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Category: Just Call Me MAM Just Call Me MAM
Published: 17 July 2019 17 July 2019

Photos and Comments Courtesy of Ellie George via Caroline Baldwin

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The chicks are thriving, and are not even a month old yet but look bigger than their age. The parents continue to stuff them with small fish, and I rarely hear the chicks beg. Instead of racing to the parent who has just caught a fish, the chicks wait for the parent to bring the fish to them, and even then sometimes need some encouragement to take it. “Gee, Mom, do I really have to eat another minnow?” The chicks are lucky to have such great parents and to live in a lake with a large food supply. Now if they can just avoid all the motor boats. . .

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