Bald Eagle, Herring Cove, Ketchikan, Alaska

Bald Eagle's nest: Dad flying, mom watching the two chicks on the left side of the image

Alaska portrait: black bear with a salmon, watched by a bald eagle

Great Horned Owl, Owlet, and lunch

White-tailed Kite prepares to eat the mouse it just caught off Powell in Emeryville

Fighting over fish -- a few moments before, the lower osprey was chomping, in the nest, on the fish brought by their mom. Then its sibling grabbed made a successful grab for the fish and flew to a nearby perch to eat, alone.

American White Pelicans fishing in a Lake Merritt Sunset

Burrowing Owl with its first meal of the evening - a Jerusalem Cricket - just delivered by its parent

Red-shouldered Hawk, digging in the coastal sand

Juvenile Red-shouldered Hawk practicing flying from a branch back to its nest

Young Mallard Ducklings

Contemplating the next leap forward

Very early flying lessons from Mom

Brown Pelican, heading for a fish

Brewer's Blackbird fledgling being fed by dad

Barn owl [Lindsay Wildlife Museum]

Black-Crowned Night Heron

Heron chick, demanding to be fed - from the Heron rockery across from the downtown Oakland Post Office

A neighbor, a bit older

Moments earlier, this Heron late teenage fledgling was demanding to be fed by its parent - this was the response

Burrowing Owl

Two Green Herons teenagers argue over a chuck of fish just passed by their parent

Gosling

Two Osprey youngsters who just learned to venture from their nest - the one in the air snuck up on the second and was mimicking capturing prey

Snowy Egret feeding its chick

Great Egret chicks - a parent is on the far right for comparison

Two Snowy Egret chicks beg for food from their parent

Please feed me, now!

Snowy Egret

Egret abstract

Snowy Egret

Three chicks at Point Lobos State Park