All of the bird species where I have seen parent and chick together seem to follow the same pattern:

• chick makes noise, opens beak and flutters wings without flying:

• adult, tired of being pestered, delivers food:

In penguin colonies, chicks can be so annoying that adults begin to run away. Chicks then chase them up and down throughout the colony. Food is eventually given.

On this day, I walked below the bluffs at lovely Bluffer’s Park:

Other flyers:

Some botany:

NATURE POETRY

Rais’d are the dripping oars—    
Silent the boat: the lake,    
Lovely and soft as a dream,    
Swims in the sheen of the moon.      – Matthew Arnold (1822–88)

Miles Hearn