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The parent is removing excrement from the nest to keep it clean.A crop (and Topaz sharpening) of the bottom picture in Post #31765 above:
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...it looks as though what I referred to as 'stuff' in #31765 is, upon closer inspection, the remains of one of the youngsters (?).
At least three little ones survived and have now apparently left the nest.
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Some more from our young peregrins.
Now all three started leaving their eyrie.
They do short flight trips and return to their nest again.
Now all three started leaving their eyrie.
They do short flight trips and return to their nest again.
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Nothing interesting today: several Northern Cardinals, House Finches and Red-billed Leiothrix.
Next one is devouring "green beans" (fruit of Kiawe - Mesquite. I love and hate that tree: best for smoking/barbecuing beef etc and thorns able to penetrate any thin-sole shoe!
The Red-billed Leiothrix was playing "hide-and-seek" game today: you can hear many of them singing high in the canopy (beginning of the breeding season?) but the birds that were feeding in the brush were very skittish and hiding in the shade...
Next one is devouring "green beans" (fruit of Kiawe - Mesquite. I love and hate that tree: best for smoking/barbecuing beef etc and thorns able to penetrate any thin-sole shoe!
The Red-billed Leiothrix was playing "hide-and-seek" game today: you can hear many of them singing high in the canopy (beginning of the breeding season?) but the birds that were feeding in the brush were very skittish and hiding in the shade...
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They just don't like a bright sunlight (except when singing during the breeding season: then they are perched high on the trees and don't mind the direct sunlight! On overcast day with plenty of diffuse light you can get them more exposed. Otherwise they are pretty curious and use to pop up from the brush to see what camera/lens do you use - like in my case today 
!I have rather big collection of them - pretty/cute birds and it's hard to resist taking a photo!
The photos below are old - taken in better days...
!I have rather big collection of them - pretty/cute birds and it's hard to resist taking a photo!The photos below are old - taken in better days...
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Beautiful! Thanks for sharing.They just don't like a bright sunlight (except when singing during the breeding season: then they are perched high on the trees and don't mind the direct sunlight! On overcast day with plenty of diffuse light you can get them more exposed. Otherwise they are pretty curious and use to pop up from the brush to see what camera/lens do you use - like in my case today
The photos below are old - taken in better days...
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This is exceptionally rare for our region, a Redbacked Shrike, just an occasional sighting in the country and they do not breed here. The bird was so far away it occupied only a 100px100px square of the 45 Mpx sensor with 800mm in front. I couldn't see it with the naked eye and was pointed in the right direction by a birder with a powerful 'scope.
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