Mother and child

 

 

 

I tracked one particular nest in the spring of 2010.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I am guessing that the twins here are just a few days old

03-08-2010

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3-30-2010

Three weeks later they have at least tripled in size

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and looking as hungry as ever.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

04-12-2010

Now at 5 weeks, one of the twins is missing.

There is no record of what happened to her.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

at 6 weeks  and looking pretty

04-20-10

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4-29-2010

At seven weeks this baby is ready to fly

 When I returned in May, the nest was abandoned.

 

There is nothing in which birds differ more from man
than the way in which they can build
and yet leave a landscape as it was before. 
Robert Lynd

 

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