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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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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.
Thanks for the visits, faves and comments its greatly appreciated.
Wakodahatchee Wetlands.
Its same heron you probably see in my gallery -now family have chicks(i think i see two ) .
"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
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.
On Sunday I was greeted by the young Nankeen NIght Heron and this morning one of the parents showed up - or was it an apparition?
(Nycticorax caledonicus)
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
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.
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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with eggs.
First I've seen this year with the lock down! Strangely, although Shawbury Heath, which I could walk to, is full of birches, next to none had any catkins! No catkins, generally means no bugs, as that's what the nymphs feed on!
Wollerton Wetlands - Shropshire
Red-breasted Sapsucker RBSA (Sphyrapicus ruber)
Elk /Beaver Lake Park
Ponds near Equestrian Center
Saanich
Greater Victoria BC
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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 ...