Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: Soft Feathers
During our trip to Portland, Oregon this year to spend Mother’s Day weekend with my daughter Mercy, Will and baby Autumn, Mercy took us to Crystal Springs Rhododendron Garden. There is a green patch by the lake for the Canada Geese to raise their young. The goslings still have the soft and fluffy feathers. The fallen seeds provide a fest for the geese and their goslings.
The Laguna Lake by our house is home to different ducks, geese, and birds. These seven newborn ducklings with feathers as soft as hair swam closely to mama duck and other ducklings together.
The first baby hummingbird in my garden took his first flight in the first photo. He has a white spot of the soft feather at the bottom. He is now six weeks old and his wings are not strong to fly too far yet. There are three of his favorite spots where he perches on most of the time. Every twenty minutes, papa swoops around to give him an airlift for a ride around my house. He then comes back to perch on the needle of the Date Palms or a small branch of the potted fica tree. I have fun watching him every day.
Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: Soft Feathers
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The Showers of Blessings 
That is a lot of little ducklings!! I am sure you had to watch where you stepped!
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The visitors seemed to stay on the path to watch them and not to walk across that big patch of greenery when the Canada geese raise their young!
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:>)
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So beautiful and sweet! Superb photographs, Miriam! 💜💜
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Thank you, Lynn. They warm my heart. ❤ ❤
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These photographs are amazing, Miriam. I can’t believe how soft and down those tiny birds are.
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Thank you, Robbie. I was fortunate to come upon those tiny birds. I still have the baby hummingbird in front of my kitchen window.
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Heaps of smiles and ‘aws’ in here, Miriam 🙂 🙂
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Thank you do very much. 🙂 🙂
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The color of your photos are exceptional. You manage to capture the essence of the beauty of birds and ducks.
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Thank you so much!!
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Well Miriam, I must say I thought nothing could be sweeter than those baby goslings but then I came to your baby hummingbird! I am insanely jealous!!! Wonderful response to the challenge
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Thank you, Tina. I enjoy so much feeding and watching the baby hummingbird. He is so content perching in front of my kitchen window, Thank you for your challenge. I have so much fun doing it.
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Great photos!!😀
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Thank you so much, Garfield! 🙂
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Gorgeous shots, Miriam. 🙂 Those little ducklings look so soft and sweet. And the hummingbirds are gorgeous. It takes so much patience to get a good shot of them!
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Thank you, Patti. I have fun taking photos of them. I don’t see the ducklings too often, so I was glad to see them and got some shots. 🙂
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Lovely photos 🌹
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Thank you, Elaine. 🙂
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Very cute. I actually came back twice to just see the little cuties.
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Oh, thank you so much. I know. My heart gets soft when looking at the cuties. They remind me of my baby granddaughter.
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oooooh… baby granddaughters. Now your talking. I have 3 now. The youngest is 6 months. All mushy and cuddly. 😉
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I only have one for now, 10 months old yesterday. I have her photo on my screen. 🙂
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I love my computer screen coming to life with the grand children smiling back at me.
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Exactly, when I turn on my computer, I look at her and make connection before I do anything else.
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A beautiful response to the challenge Miriam! The ducklings are adorable and I love the story of papa hummingbird giving his youngster an airlift – it sounds like a joy to watch! 😃💖🐦 xxx
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Thank you, Xenia. Yes, it’s so much fun to watch them every day. The baby is so content to perch. But papa knows he needs to stretch his wings, even though he won’t fly 900 miles to Mexico the first year. Papa wants him to fly enough during summer before the parents leave him behind for the winter. ❤ 🙂 xox
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These are delightful. I love the one of the duckling burrowing into the mother’s feathers. Somehow your blog dropped off my WordPress Reader and I have only just re-discovered it.
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Hi, Suzanne, thank you for following me again. I’m glad you like the cute ducklings. I know, many things happened when WP made changes in several things, and update their policy, they cause some unknown changes, Some of the blogs I ‘followed don’t show up on my Reader.
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Yes, I have that problem of blogs not showing in my Reader. Several blogs, including yours, totally disappeared from mine.
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I asked them questions once because I lost a lot of followers, they finally fixed it, but I still don’t see quite a few no shows. I have to seek them out.
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So many soft and cute little ones – lovely! I wish we had hummingbirds here in Sweden as well!
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We may have to transport them to you, Ann Christine, or you could bring some home. It seems like certain birds are only in some range of territories. What kind of birds do you have in Sweden? ❤
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Many birds of winter weather. Our national bird is the blackbird. Migrating birds come in april most and leave in the autumn.
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It’s cold in the winter where you are, so I think the birds come when it’s warmer.
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They do, but fewer now than it used to be. The difference in spring arrival is about two weeks in later years, and that affects how much food they will get.
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I understand the global climate is getting strange, it affects growth, affect the food that animals get, and affect the birth and growth of animals.
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And finally us.
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Yes, I don’t know if we still can do something about it.
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Ooops, the comment went away too soon. I meant to say that we don’t have many colourful birds, and unfortunately the migrating ones are decreasing.
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Do you have a longer winter?
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We used to have December to March, but the temperature is rising, so winter is only half as long.
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Yes. our temperature is rising and the summer started early this year.
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Those little ducklings are just so cute!!!
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Yes, they are. They just follow each other!!
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