RCF and I spent an hour or so downtown, on the parkade and parking lot directly east of the nest box. Very little activity at first, chicks not to be seen, Hurricane glowering at us from the roof edge below the clock(east side), no Brooklyn to be seen.Then the chicks woke up, they have sure grown since banding. One chick seems to have grown a lot of brown feathers and doesn't have a lot of fluff showing (likely the male), he was doing some wing stretching but nothing too vigorous yet.Most of the time he spent looking over the edge of the box.The other chick has a lot more fluff and seems to be content to watch the world go by but not at the front of the box.
Brooklyn appeared,he might have had food,by the time we got to the other side of the parkade it was Hurricane that went into the nest box and I guess shared out the food. Brooklyn flew up to east light but when Hurricane left the chicks she flew directly up to the light, put him off the light and settled there herself,she was quite vocal about the whole procedure, I guess she was saying 'I'm the boss in this family and you'd better get some more food' so he flew off towards the Discovery Centre, maybe they'll have duck for lunch.
