4 chicks
May 08, 2022 - Hamilton - Sheraton Hotel
Marion Nash Reports:
HATCHING!
First Chick of 2022 Second egg cracking
Proud momma with her three (so far) chicks
Saturday, May 7, 2022 - Hamilton has chicks! The first one started to crack through it’s shell yesterday, and finally hatched sometime last night. It was looking healthy and strong when we captured a photo of it at daybreak (left photo). You can see another shell cracking in that photo. Over the next three hours we captured some of the best photos we have ever captured of chicks hatching, emerging all pink and damp, and quickly drying off and turning white and fluffy.
Within the last couple of days we finally got a view of four brown eggs, but we still don’t know for sure if there is a fifth, or how many more will hatch. At this time it appears that a large piece of shell has wrapped itself around the old white egg, giving the appearance of a two-tone egg (right photo) which can fool us into thinking its a fifth brown egg, so we can’t be sure. But we won’t be surprised if another chick appears within the next day. Exciting times!
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FOUR LITTLE BEAKS
Sunday, May 8, 2022 - This morning we awoke to this sight of four chicks, hungrily clamoring for food. After a bit of trial and error yesterday, McKeever figured out the perfect size of morsel to feed her young. A sight we will see many, many times in the coming days. In case it isn’t already obvious, we’re going to need lots of volunteers to keep an eye on all these chicks as they fly around the downtown area in June and July.
