Young birds are a common sight at the moment, be it clamouring brown starlings beseiging harassed parents, dead young blackbirds by the roadside or mallard ducklings being herded by their mother as they forage in every direction. Then there are the crows. On consecutive days we came upon these two. The first is a young jackdaw that hasn't yet shed all its downy feathers or lost its coloured gape. It let me approach dangerously close in Bosbury churchyard for my shot. So too did this young carrion crow, one of two unkempt looking youngsters calling for food from their parents. The latter wouldn't go to them when we were so close and eventually the youngsters realised this and went further away to be fed.
photo 1 © T. Boughen Camera: Nikon D5300
photo 2 © T. Boughen Camera: Lumix FZ1000 2
