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A rather unusual look at a Damselfly. This is a teneral Common Blue Damselfly I found at Wollaton yesterday, being quite a cool day there were a lot of grounded inactive Damselflies on low vegetation, this allowed for this interesting angle. This nicely illustrates the complex nature of a Damselflies mouthparts, it is easy to forget that these guys are accomplished predators.
This was a 4 image stack at F/8, not my deepest of stacks, but thought it was interesting to see.
Common Buzzard (Buteo buteo)
Ganavan Nr Oban - Argyll
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It was amazing to watch this Merlin pursuing a Goldfinch a couple of weeks ago: I was rather lucky to capture this shot as the raptor dived in for a killer blow, but missed the lucky finch by a gnat's whisker!
Yellowfin tuna flank a female great white shark off the coast of Mexico's Isla de Guadalupe. While the tuna are a preferred prey item of the shark, their speed and maneuverability allow them to keep a safe distance from their predator. The sharks have to rely on stealth in order to ambush attach the speedy prey.
While it's not uncommon to see yellowfin tuna at Guadalupe, they seem far more abundant around the island in the past couple of years. I'm not sure it's a result of El Nino effects or not, but I definitely saw noticeably more tuna around the sharks than usual on this trip.
Just back from Safari(darkest Wiltshire Longleat Safari Park first time visit absolutely great didn't know what to expect at the park totally impressed by it all to see the animal's having space to live and roam.
Lions are very sociable and related females live together as a pride.Different males take over the pride at different times.When lions live together as a group this has many advantages;they can hunt together as a team and are able to bring down large prey.The females often have their babies at the same time, allowing the cubs to feed from any of the lionesses.Longleat has about 25 lions in the park.
Hey guys ?!
Here the photo with my new minifig based on Predator , is not the first predator of 1987, is another Predator that i found on internet ;) .
& Days of work X.X ..... He has a lot of details and a lt of Sculped parts , the armor the head the mask e the tiny skulls on the back .
What do you think about that ??
Hope you like it ;) .
52 Rolls - Week 11: Zeiss Ikon colour 120. The pits.
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hanging around, the male is on the left while smaller female is on the right, mating season. This was taken shortly after finding them feeding on road kill.
As you can tell by the blood on this Coopers Hawks talons and beak, this true predator, and swift hunter, quickly eats his prey, (a Pidgeon), I know because I watched the whole thing, and then vanishes in plain flight.
Dublin, California.
0n 13th December, 2025 NORA, the oldest known female cheetah in the Mara ecosystem (13.5 years), following a fatal encounter with a leopard.
Born in April 2012 to Narasha, alongside her brother M23-Nur, Nora’s life was shaped early by independence, after Narasha left them in December 2013, and after separating with her brother in February 2014, Nora began her solitary life at 21 months old. From October 2014 onward, she was recorded pregnant more than 15 times and gave birth to over 11 litters sired by different males, though most were lost within the first two month, a stark reflection of the high reproductive costs female cheetahs face. In September 2016, she achieved a rare success, raising a single male cub to independence from a litter of four born in June 2015. Her last recorded reproductive effort came in February 2023, when she gave birth late in the afternoon and lost the cub within a month.
In older cheetahs, parturition often takes longer and occurs later in the day rather than at night or early morning, increasing the risk of detection by other predators; cubs are also mostly weaker and do not survive in the wild.
Nora’s long, resilient life tells a powerful story of endurance, loss, and the biological limits faced by aging cheetahs. As we reflect on her legacy, we are reminded of the critical role responsible tourism plays; maintaining distance, keeping noise low, and avoiding overcrowding are essential to reducing stress and predation risk, especially for vulnerable individuals and mothers with cubs. (Source: Cheetah Project Mara-Meru).
My last sighting of Nora was on Photography Safari during an early morning game drive when we found Nora resting under the shade on an acacia tree on the vast plains of Maasai Mara Game Reserve, Kenya.
i'm planning to do a series at the aquarium, i've been planning it for a while but when we went to take pics this weekend it was FILLEDDD with kids (expectedly). i'm gonna go on a day where not as many people will be there....