It’s Sunday, and so we have a batch of bird photos from John Avise. John’s captions and IDs are indented, and you can enlarge his photos by clicking on them.
More Avian Young-‘uns
Last Sunday I mentioned that mid-summer would be the doldrums for avian photography here in Southern California, except for the welcome appearance of chicks in resident species.It’s fun to watch them grow.This week’s photos show youngsters (and their parents) in several more avian species that live here year-round.All of these photos were taken near my home in mid-summer.The Egyptian Goose is an introduced species, native to Africa.
Canada Geese (Branta canadensis), proud parents:
Canada Goose, head portrait:
Canada Goose, young gosling:
Canada Goose, parent with young gosling:
Canada Geese, parents with slightly older goslings:
Egyptian Geese (Alopochen aegyptiaca), proud parents:
Egyptian Goose, parent with chick:
Egyptian Goose, goslings swimming:
Egyptian Goose, goslings standing:
Egyptian Goose, “awkward teenager”:
American Coot (Fulica americana), proud parents:
American Coot, parent with chick:
Americn Coot chick;
American Coot, teenager swimming:
Ducks in a row; Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) keeping her kids in line:
Mallard teenager swimming:
Delightful!
Very different, because I can see all these birds on my pond here in London. We have the European coot but they look the same as the American coot to me. Thank you.
Yep, same here (Germany). We have both Canada geese and the Egyptian geese – which we call Nile geese in translation – in our local pond. As well as the Eurasian coot (of which I have a few pics coming).
Very nice. Thanks.
Thank you for the great pics. Boy, baby coots sure are … unattractive, aren’t they?
That must be why one only ever hears of old coots.
Great photos! Such cute babies, even the coot baby. I love the tiny beaks on the babies.
Thanks!
Love them, Egyptian goslings are adorable, beautifully done! Thank you so much