![A Juvenile Saffron Finch looks out from its nest in Hawaii](https://grahamsisland.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/juvenile-saffron-finch.jpg?w=700)
I saw this juvenile Saffron Finch looking out from its nest under a roof. It will not be too long before it makes the great leap forward and hopes those wings really work. In the meantime, it was suitably suspicious of the odd-looking creature watching it.
Posted for Becky’s Squares: Move Forward, Reconstruct, Renew, and/or are Burgeoning. See more responses here.
What a poignant image of the little bird. It looks watchful and hopeful all at the same time. Makes one think about what it must be like to step (or fly?) out of the nest for the first time.
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I’ve seen quite a few early flying attempts and it’s a miracle that any of them survive!
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It really is miraculous – in many ways they are so fragile, in addition to being so ungainly in those first flights!
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Suitably suspicious on both ends!
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Definitely wary!
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What a face of contempt for the interference in its day
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I think contempt is a little harsh. The youngsters in the roof spend a fair part of their day looking out, waiting for their parents to return with food. As Jo said, he looks vulnerable to me.
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Maybe if you made it a sandwich 😂
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Egg salad OK?
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👍😁
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It looks kind of vulnerable.
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Well it is. It probably knows it’s a dangerous world out there.
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Great photo, Graham! Pretty bird. Our Phoebes are close to pledging too. We have to be on the look out…we have a bird dog.
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The youngsters are easy prey, but I guess that’s part of the process.
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awww isn’t it cute – hope its first few days when it fledges go well. On Monday when visiting my mother I spied a fledgling that have flown into her greenhouse. I did get it out but I thought not a great start for it
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Today at work, and young African Silverbill did a good impression of a bumper car, crashing into things left, right, and center, before landing on the lawn!
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oh dear! Hope it has a better day today
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Well, it survived so that’s still a pretty good day!
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Excellent photo.
Yeah, it won’t be long before leaving the nest.
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Glad you liked it Liz.
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