Juveniles and Summer Time

Las aves, parte hermosa de la naturaleza…

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Despite the hot weather temperatures and high percentage of humidity, I get visitors to my feeders not as often as it was  during Spring.There’re some new members for the few families of birds that inhabit my backyard area. They are juveniles already on their own looking around to get a daily meal.

For this post I have photos of two birds, different species but I can estimate that are most likely equal in age. They’re young and full of life, still wet behind the ear as they say, however bird are fast learners. I love to observe how they acquire knowledge based on experience.

In the case of the Eastern Towhee, this bird is a juvenile with, with juvenile plumage, with a bit more age the plumage will turn to brown for females or black for males.

This bird is inexperienced yet and eats from a feeder something that adults don’t usually…

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