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Azizi (previously known as Flora!) washing himself amidst holding his strawberry. What you see is him creating his own dribble in order to wash his face. He does this ritual every evening, usually after his tea.
sort of jumping ahead here and not following the chronological order of my photos but I think that’s ok because I wanted to mix it up a little.
We had just come off the back of a few days of wild weather, mind you, it had helped to create some interesting photographic conditions but none of which were all too pleasant.
None-the-less, that was behind us. For the first time the wind had all but dropped off and the skies weren’t looking menacing. Jake, Bruce Trent and I decided to venture down onto the shores Lake Pehoe to try and find something a little different. Before too long each of us had managed to scout out a composition we were pretty happy with and had settled in for the afternoon.
This was mine…
The rawness of Patagonia can be hard to capture in photographs. It feels untamed and real so I tried hard to find a way to carry that feeling across in this image.
There’s a behind the scenes video from this shoot, filmed on location shortly before the sun went down. Jump over to my facebook page at www.facebook.com/jaydaleyphotography to check it out.
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Nanyuki
Kenya
East Africa
The hooded vulture (Necrosyrtes monachus) is an Old World vulture in the order Accipitriformes, which also includes eagles, kites, buzzards and hawks. It is the only member of the genus Necrosyrtes, which is sister to the larger Gyps genus, both of which are a part of the Aegypiinae subfamily of Old World vultures.
It is native to sub-Saharan Africa, where it has a widespread distribution with populations in southern, East and West Africa.
It is a scruffy-looking, small vulture with dark brown plumage, a long thin bill, bare crown, face and fore-neck, and a downy nape and hind-neck. Its face is usually a light red colour. It typically scavenges on carcasses of wildlife and domestic animals.
Threats include poisoning, hunting, loss of habitat and collisions with electricity infrastructure, and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has rated its conservation status as "critically endangered" in their latest assessment (2017). The highest current regional density of hooded vultures is in the western region of The Gambia. – Wikipedia
ORDER: Accipitriformes FAMILY: Accipitridae
Habitat : Grasslands
Food : Mammals
Nesting : Cliff
Beahvior : Soaring
Conservation : Low Concern
Last Sunday, it was good to finally sight some Chalk hills, just 4 males seen on the day. Hoping to get out tomorrow, in order to find some more of these beauties.
Dunlins and at least one Black-bellied Plover (the larger bird in the background, right).
(I had misidentified these as Western Sandpipers, but the particularly long drooping bill marks these as Dunlins.)
Elsie Roemer Bird Sanctuary, Alameda, California
Autumn-winter flowering Choisya in the undergrowth. Petals scattered by strong winds or maybe animal/human disturbance?
Olympus EM1 + Olympus 25mm.
Order : Coleoptera
Super Family : Scarabaeoidea
Family : Scarabaeidae
Subfamily : Melolonthidae
Genus : Amphimallon
Species : Amphimallon majale
In order to prepare the new season with several exhibition projects and dance shows, but also to enjoy the summer, I will not post any more images until the end of August.
All my exhibitions can be accessed through the welcome hall of my studio.
Living Picture #3 is still on stage and will stop on Sunday July 31st. Another Living Picture will open in September.
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My Blackbird just love bathing. Taken from my chair through the French Door window.
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Cuckoo - Cuculus Canorus
Norfolk
The common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) is a member of the cuckoo order of birds, Cuculiformes, which includes the roadrunners, the anis and the coucals.
This species is a widespread summer migrant to Europe and Asia, and winters in Africa. It is a brood parasite, which means it lays eggs in the nests of other bird species, particularly of dunnocks, meadow pipits, and reed warblers. Although its eggs are larger than those of its hosts, the eggs in each type of host nest resemble the host's eggs. The adult too is a mimic, e that species is a predator, the mimicry gives the female time to lay her eggs without being seen to do so.
The English word "cuckoo" comes from the Old French cucu and it first appears about 1240 in the poem Sumer Is Icumen In - "Summer has come in / Loudly sing, Cuckoo!" in modern English.
The scientific name is from Latin. Cuculus is "cuckoo" and canorus, "melodious ".
A study using stuffed bird models found that small birds are less likely to approach common cuckoos that have barred underparts similar to the Eurasian sparrowhawk, a predatory bird. Eurasian reed warblers were found more aggressive to cuckoos that looked less hawk-like, meaning that the resemblance to the hawk helps the cuckoo to access the nests of potential hosts. Other small birds, great tits and blue tits, showed alarm and avoided attending feeders on seeing either (mounted) sparrowhawks or cuckoos; this implies that the cuckoo's hawklike appearance functions as protective mimicry, whether to reduce attacks by hawks or to make brood parasitism easier.
The common cuckoo is an obligate brood parasite; it lays its eggs in the nests of other birds. At the appropriate moment, the hen cuckoo flies down to the host's nest, pushes one egg out of the nest, lays an egg and flies off. The whole process takes about 10 seconds. A female may visit up to 50 nests during a breeding season. Common cuckoos first breed at the age of two years.
More than 100 host species have been recorded: meadow pipit, dunnock and Eurasian reed warbler are the most common hosts in northern Europe; garden warbler, meadow pipit, pied wagtail and European robin in central Europe; brambling and common redstart in Finland; and great reed warbler in Hungary.
Studies were made of 90 great reed warbler nests in central Hungary. There was an "unusually high" frequency of common cuckoo parasitism, with 64% of the nests parasitised. Of the nests targeted by cuckoos, 64% contained one cuckoo egg, 23% had two, 10% had three and 3% had four common cuckoo eggs. In total, 58% of the common cuckoo eggs were laid in nests that were multiply parasitised. When laying eggs in nests already parasitised, the female cuckoos removed one egg at random, showing no discrimination between the great reed warbler eggs and those of other cuckoos.
It was found that nests close to cuckoo perches were most vulnerable: multiple parasitised nests were closest to the vantage points, and unparasitised nests were farthest away. Nearly all the nests "in close vicinity" to the vantage points were parasitised. More visible nests were more likely to be selected by the common cuckoos. Female cuckoos use their vantage points to watch for potential hosts and find it easier to locate the more visible nests while they are egg-laying.
Montego Bay, Jamaica
- The city of Montego Bay is located on the north-west end coast of the Caribbean island of Jamaica. Jamaica is independent and member of the Commonwealth since 1962.
- La ville de Montego Bay est située sur la côte nord-ouest de l'île caribéenne de la Jamaïque. La Jamaïque est indépendante et membre du Commonwealth depuis 1962.
- La ciudad de Montego Bay se encuentra en la costa del extremo noroeste de la isla de Jamaica. Jamaica es independiente y miembro de la Commonwealth desde 1962.
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Order : Lepidoptera
Superfamily : Pyraloidea
Family : Crambidae
Sub-Family : Pyraustinae
Genus : Pyrausta
Species : Pyrausta cingulata
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Hey there ... I'm just about to leave for vacation! Finally ... You'll have noticed I didn't do anything here the past few weeks, well, RL consumes a load of time actually, so I won't come up again before coming back in September :D
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