Hot and crowded
May 10th, 2008 by sophie
The weather’s been pretty hot over the last few days and the chicks appear to be suffering in the heat. They’re becoming more mobile and are crawling out of the crowded nest cup, presumably for coolness. Unfortunately the tree the box is in isn’t as heavily leafed as we thought it would be by the time the chicks hatched, so the box is only in dappled shade. We have considered putting up a parasol, but can’t work out how to do it and reckon that everyone could end up stressed by it, Buss, Karma, chicks and us!
Karma seems to endorse the ‘tough love’ school of motherhood: if you get in the way when she’s cleaning she’ll trample you! Altogether it seems a pretty rough world in the nest, jostling for space and food, and they’re only a week old. It can only get more crowded.