This morning I saw a Green Heron on the southern part of Rice's Pond.

The other thing I saw that I had never seen before was a Yellow Warbler 
feediing insects to  a fledgling Red-winged Blackbird.  I asked Ken Pals about 
this and he said this was not unusual.  I look at it as an example of 
compassion in the natural world,  cross species compassion.  Ken says that  it 
is an instinct that when a bird sees an open mouth he or she will feed it.  The 
Yellow Warbler in this photo is probably a female. 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kingbird42/7610417962/


I would be interested hearing from others who have seen other examples of this 
phenomenon of cross species nurturing.

Gary Koehn
Colorado Springs

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