such a cute sight when the little tern came and brought food. Always when it passed on a successless flight they exchanged cries to comfort each other.

Was für eine schöne und süße Beobachtung, als die Zwergseeschwalbe sein Küken fütterte. Immer, wenn sie erfolglos geblieben und vorbeigekommen ist, haben beide gerufen und sich gegenseitig Nähe gezeigt.

Hungry White Great Egret chick demanding food. Nest found on High Island, Texas.

Snow Bunting | Escrevedeira-das-neves (Plectrophenax nivalis)

Photo taken in a rainy day at Grímsey Island harbour, Iceland

It is always exciting to find and photograph a Barred Owl. To catch an adult preparing to feed the youngsters a Garter Snake is a real treat! I assume for both the photographer and the young owls.

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Juvenile Swallow

Happy Fence Friday

An eastern spinebill, Acanthorhynchus tenuirostris, feeding on a hybrid Grevillea, "Grevillea Superb".

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Little swallows are sitting on our boats

A sketch

A Little Wattlebird feeds it's young.

Male blue tit feeding.... / seen in my garden

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Rhino and Lion Nature Reserve - Gauteng, South Africa

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

E. M. Forster

As far as iconic pieces of public art go, none may be as daringly modern or whimsical as Minneapolis’ iconic Spoonbridge and Cherry.

This giant spoon and cherry was erected in 1985 by artist Claes Oldenburg and his wife, Coosje van Bruggen and is the centerpiece of the Walker Art Center’s Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, the largest urban sculpture park in the world. Oldenburg is an artist who is known for making oversized versions of everyday objects and food products. Together with his wife he set up a number of public sculptures, including Chicago’s Batcolumn sculpture. The spoon was Oldenburg’s idea, who had a habit of doodling spoons ever since 1962 when he was inspired by a spoon resting on a piece of fake chocolate. The cherry in the piece was van Bruggen’s idea, wanting to use it as a comment on the garden’s otherwise staid layout.

The spoon itself weighs 5,800 pounds and the cherry, another 1,200 pounds. The cherry’s stem also acts as a fountain which sprays into the bowl of the spoon and off into the pond beneath. Even the pond itself has meaning, being shaped to resemble a linden seed, drawing attention to the rows of linden trees planted nearby.

The city of Minneapolis seems to have largely embraced the massive sculpture, expressing almost universal outrage when Spoonbridge and Cherry was vandalized in 2012 as part of a “Kony 2012” protest. The artwork was cleaned up and still remains as a somewhat goofy, definitely unforgettable icon of the Minnesota city.

Juvenile Great Crested Grebe.

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A battle-scared monarch feeding on some blossoms

Juvenile Barn Swallow gets early breakfast. Operation is fast, a sec or two.

For the spotted Flycatcher

Not the sharpest image I know.

But amazing photo opportunity's@Burton Mere Rspb

Brilliant Bank Holiday Weekend with six Spoonbill also on the reserve.

“You just keep feeding hogwash to people, and pretty soon they'll eat it.”

Holly Near

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They'll eat out of your hand near the Nature Center at Michigan's Kensington Metropark. This female Downy Woodpecker and the hand she is perched on were processed in black and white for Monochrome Bokeh Thursday.

HMBT!

One of a handful of feeding Rainbow Lorikeets.

Great tit

Yellowbilled stork feeding his offspring

Gadikwe Island, Okavando Delta, Botswana

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Anna's Hummingbird

Palo Alto Duck Pond, Palo Alto, California

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My walking partner Janet feeding the goose.A pleasant feeling when it eats the seed from your hand.

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Closeup of a Sparkling Violetear (Colibri coruscans), about to feed. Seen here in the rainforest of Costa Rica.

starling and her chicks

A barn swallow feeding one of its chicks

Great Egret getting ready to feed one of it's chicks. Ocean City NJ. rookery.

This female Wheatear was busy hunting and feeding two young ones on the Isle of Mull. The blue background isn't the sky but the water of one of the lochs.

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“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.”

Albert Einstein

I think the bird is a lesser whitethroat, but please tell me if you can id it! Sign that I can't get to landscapes...still...more birds and flowers...nearly a year since the last waterfall, gradually losing it (if I ever had it in the first place).

These seedheads reminded me of baby birds in a nest, beaks wide open, waiting for food :)

A male Barrow's Goldeneye (Bucephala islandica) is feeding on a small urban pond in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and this is a view of him just after he surfaced near me.

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A Blue-gray Gnatcatcher feeding a chick at John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge at Tinicum, Philadelphia PA.

My husband built this birdhouse back in Alaska to specific sizes for swallows. Chickadees used it two years in a row. It stood high on a metal pole away from interlopers.

Then we moved here, birdhouse included, and finally, tree swallows! Sounds like quite a few hungry ones inside.

Photo today by my husband, Howard Marsh, using his D4 and my 500mm f/4 on the Manfrotto monopod.

Pileated Woodpecker and her three chicks at a nest in west-central Florida.

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Whitethroat with baby food

A gorgeous Cobra, and with the Shelby signature on the dash one would assume this one is an original. But, a little confused with what's under the hood, a Roush equipt V8, nice, but don't believe that was in the originals. All shot on Saturday at the rainy Murray Brothers customer appreciation day.

Young Grebe