Above: young robins in nest near Amity, Oregon, last week. Likely a second clutch for the season. Below: young Great Horned ones looking like gawky teenagers wearing parents’ outfit, Sutro Heights Park, San Francisco.
Below; two leucistic robins. First is Patches who’s at least 3 years old, next comes one of the off-spring from this year. These birds are in Wisconsin.
Then this gallery from a natural spring-fed pool near Howard Prairie Lake east of Ashland where mountain birds gather for bathing, a drink and community communication. It’s at about 4500 feet elevation in Cascades:
Can nyou name ’em all? Nashville Warbler and Yellow-trumped, young and adult tanager, young Black-headed Grosbeak, wet junco, Chipping Sparrow, young Cassin’s Finchw ith the deeply notched tail, my-my the Lazuli.
Photos, top to bottom, by: young robins by Philippe Pessereau. Young owls by Tom Kuhn. Patchy robins by Roger Rigterink. Cascades gallery by Kirk Gooding.
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