Clearly, he’s embarrassed by his inability to climb on Mama’s back and he’s hiding his head in shame.

-Yvonne Motherwell
Meridian, ID

It does yell a lot for food.

Denise Hughes
Caldwell, Idaho

Yeah, call it “grown kid still living in their parent’s basement syndrome.” That looks like a baby that’s taking growing up rather hard . . .

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Wow — this is a good one! I agree with Elizabeth about the opening notes being Vesper Sparrow like – though my experience is the Vesper Sparrows around here stopped singing some time back. I am not sure about catbird — they don’t seem to repeat the same note several times in a row, more up and down variation (or whatever the correct term is.) I can go with Bewick’s Wren though I am most familiar with what has been called the “Rotary Dial Phone” vocalizations like at: https://www.xeno-canto.org/647162.  But, as everyone tells me: “Bewick’s Wrens have a song for every month of the year except May when they use them all”.

Scott

Thanks.

Thanks Dean.

Does anyone know what this young grebe is doing? I’ve noticed this a few times in the last couple of weeks. It tried to climb on its parent’s back with no success. Then it put it’s head down behind the adult.

Denise Hughes
Caldwell, Idaho