We have our first chicks! They are not the first chicks on the island – we have been hearing really high-pitched warbler cheeping for weeks - but they are the first to come from eggs we have been watching. Tiny, pink, wriggly little things that seem to be all mouth.
It is hard to believe that they smashed their way out of an egg. They need to be weighed and measured every three days.
Ali has the smallest fingers so she climbs up to the nest and very gently pulls each chick out, passing them down to me to keep warm, still wrapped in nest feathers. Mel puts them one by one into a milk bottle cap on the scales… 2 grams! That’s only half a teaspoon of bird!
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