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Saturday, May 17, 2014

Fledgling Cardinals First Bath

The first brood of babies are still learning to forage and fine tuning their flying skills. The parents are still feeding them but I see them poking around on their own when left. There are two of them. Generally, mom and dad separate them, each taking one for the day, but occasionally during the day they join up to feed in our backyard and splash around. Here is one of them having his first bath. First he/she watched mom, then when she flew off, he gave it a whirl himself. These are taken through my glass window.