We have babies!!!

At approximately 1pm today the first egg hatched in our nesting box and by 5pm we have 4 babies and two eggs still waiting!!

Mum & Dad have been feeding the little ones already. Dad arrived with a big grub….about half the size of a chick, decided it was too big so, ate it himself!! He has brought spidery types of food since, to share between the open mouths.

I was interested to see what Mum did with the shells and got ready to nip outside to collect it when she threw it out of the nest. But she didn’t …… she ate it and all the others since.

B managed to capture Dad waiting to enter the box with some food.

I’m blipping now as I’ve a meal to cook before B goes out coaching and I’m out for a while this evening. I will add an update to this when I get back!!

Update at 9pm
Mum has settled (sort of) for the night, but on one of her fidgets I think I could still see two eggs.