A brown bear and her cubs sit on a sand bar waiting for a fish to swim by.

A tiny grizzly bear cub stays close to its mother as she grazes on grass.

Goldcrest - smallest bird in Europe

This mother white tailed deer took her tiny fawn under a tree to shelter it from the rain and thunderstorm that came through. The fawn was then nursed and bathed by her. Pictures were difficult because of the light, weather and distance!

I guess this little one interrupted Dad's naptime ha-ha. A little snarl to let the cub know to behave himself. Actually, this male lion was much more patient with this cub than most male lions. He even let the cub curl up next to him for a while. It was very rare to see such a tiny cub out with his dad at 2-3 weeks old. Females usually do not introduce cubs to the pride until around 6 weeks old. Mama lion was having a nap not far from them. Second photo in my Father's Day Series.

" NIne Cygnets Hatched Over 24hrs 12th and 13th May 20017..."

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Great Egrets

St. Augustine, Florida

for the European Robin / Rotkehlchen (Erithacus rubecula)

in our garden - Frankfurt-Nordend

The four chicks left the nest and are out and about, still fed by the parents.

Giovane capriolo (Capreolus capreolus) a spasso col padre all'alba

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Geoorde Futen - Black-necked Grebes (Podiceps nigricollis), parent with youngster.

Givskud zoo, Denmark

We all hold some opinion on Australian White Ibis; Bin Chicken to many, it is also an amazing bird: beautiful when landing against the light, a trooper with tough surviving skills and, as I witnessed from a hide last Sunday, a caring parent. This chick was thoroughly cleaned by its mother, with special attention given to its backside. Pity - just like its human equivalent, it will not remember...

(Threskiornis molucca)

Osprey mother with four chicks, three visible here. (1 of 2)

Point San Pablo, Richmond, California

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Blauwborst - Male White-spotted Bluethroat (Luscinia svecica cyanecula) with a tasty caterpillar for the youngsters.

Near Greensboro, North Carolina, USA

Great Egrets

NYC

2023

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Just about sums it up. Fox family has been providing lots of entertainment and photo opportunities.

This poor papa fox kept trying to nap in the sun but the kits weren’t cooperating!

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Fantastic song, with profound, heartfelt words. Money paid to download song goes to Planned Parenthood! Song Title:

I'm Not Gonna Say Your Name!

(guess whose name that is!)

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Jonge Fuut - juvenile Crested grebe (Podiceps cristatus)

begging for more fish.

Crested grebe (Podiceps cristatus) with two baby grebelets.

Well this dry weather is really affecting my blackbirds worm intake this female decided that the ants had to have it along with a slug or 2 and anything else bite sized .I only noticed she had ants on her leg and even on the dry grass in front of her but she wouldn't be deterred.

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Visited the Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP) on Friday and there were so many sheep and lambs, squirrels, birds, herons, ducks, ducklings and geese with their goslings.....today (Sunday) we had to really search out this family, I think all the wildlife had hidden away from the humans as Friday afternoon was lovely weather but super quiet !

I got a few though, so watch this space over next few days....

May 2021, YSP, UK

Juvenile Tufted Ducklings (Aythya fuligula) swimming with mum.

A walk through the Den of Alyth May 25th 2023

Looks like it's that time of year again. Time for bald Cardinals that is. The reason varies from mites to the stress of parenthood - but the results are always surprising to see.

This fellow seems to be at the beginning stage as they can completely lose all the feathers on their head. Thankfully it's only temporary.

Graspieper - Meadow Pipit (Anthus pratensis)

Great Crested Grebe mother and chick.

There are still 5/6 chicks, which is a testament to the dedicated parenting of the adults. It probably also helps that the family spend most of their time near the viewing hide - which will certainly deter Marsh Harriers, Herons and Bitterns. The biggest threat will be from a large Pike lurking in the depths.

This chick (the smallest) was the only one that the parents still tolerated on their backs.

den haag, the netherlands

Sometimes... you just have to ignore them. ;)

Slechtvalk - Peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus), always busy delivering prey for the chicks.

Disappointingly little action this year alas.

Also never very close;

distance here 60m, straight up. (-;

#badbadfalcons

A mother Pileated Woodpecker gets an earful from her kid.

"If your parents never had children, chances are you won't either."

Dick Cavett

Bear viewing @ Markovec, Slovenia. With slovenianbears.com.

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