Saw these two hermit crabs in a tide pool off Cape Blanco - the westernmost point in both Oregon and the contiguous United States. The larger one was maneuvering and dragging the smaller one. Occasionally they seemed to rub or touch one another's claws. From what I have read, this is typical of...
Lakescape - 646 ...
The day ...
... though
remained grey
... yet
it became
... colorful
Winter is
good time for them ...
... to put
their plans into
action ...
sure enough ... a
chain of events
... events shall
unfold ...
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Grey Heron
Keoladeo National Park
Bharatpur...
Mrs was not impressed at being jumped on ! and gave the male short shrift !!
Like a waived off airplane landing he was told to 'go around' again.
Dang it ! This was my last shot on the roll of film ' it was 250m back to the homestead to get more, and besides I was stuck in the grass unable...
Apparently this is what passes for foreplay in the Black Shouldered Kite world ! :loveme:
I had stalked closer over an hour or so, crawling through the knee deep riparian grass, sedge, and reed vegetation to get closer with scant cover .... all the while praying desperately not to run into one...
At the northern tail end of doris (the storm) the weather was as rugged as the rocks in the Isle of Skye, but like idiots we ventured up and up to a ridge away from any form of shelter. Someone though did decide to award us for this display of adversity in the face of stupidity by revealing a...
I was out taking some photos (hopefully of raptors), and in a lull was photographing some little geewhizzits close by in the canopy behind me. As is always the way, the action was in the other direction - I can't precisely recall what alerted me, whether it was other birds, the whoosh of high...
Pushing my luck a bit with this shot... the island where these nest is 100m distant, and I only used a 300mm (450 allowing for crop factor) lens. But I figured not many get to see these mating, so I'm adding the pic to my gallery.
Camera Maker: SONY
Camera Model: SLT-A58
Lens: 75-300mm F4.5-5.6...
Each year almost 1.5 milion Ruffs and Reeves pass through east Poland on their way to the breeding grounds in Sibria These two male birds (Ruffs) are trying to impress a female Reeve. The Dances and the fights normal end when when the weaker one flys unharmed away.
Taken during the Bird...
Forster's terns mating at Baylands Wildlife Reserve. These two were going at it for quite some time, and the female kept squawking even longer after everything was said and done
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