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  • Popular Eastern Meadowlark Calling and Singing

    Eastern Meadowlark Calling and Singing

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    Rare capture of an Eastern Meadowlark foraging for inspects on the ground and calling and singing. Such a beautiful bird with lots of personality. I was lucky to sneak up on this one without flushing it. You can hear another Meadowlark doing the same in t

  • Popular Cardinals Painted Buntings and Blue Jays Backyard Update

    Cardinals Painted Buntings and Blue Jays Backyard Update

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    Male Northern Cardinal and Painted Buntings maxing out on primary colors and getting along and the Blue Jays and Squirrels playing mind games with each other - it is a good day in the Backyard!

  • Popular This Fiery Spider Is Facing a Grim Future

    This Fiery Spider Is Facing a Grim Future

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    Native to Mexico, the Fireleg Tarantula gets its name from a rich red hue that runs along its legs. True to its name, this spider can get quite fiery if provoked. When feeling threatened, it shoots out its urticating hairs, which causes irritation and a b

  • Popular Beautiful Boat Tailed Grackle

    Beautiful Boat Tailed Grackle

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    Boat Tailed Grackles are actually quite stunning and intelligent birds when seen out in the wild foraging in the morning sun. Their feathers constantly change colors and shimmer blue, green and purple. If you have only seen them in the cities you are in f

  • Popular Red Bellied Woodpecker Couple Foraging and Calling

    Red Bellied Woodpecker Couple Foraging and Calling

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    The Red Bellied Woodpecker Couple continue to hangout and use the Woodpecker nest box for roosting. The male mostly spends the night in the box. The male has a full red "helmet" the female half a red head. She will likely not lay eggs until spring - they

  • Popular Eastern Meadowlark Song

    Eastern Meadowlark Song

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    Eastern Meadowlarks singing two different flute like songs and foraging for food on the vast St John's Marshland in Florida. These birds are just gorgeous and their song a winter delight - note the blooming mass of swamp sunflowers - filmed on December 4t

  • Popular Beautiful West Coast 2018 4K UHD

    Beautiful West Coast 2018 4K UHD

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    Beautiful West Coast 2018 4K UHD

  • Popular Red Bellied Woodpecker Couple Inspect Nest Box

    Red Bellied Woodpecker Couple Inspect Nest Box

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    Male and female Red Bellied Woodpeckers check out the nest box which of course includes the all important pecking test. Filmed with Canon SX60 HS: https://amzn.to/2Bz6pfFStovall Woodpecker House: https://amzn.to/2ScDq6C

  • Popular Zhangjiajie Glass Bridge, China. 360 aerial video in 8K

    Zhangjiajie Glass Bridge, China. 360 aerial video in 8K

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    Don't forget that this is 360 video: you can change the angle of view. Zhangjiajie Glass Bridge built in Hunan Province in 2016. A walk through the glass bridge can be compared to a skywalk: you have a feeling there is nothing under your feet and it seems

  • Popular Blue Jays Are Like Flying Chipmunks

    Blue Jays Are Like Flying Chipmunks

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    How many sunflower seeds can a big Blue Jay hold in its crop and beak at one time? You can count them, I came up with over 30 on at least one trip - see thumbnail photo. Winter is coming and just like the Chipmunk that fills its cheek pouches the Blue Jay

  • Popular Animal Personal Space Violations

    Animal Personal Space Violations

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    Wild Animals have personal space boundaries with each other and humans. The concept is easily demonstrated by these four wild Backyard squirrels, two red squirrels in North Carolina and two Gray Squirrels in Florida - All habituated to me, but each with t

  • Popular Funny Squirrel Literally Being a Pest

    Funny Squirrel Literally Being a Pest

    by Mel Added 421 Views / 0 Likes

    Sorry to be such a pest, but can I have one of your Sunflower Seeds? For the 13th time stop pestering me - the answer is no! That's how many I counted anyway. Watch for a cameo by a Nuthatch and a Blue jay and the baby Red Squirrel who also runs off the r

  • Popular Hummingbirds In Slow Motion - HD

    Hummingbirds In Slow Motion - HD

    by Mel Added 557 Views / 0 Likes

    Over 20 amazing Facts about Hummingbirds. Slow motion footage of the hummingbird in Full HD. Great for school nature projects. Watch hummingbirds fly in ULTRA slow motion. Watch the humming bird hover and fly backwards in slow motion. Videos of hummingbir

  • Popular Blue Jay Uses Special Call to Intimidate Young Cardinal

    Blue Jay Uses Special Call to Intimidate Young Cardinal

    by Mel Added 485 Views / 0 Likes

    Blue Jay resorts to the dreaded squeaky gate or rusty "pump handle" call to scare off a young cardinal - sort of like nails on a blackboard. You may remember this young cardinal standing up to a young Blue Jay at: https://youtu.be/MLvZbt7wI08 but this is

  • Popular Bull Elk Bugling and Marking Territory in the Yard

    Bull Elk Bugling and Marking Territory in the Yard

    by Mel Added 641 Views / 0 Likes

    The Elk Rut is on - Close Up - this Bull uses amazing bugle calls, profuse urine marking and scratching and biting of a little apple tree's branches and bark to mark his territory. Hormones control his thought and actions right now and it is a sight to be

  • Popular The Keeper of the Ghost Trees

    The Keeper of the Ghost Trees

    by Mel Added 259 Views / 0 Likes

    Hidden deep in the woods of the Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park is a small cluster of unusually pale, phantom trees. These 'ghost trees' are albino and extremely rare. Out of the millions of redwoods in the park, only 13 are albino. Due to threats to the

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