[SBB] The Nestlings are out!!

[Tom Merigan <[[email protected]]>]

Yesterday we  joined Ted Chandik's Fly By Dawn group for a visit to several 
bay birding spots. The most striking thing was the number of baby birds we 
saw-from the platoon of 12 goslings guarded by the parents which we saw at 
the second on Radio road (which AL Eisner had documented as 13 in PEN birds 
the day before)  to the baby Black-crowned Night Herons at the Palo Alto 
Duck Pond.  I want to share with you the 2 goslings and a parent which I 
photographed  at the duck 
pond   http://www.pbase.com/merigan/image/77555720/original  and the pair 
of baby Black-crowns who had left the nest probably in search of food and 
looked quite lost    http://www.pbase.com/merigan/image/77556048/original 
.    I also saw the latter attacking a parent in the nest for food in a 
series of 2 shots 
http://www.pbase.com/merigan/image/77556063/original 
http://www.pbase.com/merigan/image/77556124/original .   This was 
reminiscent  of  a series of shots I took the year before last of babies 
fighting among them selves for food in the nest, also now in my Black- 
crowned gallery. So,the takeaway message is life is tough for these 
youngsters-be it the missing gosling or the food fighting herons.


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