WILD BIRD WEDNESDAY "The Young Ones" on Copeland Island in June (8)

While I was on the Copeland Island in June, I came across 3 nearly fledged chick and also a Herring Gull being born.  Today I will show you the photos I managed to shot. Firstly, there are always 2 Ringed Plovers on the island but on the Saturday I could only see one parent at a time, however on Sunday just before the boat came to take us home, I went back and both parents were together so I scarred the pebble beach and eventually spotted the newly fledged chick.  I was delighted as I had never seen one before. 

Ringed Plover chick.

Can you see the chick?  This shot above is fully zoomed in on my camera.

All the other photographs are cropped heavily!

There are a small number of Pied Wagtail that nest on the island and I had seen some parents but from the kitchen window I saw a young one so ran out and captured these photographs.

My next find was a newly fledged Oystercatcher which I saw several times however only managed to capture in a few still and video once (at end of the shots in this post),  There are quite a number of pairs of Oystercatchers nest on the island and these first shots are of this adult who is not the parent of the chick.  They were taken in a different area of the island and I think she was trying to protect her nest.

Oystercatcher chick.

Lastly I saw one of the Herring Gull chicks being born.  

You will see that on the video.

I have a short video of the Oystercatcher and chick and a Herring Gull being born which can be accessed at

http://youtu.be/nkr8wpg0-kg

If there is a black space below, click it and the video will appear.

I hope you enjoyed seeing these “young ones” as much as I did finding and photographing them. 

I am linking this post with WILD BIRD WEDNESDAY.

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