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Black Oyster (Haematopus bachmani) parents lead 2 of their 3 chicks to safety on the beach after descending large rock where nest was; 3rd chick is lagging behind but eventually joins the family
107/366/2020, 3394 days in a row.
Taken on an evening visit to drop stuff to my parents who are "Cocooning" during the Lockdown, really miss giving them a hug xx
"Kids and their hair these days!" said every parent ever.
Great Egrets at the rookery at high Island, TX
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216/366/2016, 2042 days in a row
Delighted to hear a stretch of land on our doorstep is to be made into a national park m.rte.ie/news/2016/0803/806624-dublin-mountains/#media
I'd made it most of the way round Strumpshaw Fen when I came across two large swans sitting rigt in the middle of the path. My heart sank when I saw they had two cygnets...I crept very slowly passed them...within 3 or 4 feet and was only hissed at as I stepped away from them - they then congratulated each other on a job well done ;-)
We all come from the same parents, the same place........
Enigma, one of my favorite artists, performing "The Same Parents":
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OenFriNZknU
Lyrics (Michael Cretu):
We all had the same parents
Many million years ago
Why can't we live in freedom
Without hunger, with no war?
At the beginning,
We all had one mother and one father
That's where we're descending from (attention)
I don't, I don't understand why so much hate (attention)
Between races, and religions
Its smile, insane
I don't understand (amazing)
Why it hurts, people died (incredible experience)
We all had the same parents
Many million years ago
Why can't we live in freedom
Without hunger, with no war?
(attention) I don't, I don't understand
why so much hate (amazing)
We all had the same parents
Many million years ago
Why can't we live in freedom
Without hunger, with no war?
At the beginning
We all had one mother and one father
That's where we're descending from
We all had the same parents
Many million years ago
Why can't we live in freedom
Without hunger, with no war?
I don't, I don't understand...
I don't, I don't understand...
I don't, I don't understand...
We all had the same parents
many million years ago...
We all had the same parents
many million years ago...
Architecte : Claude Parent [1923-2016]
- D'après Claude Parent il s'agirait de son 2ème immeuble. Il a été réalisé pour un promoteur opposé à toute innovation architecturale.
Blue tit (Cyanistes caeruleus) prepares to exit its nest with a fecal sac produced by one if its chicks.
Modraszka (Cyanistes caeruleus) szykuje się do wylotu z dziupli z pakietem odchodów jednego z piskląt.
© Leanne Boulton, All Rights Reserved
Informal portrait of my mum and dad in their home taken using on camera flash bounced off the ceiling and a reflector - which unfortunately did catch a highlight in their glasses.
Looking proudly at the eggs and the young ones in the nest and guarding all with their lives ...
"And your Lord has decreed that you worship none but Him. And that you be dutiful to your parents. If one of them or both of them attain old age in your life, say not to them a word of disrespect, nor shout at them but address them in terms of honour.
And lower unto them the wing of submission and humility through mercy, and say: “My Lord! Bestow on them Your Mercy as they did bring me up when I was small.”
[Quran 17:23-24]
Tonight at a restaurant an older woman stopped by to compliment us on how well our boys were behaved. Which was funny, because not ten minutes before that I had commented to Michael that they were having a particularly good night. It was a nice thing to hear after a bit of a rough week: all four of us came down with a GI bug and we've had some challenging "toddler" moments from the older one.
Despite the downs involved in the parenting rollercoaster, I almost daily feel as though the days/weeks/months are slipping by entirely too fast. I'm lucky right now in that the younger one (still a baby in my book) falls asleep while we rock together in a chair at night, and I get to cherish his warmth and weight and I get to breathe him in and be truly mindful of our time together. In those moments I feel as though the hardest parts of parenting for me aren't the tantrums or the sleep-deprived nights or the constant winter colds or the loss of time and energy once devoted to being creative (and that is a hard part). Rather, the hardest part for me is realizing how very little time I have to enjoy these boys in each stage of their lives as they grow. How no matter how mindful I am, there will be a day when I can barely recall what their voices sounded like when they first learned to talk, or their bumbling unsteady steps as they learned to walk, or what it was like to sit and rock with each of them.
Too soon they'll be too big to rock, too embarrassed of me to hug for more than a moment (especially in public), too grown-up to hold my hand.
So that's the hardest part, I think, about parenting: loving them so much that you'd prefer they not grow up, but helping them to do just exactly that.
Image made with my Nikon F100.
Parenting is a promise to keep these feet on a true and honest course. A path that can be wide as an ocean or narrow as an atom. We must keep these feet moving forward every moment of every day.
Friends of mine and their precious new baby
I'm at a loss as to how to best label what I see in this hoodoo feature. Maybe a parent and child, as I titled this, but maybe a dog with its little tail sticking up. In the end, this is just another marvel of nature's work over countless years of erosion, not matter how our pareidolia tendencies see it.
Sainte Haude de Trémazan (Côté face)
2015 - Didier Hardellet
Statue de 4,20 m en granit bleu de Lanhélin. Haude, ou Eodez, sainte céphalophore victime des accusations de mauvaise conduite portées contre elle par une marâtre jalouse, elle est décapitée par son frère Tanguy. Lorsque ce dernier va confesser son crime à ses parents, Eodez revient au château familial, sa tête entre les mains. La marâtre est foudroyée par la tonnerre et mordue par un serpent tandis que la sainte reçoit les derniers sacrements (Source Vallée des saints)
April 27, 2021
Bluebird Mom and Dad share the feeding duties for the hungry chicks. They are in and out of the box all day. They both work very hard to keep the "kids" happy!
Eastern Bluebird (male)
(Sialia sialis)
Brewster, Massachusetts
Cape Cod - USA
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© Bruce Christopher 2021
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I was priviged to watch our resident male red-bellied woodpecker feeding his female fledgling this morning. It always suprises me how quiet the babies are relative to other woodpecker species that visit our yard. You have to really concentrate to hear the very soft chips that the juvenile makes as she begs for food. Andover, NJ
I love taking shots of birds in flight and swallows are especially challenging as they are speedy and change direction constantly. Years ago on Flickr, l saw a photo of a swallow in flight and that showed me that it could be done given a lot of practice
Birds leave when you to get too close, but I wanted a shot that had little cropping. So, I added a teleconverter making my lens 560mm so I could be further away. I also hid in the shadow of a low wall so I wouldn’t be as visible.
It was a bright day, so I was able to change my aperture to f/10 to get more of the shot in focus and to increase my shutter speed to 1/3200 trying to decrease motion blur. Fortunately, I was able to keep my ISO at 800 so my shot would not have too much noise. I set my camera on burst mode and waited until something happened. Then I got lucky!
Tree Swallow
Tachycineta bicolor
Member of Nature’s Spirit
Good Stewards of Nature
© 2018 Patricia Ware - All Rights Reserved
Best enlarged - minor crop
ƒ/10.0
560.0 mm
1/3200
ISO 800
I am honored that this photo was chosen as one of top 25 photos on Flickr in 2018 from around the world.
In this image the parent Barn Owl has just dropped off food to the young Barn Owl on top of the owl box on our property. The young owl hasn't been fed in at least fifteen hours and it's been screeching for food impatiently every since it came outside about twenty minutes earlier. The owls only come out and hunt (or wait for a delivery) after the sun has set.
Strobist info: Here's the description of the setup that I use for photographing the Barn Owls, and the owl house.The owl house is on top of a fifteen foot pole, which is about two feet in the ground, so the bottom of owl house is about thirteen feet off of the ground. I have one tall light stand on either side of the owl house, extended as high as they will go, and a third shorter light stand in the middle. The one on the left is lower because it is positioned on a slope that goes down from the house. The light stand in the middle is a shorter stand than the others, but it is extended as high as it will go. The flash on the left is a YN560, the middle flash is a Strobie 130 and the flash on the right is a YN560-II. All thee strobes are in manual mode set at 1/2 power. The middle and right flash are triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603 and the left flash is in slave mode and is triggered by the light from the other two flashes. I have a Yongnuo RF-603-N trigger on my camera which is triggered by an identical trigger that I have in my hand while sitting in a chair off camera. The Yongnuo triggers can act as either transmitter or receiver. The great thing about these triggers is that they are reliable, and are about $33 for a pair of them on Amazon. Wonderful technology at an amazing price. They're cheap, they work and they have a range of 15 meters.
Pictures that I've taken of the Barn Owls can be seen in my Barn Owls set. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157630045851110/