Special Edition: Bird Blogging

As you might recall, I usually do my bird blogging on Sundays but our new parakeet chicks are growing so fast and changing so quickly from pinkish blobs to feathered beings that I thought I'd share a couple of our lastest photos inside the nest box:

Above are the three (out of four) surviving chicks this past Monday, with their mom, Whitey the albino parakeet. The eggs hatch every other day or two so the development of the chicks varies. That glop on the beak of the chick at the right is dried up food and "parakeet milk" from mama.

The eldest chick has feathers growing in fast! Looks like he'll resemble his dad, Queenie, who is the typical green parakeet. Two of the three chicks now have their eyes open and are hustling around the nest box making noise.

Compare with the ugly parakeet-lings in my earlier post from about a week ago.

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