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