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on the banks of the Lagoon channel in Botswana.
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The Red-headed Weaver is mainly found in light and densely wooded forests, where there are Mopane trees , near river, streams or dams. This bird forages for insects; such as butterflies, bees, and wasps, on the ground. They also drink nectar from flowers.
The bird’s head is coloured scarlet, the bill is red, with a white throat, brown legs, a scarlet coloured back and red eyes. Height - ±15 cms Weighs ±22 gms.
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Village Weaver - Queen Elizabeth National Park, Western, Uganda
Bird Species # (510) that I photographed and placed on my Flickr Photostream. Overall goal is 1000.
On this trip to Uganda we used Ngoni Safaris Uganda. They provided excellent service. I highly recommend them.
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This is the Weaver Hills in Derbyshire / Staffordshire. It's a beautiful place which is little visited. I like the curving wall on this photo and the solitary tree. One from the archives.
Textorweber sind lebhafte und lautstarke Koloniebrüter, die ihre nierenförmigen Hängenester aus Gras dicht beieinander bauen.
This weaver builds a large coarsely woven nest made of grass and leaf strips with a downward facing entrance which is suspended from a branch in a tree.
A fluffy Taveta golden weaver (Ploceus castaneiceps) in an aviary at the Reid Park Zoo in Tucson, Arizona.
Weaver ants moving a dead millipede.
Wikipedia: Weaver ants or green ants (genus Oecophylla) are eusocial insects of the family Formicidae (order Hymenoptera). Weaver ants live in trees (they are obligately arboreal) and are known for their unique nest building behavior where workers construct nests by weaving together leaves using larval silk. Colonies can be extremely large consisting of more than a hundred nests spanning numerous trees and containing more than half a million workers. Like many other ant species, weaver ants prey on small insects and supplement their diet with carbohydrate-rich honeydew excreted by small insects (Hemiptera). Weaver ant workers exhibit a clear bimodal size distribution, with almost no overlap between the size of the minor and major workers. The major workers are approximately 8–10 mm (0.31–0.39 in) in length and the minors approximately half the length of the majors. Major workers forage, defend, maintain, and expand the colony whereas minor workers tend to stay within the nests where they care for the brood and 'milk' scale insects in or close to the nests.
Weaver ants vary in color from reddish to yellowish brown dependent on the species. Oecophylla smaragdina found in Australia often have bright green gasters. Weaver ants are highly territorial and workers aggressively defend their territories against intruders. Because they prey on insects harmful to their host trees, weaver ants are sometime used by indigenous farmers, particularly in southeast Asia, as natural biocontrol agents against agricultural pests. Although weaver ants lack a functional sting they can inflict painful bites and often spray formic acid directly at the bite wound resulting in intense discomfort.
Resting late evening in a hillside meadow in the Parque Natural de Cebollera in Northern Spain (5032).
What big eyes you have! A face to face encounter in the long grass on a damp, grey evening in a hillside meadow in the Sierra de Cebollera in Northern Spain in July (5068).
The wild and rugged Superstition Mountain Wilderness east of Phoenix, Arizona, will thrill any visitor with its landscape of legends, of sweeping desert mountains, of lost gold mines and of Apache Indian hideaways. In the middle of this wilderness a huge rock monolith rises up out of the desert, the awesome Weavers Needle.
Heres some history;
www.tourwicklow.ie/portfolio-items/military-road/
www.glendalough.connect.ie/pages/articles/militaryroad/mi...
Thomas Weaver, an English engineer, discovered lead ore while building this road which " lead" to major mining in this area. Its nice to think that something good came out of this dreadful period in history.
The road was build in 1798 by the English army to try and capture the rebels that were hiding in the Wicklow mountains. It was a way to quickly bring troops from Rathfarnam, Co. Dublin to any trouble spots. It was quite successful but Michael Dwyer and Gen Joseph Holt hid out in the mountans for 5 years before giving themselves up. Dwyer hid in a cave in Glenmalure which I found last year having searched off and on for 4 years.
They both were given free passage to Australia. Dwyer became the sherrif of New South Wales and died there where as after many adventures, Holt got back to Ireland.
The road is still there and in use every day with innumerable little bridges that are still intact which is a testament to the men who built it all those years ago. A truly awe inspiring place and Im so lucky to live so close to it.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R115_road_(Ireland)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Dwyer
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Holt_(rebel)
www.wicklowmountainsnationalpark.ie/history/mining/
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Arlington Row in Bibury, Cotswolds. 13th century buildings used as a monastic wool store before being converted in the 17th century into weaver's cottages. Wiltshire, England. Hasselblad X2D.
Black-headed weavers are gregarious, highly social, and very noisy birds. They feed in large flocks, sometimes mixed with other species of weavers and starlings. The males are polygynous, mating with several females. After constructing a nest, the male hangs beneath and displays singing and flapping. If a female accepts his invitation and moves in he begins building another nest to attract another female. A successful male may attract four or five females.
The hunting technique varies depending on the spider and its prey. Sometimes the spider waits in the center of the web, sometimes it sits at the edge of its burrow, with one or two legs attached to the silken thread. Once prey gets caught in the web and causes sufficient vibrations, the spider rushes towards it. Sometimes the spider goes straight for it, or shakes the web back and forth several times, often further entangling the prey, allowing it to be precisely located and identified. If prey doesn't move, the spider may lose interest; dead prey is generally ignored by spiders.
Small prey is immediately seized and often devoured straight away.
Slightly larger prey is grabbed and quickly spun; by rolling the prey in the web, a package is created that hangs from both ends of the web.
Even larger or more dangerous-looking prey is approached cautiously; the spider will first attempt to cover the prey with sticky threads from a distance using its hind legs. If the prey appears too dangerous, the spider will "free" it by biting through the threads.
The prey is eaten either on the spot, in the center of the web, or in the burrow, leaving a hole in the web. Orb-weavers "chew" their food, unlike most other spiders that suck their prey dry.
Some orb-weaver spiders that can be found in the Netherlands and Belgium: cross spider , wasp spider (or tiger spider), and the four-spot orb-weaver spider .
The Taveta weaver, also known as the Taveta golden weaver, is a species of bird in the weaver family, Ploceidae. It is found on the African savannah in Kenya and Tanzania. The name of the bird comes from the unique markings/coloration of the bird, as well as how these birds weave intricate nests.
Taveta Golden Weaver (Ploceus castaneiceps) aka Taveta weaver found on the African Savannah in Kenya and Tanzania. The male weaver build the nests and the females choose their mates based on how impressed they are with the construction.
Seen the Africa Rocks Aviary, San Diego Zoo.
Conservation status: least concern
Cape Weaver, Skukuza, Kruger National Park, South Africa
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Black-headed Weaver - Papyrus swamp south of Nyeihango, Western, Uganda
Bird Species (# 609) that I photographed and placed on my Flickr Photostream. Overall goal is 1000.
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Wild South Africa
Phalaborwa
Limpopo Province
This male weaver is taking a short brake from building his mate's dream nest.
Full frame - nice enlarged
A Taveta golden weaver (Ploceus castaneiceps) in an aviary at the Reid Park Zoo in Tucson, Arizona. In nature, this species is found in the savannahs of Kenya and Tanzania.
A red/orange Orb Weaver Spider. They are big spiders and scary looking. But they and the webs they weave are beautiful. Perfect for Halloween.