ML635983688
Contributor
Date
Location
- Age and sex
- Adult Female - 1; Juvenile, Unknown sex - 1
- Behaviors
- Feeding young
- Tags
- Nest
Media notes
The bribe, mom offering food to encourage fledging.
Observation details
Fledgling. Second of two chicks fledged this evening. The first fledged yesterday evening. Chick was begging pretty pathetically, mom was trilling, came closer and trilled more. Finally, approached chick and offered food bribe, feed, then departed. Trilling to chick, chick made the move. Exited the nest box opening somewhat precariously. Mom showed up to offer encouragement. Chick got on perch, steadied itself, then promptly fell off. I waited five minutes and observed area below nest box. It was gone. I take that it flew off. See sequence of images. This moment always amazes me. A happy but terrifying moment. Have observed the same pair over a number of springs watch them successfully fledge their young.
Additional species
Technical information
- Model
- Canon EOS R6m2
- Lens
- 150-600mm F5-6.3 DG OS HSM | Sports 014
- ISO
- 4000
- Focal length
- 548 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/7.1
- Shutter speed
- 1/30 sec
- Dimensions
- 1000 pixels x 900 pixels
- Original file size
- 755.7 KB