Waiting for Mom/Dad to bring food |
Showing restlessness |
Ready to jump
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This is the second one to make the leap |
and later make it to another tree |
Heron climbing up the tree to the nest
when a parent showed up |
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Excitement when parent shows up |
Enticing the parent to deliver
food |
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Out on a limb
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Parent arrives followed by a young
one |
The two herons let the parent know they
want the food right now |
Undigested food is delivered |
Within a week the last one left the
nest |
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One moment they are this small |
Next moment that tall
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to force down the parent's head to
deliver food into the nest |
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There is still a way to go before flight
feathers are fully grown |
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I love you too! |
Wing exercise |
A week later they had both left the nest |
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