Photo Competition June: Baby or Juvenile Animals in TGO

Question

Rules that are always applicable are as follows:

1. One photo per answer, and no more than 5 answers per user per contest**

2. Post only photos taken by yourself/person with you

3. All entries should include a line of text with the location, subject, and date

4. Refrain from posting sensitive/debatable content

Rules for June are as follows:

1. Baby or Juvenile Animals - Baby or juvenile animals in TGO, alone or with their mothers or with other animals, but focus on the baby or juvenile. The contest excludes house pets and caged animals. People allowed, but should be ancillary to the main subject

2. The contest will last the whole month of June and to be clear, we use UTC, just like the site itself

3. There is no constraint on when the photo must have been taken

Rule #4, Added on 06/26: Any future downvotes disallowed. All the entries are legitimate according to the rules, thus there is no basis for "disagreeing" with any of the entries. No entry is "not useful" or "not helpful". ________________________________________________________________________

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1. Leave a single comment below in the format THEME - ONE SENTENCE DESCRIPTION

2. I added suggestions from previous months.

3. Upvote the comment(s) with the theme you would like to see next month.

Good Luck!

Answer 1

Northern Sweden, August 2014. The other reindeer that didn't see us peeking around the rock.

Answer 2

This is a baby wallaby with its mother. I took this photo while visiting the Kuranda Koala Garden near Cairns, Australia.

Date: July 15, 2015

Answer 3

Juvenile marine iguanas climbing on what is presumably the mother. Picture taken in December 2016 in Puerto Ayora, Galápagos Islands.

Answer 4

Three young elephants following the safari group in Kaziranga National Park, India in June 2018.

A bonus is the baby rhino with its mother in the background.

(unedited)

Answer 5

This one's a surprise treat, just minutes ago.

The Wobbly Fawn

June 20, 2019, Northwest USA.

I think he's a late comer, as the fawns are all a month or two old now. I guess he's only a week or less. He could barely walk, and didn't even notice me until I was 10 feet from him.

Answer 6

This is a baby red squirrel born in our back yard in Massachusetts, USA. It's so small that the whole thing fits on a regular sized hose nozzle!

I took the picture on July 8, 2017.

Answer 7

Killdeer fledgling

Taken June 7, 2019 in Northwestern USA.

These birds are fun to watch. They nest and fledge in open fields, where both parents spend 99% of the time with the chicks. They're easy to find but hard to photograph because they are very fast even at only a week old. When you get close to hatchlings or fledglings one or both of the parents tries to get your attention by pretending to be injured, laying flat on the ground making an injured call, and flailing their wings. If you draw close, it jumps up and flies another forty feet away from the chicks and does it again. It can be quite a show.

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^{Originally submitted picture was not as good, which was taken only an hour earlier. I got lucky and got this new picture of a much younger fledgling that I could actually catch.}

Answer 8

Photo taken in Hydepark, London, UK, 4 May 2013.
Free to use.

I am not sure about the kind of goose but I have an other photo of this same young with an adult bird an Egyptian goose, so I assume that they are the same kind.

Answer 9

These cute-little Bar-headed goose would follow their mother everywhere.

Picture taken on July 2018, at Tso Moriri 4,522 m/14,836 ft.

Answer 10

Juvenile bobcat I had cross a biking trail in front of me in Colorado last week.

Answer 11

Juvenile lion after having wildebeest for breakfast, Serengeti National Park, Tanzania, 2012-08-31

Answer 12

Unidentified Juvenile Skink

Taken May, 2019 in Northwestern USA.

When I was a kid turning up rocks every three days, I would find one of these every once in a while. I didn't realize they were juveniles until I found this monster last month:

Both were just chilling in my garden, eating bugs and grubs. I found the juvenile again a week later (I assume the same one because he was in the same garden shed) and he was twice as big and shedding skin. I didn't photograph it though.

Answer 13

Blue Jay Fledgling

Taken April, 2018 in Northwestern USA

Answer 14

Mallard ducklings I found last year in a city pond.

Answer 15

This is a nestling house sparrow just getting ready to go out into the world. Daddy's keeping a watchful eye from a tree by the box. I took the picture two days ago, on June 11, 2019. This baby wasn't quite ready, and has spent the last few days going to the entrance and back, and retreating into the nest for the night. Daddy is coming and going. (By this point in the process, Mom has moved on, presumably to build the next nest. Daddy will do all the care now and for the first few weeks after the birds fledge, until they can be on their own.)

At any time in the nesting process, humans can bring danger and cause stress for the birds. Getting too close during this phase can literally mean the difference between life and death for the whole family.

Last year we scared a nestling out of the nest just before fledging time. It bumped into a table and perished. It was heartbreaking!

We've kept our distance, and don't know the status of this or the other potential birds in that nest.

This picture was taken by me, using a zoom lens on an inexpensive camera from inside the house by a window. That's why it's so blurry!

Answer 16

Dangerous little animals - distance ~5 ft from cellphone in hand, seven from my face.

First view from behind and second shot a few seconds later from the side. Yesterday, Vancouver BC Canada, 0200 hours.

Answer 17

Somewhere along Cha-Am beach. Picture taken in July of 2017.

I'm not sure what we're seeing here but I like to think the larger shell contains the parent animal and the smaller one (on top in the smaller shell) is their offspring.