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Singing in Nature

October 02, 2018

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Singing in Nature

This tiny bird packs quite a bit of sound - her singing is much louder than you'd expect from such a small creature.

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Fishing in Gan-Shmuel (2017-05-29)

Female Common Kestrel in Flight

Kestrels are small falcons, with incredible flight abilities. They're probably my favorite raptors in Israel. Kestrels are able, using rapid wing movement, to hover in a single spot in the air, while looking for prey (small rodents, usually, but also large insects and the occasional smaller bird) below. This photo shows a female Common Kestrel (females can be distinguished from the males by being a bit larger, and having the same brown-black dotted pattern on their heads as on the rest of the body, whereas the males have grey heads) in such a hover, carefully scanning the ground below. She was just a few meters above ground, with me being really close by on higher ground, so this is a perfect side view and demonstrates what this would look like on eye level.
What do I like about this photo? The unconventional point of view - usually we see Kestrels from various lower angles when they're in flight. This photo shows a side view - what a Kestrel would see, in essence. The amount …

Givat-Ada wildlife (2017-06-04/05)

Photo album: https://500px.com/ilanhorn/galleries/2017-06-04-05

Earlier this week I roamed the streets and fields of Givat-Ada, admiring the potent wildlife around! An Agama (above) was catching some sun at the top of the roof. Literally looked like it was on top of the world...

The beautiful Woodpecker was proudly presenting the insects it caught. Well, I'm not totally sure it was presenting them to me, but I took the liberty of taking a photo anyway.

The impressive Kestrel above caught a mouse in the fields and was eating it whilst in flight!

Yellow Dragonflies, usually harder to find than their red friends, were roaming around, too.

And then I spotted this beautiful Cuckoo. They tend to join nests built by Crows, and have the Crows feed them. At times this becomes somewhat ludicrous, as the Cuckoos are actually larger then the Crows! But they get fed nonetheless...

More photos in the album:
https://500px.com/ilanhorn/galleries/2017-06-04-05

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