Beware pointy objects
Broad-tailed hummer babies have grown – and their beaks are sharper as well. Both mom and babies have to be careful. The nest is in a tall Blue Spruce tree.
Broadtail Hummingbird feeding
Nest is about 10 feet above ground in a 35′ Blue Spruce in Evergreen CO at 7500′ in elevation. Babies were about 7-10 days old at this point in time. Canon 6D at 400mm.
Virginia Rail feeding chicks
Virginia Rail feeding chick
Hungry Mouths
Four hungry mouths compete for the last morsel of food from their mother.
Long Stretch
A baby American Robing stretches to get another morsel of food while his siblings wait.
Violet-Green Swallow Feeding Time
Daddy Violet-Green Swallow making a quick pit stop to deliver bugs to one of the babies.
Broadtail Hummingbird ready to feed
Nest is about 10 feet above ground in a 35′ Blue Spruce in Evergreen CO at 7500′ in elevation. Babies were about 7-10 days old at this point in time. Canon 6D at 400mm.
Grocery Run
With three hungry mouths to feed (you can see two of the three in this image) the male and female American Robins were kept very busy. Papa came back with an oversize load on this run! I don’t know how he could have possibly fit another worm in his beak!
Dinner on the fly!
In July 2008 I was at Woodley Island Marina photographing water birds when I spotted swallows flying around the rocks along the shoreline. I went to investigate, and found several families, with parents flying in and feeding their babies. I moved to the water’s edge and got down low to get the sky as background, and got this great shot just as a parent (I believe a male), while still in flight, was passing a bug to its baby.
Stuffing it in!
In July 2013 I was at Fern Ridge Wildlife Area, Royal Amazon Unit, photographing Purple Martins flying to and from their nests. Over the course of three day I got several nice shots, including this one of an adult stuffing a dragonfly into the mouth of one of its babies.
Egret Feeding a Mouthful of Fish
Egret feeding a mouthful of fish to her baby
Into the Mouth of the Lion
Tree Swallows built their nest in a box mounted on a post on my deck. A shepherd’s hook, used for the bird feeder in winter, hangs 3 feet away. This is where I watched them mate. They also used this as a perch before entering the nest box. They were extremely tolerant of us out on the deck. We were able to watch as they came and went, feeding and caring for their family. As the little ones grew, it was fun to watch them sticking their heads out of the box, waiting for Mom and Dad to bring home a meal.
Dinner for a Duckling
After following its mother and siblings out from their island roost, a Wood Duck duckling lunges at an insect on the surface of Sequoia Park’s duck pond.
A Meal for Great Egret Chicks
After waiting for about an hour, two Great Egret nestlings receive a feeding from one of their parents. The hungry egret chicks grab at the parent’s head and attempts to shake loose food as it is regurgitated.