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Mom!

Mom! Mom! & etc.

A hungry European starling chick (Sturnus vulgaris) in a saguaro cactus nest cavity, at the Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, Arizona.

Yellow No. 3.

Palo verde (Parkinsonia sp.), at the Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, Arizona.

Yellow No. 2.

Prickly pear blossoms (Opuntia sp.), at the Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, Arizona.

Yellow No. 1.

Golden columbine (Aquilegia chrysantha), at the Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, Arizona.

Pas de deux.

Assembly: A small flock of black-necked stilts (Himantopus mexicanus), at the Glendale Recharge Ponds, Glendale, Arizona.

Please click photo for an enlarged view.

Female great-tailed grackle (Quiscalus mexicanus) in the reeds at the Glendale Recharge Ponds, Glendale, Arizona.

Great-tailed grackle (Quiscalus mexicanus

♂), preening and posing after a bath, at the Glendale Recharge Ponds, Glendale, Arizona.

Untitled.

Side by side.

Size comparison of a snowy egret (Egretta thula) and great egret (Ardea alba), at the Glendale Recharge Ponds, Glendale, Arizona.