Update for Wednesday, May 15, 2024
For most of the day the three nestlings kept to the back corner of the nestbox where they were often invisible to our nest cameras. People looking at or live camera feed were only seeing one chick and sometimes no chicks at all, depending on how closely they were tucked against the back wall. Indeed, they were real corner trolls today. One of the chicks did more walking around than the others today. In fact, it shuffled all the way over to the opposite corner at the back of the box, and it did it while a feeding was underway. The chicks did get fed a lot today. There were a couple of feedings overnight and one especially long feeding in the early morning. That one had to a Pigeon. Astrid spent about 34 minutes stuffing them until their crops resembled balloons on the verge of bursting. The chicks are starting to exercise more today; not just walking, but wing flapping as well.
