Post by pete11 on May 6, 2022 21:06:36 GMT
Day 5 of hatched chicks - and they're definitely growing fast.
All 11 still present and correct as far as I can make out after some careful counting.
Mum's now struggling a bit to contain them in the nest beneath her when she's settling down to warm them.
Here's a fairly long video of how it's generally going at the moment - lots of shuffling of chicks in between feeding moment, and some poop-gathering duties. The parents are tending to fly off with the poops a bit more now, rather than scoffing them immediately
They're bringing in what look like green caterpillars fairly regularly, but they're still a bit too big for the chicks to cope with, so there's lots of prolonged passing round of the caterpillar from one mouth to another, with a bit of parental chewing and nibbling, which looks as if it makes the caterpillar more digestible until finally the lucky recipient gobbles it down!
And another video just for the sake of it...
All 11 still present and correct as far as I can make out after some careful counting.
Mum's now struggling a bit to contain them in the nest beneath her when she's settling down to warm them.
Here's a fairly long video of how it's generally going at the moment - lots of shuffling of chicks in between feeding moment, and some poop-gathering duties. The parents are tending to fly off with the poops a bit more now, rather than scoffing them immediately
They're bringing in what look like green caterpillars fairly regularly, but they're still a bit too big for the chicks to cope with, so there's lots of prolonged passing round of the caterpillar from one mouth to another, with a bit of parental chewing and nibbling, which looks as if it makes the caterpillar more digestible until finally the lucky recipient gobbles it down!
And another video just for the sake of it...