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Uploaded: 04/13/09 2:49 PM GMT
Coot
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Coots ...Only one fifth of eggs laid on the nest just above water level result in fledging young – artificial platforms are confidently used on occasions. In the early stages, with their red heads, the chicks look as if they might have been cooked on gas mark 7 for ten minutes. The parents, like Great Spotted Woodpeckers and various other species, divide a brood between them and rigidly feed only ‘their’ birds.

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.Joanie
04/13/09 3:57 PM GMT
So cute Richie! Great shot!
Joanie
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Love and live.
::phasmid
04/13/09 7:24 PM GMT
This certainly makes for enjoyable viewing. I guess I've never really seen a pic of the chicks before.

:)PJ
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We don’t make art to show someone what something looks like. All this requires is eyes (or a lens). Art is supposed to have meaning, emotion, power, or magic. Alan & Mario "FourThirds"
.amishy
04/13/09 9:31 PM GMT
What a sweet family portrait! A fantastic closeup! Your composition and clarity are just perfect!
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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849), "Eleonora"
.bingwa
04/13/09 10:36 PM GMT
I like this one much better, maybe because it so close. Lighting and DOF just wonderful.

Winona
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::0930_23
04/14/09 12:26 AM GMT
It is hard for a Old Coot to look at a Young Coot without wondering where all the years went. Great capture Count Biffo.
They look like feather covered matchsticks. I didn't realize they came from split homes.
Nice post.

:)Tick*

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Insure what you touch during your lifetime, is not coated with the fingerprints of apathy....Tick
::gabriela2006
04/14/09 1:28 AM GMT
a beautiful capture:)
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