Just as God brings us into a new year (2017), the Quiet Side of the Great Lake is filled with new life, with an influx of baby birds! From first light every morning the air is filled with chirping, squeaking, chattering baby bird calls.
Our resident Frogmouth (who looks like an owl, but isn’t) has had two beautiful babies. They seem to be about the same size as their mother (on the right) before we get to see them. The juniors are very fluffy. Mum has the look of a martyr. Feeding young birds of this size would be quite an exercise, especially when you’ve got to go hunt for it in small increments.
Below is the other fledgling.
Then we have a baby Butcherbird. These little birds have the most tuneful and innovative birdsong creating their own signature song.
Now this was an unusual shot. Australian Ravens (below) are rather scruffy looking birds with a rather dismal and plaintive cry. But this photo shows joy between a youngster and its mother.
There are also lots of young Australian Magpies chasing their mothers squeaking for food
and Noisy Miner chicks who squeak constantly.
“Be alert, be present. I’m about to do something brand-new.
It’s bursting out! Don’t you see it?
There it is!” Isaiah 43:19 MSG
God has great things in store for us all in this New Year. So I Wish you all a bounteous new year full of good things.
From all of us at the Quiet Side.
Blessings,
Marilyn
Photos are all the work of the blogger
The New Year Graphic courtesy of Graphics Factory