Source: Fabulously Weird: A Jacana carrying chicks underneath its wings. Photo by Charl Stols Photography. Jacana Prime Time…With the floods arriving on the Chobe River fields of waterlilies and other water plants are forming, the nesting grounds for the African Jacana. Some of the males are still incubating the eggs while others have their hands or feathers full with looking after the chicks. In this image a male is carrying all four chicks under his wings just leaving their long legs and toes exposed. (Image taken on the Chobe River, Kasane, Botswana)
Incredibly funny and extraordinary…. thanks for the smile (I did figure it out…. am very proud of myself!)
I didn’t. Lost and clueless again!
Doesn’t matter…. you need your brain for the more important stuff!
Great answer!
Nature. Miracle. All of it.
Absolutely…. nature is best (and often best left alone).
Thanks for the regular posts. Keeping me sain through isolation and no sport at the weekends to look forward too 😭
So glad. Here’s to peace and health for you and your body Joel.
mind-blower
It is!
Legs aside, I’m still trying to work out how in the heck he keeps all those little types tucked up in there. What the heck are they doin’, swinging from a feather? Amazing photo, pal.
I thought the same Lori. Incredible.
Is that the Coronavirus? 😂😷
Where is your head? Your Mind? You are the soothing one. Come on!!!!
It’s a joke 😏
🤘
Ok – this wins the weird Mother Nature award
Sure does!
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Wow!! … A Jacana carrying chicks underneath its wings. Photo by Charl Stols Photography. Jacana Prime Time … In this image a male is carrying all four chicks under his wings just leaving their long legs and toes exposed! … Nature is amazing!!
Nature is Amazing!
Whenever the 3.5 yr old toggles the fellow insane toddler in the 2 middle kids — screaming, racing, crashing, thumping and knocking frames off the walls x 3 — I will come back to this photo and think, “Things could be worse!” How amusing it is! <3
Laughing. Truth!
Appreciating Mother Nature: Birds are marvelous–a marvel for us!
Talk about adaptability–a lesson for all of us….
They really are amazing!
freaky!!!!!!!!
Isn’t it though, but wonderful….
I’ll bet it’s cozy in there.
Ha! I can feel the warmth!
I’ve seen quail do this but not actually walking, just kind of standing there brooding the chicks. They have found amazing ways of solving ordinary problems. I’ve never seen one of these jacanas but they have interesting design.
Wow! Its harx to find his legs in that tangle.
amazing photo; hidden in plain sight…
Sure is.
Oh my gosh, I thought you were going to tell us there is another “morphing” virus out there. Thankfully it’s only Papa bird carrying the chicks!! Amazing photo 🙂
I thought the same when I first so the photo. And then it swept me away. Have a great weekend.
What a beautiful bird, David; and how astonishing is this behaviour!
Wonders never cease… 🙂
So agree!
Wow!
Love the photo, great colors too! Take care…