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I wasn't quite sure if this met the intent of this week's Macro Mondays theme but this Hummel figurine looks like love to me. For the theme, "Amore".
Single image shot with the Meyer Optik 50mm f/1.8 Oreston at f/4.0 with Nikon PK-12 14mm Extension Tube. 2.6 inches tall. Texture by Lenabem-Anna.
Chocolate eggs are in the shops so it must be Easter soon . . .
For Looking Close... on Friday! - objects in pastel colours
Mom stays with chicks and helps them to grow. Then they fly away.
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I'm not quite sure if this is a chick or a teenager! But it is definitely a Moorhen, and was still being fed by the parent!
Magellanic Penguins - Punta Tombo is South America's largest penguin colony (roughly 500,000). The breeding grounds cover a 2 mile strip in the peninsula which is covered in sand, clay and gravel.
3 photos of our Carolina Wren family. Thryothorus ludovicianus Same individuals I've posted earlier, on the day the chicks left the nest. Close inspection reveals some hairy down remaining on the head. This is one of the chicks in the nest shown in the first comment. My back yard.
Emperor Penguin chicks at Snow Hill Island in Antarctica.
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This little guy popped out of bushes behind a bench I was passing, and got up to all sorts of antics while I looked for a sign of a parent bird, then began photographing him\her.
At one point s\he looked about to slide down the post-it slot of a litter bin... But however fragile s\he looked, this chick seemed so adventurous!
This is a bit of a crop and not really sharp, but I wanted to show a few things about these black-browed albatrosses (parent with young).
The nest here is a tall mound of mud and grass with a big bowl on top for the egg/young. You can see the lip in this shot. Black-browed albatross breed once a year, laying only one egg. A young bird takes 7 - 10 years to become a breeding adult. This 'lifestyle' presents a challenge in recovering from population crashes, be they natural (bird flu) or manmade (overfishing/long-lining).
The parents are quite attentive, taking turns to care for the young and spending time grooming the chick. It is amazing how gentle these very large birds are with their tiny offspring.
In this case, the chick is being checked over and groomed, but still has a significant tick infestation on the underside of the beak. There are recesses that provide them a bit of protection from the adult's beak.
I had no idea that Hens and Chicks bloomed like this. They are thriving in our garden under the loving care of Lynn and Jordan.
I was at Lands End on the Homer Spit when I saw some Herring Gulls chasing a chick on the beach. I don't know why they were doing this and the chick was definitely trying to get away from them. Here it is running away from the gull behind it.
Taken 18 July 2022 at Homer, Alaska.
Eastern Spinebill chick in the ornamental quince in our backyard. The parents kept coming with food but I couldn't catch a good one of them feeding their chick.
"Cassowary chicks are born with brown and cream striped plumage for camouflage, and are able to walk and feed themselves shortly after hatching. They are cared for by the male parent, who teaches them to forage. The stripes fade, and the chicks become dull brown in color by 3-6 months, with the wattle and casque (helmet) starting to develop and grow."
"From between 6 and 9 months, the exposed skin on the juvenile cassowary’s neck becomes more prominent and starts to take on a blueish color, which then darkens with age. Their head casque is not fully developed until between 4 and 5 years of age.
By the end of their first year, juvenile cassowaries are the same size as adult birds. They gain their full adult plumage by around 4 years."
Lapwing chick, seen in a field above Glossop. I was able to get this shot without disturbing it, or it's watchful parent, by peering carefully over a dry stone wall. We knew that the Lapwings and Curlews nest up there and often see them flying overhead and hear their calls - but this is the first time I've seen a chick.
A shot of the nearby parent in the shot below.
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A young piping plover chick giving me a nice profile view while it explores the beach at Sandy Point State Reservation.
Another shot from my mom's garden... Not sure at all what this is, but probably a succulent of some sort?
It's commonly called 'hens & chicks' - thanks Heike!!
soon they will fly the coop...
Hens and chicks plants, also known as Sempervivum, are considered long-lived because they reproduce prolifically, even though individual rosettes (the "hen" and "chicks") have a limited lifespan. While a single rosette might live for 2-3 years, they are constantly replaced by new offsets (the "chicks"), creating a colony that can thrive for decades.
There are at least two screech owl chicks in the nest. These two were sitting out even though it had been raining.
Princeville, Kauai
I know that some folks would rather that there had never been encroachment of the Albatross nesting grounds by humans in the first place, but.... it is nevertheless incredibly impressive to see how beautifully the humans coexist with the albatross that nest in their gardens. And the residents seemed to be equally cooled out about the many humans that walk or drive through the neighborhood enjoying the albatross.
Our first time seeing albatross chicks, and they are just plain adorable.
does anyone know the breed of this chicken?
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The chick had his eye on a mosquito.
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My barred owl nest has chicks in it. I have seen at least two in there so far. This is my first time seeing barred owl chicks, so it was a special day for me :-)! I stayed at a far distance, so the parents were comfortable. and get used to my presence!
When I was at the end of the spit in Homer I saw Savannah Sparrows collecting food for their chicks and then I found one feeding its chick. The chicks were hiding on the ground near large pieces of driftwood. Of course the chicks don't have the adult feathers so they're a bit harder to tell what they are. In this case it was clear as this chick got food from the adult. In this image the chick is making it clear to its parent where it is.
Taken 14 July 2022 at Homer, Alaska.
I had to put my mother back in the hospital yesterday. Her sodium level keeps dropping--almost 15 points in a little over a month. It won't be long like it was a couple of years ago--a few days this time, at most, all agree. We just need to get her sodium up and figure out what might be causing it. It could be a condition called SIADH which affects mostly people over 60, and there are around 200,000 cases per year of it. It'll get sorted out . . . just think positive, right?
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