LATECOMER

As several of you have already noticed, the third chick hatched overnight. Just as we were beginning to wonder whether it would hatch at all, the chick decided to make a grand entrance. To celebrate, Samson brought in what, for him, was a small whale so the two chicks got well fed. The third chick doesn’t need feeding yet as it can survive on the yolk sac within it but we should see him stretching up and begging once it gets over the trauma of hatching.

I’ll write about what that means for the family and the next stages in a little more depth later but, in the meantime enjoy watching Augusta with her first brood of 3 chicks.

Can I also quickly apologise to those who wrote comments on the last 2 posts. For some reason, WordPress hung onto them and didn’t send me emails telling me they were there and then just sent them all yesterday. I do like reading them, so please keep them coming.