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Monday 24 May 2010

Hatched!!!! :-)))

Yesterday, Sunday May 23. 2010 at ca. 16:20 the first egg hatched....circa three hours later 2 more hatched, during the night 2 more...



now of the 11 eggs only 3 remain intact...



it is getting increasingly difficutl to do a head-count....the little bodies move but are all close to one another and only when the mother or father call with their special call with a little worm in their beaks do all beaks fly open....so far no sounds are discernible, but hopefully soon all 11 will be fit and hungry.

Mother and father are taking good care of the "babies"...it is really moving...





I will try to post a video...but it is really difficult to leave the garden....I am doing some active nesting box cooling due to the really high temperatures (ca. 30 degrees)...under the ages of 4 days, the newborn have no way of actively adjusting their own body temperature and both too hot or too cold must be avoided....

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