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Phil Douglis | all galleries >> Galleries >> Gallery Eighty-four: Documentary photography – observing a miracle of nature > Trio, Phoenix, Arizona, April 2012
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25-APR-2012

Trio, Phoenix, Arizona, April 2012

The two surviving nestlings stand with a parent near the edge of the nest, already beginning to learn small things about the big world below their perch. They are only three weeks old here, and reveal much of themselves to us for the first time. This display lasted only a few minutes. They would soon retreat to the depths of the nest, hiding all but the tops of their heads from us.

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Phil Douglis17-May-2016 19:01
Thank you for seeing the impact of color here, Marisa. The dominance of brown here is not accidental. My community was designed to reflect the great southwestern environment in which it is set. Deserts are essentially brownish in color, and so is our architecture. The creatures that live in the desert, including mature hawks, are brown as well, designed by nature to blend with their environment.
Marisa Taddia17-May-2016 00:43
Interesting to see how the young hawks plumage camouflages perfectly with dry twigs that their parents used to build the nest; while the adult camouflages its reddish with the environment created by man, and surely with the surrounding desert (that will be in the future home of newborns).
Phil Douglis15-Oct-2012 03:34
They do look very much alike, yet are quite different in scale and coloration. But we can already see the beginnings of a raptor in the feathery nestling.
Tim May13-Oct-2012 22:10
I love that the middle one has the embryonic look that matches it's parent.
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