I check the baby diamond dove every day and it seems as if it grows another feather or two every day but is still half bare with no feathers in much of its body. The mamma duck is always sitting on her nest but sometimes she is in a different position so she must rotate the eggs or take a short break once in a while.
The flounder caught by the osprey reminded me of the San Juan Islands in far northern Washington state, because my dad once did research on flounders at the UW marine labs there. Those could be the Olympic Mountains. The San Juans are right by Vancouver Island, BC. But your guess is as good as mine!
Anne, dx'ed April 2011
There are plenty of ospreys in the islands on both the US and the Canadian sides. Hard to tell where the filming was, but I noticed it was from BBC. Good photography in any case. I loved watching the osprey shake the water off, doggie-style, while still holding onto the fish.
Al
Good view of the heron chicks right now.... boy, are they cute! If you need to search, they are at Cornell Lab.
Anne, dx'ed April 2011
Just checked in with the barn owls. They've sure grown up a lot. The eldest is looking much more like an adult-- less ghastly, unless you look closely!
LOL They're still ghastly. It isn't helped by the fact that I have that sort of mythological/ primal fear of owls. Not a real big fear, just a discomfort looking at them for too long. Like if I stare at the picture of the adult barn owl on the page I'm gonna have nightmares. And I don't like the weird way the barn owl babies move-- that bobbing and weaving thing gives me the creeps.
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