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Baby Tree Swallow. They are cool little birds. You can get pretty close to them.
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The mother goose hatched out four goslings on the osprey nest, and today, she called them all down from the nest. The tiny babies can not fly, but they were fluttering their little wings as they jumped out. I hope they landed safely !In north Idaho, where I grew up, it is by a large lake, and there are Ospreys that nest near the lake each year. Because people enjoy watching the ospreys, the city set up camera that show the nest, and each year, the ospreys come back in the spring to their nest.
This year, a pair of geese arrived before the ospreys did, and the geese have taken over the ospreys nest, and the mother goose is setting on her eggs.
The ospreys came back, and apparently they tried to chase the geese away from the nest (there were pictures of the fight); but the geese are not leaving. No one is sure what happened to the ospreys, and whether they will wait for the geese to leave and then reclaim their nest, or if they will just nest elsewhere.
Here is a link to the webcam and you can see the mother goose setting on her eggs in the nest.
I wonder if they are as afraid as we are watching them. Looks like they went straight down.The mother goose hatched out four goslings on the osprey nest, and today, she called them all down from the nest. The tiny babies can not fly, but they were fluttering their little ings as they jumped out. I hope they landed safely !
Birds weigh so little, they probably just float down like a feather.I have been watching the website (link in my first post) to see if anyone has reported whether the little guys made it down alive or not. It seems like a long ways.
However, when I looked at the YouTube channel, I can see that geese have taken this nest before, and there are also pictures from a long time ago of the babies waddling down to the lake with their mother goose, so i think it is a good chance that this group made it down okay, too.