Three blue birds alighted on the rim of my backyard bird bath, a father and his two chicks. I’ve never seen anything like it. The father turned to the chicks as if he was instructing them. After having hopped to the center of the bird bath he turned his head to the chicks for another word with them, and then dipped into the water, fluttering his wings vigorously. It took another demonstration and stern parental insistence before the chicks were persuaded to bathe. This little chick may have just had its first bath.

Canon EOS 40D
ISO 200
F 5.6
1/60
Canon 70-200 4.0 at 200mm