Tree pose. Who knew American Oystercatcher chicks practiced yoga on the beach?
(Apologies in advance for this, yesterday’s post, and future adorable fuzzy juvenile anniversary birding picture posts. Creation is so amazing!)
This #GreaterSpottedWoodpecker#nestling has figured out that the food comes from outside the hole, it just hasn’t plucked up the courage to go find it…
Image captured using remote controlled camera.
Brown Thrasher at home. This is the first year I've seen these birds at feeders. Usually they are on the ground, thrashing violently in their search for insects.
Good morning, lovely people! @cmdln is at the first of 3 in-person days for work. The house feels empty. I've got a busy day planned: vacuum/mop floors, alter muslin, pick up Gibson meds and CSA farm share. #today#birds
I spotted this young (you can tell by the length of its beak) kingfisher (Alcedo atthis, 🇩🇪 Eisvogel, 🇵🇱 zimorodek) far from the river and its parents, waiting to be fed. Although it can fly, it hasn't learned to hunt yet and is dependent on its parents for food. But the parents already have new chicks, which have priority for feeding. The start of an independent life is hard for birds.
Tony Stoddard posted this excellent photo on #Flickr today of a kōtare/NZ kingfisher that he rescued yesterday from two lanes of speeding car traffic after it had been hit by a car.
Tony reports that luckily, after 2.5 hours, the bird had perked up and was ready to be released.
Anybody here with experience on the sounds a nestling or fledgling Anna's hummingbird makes? I am hearing a strange "peeping" that I've never heard before and an adult is seemingly responding. I posted last week about encountering what I thought was a juvenile, so there could be a second one too. I could not locate where the sound was coming from to get a visual on the "peeping" today.