A male Common Frog croaking to attract a mate. Photographed in a garden pond in Hatherton near Nantwich in southern Cheshire, England.
This is my contribution to Debbie’s One Word Sunday: Ponder or Pond prompt.
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Pond
Tag: male
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Mammals and Birds
This is my contribution to Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Nature Animals prompt.
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Male and Female
This is my contribution to Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Male vs Female prompt.
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.
Male and female Common Terns mating on the Lake Huron shoreline in Southampton, Ontario, Canada.
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Rose-breasted Grosbeak
My Saturday Bird this week is a young male Rose-breasted Grosbeak (Pheucticus ludovicianus) in the rain. The species is a large, seed eating member of the Cardinal family.
I say that it’s a young male because there are still a few flecks of black in the white sides of the breast.
A summer visitor to the South Bruce Peninsula, Ontario, Canada. They spend the winter in southern Mexico and Central America.
This photo was used in a 2019 bird calender.
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Sunrise Display
A backlit male Red-winged Blackbird displaying at sunrise on the South Bruce Peninsula, Ontario yesterday morning.
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Feeding during incubation
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.
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Ruby
This is my contribution to the Weekly Prompts Colour Challenge – Ruby.
