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Mud-puddling is a feeding behaviour displayed by butterflies. Although they primarily feed on nectar they seek out other essential nutrients including minerals and amino acids in moist substances such as rotting plant matter and mud. Where the conditions are suitable, butterflies form aggregations while mud-puddling.
There are six species of butterflies in this photo taken at Phnom Kulen National Park, Cambodia. I have identified two species. The large butterflies are yellow helens, Papilio nephelus. The white butterfly in flight is the same as the yellow and white butterflies with a dark edge at the edge of their wings. They are chocolate albatrosses, Appias lyncida.
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Taken in the historic village of Maitland, in Nova Scotia, Canada.
"The lower 30 km of the river (from the point where the Stewiacke River meets to the mouth) is tidal and the river experiences a tidal bore twice daily, with some bores reaching up to 3 m in height at certain points along the river. Local tourism operators offer adventure seekers a chance to ride with the bore on high-horse power Zodiac Hurricanes. It is also a popular surfing spot for experienced Sea Kayakers." - Wikipedia
Not been out much recently with the camera but went to Bosham, West Sussex a few weeks ago and captured this sunset looking down the creek towards the church!
Not perfectly still but some reasonable reflected light and colour in the sky!
1/10 second exposure using a Lee 0.9 ND grad filter.
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Something different today....
Many swallows built these impressive and unique mud nests on one side of Yellowstone's Soda Butte.
For some reason they didn't stick around to pose for me....
Soda Butte in comments.
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A group of mallards was foraging in the mud near the river in Tom McCall Waterfront park. Her bill was particularly dirty from her digging, yet she was willing to pose for a portrait. Her drake stood nearby.
The Fabled "Mud Cracks" of Death Valley during an early spring sunrise.
After getting a couple good shots on the card, here in Death Valley, I started to move around and explore the area a little more. The best spots were already covered by other photographers. I found this spot with a nice crack and quickly pulled up the center column and set up my tripod to shoot horizontally so that I could spread out the legs and shot as low as the tripod could go as to capitalize on the crack. One good thing about having all those photogs there is you always have a subject to use for scale, that is if if you don't mind using photoshop to clone them out, i just shoot all the other guys in there and remove them later in post. That's what I did, I removed 3 other guys from the shot but left this one in for scale. Don't let the crowd keep you from getting a shot.
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I love taking shots along this part of Lady Bird Lake as the tree roots are just spectacular. Unfortunately, I was up to my ankles in mud. 20160417RainyDayDxLr1
The twin keels keep her upright until she refloats on the high tide. At first glance this looks like a 'Colin Archer' clinker-built day boat; closer inspection reveals its a modern fibreglass construction but she's very pretty all the same! Taken with Polaroid SX-70 Alpha 1 on Polaroid (TIP) B&W film at Sunderland Point, River Lune, Lancashire.
Juvenile Brown Pelican hangs suspended in mid air (well, at least for a 2000th of a second) just above the fog layer on Mud Lake.
After spending the day at the Knoxville Zoo, far from home, it was nice to get back into my old stomping ground, and bring my friend back to experience nature in a different way. This of course is one of the elk I have been documenting for the past few years with my photography, strong, proud, antlers not symmetrical, and in this case, covered in mud. I managed to miss the large animal thrashing in the mud puddle, though the ranger I stopped to talk to gave me a full account. Of course this individual was apparently giddy for the rut a bit early, and was making a bit of a scene, despite that, I gathered my wits about me, and began capturing fresh images.
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SS: 1/250th
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Fujinon 100-400mm TC 1.4X
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Though warthogs appear ferocious, they are basically grazers. They eat grasses and plants, and also use their snouts to dig or “root” for roots or bulbs. When startled or threatened, warthogs can be surprisingly fast, running at speeds of up to 30 miles an hour.
Warthogs are adaptable and are able to go long periods without water, as much as several months in the dry season.
When water is available, warthogs will seek it and often submerge to cool down. They will also wallow in mud for the same purpose—and to gain relief from insects. Birds also aid these hogs in their battle with insects; oxpeckers and other species sometimes ride along on their warthog hosts, feeding on the tiny creatures invading their hides.
This image could be a close up or a hill side. I deliberately left out any scale indication. It is the eroding side of a hill. I just liked its graphical nature when isolated and stripped of reference points.
But the dried grasses might give it away.
The people who lived in this place don't know what their situation was like, but I think their lives were simple and happy ♥️
Mud plugging, or
sporting trials, is an off-road motor-sport that involves driving a specialised vehicle through steep, muddy courses, prioritising skill and control over speed.
In this case speed is far less important than staying upright.
I bet he wished he had stayed on the roadway.
Mid Devon Show, Knightshayes Court, Tiverton, Devon, UK.
These two yellow swallowtails were flittering around and stopping down in these little mud puddles. I wondered what was up with that. In checking afterwards, they extract the sodium they can get out of mud puddles to assist them with mating, called mud-puddlin'. So, was the flittering and cavorting around a little mating ritual, or two males fighting over the mud puddles? This was taken in the Timberwolf Ponds area of the Genesee County Parks, July, 2025.
In addition to battling bulls, I was treated to a unique photo op during the bison rut when we found this bison cow and her friend enjoying some yummy mud.
Bison, like many other wildlife species, eat dirt occasionally to add some vital minerals to their diet.
We visited Donna Nook yesterday and spent a pleasant, sunny and relatively mild day watching the Grey Seals and their new pups. The pups we saw were all fairly new - we've usually visited a few weeks later, when there are more of the slightly older, barrel shaped ones but there was still plenty to see. This one was enjoying splashing around in a rather muddy looking pool at the edge of the dunes.
Twelfth picture of the series Canes & Mud.
(Just the next day of previous photoshoot, I tryed another time for take longer exposures. For this shot I wanted to guide with the light of dawn on the boat in the foreground)
Magical sunrise in this beautiful place that is the Albufera of Valencia.
The image title is because during the photoshoot, surrounded by all this beauty, calm water, boat, reeds, mud, tranquility, flying birds ... every moment reminded me a lot to the great novel "Cañas y Barro" of the great Valencian writer Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, set in rural Valencia (Albufera) of the early twentieth century, the novel observes and portrays the social reality of the time and place with absolute precision.
Would like to thank this picture to my friend Javier Girbés, which helped me a lot with the location and encouraged me to know this magnificent spot.
On the technical side, say that I only used a neutral gradient three steps filter.
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