Hungry Baby Birds

Yesterday David took these pictures of a red-bellied woodpecker in the garden.

He is quite a frequent visitor at present, collecting food from the suet feeders and passing it on to his 'baby' offspring, who is almost as large as he is!

Today a large grackle was on the feeder, whilst his baby - again large - waited patiently on the decking rail to be fed ..

There are so many young birds around at present.  They can look quite helpless like this Carolina Wren - I thought it had flown into the window and was hurt..

But it was just being cute and helpless to encourage its parent bird to come and feed it....

The interactions between the parent and baby birds are great to watch but so hard to capture!