Nest

[davidn]

More updates when they happen!

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[ravenworks.livejournal.com]

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa <3<3<3<3

[rakarr.livejournal.com]

The animal lover in me thinks those are absolutely adorable, and looks forward to further updates!
The adventure gamer in me weighs the potential consequences of using that winding handle.

[crassadon.livejournal.com]

Stumbling Through: Raising Birds!!!

[xaq.livejournal.com]

Probable outcome of touching that handle (http://1-media-cdn.foolz.us/ffuuka/board/m/image/1258/89/1258897734866.jpg).

[rakarr.livejournal.com]

Hah, that's fair.

In case I misrepresented myself, I would like to state for the record I wasn't advocating knocking off the poor birds. The winder just.. happened to be prominent in the picture and the consequence made itself obvious. I just wanted to phrase it in a more amusing way than "Don't touch that handle!"

Still, it seems like something that would be a solution to a remarkably obscure, adventure-gamey puzzle.

[lupineangel.livejournal.com]

Awwww! :D

Have you named them? :)

D.F.

[davidn]

Chirpy, Cheepy, Bird-Thing, Biff Absbuster.

[kibet.livejournal.com]

Thats a lot of chicks from just one egg!!!!

[davidn]

Frankly I don't even know how one fits in there!

[rakarr.livejournal.com]

Maybe the first one was in the egg and the rest were all nestled inside each other like a matryoshka doll.

Or else someone lit a hidden fuse and BOOM! Chick explosion!

The images do present an amusing, speculation-fueled narrative when taken as a sequence!

[rakarr.livejournal.com]

Not for the faint of heart.

Part One: Regurgitating worms.
Part Two: Teaching to Fly, AKA Lemming Birds
Part Three: Oh god where did all this poo come from!

[budgiebin.livejournal.com]

No Bart Jr.?

[budgiebin.livejournal.com]

Oh boy, robins!

Be careful, or they'll ally themselves with bats and collectively lower the mosquito population around your house~

As for the chicksplosion, there's a clear time lapse in this period. They're quite large and have quite a lot of down growing. It's possible that either 1) this nest has been parasitised (cowbirds, etc) or more likely, the hen just laid some others when you weren't looking and she laid a few eggs the next day and you never noticed because bird parenting is a 24/7 nest cover.

[davidn]

The photos were definitely taken far apart - at least a week between noticing the first egg and looking to see the feather-soup chicks, I think. We actually had a nest like this last year in which four eggs were laid, but... they didn't make it (they disappeared, possibly eaten by a bluejay?)

[budgiebin.livejournal.com]

*wow*, that's... a really short gestation period.

[davidn]

What's more normal for birds of this size/shape/species?

[budgiebin.livejournal.com]

Well, I just googled to be sure, and a source says 12-14 days for incubation, and leaving the nest at 14-16 days. I must have been thinking of chickens, which only hatch at 24 days.