Bird Watching: Daily Piccies Vol. 462, 4 by Chillybean

Chillybean wrote:
I will be going down memory lane a little bit.

As a family we started birding in 2011. At that time we could identify a few birds, knew they lived in nests and in boxes, they ate seeds and sometimes dive-bombed you. Oh! I think that is why I didn\'t care about birds for a long time, I was dive-bombed by who knows what when I was young... I was scared of birds for a long time after that.

Besides identifying a few species, we also learned interesting things like newly fledged birds are about the same size as their parents. I doubt I could find the post I made in June 2011 on an old Daily Bird Picture thread and I remember going back to edit it because of the embarrassment I felt when corrected by Resin. I found the picture of my \"baby Brown Thrasher\", so will post it again. It was so cute, had the long tail of a Thrasher and the streaky breast. No doubt what it was...

It\'s a Song Sparrow.

Well, the end of last month I was walking through the yard when I just happened to glance at this shrub. YAY!!! A true baby Brown Thrasher. He? then made his way to a parent, who found a worm. Instead of cramming it into the young mouth, the parent ran off with it! Baby just sat there before walking aimlessly about. The last I saw of him that evening, he was perched on a short platform feeder. And notice the tail... it\'s short when the young first leave the nest. It will be a little bit before it is as long as an adult\'s.