Saturday, July 23, 2011

Mockingbirds


I was watering the trees between the Newington Public School and the Fire Department when I noticed some mockingbirds in the flowering pear tree by the side entrance. You can see both adults in the three in this first picture.

In the second picture you can see four chicks with their beaks open. They seemed pretty stressed. It was still about 98 degrees, down from 102 earlier in the day. You can see their mouths open ~ hopefully because they are hungry and not due to dehydration.

1 comment:

Justin Richardson said...

Nest was destroyed by some kids who put asphalt in it. That's really too bad. Apparently there was other damage at the school. All the sand box toys were broken, school was written on with chalk etc.