Teach Your Children

HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
edited October 29, 2009 in Wildlife
Hi Y'all,

One of the pleasures of living in this area is the opportunity to view the development of the young Sandhill Cranes. Here's a few images taken earlier this year of a set of parent sandhills and their chick.


the chick watches as the parent forages
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the parent gives its find to the chick
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Sandhills keep their young close by. When both parents are present the chick usually has one parent in front of it and one behind it.
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paying close attention
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two weeks later you can how the chick has grown
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the parents are still teaching the chick to forage
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the big difference now is that the chick is beginning to forage a bit on its own, with close supervision of course.
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One of the parents comes over to supply some guidance. The chick hasn't noticed yet that the other parent is holding a snack for it.
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before long the chick takes the offered snack
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then its back to its "lessons" as it watches a parent forage
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Harry
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  • IraRunyanIraRunyan Registered Users Posts: 1,013 Major grins
    edited October 18, 2009
    Great set, Harry! When I opened the post, I was expecting you to be giving advice on eduicating my childern.. wings.gif
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  • alexfalexf Registered Users Posts: 436 Major grins
    edited October 18, 2009
    Great shots Harry!
    Amazing how fast they grow.
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  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Major grins Rockledge, FL on the Space CoastPosts: 0 Major grins
    edited October 18, 2009
    Wonderful series Harry. I love seeing the way they are educating their growing chick.

    Oh, the captures are great too :D
  • bhowdybhowdy Registered Users Posts: 658 Major grins
    edited October 18, 2009
    Excellent series Harry. thumb.gif
    I can hear the parent Sandies now .... "Don't put that in your mouth ... Put that down!" "Oh good grief ... what have you got in your mouth now?"
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  • ElaineElaine Registered Users Posts: 3,532 Major grins
    edited October 18, 2009
    Love this whole series, but especially #1! clap.gif
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  • annaelycmannaelycm Registered Users Posts: 88 Big grins
    edited October 18, 2009
    Great set Harry! I love sandhill cranes. I love the intensity with which the chick is watching its parents and learning to forage.
    Thanks for sharing.
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  • Ric GrupeRic Grupe Registered Users Posts: 9,522 Major grins
    edited October 18, 2009
    CSNY was what I thought of from the title.mwink.gif

    Very interesting post and shots, Harry.thumb.gif

    Sandhills are really a pleasure to watch.
  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited October 18, 2009
    IraRunyan wrote:
    Great set, Harry! When I opened the post, I was expecting you to be giving advice on eduicating my childern.. wings.gif

    Thanks Ira and I've seen many human parents who could get some child rearing tips from our sandhills.
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  • dlplumerdlplumer Registered Users Posts: 8,081 Major grins
    edited October 18, 2009
    clap.gifclap.gifclap.gif Terrific series Harry.bowdown.gif
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  • Mark EdellMark Edell Registered Users Posts: 672 Major grins
    edited October 18, 2009
    outstanding! Love them all clap.gif
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited October 19, 2009
    alexf wrote:
    Great shots Harry!
    Amazing how fast they grow.

    Thanks Alex. They sure do grow fast. Its always fun to watch them develop.
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited October 19, 2009
    Jim K wrote:
    Wonderful series Harry. I love seeing the way they are educating their growing chick.

    Oh, the captures are great too :D

    Thaks Jim
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  • dlsdls Registered Users Posts: 385 Major grins
    edited October 19, 2009
    Ric Grupe wrote:
    CSNY was what I thought of from the title.mwink.gif

    Very interesting post and shots, Harry.thumb.gif

    Sandhills are really a pleasure to watch.

    ditto. nice series. thanks for sharing!
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited October 20, 2009
    Elaine wrote:
    Love this whole series, but especially #1! clap.gif

    Glad you enjoyed them Elaine.
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited October 20, 2009
    annaelycm wrote:
    Great set Harry! I love sandhill cranes. I love the intensity with which the chick is watching its parents and learning to forage.
    Thanks for sharing.

    Thanks Anna, Its alway a pleasure to watch the sandhills with their young. They are so protective and patient with them. They are much better with the young than I am. :D
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited October 21, 2009
    Ric Grupe wrote:
    CSNY was what I thought of from the title.mwink.gif

    Very interesting post and shots, Harry.thumb.gif

    Sandhills are really a pleasure to watch.

    Thanks Ric.

    Being a big CSNY fan I stole that title from them.

    About 35 years ago Crosby and Nash did a fund raising concert for a group I was working with, the Vietnam Veterans Adainst the War. As was our practice in those days we got fairly high before the concert. C&N were in the middle of "Wooden Ships" before a rapt audience. Then one fairly zonked out vet calls out in the almost silent hall, "Which one is Garfunkel"?
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  • dlplumerdlplumer Registered Users Posts: 8,081 Major grins
    edited October 21, 2009
    Teach your children well, their father's hell, did slowly go by......

    I have started listening to them again. One of my favorite all time groups.iloveyou.gif
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  • Ric GrupeRic Grupe Registered Users Posts: 9,522 Major grins
    edited October 21, 2009
    dlplumer wrote:
    Teach your children well, their father's hell, did slowly go by......

    iloveyou.gif

    You who are on the road
    Must have a code that you can live by
    And so become yourself
    Because the past is just a good-bye.
    Teach your children well,
    Their father's hell did slowly go by,
    And feed them on your dreams
    The one they picks, the one you'll know by.
    Don't you ever ask them why, if they told you, you will cry,
    So just look at them and sigh
    and know they love you.

    And you, of tender years,
    Can't know the fears that your elders grew by,
    And so please help them with your youth,
    They seek the truth before they can die.

    Teach your parents well,
    Their children's hell will slowly go by,
    And feed them on your dreams
    The one they picks, the one you'll know by.

    Don't you ever ask them why, if they told you, you will cry,
    So just look at them and sigh and know they love you.


    I just listened to it. I think I caught a buzz!!!
  • Ric GrupeRic Grupe Registered Users Posts: 9,522 Major grins
    edited October 21, 2009
    Harryb wrote:
    Thanks Ric.

    Being a big CSNY fan I stole that title from them.

    About 35 years ago Crosby and Nash did a fund raising concert for a group I was working with, the Vietnam Veterans Adainst the War. As was our practice in those days we got fairly high before the concert. C&N were in the middle of "Wooden Ships" before a rapt audience. Then one fairly zonked out vet calls out in the almost silent hall, "Which one is Garfunkel"?
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    I think all of the guys I knew like that are no more!

    I really feel sorry for these RAP kids.
  • luisvluisv Registered Users Posts: 132 Major grins
    edited October 23, 2009
    Great series, Harry!
    I loved #1, #3 and #4.

    Cheers,
    --
    Luis
  • raptorcaptorraptorcaptor Registered Users Posts: 3,968 Major grins
    edited October 23, 2009
    Awesome set, Harry!

    Love the POV on the first couple!
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  • riddim_makerriddim_maker Registered Users Posts: 1,835 Major grins
    edited October 25, 2009
    Wow! Glad I dropped in to see how things are going around here mwink.gif
    Great set Harry, very informative and magnificently illustrated.
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited October 26, 2009
    dlplumer wrote:
    clap.gifclap.gifclap.gif Terrific series Harry.bowdown.gif


    Thanks Dan wave.gif
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited October 28, 2009
    Mark Edell wrote:
    outstanding! Love them all clap.gif

    Glad you enjoyed them Mark.
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  • Hikin' MikeHikin' Mike Registered Users Posts: 5,467 Major grins
    edited October 29, 2009
    My kids liked them too! thumb.gif
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