To describe my lifelong fascination with flight and with creatures that fly I like to echo the words of John James Audubon who in 1839 wrote of himself as "...one who never can cease to admire and to study with zeal and the most heartfelt reverence, the wonderful productions of an Almighty Creator."
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Baby Scrub-Jays turning blue
Nice color is beginning to show in the plumage of the Western Scrub-Jay nestlings. But some of the original five seem to be missing, or maybe just completely covered by the larger siblings. The growing chicks are very energetic, often climbing on top of each other, stretching and picking at their new feathers as if they are itchy. But they have already been "potty-trained," raising their little "behinds" over the edge of the nest after being fed, and producing a neat fecal sac for the waiting parent to catch and carry away.
Nice color is beginning to show in the plumage of the Western Scrub-Jay nestlings. But some of the original five seem to be missing, or maybe just completely covered by the larger siblings.
The growing chicks are very energetic, often climbing on top of each other, stretching and picking at their new feathers as if they are itchy. But they have already been "potty-trained," raising their little "behinds" over the edge of the nest after being fed, and producing a neat fecal sac for the waiting parent to catch and carry away.
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