Regular Old Sunday Bird Blogging

Even though I put up a special edition of bird blogging a couple days ago, I'm going ahead with my regular Sunday edition because things change so quickly in the baby parakeet department. Here's this morning's photo from inside the nest box:

You can see how big and feathered the oldest chick is, and how undeveloped the youngest surviving chick is to the left. The middle chick is over in the back corner. We are kinda worried about the survival of the youngest one, it being so small at this stage.

Above is Whitey, the albino female who's the mother of the brood. Although she looks rather bluish in this shot, she's really pure white with red eyes. You can see how harried she is from feeding and caring for the chicks 24/7. They only sleep for minutes at a time before they're up begging for food again. Her face is dirty from the glop she feeds the babies.

Above is the father, Queenie. You can see how the coloring of the oldest chick is very much like the dad. Green is the dominant color in parakeets and it's likely all the chicks will take after Queenie given the mother bird's albino genes.