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The pond at home acts as a nursery helping to restore the frog population in the area.
About 3 years ago when the first baby frogs (Pelophylax esculentus) were born there was one, the biggest of them all that since its juvenile years sat at position 45, if one looks at the pond as a clock.
At start of winter the frogs leave for hibernation in the close by bushes and only come back to the pond by spring of the next year as adults to mate and then leave after laying their eggs. For the rest of the year, until next hibernation, only the year's babies inhabit the pond.
Unusually this year I observed there was a big adult one still there and sitting exclusively at position 45.
I have a suspicion this is 45, now close to 4 years old, parenting its offspring. Also, this is first time I see the display of close interaction among them, touching each other in the hands and the feet.
Baselland, Switzerland
PB_M0109-2.2 - 400mm
This young Barn Swallow had landed on this bolted sticking out the side of this food bridge and the parent went down to encourage to fly. I was less than 5 feet from them, so I took a quick couple shots and backed off and watched until I saw them fly up out of the area. Thinking teaching a kid to walk is hard, try to teach it to fly!
I was at White Rock lake, Winfrey Point, when I saw a mama mockingbird with 2 babies on the ground. The babies were yelling with open mouths and chasing their parent around. The mother was frantically looking for food and running so fast both her feet were off the ground in this shot.
Northern Mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos)
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Ages ago, after seeing Taylor Swift's music video "Style" (yes I'm a Taylor fan,) I've been inching to try out the double exposure digitally on photoshop, so, here's my first attempt. And thank you to my parents for modelling for me.
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
kids are going crazy for these colourful rubber bands, and parents are finding them everywhere. Taken with macro extension tube on a Canon 70d and a Canon 50mm f1/4 lens. My first attempt with macro photography
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
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This mother loon patiently watched out for her chick as it spent most of it's time with it's head under water searching for minnows.
MacLeod Lake
Carson-Pegasus Provincial Park
Alberta, Canada
So this morning i had to take some supplies around d to my parents for Christmas as they decided it was probably safer for them to stay at home., Not that either my wife, daughter or i have been mixing with anyone. As I am their support bubble I am allowed round.
You can see my mum stood in the doorway to the right
Well the walk was rather eventful as was the walk back.
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 ;-)
Strobist info :
NikonSB910Speedlight in Wescott Apollo Orb Deep Octa 40" with grid left.
NikonSB910Speedlight in Lastolite Ezybox 80X80 for fill right.
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.
A least tern parent patiently helps its chick get the hang of swallowing a fish. You can see that the chick drops the fish, then the parent gently picks it back up and lets the chick try again. Love the look on the chick's face in the bottom left frame--so intently eyeing its meal!
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...
I'm not someone who likes to parent by punishment. I like to inspire cooperation and model good behavior. But sometimes that doesn't work. Like when you slam your sisters head in the door "by accident". Or when you punch her in the face (another accident, you argued, because you meant to punch her in the leg and missed). Everyone makes mistakes, but I'm beginning to suspect that you think it's ok to be mean. So today we took your door off it's hinges, took away all electronics, made you write lines and letters of apology. I know this isn't you. You're going through something and whatever it is, I'd like to help you through it, but being nice and kind and respectful are three things I will insist upon. Here you are laughing at someone who didn't deserve to be laughed at. Check yourself, kiddo. Mama is unimpressed.
The parent and a young chick which is about five weeks or so old nesting on Bempton Cliffs at the RSPB nature reserve.The birds keep this plumage for about a year turning predominantly brown before they start to take on their white plumage which takes up to five years.
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.
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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Another photo of this nice and beautiful couple, that I photographed four weeks before they became parents for the first time last year.
It's not that often I get to take portraits during the beautiful golden hour and sunset, but I love it when I do!
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A sweet interaction between the oriole parents. The male was trying to feed that big green worm, but the babies didn't eat it. He kept sticking his head in the nest, the way he does to feed the babies, but the worm remained in his mouth. Then the female flew onto the branch below the nest, and the male passed the worm off to her, flew away, and let mama take over. She tried, but I don't think they ate the worm for her either. I'm pretty sure she ate it herself:) Maybe it was too big for the newborns. Anyway, mama oriole flew away, and promptly returned with some small insect which the babies ate!
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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.