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Offline Alison

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Re: Minnesota / Oak Park-King Plant - 2009 / Brent & Belinda
« Reply #54 on: June 22, 2009, 22:57 »
Belinda and Brent's three chicks are still at the nest, but not for long. At least one of them seems very anxious to fledge:

 
Food delivery is no longer peaceful                                           A harassed parent takes a break

 

 
Getting ready to fledge

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Re: Minnesota / Oak Park-King Plant - 2009 / Brent & Belinda
« Reply #53 on: May 26, 2009, 00:14 »
I'm glad a third chick hatched for Belinda and Brent.

 
All three lined up to be fed                                               Brent looking very proud

 
Feeding time again

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Re: Minnesota / Oak Park-King Plant - 2009 / Brent & Belinda
« Reply #52 on: May 22, 2009, 10:04 »
Do they tap at the inside of the shell with it?

they use it to break the shell, that's how they get the "pips" going

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Re: Minnesota / Oak Park-King Plant - 2009 / Brent & Belinda
« Reply #51 on: May 21, 2009, 20:38 »
They are just too cute even with that little egg tooth  :P
I'm sooo happy that there are now three!  :-*

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Re: Minnesota / Oak Park-King Plant - 2009 / Brent & Belinda
« Reply #50 on: May 21, 2009, 19:38 »
Do they tap at the inside of the shell with it?

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Re: Minnesota / Oak Park-King Plant - 2009 / Brent & Belinda
« Reply #49 on: May 21, 2009, 18:49 »
Yup Carly that's it.  Almost looks like the bump on a broken human nose  :)

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Re: Minnesota / Oak Park-King Plant - 2009 / Brent & Belinda
« Reply #48 on: May 21, 2009, 18:45 »
Is that little thing near the tip of the beak I see?

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Re: Minnesota / Oak Park-King Plant - 2009 / Brent & Belinda
« Reply #47 on: May 21, 2009, 18:29 »
Check out the smallest chick, you can still see his/her egg-tooth - that's what facilitated his/her escape from the egg ...
It disappears after a couple of days so very cool.

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Re: Minnesota / Oak Park-King Plant - 2009 / Brent & Belinda
« Reply #46 on: May 21, 2009, 18:22 »
Happy to see more heads here for her  ;D

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Re: Minnesota / Oak Park-King Plant - 2009 / Brent & Belinda
« Reply #45 on: May 21, 2009, 11:12 »
Belinda is just eating fresh eggshell in front of her and looking underneath her so I think that there may have been a 3rd hatch here today.  Two of the remaining 3 eggs had big pips in them this morning.  Thank goodness this didn't happen yesterday when the birds were being blown around.  :)

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Re: Minnesota / Oak Park-King Plant - 2009 / Brent & Belinda
« Reply #44 on: May 21, 2009, 09:21 »
I hope Dad (Brent) gets the hang of things soon..as sometimes he forgets he needs to cover up all his chicks. 

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Re: Minnesota / Oak Park-King Plant - 2009 / Brent & Belinda
« Reply #43 on: May 21, 2009, 06:45 »
The picture isn't very good, but it looks like there is another hatch underway here.  It is nice to see the calm conditions after what was going on yesterday.
Now dad has come into the box too to watch what is going on. ;D  Oops, and left again.  I think that he may have left some food behind but mom is otherwise occupied.
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Re: Minnesota / Oak Park-King Plant - 2009 / Brent & Belinda
« Reply #42 on: May 20, 2009, 20:09 »
It has been a very rough day at King today as well with the high winds. Both parents were present for at least one feeding, one probably to block the wind. Mom was " over teakettle on at least a couple of occassions.  At one point one of the two chicks was blown over to the far side of the nestbox but was somehow gathered up as two were visible at the next feeding.  ;D

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Re: Minnesota / Oak Park-King Plant - 2009 / Brent & Belinda
« Reply #41 on: May 20, 2009, 17:05 »
Still two chicks for Belinda and Brent.

 
Belinda with the babies                                                           Brent, the proud father

 
Brent with his babies                                                             Hey Dad, you forgot about me!

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Re: Minnesota / Oak Park-King Plant - 2009 / Brent & Belinda
« Reply #40 on: May 19, 2009, 21:08 »
I was amazed to see that the first chick to hatch apparently survived. Belinda is here for her sixth year; she is ten years old and certainly knows what to do, but she has had problems in the past years with eggs not hatching. Last year only two eggs out of five hatched, but both chicks fledged successfully, and were seen around the area for some time afterwards. Belinda has also lost babies at a very young age in the past, so I was not very hopeful about the first chick.

Last year Brent was only two years old, and did not seem sure how to make a scrape, or how to incubate. He liked to roll the eggs around in the scrape. This year he is much more confident - had no problems making a really good scrape, and no problems incubating.

A second chick hatched, and both are being cared for and fed. Hoping for the best for more chicks to hatch.

 
The second hatchling

 
Belinda and Brent (Brent is on the right)