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.
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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.
Common starling (Sturnus vulgaris) male standing on a ground and holding a caterpillar in its beak. Chicks are hungry!
Samiec szpaka (Sturnus vulgaris) stojący na ziemi i trzymający w dziobie gąsienicę. Pisklęta są głodne!
Adult Great Horned Owl and parent of the owlet shown in previous posts keeping a watchful eye (literally one eye) on the kid.
Always nice to see females with eggs! They're such good mothers though that they're infuriating, as they constantly lean towards the lens, to protect their brood!!
Upton Magna - Shropshire
Elasmucha grisea can reach a length of 6.5–8.8 millimetres (0.26–0.35 in). Males are smaller than females. These medium-sized shieldbugs are usually brown-reddish, but there are also gray (hence the Latin species name grisea) and green-brown specimen. Connexivum is black and white. The upperside is covered with several dark dots. The scutellum usually shows an evident black patch. The ventral face is largely punctuated with black. Lateral corners of the pronotum are simply beveled. The front corners of the pronotum show a more pronounced tooth. Antennas are blackish in the male, dark brown in the female. This species, like other parent bugs possess methatoracic and abdominal glands, which discharge a foul smelling secretion. This secretion is used to deter potential enemies and is sometimes released when the bug is disturbed.
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A brother and I stopped at “Our Parents Place” to reminisce for a bit before going on a cruise together. It was a beautiful day and by chance we wanted to get a couple photos of our street rods. We live a few hundred apart and wanted to pay our folks the respect of a visit. We had a blast and our folks never said a negative word. Gratitude and Kindness paid off again.
If the parents just kept quiet, these chicks would never be found. Their loud shrill peeping draws attention to the family and very soon after sitting still and observing, the chicks will make themselves known by running around. This family consisted of three chicks and two parents, continuously bellowing out their shrill cries to the babies to keep hidden. Eventually all were reunited under some green vegetation and I moved on after having snapped many photos of this delightful scene. Here are just a few.
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
The common murre or common guillemot (Uria aalge) is a large auk. It is also known as the thin-billed murre in North America. It has a circumpolar distribution, occurring in low-Arctic and boreal waters in the North-Atlantic and North Pacific. It spends most of its time at sea, only coming to land to breed on rocky cliff shores or islands.
Common murres have fast direct flight but are not very agile. They are more manoeuvrable underwater, typically diving to depths of 30–60 m (98–197 ft), and depths of up to 180 m (590 ft) have been recorded.
Common murres breed in colonies at high densities, nesting pairs may be in bodily contact with their neighbours. They make no nest, their single egg is incubated on a bare rock ledge on a cliff face. Eggs hatch after ~30 days incubation. The chick is born downy and can regulate its body temperature after 10 days. Some 20 days after hatching the chick leaves its nesting ledge and heads for the sea, unable to fly, but gliding for some distance with fluttering wings, accompanied by its male parent. Chicks are capable of diving as soon as they hit the water. The female stays at the nest site for some 14 days after the chick has left.
Both male and female common murres moult after breeding and become flightless for 1–2 months. In southern populations they occasionally return to the nest site throughout the winter. Northern populations spend the winter farther from their colonies.
This image was taken near Staple Island, one of the Farne Islands, off the coast of Northumberland in the North east of England.
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.
This hoodie was busy foraging along the shoreline to appease it's very needy offspring.
Hooded Crow (Corvus cornix) (also called hoodie)
Oban Bay Argyll - Scotland
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Exhausted Parent
Yellow-crowned Night Heron cat-napping while guarding her precious new hatchlings at Ocean City
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These are my parents, Dick and Sue. Mom is sick with CBGD, a rare neurological degenerative disease. My dad takes really good care of her. Yesterday was her first full day in her new wheelchair. Check out www.wemove.org to find out more about CBGD and other rare motion disorders.
I am thankful for my family.
Male woodpecker.
Today being very overcast and breezy and with rain forecast I spent a few hours in the hide to see the first of the young woodpecker fledge.
Last year the parents brought their young one at a time until I had four with me everyday.
If you love woodpeckers and want to see them at close range come and visit me at Millers wood.
This busy parent made us jump as it flew out of the hollow of a tree, flying inches from our faces.
Retiring to a safer distance we watched both parents hurrying to feed the hungry youngsters within the tree.
The light made the photo a little challenging to say the least.
Great Tit - Parus Major
Tralee Bay - Scotland
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