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	<title> &#187; Baby Animals</title>
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	<description>Bay Area Nature and Seattle Nature in Photos</description>
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		<title>Pelagic Family, On the Rocks</title>
		<link>http://www.thefreequark.com/2011/10/pelagic-family-on-the-rocks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefreequark.com/2011/10/pelagic-family-on-the-rocks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 06:22:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ingrid</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Baby Animals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cormorants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pacific Northwest]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[pelagic cormorants]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We passed this Pelagic Cormorant family (Phalacrocorax pelagicus) on one of the few isolated nesting spots near Vancouver Island (British Columbia). We were told that in the 1990s, rampant shoreline development eliminated important habitat for the cormorants. This rock island was one of a few ecological reserves the B.C. government set aside for the cormorants&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching the Kids to Forage</title>
		<link>http://www.thefreequark.com/2011/08/teaching-the-kids-to-forage/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefreequark.com/2011/08/teaching-the-kids-to-forage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 02:27:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ingrid</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animal Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baby Animals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Birds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gulls & Terns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seattle Faves]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Animal Behavior & Characteristics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ballard locks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[feeding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gulls]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[puget sound]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Juvenile gulls are as determined to get free food from their parents&#8211; as their parents are to wean them from the freebies. I&#8217;ve seen many adult gulls swimming or flapping away from their begging youngsters, forcing the juvies to forage on their own. I haven&#8217;t often watched a parent gull patiently teach the babies to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Under a Watchful Eye</title>
		<link>http://www.thefreequark.com/2011/05/canada-goose-and-goslings/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefreequark.com/2011/05/canada-goose-and-goslings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2011 07:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ingrid</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Baby Animals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Geese and Swans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[canada geese]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[goslings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lake union]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[seattle]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Happy Mother&#8217;s Day! Canada Goose parent and goslings, photographed at Lake Union in Seattle, Washington.]]></description>
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		<title>A Room With a View</title>
		<link>http://www.thefreequark.com/2010/07/black-capped-chickadee-baby/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefreequark.com/2010/07/black-capped-chickadee-baby/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 08:09:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ingrid</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Baby Animals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Perching Birds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[baby birds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chickadee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[passerine]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefreequark.com/?p=6479</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever since I saw my first Screech Owl hunkered down in the saddle of an oak, I&#8217;ve given extra scrutiny to tree hollows in the woodlands, looking for a bird face peeking out. Our friend in darn-near-the-middle-of-nowhere California found such a face &#8212; in a cavity nest in her backyard &#8212; a yard that literally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parenting, Avocet Style</title>
		<link>http://www.thefreequark.com/2010/06/parenting-avocet-style/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefreequark.com/2010/06/parenting-avocet-style/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 19:19:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ingrid</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Baby Animals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shorebirds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[american avocets]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefreequark.com/?p=6376</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[American Avocet = Recurvirostra americana These images of American Avocets were shot over the past two nesting seasons. I&#8217;m particularly careful when photographing nesting birds or young, and will not intrude if my presence causes any disturbance or danger. Most of these photos were captured at Palo Alto Baylands, from a public pathway. The burnt [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ari the Falcon Fledges</title>
		<link>http://www.thefreequark.com/2010/05/ari-the-falcon-fledges/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefreequark.com/2010/05/ari-the-falcon-fledges/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 23:46:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ingrid</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Baby Animals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Raptors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fledglings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[peregrine falcons]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefreequark.com/?p=6035</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The San Francisco falcons growing up on a ledge at the PG&#038;E building in San Francisco are fledging. Palladin took off a few days ago and at last report, was perched atop a nearby structure. This is recently uploaded video of another baby, Ari, taking that first leap off the ledge. You can fast forward [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Case of the Fledgling Gull</title>
		<link>http://www.thefreequark.com/2009/08/the-case-of-the-fledgling-gull/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefreequark.com/2009/08/the-case-of-the-fledgling-gull/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 23:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ingrid</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animal Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baby Animals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gulls & Terns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[feeding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gulls]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[juveniles]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefreequark.com/?p=2345</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A short photo series, as I encountered it. A young gull waits for its parent. Parent arrives, gull follows behind and calls out for minutes on end. Juvenile gets more aggressive, tries for some food from a familiar source. The end. Gulls do wean their young but may continue feeding even older juveniles if the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Swoops the Blackbird &#8211; Exhibit A in &#8220;Mobbing&#8221; Behavior</title>
		<link>http://www.thefreequark.com/2009/06/swoops-the-blackbird-in-action/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefreequark.com/2009/06/swoops-the-blackbird-in-action/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 03:52:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ingrid</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animal Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baby Animals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Birds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[babies]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Blackbirds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[brewer's blackbirds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fledlings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nests]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefreequark.com/2009/06/13/swoops-the-blackbird-in-action/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I snapped this on the weekend before national t.v. crews showed up to fuel the celebrity of Swoops the Blackbird. (Click on the image for the larger Flickr version.) ©ingridtaylar Swoops, a Brewer&#8217;s Blackbird with a nest of young to protect, perches on the awnings overlooking his brood and buzzes pedestrians who venture too close [...]]]></description>
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		<title>San Francisco&#8217;s Peregrine Falcons &amp; Fledglings</title>
		<link>http://www.thefreequark.com/2009/06/update-on-san-franciscos-peregrine-falcons-and-fledglings/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefreequark.com/2009/06/update-on-san-franciscos-peregrine-falcons-and-fledglings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 06:55:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ingrid</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Baby Animals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Raptors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rescue & Rehab]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefreequark.com/?p=907</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally posted in June of 2009, this piece deals with the new fledglings on top of San Francisco's PG&#038;E Building, but also with general issues of wildlife survival and human interaction.

<a href="http://www.thefreequark.com/2009/06/update-on-san-franciscos-peregrine-falcons-and-fledglings/">[read the full post ...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>R.I.P. &#8220;Hi&#8221; &#8211; San Francisco&#8217;s Young Peregrine Falcon</title>
		<link>http://www.thefreequark.com/2009/05/san-francisco-peregrine-falcon-chicks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefreequark.com/2009/05/san-francisco-peregrine-falcon-chicks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 04:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ingrid</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Baby Animals]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Raptors]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefreequark.com/?p=783</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This video compresses days 20 to 32 in the lives of three Peregrine Falcon eyasses (chicks) nesting in the PG&#038;E building in downtown San Francisco. See photos and visual logs of the young San Francisco Peregrines in local photographer Glenn Nevill&#8217;s Raptor Galleries. And learn more about the Peregrine Falcon research at the website of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Canada Goslings Getting No Respect</title>
		<link>http://www.thefreequark.com/2009/05/canada-goose-goslings/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefreequark.com/2009/05/canada-goose-goslings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 07:04:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ingrid</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Baby Animals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Geese and Swans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[canada goose]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefreequark.com/2009/05/they-grow-up-to-be-canada-geese/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you're a Canada Goose gosling in a public park, don't count on too much respect. On this day, I stopped by one of my favorite bay-side walking spots and saw before me a flock of goslings. It was an enormous flock of babies interspersed with adults -- like a National Geographic image of a giant penguin colony . . .

<a href="http://www.thefreequark.com/2009/05/canada-goose-goslings/">[read the full post ...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Candid Falcon-Cam in San Francisco</title>
		<link>http://www.thefreequark.com/2009/05/peregrine-falcon-camera-in-san-francisco/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefreequark.com/2009/05/peregrine-falcon-camera-in-san-francisco/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 21:11:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ingrid</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Baby Animals]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefreequark.com/?p=373</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you tune into UCSC&#8217;s Peregrine Nest Cam while the youngsters are stumbling over themselves, it might be tough to connect these awkward chicks to their agile parents &#8212; who happen to be the fastest birds in the skies. Peregrine Falcons are also the speediest creatures on the planet. Their stoop (diving) speeds can exceed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baylands Babies</title>
		<link>http://www.thefreequark.com/2009/04/palo-alto-baylands-baby-birds/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefreequark.com/2009/04/palo-alto-baylands-baby-birds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 21:29:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ingrid</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[wetlands]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photos of American Avocet chicks and parents, as well as Canada Geese and goslings at Palo Alto Baylands - San Francisco Bay, California.]]></description>
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