PARENT-CHILD CONNECTIONS
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Left: Parent; right: child.
Atlapetes albinucha gutturalis
(Yellow-throated brush finch / Gorrión montés gorgi-amarillo)
La Ceja, Colombia; 2.300 meters above sea level.
The Yellow-throated brush finch ranges from Mexico to the mountains of W Colombia. All forms of this brush-finch have a white stripe down the midline of the crown from the forehead to the nape.
White-naped Brush-finches are found in subtropical to temperate elevations, from 1200 to 3100 m in elevation. They forage on the ground, often in family groups.
neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/portal/species/overview?p_p...
Parents today have more struggles than in any other time, I'm convinced.
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“Black-headed Grosbeak parents fly south with worn feathers after breeding season. Their molting locations had been a mystery. The California scientists solved it with relatively inexpensive Global Positioning System (GPS) receiving devices.
They attached the 1-gm electronic devices to a leg of each grosbeak. The devices wake up every 2-6 weeks, record the GPS position and switch off. The GPS device, leg harness and leg bands weigh less than 2 g, or the equivalent of a long-distance runner carrying a laptop in a backpack. Each bird must be recaptured to download the data.” Topbirdingtours.com
Parent turtledove waiting beside the nest where 2 youngsters, fortunately with their adult feathers, are probably freezing under this cold rain.
Every parent who ever parented teenagers understands this image. A teaching moment...to be remembered.
I took a series of these images a few years ago. I bumped into this one while combing the files.
I came across this pair in a very tender moment where they touched and I also was touched, for I've seen this behavior before. The parent in front and with that beautiful red eye and the sibling with no color in the eye or in the feathers, they were inseparable, and thought that this image said it all folks, it did for me.
Have a great day everyone and thank you for the visit.
My mother, who died a week ago, and my father, who died in 2006, at a carnival ball in Memmingen in 1954. My mother was 22 years old then, my father 27 (their birthdays were later in the year), and I was about ten months old at the time. Certainly my grandmother took care of me that evening.
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光が人物や周囲の構造物に当たることで、空間に奥行きや広がりを与えていて、見る側の想像力を刺激します。彼らが何を考え、何をしているのかを想像すると、この写真の持つ物語性がより一層引き立ちますね。
この写真から最も強く感じられる感情として、親密さが挙げられるように思います。写真の中の二人が近くで寄り添っている様子や、その静かなやりとりが、強い絆や信頼を感じさせます。また、光と影の対比がドラマチックで、彼らの関係性を引き立てているようにも見えますね。
同時に、静寂さや集中といった感情も、この写真を通じて深く伝わってくる可能性があります。それが見る人にとって安心感や内省の瞬間を呼び起こすのかもしれません。
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The light hitting the figures and surrounding structures gives the space depth and breadth, stimulating the viewer's imagination. Imagining what they are thinking and doing enhances the narrative quality of this photograph.
One of the strongest emotions I feel from this photograph seems to be intimacy. The close proximity of the two people in the photo and their quiet interactions give the impression of a strong bond and trust. Also, the contrast between light and shadow is dramatic and seems to enhance their relationship.
At the same time, feelings of stillness and concentration may be deeply conveyed through this photograph. This may evoke a moment of relief and introspection for the viewer.
I saw this exotic bird at Chester Zoo.. They are found in New Guinea
They forage on the forest floor eating fallen fruit, seeds and snails. The males and females are almost identical, but during courtship the male will coo and bow for the female. Both parents incubate one egg for 28 to 30 days and the chick takes another 30 days to fledge. The life span can be over 20 years.....
"It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength."
~Maya Angelou
Reynisfjara, Iceland 2023
It was wonderful to watch the interaction between these parent Cattle Egrets looking after their young.
A fabulous day out with the FFF+ Group at Healesville Sanctuary with our Flickr friend Jan as our tour guide.
Here's another installment in my White-tailed Kite story. So, there has been plenty of nest building. Remember, work work work. Make a little love, eat, gather nest material, fend off intruders. The story is getting more variety now. Here, the two would-be parents seem to be discussing what to do with the mousie catch the male on the left has just brought in. Usually, it's carried and exchanged via talon but this starts out where they both have a beak on it. Shortly though, she takes it, gets a talon grip, and flies off to where the hidden nest is in the next tree over. Starting to think there may be more mouths to feed.
A parent and child enjoy a moment together listening to the crashing waves and gazing out on the blue Lake Michigan waters...
Being together in nature is a beautiful thing.
been seeing lots with eggs, and can only wonder at how on earth they have fared over the last couple of weeks with the wind and torrential rain...
This one was at Cramer Gutter - Shropshire
. . . It was quite rewarding to find out that we have baby Eastern Bluebirds in the orchard this spring! I watched as both parents brought all manner of bugs, worms, and larvae to the nest. Not sure if I need candy cigars to pass out to everyone or what??
Have a great week Facebook, Flickr, and 500px friends!
This image is included in 2 galleries 1) "Birds" curated by Rolf (rosch1949) and 2) "KINGFISHERS FROM OUR WORLD" by SØS'Nature.
The laughing kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae) is a bird in the kingfisher subfamily Halcyoninae. It is a large robust kingfisher with a whitish head and a dark eye-stripe. The upperparts are mostly dark brown but there is a mottled light-blue patch on the wing coverts. The underparts are white and the tail is barred with rufous and black. The plumage of the male and female birds is similar. The territorial call is a distinctive laugh that is often delivered by several birds at the same time, and is widely used as a stock sound effect in situations that involve a jungle setting.
The laughing kookaburra is native to eastern mainland Australia, but has also been introduced to parts of New Zealand, Tasmania, and Western Australia. It occupies dry eucalypt forest, woodland, city parks and gardens. This species is sedentary and occupies the same territory throughout the year. It is monogamous, retaining the same partner for life. A breeding pair can be accompanied by up to five fully grown non-breeding offspring from previous years that help the parents defend their territory and raise their young. The laughing kookaburra generally breeds in unlined tree holes or in excavated holes in arboreal termite nests. The usual clutch is three white eggs. The parents and the helpers incubate the eggs and feed the chicks. The youngest of the three nestlings or chicks is often killed by the older siblings. When the chicks fledge they continue to be fed by the group for six to ten weeks until they are able to forage independently.
A predator of a wide variety of small animals, the laughing kookaburra typically waits perched on a branch until it sees an animal on the ground and then flies down and pounces on its prey. Its diet includes lizards, insects, worms, snakes and are known to take goldfish out of garden ponds. (Wikipedia)
This bird seems happy to visit my back yard from time to time. This image was taken on an overcast winter afternoon.
Today was a glorious day, warm and sunny. I needed a break after visiting my parents, Dad still in hospital and Mom still impossible, so we ended up at Jericho Beach on the Spanish Banks, where I like to daydream about the early Spanish explorers and what it was like to first set eyes on this beautiful area before it was populated and logged by white men.
Swan parents - last week at Horn Pond. Thanks to the local Instagram community, I know at least half the eggs have hatched since then. I haven't had a chance to go back yet to try to see the babies - maybe sometime today, depending on the rain.
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My new macro lens arrived today, a Sigma 105mm EX DG Macro. I still need some practice but I was quite pleased with the initial results, on a windy afternoon in my parent's back garden.
Red-breasted Sapsucker RBSA (Sphyrapicus ruber)
Elk /Beaver Lake Park
Ponds near Equestrian Center
Saanich
Greater Victoria BC
DSCN6626
Field Mark Cues ^i^
Sapsucker with predominantly red head & breast
This shot to feature/document front features as sub-species study/exercise
Parent male didn't look to match
S. r. ruber
or ssp. daggetti
so perhaps these are
ssp.
S. r. notkensis
?
but i was not able to find pictorial or photographic
x references at time of posting
No conclusions drawn ...