Tag: feeding

Past Squares #17

Two Of A Kind

Two summer plumage American Avocets feeding on a slough near Punnichy, Saskatchewan. Although the photo is as much about the ripples as the birds.

Plus I’ve always liked the two drops of water falling from the males bill. I say it’s a male because the bill is straighter than the bird in the background. The more curved bill means that the background bird is a female.

A look back at some of my personal favorite square photos from previous months of squares. Some were popular, some not so popular at the time.

This was a post in Kind Squares Month and is my day 17 contribution to Becky’s October Squares on the theme of Past Squares.

Lens-Artists

Memorable Times

Amy’s prompt for this week’s Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: It’s A Wonderful World got me thinking about some of the memorable times behind a camera.

Colpoy’s Bay at sunrise, one of those mornings when the whole sky was interesting.

Sitting in a canvas hide (blind) a few feet from a Common Kingfisher.

Interesting ice formations on Lake Huron at sunset during the spring thaw.

Documenting the complete nesting cycle of a pair of Eurasian Blue Tit using a specially constructed nestbox.

Tags clouds, Colpoy's Bay, Common Kingfisher, David M's PhotoBlog, David Meredith, Eurasian Blue Tit, feeding, Government Dock, ice, Lake Huron, Lens-Artists, nesting, sunrise, sunset

Throwback Thursday

The eggs have hatched

My Throwback Thursday post this week is returning to the nesting cycle of a pair of Eurasian Blue Tit I documented in 1987.

The eggs have hatched and both adults are busy feeding hungry young.

Tags adult, David M's PhotoBlog, David Meredith, Eurasian Blue Tit, feeding, Fujichrome 50, nestbox, nesting, Olympus OM1, published, Throwback Thursday, Vivitar 35mm f/1.9, young

CFFC

Male and Female

This is my contribution to Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Male vs Female prompt.

Cosmic Photo Challenge: Through an Opening

Male and female American Avocets feeding on a slough near Punnichy, Saskatchewan, Canada. The foreground bird with the straighter bill is the male.

A male Eurasian Blue Tit feeding the female during incubation. Photographed using a specially constructed nestbox in a garden in Hatherton near Nantwich in southern Cheshire, England.

Female and male Wilson’s Phalarope on Middle Quill Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada. The more colourful bird in the foreground is the female. In the Phalarope family of birds the males incubate the eggs and as a result have more subdued plumage for camouflage.

April Squares: Doing It on Top of a Rock

Male and female Common Terns mating on the Lake Huron shoreline in Southampton, Ontario, Canada.

Throwback Thursday

Feeding during incubation

Post author By David Meredith
Post date 06/05/2021
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My Throwback Thursday post this week is returning to the story of the nesting cycle of a pair of Eurasian Blue Tit I documented in 1987.

The eggs are laid and the female has started incubating them. Here the male is feeding the female during incubation.

Tags adult, David M's PhotoBlog, David Meredith, Eurasian Blue Tit, feeding, female, Fujichrome 50, incubation, male, nestbox, nesting, Olympus OM1, published, Throwback Thursday, Vivitar 35mm f/1.9

CFFC

Natural Light vs Man Made Light

Post author By David Meredith
Post date 28/04/2021
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This is my contribution to Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Natural Light vs Man Made Light prompt.

Two photos of a Eurasian Blue Tit, one illuminated by natural light and the other illuminated by an electronic flash.

Saturday Bird: Eurasian Blue Tit — Eurasian Blue Tit on a frost rimmed twig, Hurleston Reservoir near Nantwich in southern Cheshire, England.

Throwback Thursday: 28th May 2020 — Adult Eurasian Blue Tit feeding young in a nestbox in a garden in Hatherton near Nantwich in southern Cheshire, England.

Tags adult, CFFC, David M's PhotoBlog, David Meredith, Eurasian Blue Tit, feeding, frost, nestbox, spring, winter, young

Weekly Topics

Male Orange Tip Butterfly

My Flora and Fauna Friday post this week is a follow-up of sorts to last week’s post, Bluebells.

This is a male Orange Tip Butterfly (Anthocharis cardamines) feeding on Bluebells in a cottage garden at Faddiley near Nantwich in southern Cheshire, England.

Found throughout Europe and temperate Asia, in the U.K. it is another sign of spring. The female does not have the orange tip on the forewing.

Tags Bluebells, Cheshire, David M's PhotoBlog, David Meredith, Faddiley, feeding, Flora and Fauna Friday, male, Orange Tip Butterfly, spring