The goal of the YMCA is to strengthen communities through youth development, healthy living and social responsibility.. Each location supports a neighbourhood, so in the YMCA's terms the YMCA serves, or is anchored in, about 10,000 communities.
The female northern cardinal builds the nest, incubates the eggs for 11 to 13 days, and broods the altricial chicks for the first 2 days or so. During incubation, the male brings food to the incubating female. Both parents feed the nestlings a diet of insects and remove fecal sacs from the nest.
her now immense nest, waiting in hope for the remaining four eggs to hatch (though my bird expert friend tells me this is now 'highly unlikely' since eggs normally all hatch within 24-36 hours of the first). No matter: three is a family by any reckoning, and this morning the cygnets, only a