on the steep south facing slopes of Swelshill Bank near Stroud. The male is the larger butterfly of the two.
Killdeer (Charadrius vociferus)
Rogue Valley - Jackson County - Oregon - USA
Habitat : Grasslands
Food : Insects
Nesting : Ground
Behavior : Ground Forager
Conservation : Low Concern
"A shorebird you can see without going to the beach, Killdeer are graceful plovers common to lawns, golf courses, athletic fields, and parking lots. These tawny birds run across the ground in spurts, stopping with a jolt every so often to check their progress, or to see if they’ve startled up any insect prey. Their voice, a far-carrying, excited kill-deer, is a common sound even after dark, often given in flight as the bird circles overhead on slender wings... The Killdeer’s broken-wing act leads predators away from a nest, but doesn’t keep cows or horses from stepping on eggs. To guard against large hoofed animals, the Killdeer uses a quite different display, fluffing itself up, displaying its tail over its head, and running at the beast to attempt to make it change its path."
- Cornell University Lab of Ornithology