




I just had to get back to the birds :)
A parent's work is never done - and this mother oriole has been busy feeding, feeding, feeding - I am amazed at the size of the grubs she can fit into those babies! She also cleans the nest, picking up baby droppings and flying away with them. The family have flown the nest now - great timing as it is raining buckets and I don't feel like standing in the rain holding the camera to my eye for half an hour just to get a couple of shots... but it was addictive watching the little ones grow. Missed the last ones of babies balancing on the edge of the nest and flapping around as I had manually focused and bumped it off a bit as I leaned against the tree - blurry babies :(
Photos show her feeding babies over about a week so you can see the little ones growing