PARENT-CHILD CONNECTIONS
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Some say that thirteen is an unlucky number. Will these parents think the same? (Look very well because there are 13 goslings not 12). At this time of the year, the lake always has a lot of algae and the remnants of leaves and branches from autumn and winter. It doesn't help that it hasn't rained much. (Even if isn't a good photo, looks better in large). For those that can’t see number 13, see tag on photo).
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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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It was fun to see how protective these parent geese were over the sweet goslngs, on their afternoon outing!
PARENTS: You need money? NO. Here is money. You need a car? NO. We got you a car. You need a house? NO. Here are the keys. You want to be as successful as them? No. You have to SUCCEED. What do I need? Nobody cares.
Life is full of pressure. The pressure has crashed my life.
Two European Starling (id by MerlinBirdID) fledglings jostled with each other at Magee Marsh, Ohio. There was no apparent nest, nor adult birds, observed nearby. The fledglings eventually settled their grievances with each other (or just got tired) and remained side-by-side just off of the boardwalk at the marsh. Adult birds often return to feed their fledglings, so we were hopeful that the parent(s) would return.
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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.
Wikipedia: The red-wattled lapwing (Vanellus indicus) is an Asian lapwing or large plover, a wader in the family Charadriidae. Like other lapwings they are ground birds that are incapable of perching. Their characteristic loud alarm calls are indicators of human or animal movements and the sounds have been variously rendered as did he do it or pity to do it leading to the colloquial name of did-he-do-it bird. Usually seen in pairs or small groups and usually not far from water they sometimes form large aggregations in the non-breeding season (winter). They nest in a ground scrape laying three to four camouflaged eggs. Adults near the nest fly around, diving at potential predators while calling noisily. The cryptically patterned chicks hatch and immediately follow their parents to feed, hiding by lying low on the ground or in the grass when threatened.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-wattled_lapwing
Conservation status: Least Concern
(Note: I was trying to get chick and parent in the same frame, but the parent tries to lead you away from the chicks as a strategy of defense. If you happen to get too close both parents will continuously dive bomb you.)
Magee Marsh, Ohio.
One chick's body and another chick's head is visible in this photo. The nest is massive.
Biggest Birding Week
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.
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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.
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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.
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Mallards (Anas platyrhynchos)
John Heinz Wildlife Refuge Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
On remet ça 😉💕pour la deuxième couvée . 26 ans qu'ils niche a la maison .Les premières des oisillons tombée du Nid ,élevée au steak haché et au mouches . Une des hirondelles marquer a la queue est revenus pendant 16 ans 🐣🐤
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.
Both were tending the nest. Mom flew out to catch some grub while dad guards the nest. He eventually went in. They traded parenting duites.