From Thursday, still in the nestLet me back up a few days and tell you that a couple days after the Hawk's visit, we noticed that we were consistently seeing only two little heads in the nest...and then finally three. But, we don't know what happened to number four--or even if the egg hatched. The nest was so full of chicks we just don't know for sure.
On Thursday we started seeing a chick on the ground so we banished both Emily and Bonnie to the house. We are now walking Bonnie on the leash every day to keep her from becoming too interested in what is going on out back. She LOVES walking so, it is really no problem for her.
Sunday morning, chick #1
All day Friday we enjoyed watching the two chicks we knew were on the ground stretching their wings and hopping around. We pretty much spent the day birdwatching--who knew we were birdlovers! Rod must have got pretty thirsty watching those birds, so we decided to hop on over to Universal's CityWalk to have a drink and eat dinner at Margaritaville. It was REALLY busy out there--apparently they have 60,000 high school seniors out there over several nights for Grad Bash and the nights allotment of kids was on hand and ready to party!
It was a beautiful Friday night so we ate out on the "Porch of Indecision"
Saturday morning when I got up, Rod told me the sad news that he had to fish one of the chicks out of the pool. Sometime overnight he must had stumbled into the water...so sad. So now we had one on the ground and one still in the nest. Mom and Dad Mockingbird spent at least an hour in the morning chasing away a very persistent crow. At the height of the fight, there were at least 4 mockingbird pairs trying to chase him away!
Sunday morning, Chick #2
By the afternoon, both chicks were on the ground and the nest appeared to be empty. SO, with any luck, maybe these two will be airborne in a couple more days!
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