on a grey, cold and foggy day.

A King Penguin in all its fury trying to scare away a predator that was circulating above.

Già, un ragno giallo splendente; come a dire un predatore che più visibile di così non si può. Si tratta forse di un clamoroso errore del Sistema Naturale? O forse dell'Evoluzione? No, no, non è così: quei dispositivi non sbagliano mai. Il ragno è giallo perché gli stessi organi riproduttivi di molti fiori hanno lo stesso colore e l'insetto che visita il fiore lo confonderà con quelli ..... ..

Bald Eagle Portrait

This ringlet butterfly had unfortunately landed in this garden spiders web

Sparrowhawk [Accipiter nisus] f.

This little beauty appeared at The Pixies just after I had re-filled all the bird feeders...All the usual little songbirds, blue-, great-, and coaltits, nuthatches and chaffinches, were having a feast when, suddenly, they all disappeared into the trees.

I was thrilled to have caught this image but the implications of her presence here are really quite chilling...Of course, she has to eat, too, but the wee birdies have absolutely no chance against these lethal talons and beak.

She left this perch very soon after arriving and the wee birdies soon resumed their eating and seed- and nut-gathering.

The Circle Of Life? Ambivalence and cognitive dissonance...

(I know it’s not a great shot - she was very high up in this tree )

At The Pixies

South Carrick Hills

SW Scotland

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I've struggled with the idea of posting this one

A beautiful bird but an unwelcome visitor to our garden

This was the aftermath we witnessed taking place a few days ago.

Sadly one of our little sparrows lost it's life before we witnessed this scene.

I understand we eat meat, so in theory I'm no different from this Sparrowhawk hunting it's prey

It's just so difficult to watch when for months on end the little sparrows who nested in our bushes, brought up what seemed like a multitude of offspring, fledged and continue to return to our feeders

We have grown so attached to their playful, funny characters

I'd certainly never make a wildlife photographer. Im in tears watching Frozen Planet 2

I'd want to try and save them all

Well, I also thought although not in flight I can capture images of birds (not the blurry variety)

Not crystal clear, taken through the kitchen window, which may have needed cleaning

It tells a story, if nothing else

We just hope he doesn't chose to do a return visit

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A 3.175cm (1 .25") Praying Mantis eating a fly on a Gardenia jasminoides 'Kleim's Hardy' in my garden. These insects are notorious predators and their name is sometime mistakenly spelled ‘Preying Mantis’ which is incorrect.

The Venus Flytrap (dionaea muscipulae) attracts his prey (flies, insects) using sweet nectar. Touch a trigger hair twice, or two hairs in quick succession, and an electric charge closes the trap, its interlocking teeth forming a cage. The insect's continued struggles will cause the trap to seal, at which point digestive enzymes will dissolve the victim's soft tissues. The trap reabsorbs this nutritious soup, and - after about a week - reopens.

bird:[Rezz Room] Box Eagle Adult Animesh @EQUAL10 maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/equal10/233/127/95

outfit:Art&Ko - Elizabeth Set @Enchantment

gloves:[ContraptioN] Dapper Dandy's Gloves

skin:.MILA. Stefy Skin @ TRES CHIC nov 17 - dec 10 maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Tres%20Chic/153/162/74

blush add ons: Heaux

head:LeLUTKA Briannon Head 3.1 @Mainstore

hair:Magika - Hair - Let It Snow

Dartmoor Tree on a wet & windy morning. :-)

This is a merciless., unforgiving predator

It'd eat you alive if it could

But equally it's a beautiful and impressive bird of prey

Photogenic and slightly fabulous

Throughout the animal kingdom (and even in the things we create ourselves - e.g. a jet fighter)

How often is it that the things we are most attracted to are also the things that are the most lethal?

A harvestman with a parasitic mite attached.

This is one of those moments in which I saw the harvestman and a red dot, but I had no idea what I was seeing until I took the shot(s). Gotta love macro lenses!

Visit this location at Auld Lang Syne in Second Life

Waiting for prey...

predator spine by Noble Creations(Men Only Event)

Zip Jacket by HOTDOG (Neo Japan)

B129 Hair by DURA

Vulpes Vulpes - Red Fox

P1000142-1

ISO 200 1/160th @ f/5.6 Focal length 186.42mm (equivalent to

1041mm in 35mm format)

leopard out of the bush

The fish are returned to the water after capture which is very common. It is only for the pleasure of working the fish

"ᴛʜᴇ ᴡᴏʀʟᴅ ᴄᴏɴꜱɪꜱᴛᴇᴅ

ᴏꜰ ᴘʀᴇᴅᴀᴛᴏʀ ᴀɴᴅ ᴘʀᴇʏ.

ʏᴏᴜ ᴡᴇʀᴇ ᴇɪᴛʜᴇʀ

ʜᴜɴᴛɪɴɢ ᴏʀ ʀᴜɴɴɪɴɢ..."

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ꜱᴀʙʙᴀᴛʜ

ᴇʏᴇꜱʜᴀᴅᴏᴡ | [ᴄᴇʟᴇꜱᴛɪᴄᴀᴛ] ᴛʜᴏʀɴ ᴇʏᴇꜱʜᴀᴅᴏᴡ - ʟᴇʟ ᴇᴠᴏ x ʜᴅ ᴀᴘᴘʟɪᴇʀ

ᴛᴀᴛᴛᴏᴏ | .::ʜᴏᴜꜱᴇ ᴏꜰ ᴘᴀɪɴ::. ɢᴇɴᴇꜱɪꜱ ᴛᴀᴛᴛᴏᴏ

ɢʟᴀꜱꜱᴇꜱ | [ʟɪᴛᴛᴇɴ] ꜱQᴜɪʀᴛʟᴇ ɢʟᴀꜱꜱᴇꜱ

ᴘᴏꜱᴇ | [ᴘɪxɪᴛ] ᴅᴇʀᴛɪᴀ - ᴘ1

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ʜᴀɪʀ | ᴅᴜʀᴀ-ʙ130 @ᴛᴍᴅ

ᴇʏᴇꜱ | [ʀᴇᴠᴇʀɪᴇ] ɢʏꜱᴀ ᴇʏᴇꜱ ꜰᴀᴛᴘᴀᴄᴋ @ᴘʟᴀɴᴇᴛ29

ʜᴏʀɴꜱ | [ᴄx] ᴍᴀʀᴀ ʜᴏʀɴꜱ @ᴍᴀɪɴꜱᴛᴏʀᴇ

ᴘɪᴇʀᴄɪɴɢꜱ | ɴɪ.ᴊᴜ // ᴠᴀʀ1ᴄᴏꜱᴇ ɪɪ ᴘɪᴇʀᴄɪɴɢ . ᴍ/ꜰ

ᴛᴏᴘ&ʜᴀʀɴᴇꜱꜱ | ᴀʀᴄʜɪᴠᴇꜰᴀᴄᴛɪᴏɴ_ʟᴀᴄᴇʀᴀᴢɪᴏɴɪ ʜᴀʀɴᴇꜱꜱ&ᴠᴇꜱᴛ

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