It's never not fascinating! What a beautiful heron💖!

chiks couldn't eat bcoz fish was too big

Guatita llena corazon contento!!! Asi dice el refran.

Aca nada de darle en la boquita.A comer solos se ha dicho!!!

La madre los obseva...QUE VOY HACER CON TANTO RUIDO!!!!!!

La madte debe estar loca con ese bullicio de alegria imagino yo.

Sus chaquitas hermosas las hacen danzar al viento. El bullicio tambien es hermoso!!!

Se paso de hermoso!!! Es vida señores!!!

You would think the parent would beak apart the larger fish into smaller pieces to make it easier for their chicks to eat!

The sounds these little spazoids make is deafening and annoying but they are fascinating to watch nonetheless!

São muito lindinhos e unidos

Que vídeo incrível, obrigada por compartilhar

Hard to believe they can swallow bones without choking, their throats must be iron clad!

These chicks are smart eaters!

This is the first video I've seen Heron chicks peck the fish into easy to swallow pieces! I've watched several Herons on the nest videos and never seen this!

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How beautiful ❤️

Pájaro tonto! Les da pescados muy grandes que los pichones no pueden comer. Al final, se quedan con hambre

🥰🥰🥰❤️❤️❤️💋💋💋

Ok...I have easily seen 45+ videos of heron chicks feeding in the nest with mom with at least 3-4 chicks present. Never, and I mean NEVER, have I ever seen in any of those previous videos a group of heron chicks who were being fed, and subsequently feeding, in what appeared to be an almost completely CIVILIZED manner. I was shocked, to say the least. Normally, the chicks are ALL incessantly harassing mom by stroking their beaks up and down hers...and aside from when sleeping, the chicks will do this act non-stop to encourage mom to drop as much food as possible. This 'beak-stroking' is what stimulates the mother to regurgitate food from her crop, which she placed there specifically for her chicks while feeding. The chicks never stroked mom's beak after that very first time in order to get meal time going. Once the food was dropped, there was VERY LITTLE conflict between the sibling chicks. Typically, the chicks will feed as quickly as they possibly can to prevent their siblings from gaining any extra food. While feeding, mom came down multiple times to pick-up some of the fish she had previously dropped. Seeing that the pieces were either too large, or perhaps noticing that the chicks were quickly slowing down their food attack, she fed these pieces back to herself. Not once did any of her chicks protest this nor did they act possessive or combative as the food previously dropped for them was now being taken back. There was no fighting amongst the siblings, nor did I see any instances of 'food stealing.' I had serious concerns that the runt of the litter would get even a single piece of food once the food orgy began. You will often see the larger chicks push them down to the bottom of the nest, or push them aside altogether, which can single-handedly prevent a smaller, weaker chick from eating substantively yet again. The other issue with the smallest chick is the often large pieces of food that the smallest chick cannot swallow wholly. Any attempts to do so will cause the chick to lose out on most of the meal as they struggle the entire time just to get something with at least some substance in their body. Also, during this struggle, these small chicks will literally exhaust themselves physically to the point they almost collapse with food still in their mouths. Once a larger, foodless sibling sees this, they will zone right in and steal the food right from the runt's mouth. By this time, the lack of any consistent nutrition, along with overworking themselves physically to try and eat anything has completely sapped them of any strength in hopes of warding of a fight. In the end, I don't know if I'm happy in seeing such a development, or just completely shocked. Was this a complete one-off, or is it a normal occurrence for this mom and her chicks?

Cute little monsters

She needs to teach those chicks to be quiet!

Is that the babies or the adult making that noise?

I'm not trying to diet-shame the mother heron, but that food doesn't look that appetizing. Maybe I little variety might help. Maybe some lizards, frogs, mice or something.

Que belezinha

Too big the food the baby

Sweet! I'm hoping to capture video like this some day. I did make a video pictorial on birds at Lake Apopka Wildlife Drive in Apopka, Florida. Anyone can check it out here. kzbin.info/www/bejne/mqrUhoh3iLZqmKs

Natural video

What's for dinner? Puke!

I like this bird feed baby cos she keep more food in her mouth and then give her babies.

This bird very smaill cos they can take food in thier stomuch and then give their kids when they get rest.good mum

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Thank you, suinmarin - I can't follow these lovely owls at the moment due to other commitments, so I value your videos :)

I wish the camera was capturing from right angle

It seems that the chicks need training on how to pick up the fish and swallow it. They are overlooking the little fish. I've only seen one chick swallow a whole fish.

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Why do the mother kill her own birds

Even with herons the runt chicks are a pain in the ass. Here, the runt (#5) winds up getting the most fish simply by sitting there and eating what it could tear off it after the larger chicks tried to eat it whole and failed. Doing that softened the fish meat up for #5, who then went to town on it until another chick tried to swallow it again. Since they didn't swallow any fish whole, they only ended up getting some small pieces before the adult ate the fish whole. #5 usually does this kind of stuff and often winds up getting far more food than the other chicks, who focus on the largest fish/food while #5 goes after food it can actually eat. Not sure what happened to #5 in this nest, usually in this type with 4 or more chicks, chick #2 will act as the enforcer and attack the smaller chicks, trying to kill them or force them out of the nest and off the food. #2 acts as a sort of assassin for #1, who generally doesn't attack the smaller chicks but focuses on eat large fish.

Thanks pulchritude at your endeavors.

Fascinating !!....Wonder why the parent took the fish back,,,,,,maybe to predigest them a bit more, for the chicks....

Super capture, thank you for sharing... and I had just downloaded this stream for 2 days then stopped as I had too many cams going. Dang!

Thanks for uploading!! Is there some information about Lotte and their only '"child'" this season? How is Lotte doing? Did she got well after she had an incident and did their child get in to real life? Thanks for your time!

What a coincidence! I am working on this at this very moment, I downloaded many hours of the 2 cams yesterday and managed to find one owl on Cam2, then found the sound on Cam1. I am trying to put them together - but we don't see the 2 owls together, unfortunately. What wonderful cams these are :-)

Thank you! Glad to see her leg looks better, I hope it is fully healed :-) Oh! I realise now that this is Leo. Oh well, at least we can hear Lotte and she sounds good ;-)

Ist das schon wieder eine Balz? Oder hat der eine Uhu Futter und will nichts abgeben?

Ich freue mich, dass es den Beiden so gut geht! Anscheinend sind die Junguhus noch viel zusammen unterwegs?

super :-) ich gönne es little

Leo ist einfach "entzückend" :-)

Danke, dass ihr die euch die Mühe macht und die Szenen ins Netz stellt:!!!

Very nice! What part of the island is this?