Share your baby birds

[Lisa]

With spring now settling in here in the southern hemisphere I have noticed a few baby bird pics. I would love to see your cute (but sometimes ugly) baby birds.

Here is mine, a redtailed black cockatoo

[Lisa Pouncy]

When I discovered these baby moorhen chicks in our pond I was really excited. Ugly but cute at the same time :o)



and here's some not so tiny, growing fast, cygnets



and just for good measure a baby robin

[Heather]

here are our baby ducks :)

[Cassandra Hoffmann]

Just 2 days ago, in fact!!! A baby Brown Honeyeater :)



AND... a baby Plover :)

[Cassandra Hoffmann]

@psychographer Oh could that baby robin be any cuter!!!

[Lynne R]

Spotted some baby ducks a couple of days ago.

[Lisabell]

A baby robin

A "baby" starling

[Sabine]

a baby moorhen and its Mum

[k.elizabeth]

[Cally]

Ducklings along the lake.

[Corinne]

a baby chicken !

[📸 Bulldog 📷]

Here are mine, a little Song Thrush that we took care of last year after it fell out of the nest.



'Pig' was such a gentle mother




Ready to fly the nest (dog bed)

[trude]

[Jan Hall]

and then a few weeks later:

[Tom Harvey]

Bluetit Fledgling:

[katy]

@jantan Those little open beaks look like flowers!

[Kerri]

[Lisabell]

@jantan I love that you got them all lined up both times! Great pics!

[Lisabell]

@kerristephens Those hummingbird shots are amazing!

[Esh]

[Jason Daniels]

I have no baby bird shots to offer, but a little advice, many bird species get extra cautious with us humans, especially around babies and eggs, so in the bird-nerd world it is discouraged to take photographs of babies. Mums and Dads may often abandoned a nest if we get too close and this in turn kills the babies. I do notice that many of these shots are of young immature birds which are already developing an independence, which is a good thing. Would hate to hear of a bird dying because of a nosey Nikon or a curious Canon???

[Abigail Forrest]

[Al Perry]