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I had an enjoyable 6 weeks travel in the North of the Netherlands where the main goal was to visit places with nice bird life. I am still working on my pictures (this time only 2000 shots).
This nice shot was taken in a bird observation hut where this little wren was having its nest (next to some barn swallows who also took residence here).
I stayed for at least one hour to see him/her working continuously and bringing lots of food, that seemed to be abundant. It was fun to watch, and to see this little wren overcoming its fear for me, every time he/she entered the hut. (In a week from now I will be off again, this time the south of Nl).
an adult southern carmine bee eater (merops nubicoides) is teaching a juvenile.
this is the biggest african bee eater. they come in southern africa for breeding and as soon as
the juvenile are ready they come back in central africa .
kruger national park (northern area)
"parental advice"
original 3K file here:
Indian Silverbill (Euodice malabarica)
Taken in our garden at Masirah Island, Oman. (Left is the Juve)
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FACTS:
Small, long-tailed finch with a chunky body and short, stout bill. Gray-brown above and pale below with a whitish rump and black-pointed tail. Highly sociable throughout the year. Found in semidesert, scrub, and dry woodland but also proliferates in urban areas. Distribution is centered on the Indian subcontinent, but it is a popular cage bird and feral populations are widespread.
(Merlin)
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Not the sharpest shot, I found the fog was incredibly difficult to shoot through BUT it created such a beautiful ambience.
I'm guessing that there were several gooselings taken by nearby hawks. Only one was left. The parents seemed to be keeping their offspring close, as shown in this image.
A young red-shouldered hawk with a parent perhaps getting some helpful advice.
John Chesnut Senior Park, Palm Harbor, Florida, USA.
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This mated pair of Red-necked Grebes engage in a conversation involving both talking at once. They do this on a regular basis in between minding the chicks. At the same time they raise their "ears" - feathers on the crown of their heads which make me think of ears.
Taken 21 June 2021 in Anchorage, Alaska.
This masked lapwing parent bird was keeping a quiet, but close eye on me while the youngsters were running around.
Happy Feathery Friday!
Sometimes the young ones need to hear firm words of wisom from their parents.
(Egretta novaehollandiae - juv. & adult)
Springtime means daddy & mummy robin are on a full-time job of taking care of their offspring - which this year happens to be in the ivy right next to our garden door. While this will add extra stress to the already super busy parents because the nest is so close to us it created the opportunity to see the robins very frequently and very close up.
An adult heron keeps watch as her chick ventures out onto the uppermost branches of its nest site. Meanwhile,there was a constant clacking of beaks coming from the other hungry chicks in the heronry.
Mom trumpeter swan closely monitoring her young chicks in the nest. Imaged in July of 2022 @ Springbrook Nature Center.. Anoka Co., central Minnesota.
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Happy Mother's Day!
This one-week-old manu o Kū chick has just devoured a small whole squid provided by a returning adult and now gets a touch up preening. Adults fish up to 120 miles offshore and return to feed a single offspring with whole fish or squid every two to four hours.
Head - Catwa
Body - SLink Hourglass
Skin - Insol
Hair - Truth
Shoes and stockings - Reign
Pose & Guns - D&C Poses
Bag of money - Bad Unicorn (gacha item)
I am longing for Spring and lost in my photo archives ... I have hundreds ... perhaps thousands ... of pictures of our Loons. The Loons are my favourite fellow Keeferites by far (well, except for Rosa and the dogs of course). My daughter says I have "gone loony."
Something to do while waiting for Spring to arrive ... I shall create a Keefer Lake wildlife album on Flickr. (Done ... see below.)
- July 2010, Keefer Lake, Ontario, Canada -
Die beiden Elternvögel der Singschwäne sichern die Umgebung in alle Richtungen ab, während der Jundvogel ganz in Ruhe vor ihnen grast.
The two parent birds of the whooper swan secure the environment in all directions, while the young bird grazes relaxed in front of them.
Brown Thrashers (Toxostoma rufum). Angelina County, Texas.
Memorial Day 2021 was a memorable one for us. The morning started when I saw a pair of Brown Thrashers displaying in the yard. Shortly after, Carolina exclaimed that she had found a baby thrasher perched among the tomato plants in our vegetable garden. We watched for a bit and soon one of the adults came to the fledgling with a mouth full of food. I went in to retrieve my camera, and we spent the majority of the holiday watching the thrasher family. After a few minutes we saw two more fledglings running on our roof. They soon disappeared from sight, but we later located one on the ground next to the house. It slowly made its way into our garden and took up a perch on our rosemary shrub. The adult then alternated between feeding the two chicks in the garden. After a while we wandered around to see if we could find the other chick, and to our delight we spotted it resting in the crook of a live oak in the front yard. We then watched as the other parent went about gathering all manner of prey items for this chick. They really are remarkable hunters! One parent came back with two skinks, which it dismembered to provide more manageable pieces for the hungry chicks. It was really interesting to see how the parents divided and conquered, ensuring that all three chicks had plenty to eat. I tend to shy away from anthropomorphism, but it's hard not to draw parallels to family life - parents doing everything they can to ensure the safety and well being of their offspring.
Eventually the activity died down and the chicks moved on. We found one in the front yard the next two days, and haven't seen any since. Hopefully they're still out and about, and will have the best possible chance to reach adulthood thanks to their diligent parents.