And then a few seconds later... Ta-da!
And here's the other one stepping up. Hopping up will happen over the next couple of days... For now, they will take advantage of the step.
It looked like a pretty day at the Harrison Bay nest today. The babies are growing like weeds.
As promised, I got some good s'caps of the White Rock babies today. The first hatch is behind the second hatch in these first s'caps. The first hatch is a lot more stable (less bobble-headed) than the second hatch.
I was glad to see the younger chick had no competition for bites.
But the chick was so unsteady, it only got one bite before the older one turned around. But it was a good sized bite. You can see the chunk in its beak here.
The older one started getting all of the bites, being much more stable than the younger chick.
It was even stretching way out over its sibling to reach the bites.
But then the younger one got in the game, beaking the older chick, who stayed down for a little bit. And when it got up it got beaked again. And so the younger one got some additional bites.
I was happy to see both chicks get several bites. It was a good feeding.
The chick is doing a 'crop-drop' -- looking up with a gaping mouth, moving food from its crop to its stomach.
Poop shoot! Not making it past the nest at such a young age. But they will soon be sending it over the edge.
These chicks hatched so close together there's not going to be much size difference between them. Right now I can tell them apart because the younger chick is much less stable.
They saw some rain at the nest today. Mombrella to the rescue!
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