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Common Buzzard (Buteo buteo)
Ganavan Nr Oban - Argyll
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Una Argiope bruennichi ha catturato una grossa preda (Sympetrum fonscolombei) - Civiasco (VC - Valsesia) 14 Agosto 2012
Sometimes there is too much light. This Kestrel did not seem bothered by me approaching it, but I couldn't quite get the right angle for the harsh light. It has come out reasonably well following a few adjustments on the computer.
The majestic Wedge-tailed Eagle in SA. This handsome fallah/sheila was perched on this mound just beside the road. I got out the car and carefully approached this predator hoping it wouldn't have a go at me. I got to within about 10 m. It then had enough of me and took off. It flew a couple of passes, all the while keeping a close eye on me, and then settled on another mound not too far away. Amazing looking birds.
I actually got too close for my big 200-600 mm lens which resulted in a couple of clipped wings. I used my OI (organic intelligence) and Affinity Photo and grew the wingtips back on 😉.
It was the start of the mating season and a male fox that she didn't get along with had just passed through this spot about 10 minutes earlier.
She seemed to be tracking him.
This wasn't to far from her den and from what I had seen, she didn't want him around there.
Camera Settings: f/5 - 1/400 - 260mm - ISO 320
Alien nightmares are made of this…
… though they are nice to eat too. :)
Recently I have been playing a bit with my Carl Zeiss Flektogon vintage lens. This image was taken during a visit to the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) garden at Wisley. Wisley is one of the largest of their sites and is full of interesting plants all neatly labelled and planted in acres of crafted garden. You can wander for days, especially if you have a camera and a macro lens…
This is an artichoke from the vegetable patch. It looks really villainous if you get up close and crop out the context. Tastes lovely though ;)
For the Macro Wednesday group.
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Mittwochsmakro :)
[Handheld in daylight.
Developed in Capture One for colour and soft detail.
Processed in Affinity with a square crop, High Pass/Linear Light blend and USM sharpening and a strong, but soft, dark vignette. Curves adjustment in LAB mode both to enhance the colour contrast and to control the tones; reduced saturation in an HSL adjustment and changed the hue of the reds to something warmer for better colour matching.]
Hamster Predator with a very cute Baby Predator. xD
Taken at CosFest 2010 in DownTown East.
Full detail in my blog: CosFest 2010
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Stopped at Taughannock Falls State Park and I snapped this photo of a huge Turkey Vulture cruising above the somewhat dry waterfall looking to have turkey for dinner!
As the Pacific salmon migrate from the sea up to their spawning grounds on rivers (where they die after spawning) they encounter apex predators such as grizzly bears, wolves and eagles. The salmon provide a valuable source of nutrition to the predators that help them survive lean winters. Cariboo Chilcotin, BC.
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This heron was hunting along the water's edge and suddenly turned 180 degrees, having no doubt heard something from behind, and froze facing the grassy edge. Suddenly he lunged, scored, and turned around with the Marsh Rice Rat held around the lower abdomen, obviously alive and fighting. If you zoom in on one of the images in this series, you can see the captured rodent baring its teeth and its body contorted. At first I thought this was a vole, but the tail is much too long, as zooming in this image show the tail with some flatness to it, as is found on the marsh rice rat, muskrats too, but they are much larger. They use this uniquely shaped tail as a rudder when swimming.
The heron took the struggling rodent to the water's edge and submerged it, pinning it to the bottom at which point the heron regripped its prey, as when it came out of the water, the heron's bill gripped the rodent by its head and neck. At that point, the marsh rice rat's legs hung limp and the fight, if there ever really was one, was over. The heron opened its bill and tilting its head back to get the head further back in its bil.. Another quick jerk of the head and the prey is near fully in its mouth, going down its gullet head first.. Finally another gulp or neck thrust and the tasty meal is but a brief lump in its neck. A few seconds later and even that was gone.
I've seen the herons eat snakes and frogs in addition to their standard fare, which is fish and crustaceans, including soft crabs when in season. No fish, it seems, is too large to eat, as I've seen this same heron dine on a five-pound blue fish. It was too much to swallow, so it took it into the seclusion of the brush and slowly tore it to pieces to eat it. They are known to even capture and swallow an adult muskrat. So this was a first, for me, to see one capture and eat a marsh rice rat. And I was fortunate enough to have my camera in hand when it happened.
Canon R3 RF100-500mm F4.5-7.1 L IS USM @ 500mm
f7.1 1/1000 sec - 33 shots taken in ISO 800-1200 range
20220610 1430 hrs - Pagan Creek Dyke (Lewes, DE)
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This American bald eagle looked to be deep in contemplation when phtographed in Osceola County near Kenansville, Florida.
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ADAPTED BEAUTIFULLY to living at sea, with long narrow wings, and its feet placed far back on its body for afficient swimming. UNFORTUNATELY this makes life on land difficult, it can not walk easily and tends to be very ungainly on land, SHUFFLING and sometimes SLEDGING along on its belly. Which makes it easy prey for PREDATORS, such as Great-backed Gulls, hence the large number of carcasses around SKOMER ISLAND .... To minimise this danger, MANX SHEARWATERS nest in underground burrows, and only come or leave the island at the pitch black of night. Something you will never forget, the sound at night as they return, thousands of whirring wing-beats, weird, strangled coughing calls, sounds more fitting for a Alfred Hitchcock creepy film. ESTIMATED 120,000 breeding pairs. MY BEST GUESS is this one saw the dimmed wardens lights, and got disorientated, came down next to the building, and hence was saved from the Gulls, other wise I would not got to see one ! It was gone the next day, can only hope it made it back to sea!
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When I took the photo I didn't notice the Crab Spider having lunch. I did notice the Saw Bug, AKA Wheel Bug on the prowl.
For what it's worth, they both bite. I don't know about the Crab Spider but I do know that Wheel Bugs HURT! I don't recommend trying to pet them.
They are beneficial as they prey on other harmful insects including those horrid Japanese Beetles that are eating the leaves off my tree until the Hibiscus start blooming.
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