{"id":8976,"date":"2012-11-07T06:20:17","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T13:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=8976"},"modified":"2012-11-07T06:20:17","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T13:20:17","slug":"western-grebe-chick-reacts-to-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/07\/western-grebe-chick-reacts-to-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Western Grebe Chick Reacts To Food"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve always enjoyed spending time with Western Grebes but until this past summer I’ve had very little success in photographing parents back-brooding their chicks.\u00a0 In June at Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge my luck with this behavior changed and I was able to get quite a few nice images of the chicks on the backs of the parents over many days.<\/p>\n

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Here, two chicks wait patiently on the back of one of the parents while the other one attempts to catch fish for breakfast.\u00a0 The fishing parent would feed small fish to both chicks and to the brooding parent.\u00a0 The chicks watch attentively for the adult to emerge from the nearby water with something to eat.<\/p>\n

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I was always torn about what to photograph – the parent with the fish or the reactions of the chicks to approaching food.\u00a0 In this case I chose the latter.\u00a0 Here, the chick on the right has just spotted its parent come up out of the water from behind\u00a0with a small fish and is beginning to react.<\/p>\n

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Usually, both chicks were hungry and competed for the food but this time the youngster on the left was full and not interested in anything to eat.\u00a0 But the chick on the right didn’t know that and went into full competetive\u00a0begging mode.<\/p>\n

I always enjoyed watching these reactions to food.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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I’ve always enjoyed spending time with Western Grebes but until this past summer I’ve had very little success in photographing parents back-brooding their chicks.\u00a0 In June at Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge my luck with this behavior changed and I was able to get quite a few nice images of the chicks on the backs of the parents over many days.   Here, two chicks wait patiently on the back of one of the parents while the other one attempts to catch fish for breakfast.\u00a0 The fishing parent would feed small fish to both chicks and to the brooding parent.\u00a0 The chicks watch attentively for the adult to emerge from the nearby water with something to eat.     I was always torn about what to photograph – the parent with the fish or the reactions of the chicks to approaching food.\u00a0 In this case I chose the latter.\u00a0 Here, the chick on the right has just spotted its parent come up out of the water from behind\u00a0with a small fish and is beginning to react.     Usually, both chicks were hungry and competed for the food but this time the youngster on the left was full and not interested in anything to eat.\u00a0 But the chick on the right didn’t know that and went into full competetive\u00a0begging mode. I always enjoyed watching these reactions to food. Ron  <\/p>\n

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