Tuesday/Weekly Photo Challenge – Baby Birds in the Summer
Frank’s Tuesday Photo Challenge the prompt for this week is: Future
Weekly Photo Challenge is: Smile
I hope to see some baby birds successively hatched in the near future – summer 2018. Watching and feeding these birds put a smile on my face.
I have been feeding many kinds of birds. The Mourning Doves came back to my garden for the third year. The first year, the female dove laid eggs, but the eggs were stolen. 1) Last year, the female doves laid two eggs and both the male and female took turns to incubate the eggs. The eggs were successfully hatched to two healthy baby doves. I’m hoping the mourning doves will have chicks again this year.
I also have many House Finch in my garden. They had the same misfortune two years ago and lost their four eggs. 2) Last year, the female Finch laid three eggs and hatched four eggs. One must be twins. 3) The birds watched their chicks from the nearby tree. There are many pairs of House Finch in my garden. One pair checked out the old nest. I hope they would use the same nest to lay eggs again.
I feed them bird seeds every day to get them to be healthy and ready to be parents.
I bought a new Hummingbird Feeder. The Red Throat Hummingbirds seem to like the feeder. There are not too many blooms around yet. So, the Hummingbirds come every twenty minutes for feeding. They seem to be a pair, I don’t know where they would build a nest.
I just identified the White Crowned Sparrows in my garden. They may have been coming for years, but I didn’t pay attention to their features and I just googled and identify them as White Crowned Sparrow.
Great post and photos!!
xoxo
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Thank you so much!
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We’ve just read NatGeo and these tiny humming birds travel great distances on a migratory trek to seek out blooms to feed on!
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Yes, from southern California, they go to Mexico, and come back in spring.They visit my feeder every 20 minutes before the blooms of my flowers!
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Must had been really tired from all that flying. Imagine that these small birds cover distances more than we do in a whole year or more on foot!
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It’s amazing, isn’t it. The humpback whales swim from Mexico to Alaska for feeding. The female takes the baby with her. They need to come to the surface to breathe along the way.
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Absolutely!
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🙂
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You live so close to nature. It sure must be relaxing.
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They come back after winter. It’s fun watching them.
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Wow, that hummingbird photo is something. Kudos, Miriam!
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Thank you, Teresa. Two red throat hummingbirds come to the feeder every 20 minutes. I stood in my front patio waiting for them on several occasions to get some shots!
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What a wonderful gift.
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Thank you, Teresa.
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Wonderful bird photos and it must be a joy to have them in your garden. Love the hummingbird. I don’t think we have them here but I could be wrong.
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Thank you, Irene. Australia has many species of parrots. I don’t see any parrots in here. At least not in California.
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I bet you have some birds we don’t have that I would find as beautiful as our parrots.
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The male red throat hummingbird has been outside of the window all morning. I wonder if the female is incubating, I haven’t seen her for a few days. They fly so fast that it’s not easy to take photos of them.
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We don’t get them here but I have seen them in Europe.
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They fascinate me. They flap their wings 60 times per second.
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Wow
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Yes, wow.
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Stunning pictures Miriam ma’am!
You are doing great deed of taking care of them..!
Hugs! 🙂
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Thank you, Nisha. It;s fun watching them! 🙂
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Your welcome!
Do have a look at my new post ma’am..
Thank you.
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Sure, I’ll do that.
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It is lovely to feed the birds, Miriam. We feed them during the winter time. We live near a bird sanctuary so we do get some wonderful visitors to our bird feeders.
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Thank you, Robbin. When I was working and a friend told me that she was a bird watcher, I couldn’t relate. Now I glue my eyes on them and learn so much about their behaviors!
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Thank you.
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So lovely 💛
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Thank you so much!! ❤
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I appreciate your love for birds. Thank you for sharing images.
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You’re welcome. It’s a lot of fun watching the birds.
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Your garden birds are just lovely. I can’t wait for updates on any and all the babies. Birds are so funny. And the babies, oh my so cute.
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Yes, I’ll give the update in the summer. Thank you, Margaret!
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Wonderful photographs Miriam, thanks for sharing 🌹
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You’re welcome, Elaine. I have to see your latest. I came to Portland on Wednesday and going home today. ❤
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Safe journey home Miriam 🌹
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Thank you, Elaine!! ❤
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Absolutely Amazing photos, Miriam! Love these! ❤ and hugs!!
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Thank you, Lynn. I love hummingbirds, especially red throat hummingbirds. Their feather glow as they move. ❤
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Beautiful photos, Miriam. I am scouring the landscape to see my first Robin. So far I’ve struck out, but I’m not giving up! – Molly
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I hope you’ll find them. Their eggs are blue. At first, I though the House Finch was Robin, but their eggs were white. Only this year, I identified them as House Finch.
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We had a two robins nests in our yard last year – I’ll be looking to see if they return! None yet, thought. Spring is rolling in at a snail’s pace.
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think they remember you. Many of my birds return to my yard. It’s still chilly in the morning.
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Stunning photos Miriam. I am sure you will be a very successful mom assistant to the baby birds again this year. I can’t believe it has been a whole year since you were helping mom dove look after her babies. Time has flown by!
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Yes, Kim. I’m so happy to see them coming back to my garden. Hopefully the House Finch like their old nest. ❤
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Beautiful, Miriam! Enjoy their morning calls and songs
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Yes, The House Finch is very chattering.
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Thank you for looking after the birds Miriam
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My pleasure. The squirrel took advantage and had a whole bunch of seeds. Good thing that the three cats don’t like seeds… haha!
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I hear squirrels can be a bird feeder pest. I guess they have to eat too. I hope the cats can’t get to the birds.
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My suspicion was that the first year, if not the squirrel, it could have been the cats that stole the bird eggs.
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