The mom brought the baby for a bath.

It is amazing to see how the parents teach their children.

We dared not to go outside as the damaging wind gusts were blowing wildly, and so I was forced to stay inside. But as usual I made a plan, as I remembered that I took some shots through the study window to show you.
This post is not done in my normal style, as the little birds only appeared for a short while at the water bottle, but I think that you will like what you see.

I had to laugh softly, as the baby tried to climb inside the water bottle, and the mom that sat on a flower below made some noises, so as if to say to the baby, that is not the way to do it. Oh, by the way, the little birds are female Southern Double-collared Sunbirds (Cinnyris chalybeus).

This is the mommy on the red Cape Honeysuckle flower, below the baby.

Then the baby popped up to the top and it could still not understand that it is only supposed to put its long beak into the spout and to wash while sitting on the perch.

But eventually, the baby figured it out and she started dipping her beak and dropping the water on to her body, missing some drops here and there.

Here she seemed to say to her mommy, How's that mommy? Look how wet I am.

The mom popped up on to the perch, but amazingly she did not enter her beak into the water bottle spout.

I think that she only demonstrated to the baby how to do it the next time.

And I hope to be here at the window when the baby comes in to try it again, but I am sure that she will get it right. This reminded me so of the times that my mother forced me into the bath as a child, after I had in my mind that I had just finished to bath. I think she was heavily OCD as she would scrub me like somebody would scrub an animal skin with a wire brush. It was not really a wire brush, but it felt like it to me, and she washed every inch of my body.

Giggles and tears, is what I called it when my mother bathed me. Giggles when she washed underneath my feet because it was very ticklish, and tears when she roughly scrubbed my ears as I am very sensitive around my ears. Thankfully this birdie mommy did not get rough with her baby, and I think that the baby had already seen its mom before on that bottle.
Such is life.

I hope you enjoyed the pictures and the story.

Photos by Zac Smith. All-Rights-Reserved.

Camera: Canon PowershotSX70HS Bridge camera.

Until next time, cheers!