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The smallest of all the swans and a very vocal bird, similar to the whooper swan but is slightly more stocky looking with a goose like shape and with a shorter yellow bill patch. Named after the naturalist Thomas Bewick. Any swan with yellow on the base of the bill will be a migrant to western Europe, i.e. Bewick's and Whooper.
Pied Flycatcher (M) - Ficedula hypoleuca
The European pied flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca) is a small passerine bird in the Old World flycatcher family. One of the four species of Western Palearctic black-and-white flycatchers, it hybridizes to a limited extent with the collared flycatcher. It breeds in most of Europe and western Asia.
It is migratory, wintering mainly in tropical Africa.
It usually builds its nests in holes on oak trees. This species practices polygyny, usually bigamy, with the male travelling large distances to acquire a second mate. The male will mate with the secondary female and then return to the primary female in order to help with aspects of child rearing, such as feeding.
The European pied flycatcher is mainly insectivorous, although its diet also includes other arthropods. This species commonly feeds on spiders, ants, bees and similar prey.
The European pied flycatcher predominately practices a mixed mating system of monogamy and polygyny. Their mating system has also been described as successive polygyny. Within the latter system, the males leave their home territory once their primary mates lays their first eggs. Males then create a second territory, presumably in order to attract a secondary female to breed. Even when they succeed at acquiring a second mate, the males typically return to the first female to exclusively provide for her and her offspring.
Males will sometimes care for both mates if the nests of the primary and secondary female are close together. The male may also care for both mates once the offspring of the primary female have fledged. The male bird usually does not exceed two mates, practicing bigamy. Only two cases of trigyny had been observed.
Population:
UK breeding:
17,000-20,000 pairs
Southern Emerald Damselfly
Zwervende pantserjuffer
Leste sauvage
Lestes barbarus
Südliche Binsenjungfer
El caballito del diablo esmeralda
Vandrande smaragdflickslända
Pałątka południowa
Foltosszárnyjegyű rabló
A medium sized hawker flying in late summer to early autumn. It is also called as horsebiter, but that's only a name. They are eating insect such as flying ants.This species may be confused with Aeshna juncea. Feeds mainly in the afternoon and evening. When perched they hang vertically to catch as much sunlight as possible.
The male is brown with blue markings. The female (above) is brown with yellow markings.
Out doing stuff with Charlie, so will catch up from work tonight. Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend.
The Migrant Hawker is one of the smaller species of hawker dragonflies. It can be found away from water but for breeding it prefers still or slow-flowing water and can tolerate brackish sites. The flight period is from July to the end of October. ''A. mixta'' occurs in North Africa, southern and central Europe to the Baltic region.
One year, possibly even two years. The (first) winter is spent as an egg. Hatching occurs over a long period (no clear peak), from late June to late September.
The larval skins can be found up to several decimeters high on stems of bankside or embankment vegetation.
All kinds of stagnant and slow-flowing, often nutrient-rich and non-acidic waters. In the bankside zone or silted-up vegetation, between plant stems and dead plant material.
The larva can also develop in slightly brackish conditions.
In the Netherlands, the Migrant Hawker breeds in all types of stagnant water, including small and medium-sized ponds, pools, garden ponds, and ditches. It prefers waters with well-developed riparian vegetation, such as broad belts of reeds (Phragmites australis), cattails (Typha sp.), yellow irises (Iris pseudacorus), or rushes (Scirpus sp.), but reproduction also occurs in waters with peat moss (Sphagnum sp.), watermilfoil (Myriophyllum spicatum), and water soldier (Stratiotesaloides). The larvae can even develop in brackish water, such as (former) drinking wells, ponds, and small pools in Zeeland, South Holland, and the Wadden Islands.
Taken at Tucklesholme Nature Reserve
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“The Rufous Hummingbird makes one of the longest migratory journeys of any bird in the world, as measured by body size. At just over 3 inches long, its roughly 3,900-mile movement (one-way) from Alaska to Mexico is equivalent to 78,470,000 body lengths.” ~ Cornell's all aboutbirds.org
No wonder the little male peanut chooses to perch on the tiny stick each night while here.
"One of the feistiest hummingbirds in North America. The brilliant orange male and the green-and-orange female Rufous Hummingbird are relentless attackers at flowers and feeders, going after (if not always defeating) even the large hummingbirds of the Southwest, which can be double their weight. Rufous Hummingbirds are wide-ranging, and breed farther north than any other hummingbird. Look for them in spring in California, summer in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska, and fall in the Rocky Mountains as they make their annual circuit of the West."
Love to see these tiny, feisty hummingbirds.
Behind a market stall in Kunming, the capital of the Chinese province Yunnan