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Morning meditation?
Or is it a tired Mama...with her preening babes? 
I have to chuckle...DrTiff commented on how the idea of splitting the
babytending between parents (parents in general...human or
otherwise) is a noble idea at first, but how mostly it fades to
just Mama doing the tending. That seems to be happening in this
bird family too. The past few mornings, Dad has been late for his
shift. Mama calls and calls him. As far as I can tell, he
didn't show up till for yesterday's 8am shift change till 1pm! I
just happened to catch The shift change. He arrived, and Mama just
stepped off the nest and never looked back. My imagination
perceived disgust.
This morning Mama was more frantic. She called and called at 8am,
and then left the nest to perch on the swingset to call Dad from
there. Then she went back to the nest to wait a little, and the
cycle repeated for about an hour. When she left the nest to call,
she would let out a shrill, "cooo!", as if saying, "Where is that man???!!??"
He did eventually show up. (I think???? It's so hard to tell them
apart) Dad holds himself differently than Mama, which is how I
usually tell. He doesn't fruffle his feathers out like she
does. And the calling stopped, so I assumed that was him on the
nest an hour later.
I thought I'd take a few behind-the-scenes shots of where we observe and photograph these birds...so here is the...
bathroomcam! Ta da!
The toilet hasn't seen much action lately...except for standing on the lid to watch some birds.
And here's the....
Swingset cam, looking on to the laddercam, which is being used by an observing ds at this photographic moment.
We don't use the laddercam all that much anymore, since the babies are
big enough to see easily around the clothespins.. And it is a bit unnerving to use,
because we have so many powerlines traversing out backyard.
The thought of being excited and engrossed in bird-photographing
under a powerline on a metal ladder...shudder...never mind...
Here's another shot from the late afternoon. It's so bright up
there on that white roof..I wonder if those birds get a headache from
it. I surely could...
Put on your sunglasses for this one:
Oh yeah... I have a life and a garden, too! (not to mention children... )
I bet it might be getting ho-hum around this blog with only bird
pictures of the past few weeks. I'll try to incorporate more
elements of daily life in here after this post.
Have a good day!.
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| | Posted 7/25/2004 1:49 PM - 1 view - 2 comments
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