Thursday, July 29, 2010

Pictures from Churchill: Plovers and scenery

Fireweed.

Baby semipalmated plover!
The dad - doing his broken wing dance to distract us away from the babies.
Last egg.  Most of these plovers have 4 eggs per nest.  This nest had 3, and 2 had hatched this day.
Its eyes were already opening and it had full feathers.  Hearty creatures, eh?
The 2 hatched babies.



The dad sitting on the eggs.  The parents share babysitting duties.
A forested area where there has been 2 fires in the past 20 years.  You can see the dead trees still there and taller than the rest of the new trees and shrubs.

1 comment:

  1. How Cute! You actually can hold the baby birds? Don't the parents get mad?

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