Will you be able to report more about the experience?
1. Are you actually open to the roof/sky when you are doing this? Seems unlikely with with Princess about.
2. Do you wait until the parents are out of site before grabbing the chicks. Seems an obvious choice, but what if they move in as you are doing this - shades of helicopters or fighter planes honing in on you within seconds. Scary results all round.
3. What happens as you put them in the buckets? Panic, resignation, combinations?
4. How do you decide which to grab first? Closest? Calmest? Largest?
5. You make it look so easy. ( Im sure that can't be so.)
6. Is it a problem putting them back in the nestbox? Sounds like the parents weren't there.
Have they ever been? I guess it might be like last year when you were all out in the open.
7. Any comments about the process?
I know many of us keep suggesting you do a book. A children's one, perhaps??
I really hope you will.
Sorry if there are too many questions.