How Much Food?!

Didn't have to wait long for a view of all six chicks today as the playback showed them all alive, and apparently well, at 6:44a.m. Feeding started early again, with Charlie arriving at 5:17a.m.

Today has been the first day since the chicks hatched where we've had some sun.

Looking through the playback on "fast forward" has shown that today Charlie & Lola have made a staggering 185 deliveries of food to their brood of chicks!

Headcount time!

It must be terribly uncomfortable brooding six wriggly chicks!
If Lola is away when Charlie arrives, he gets on with the job himself.

Sometimes they arrive together. Lola's on the right here.

Here's how the parents deal with a dirty bum... The chick raises its bum in the air and produces a faecal sac which is then removed by mum or dad and deposited away from the nest. Good housekeeping, too! Charlie dealt with this one. Occasionally, the fecal sack will be eaten by Charlie or Lola.

Group hug!