Baby Mallards

Here is the family of four baby ducks swimming in the stream past the dam. They are getting larger and are a little more independent.

Baby Blue Jays

We were out on a walk this morning when we encountered two baby blue jays under the watchful eye of a mother blue jay. Here are a few pictures. They hopped around a little and even flew (or wing-assisted jumped) from branch to branch on a small tree. The pictures are high resolution, so if you click on them, you'll see larger than life-sized details.

Juvenile Canada Goose

How quickly they grow up. Just last month, the goslings were yellow fluff balls. Now the juvenile Canada Goose is starting to look more like the adult.

Juvenile Robin

Well, it must be June. We are starting to see a variety of juvenile birds with different coloring than adult birds. Here is a Juvenile Robin.

Grackle feeding its offspring

This is our first baby sighting of the year. We always think it's amusing that baby birds seem to be the same size as their parents but are still demanding to be fed. These two entertained Chris for a while this AM.

Goslings

We thought that the Canada goose and gander mated for life and were ideal parents. However, this group of three adults with fourteen goslings has been showing up for about a week.

Mallard and Ducklings

We promise to stop posting pictures of Mallard ducklings soon. However, these were too cute. They've been coming out a dusk and tonight was the first dry day in a while.

Goslings and Ducklings

Some geese brought their goslings into our yard today. They left by way of the dock. We've also spotted some ducklings, but none have been very close. We do try to use the dock ourselves. Fortunately, the Canada Geese prefer Molsons to Corona. "Whitey" has been crashing our parties a bit.

Canada Goslings

The goslings are too cute not to photograph. We're glad the swan is still here too.

Canada Geese Babies

We've been waiting SOOOOO long, all winter in fact for the first goslings. They're here and they're cute. A short video is at http://www.new-jersey-birds.com/Goslings.mov.