A
close-up of one of Rosie's chicks from the side. |
This
chick almost looks attractive! |
Rosie
with her chicks. All five chicks are in this picture, but because a
couple of them are low down in the nest cup, they look much smaller than the
rest. |
Back
to Donna's crew and the start of another short sequence. |
Suddenly,
one of the chicks stretches its wings and starts to flap. |
Three
and a half minutes later, it is still intermittently at it when Mum comes in
with a mealworm. |
Without
bothering to fold its wings, it downs the mealworm in a trice! |
Another
mealworm a few minutes later.If Donna enables these three chicks to fledge successfully, then she will have worked wonders. Less than a week to go now! |