8.30 Chicks all alone
8.41 Chicks preening
8.51 Chicks stretch their wings
9.04 Chicks huddled and look around the box
9.10 Female brings food into the box and feeds the ever growing young
9.16 Female hops onto the edge and flies off
9.21 Chick 47 stretches his wings
9.50 Chicks chilling together
10.03 Male lands on the box before flying off
10.50 Chicks have a wander around before sitting down
11.00 As at the start of my shift, the chicks are home alone
11.01 All 3 chicks huddle at the back of the box, the discarded prey feathers are blown keenly by the strong wind
11.30 The chicks preen themselves
12.29 Female brings in prey and plucks it in front of the young, she then tears off strips of meat and the chicks hungrily devour the proffered food
12.33 One of the chicks tucks into the carcass rather than wait its turn to be fed
12.50 The young have had their fill and retreat to the back of the box, the female, having fed the young, now has her fill
12.58 The falcon has had a crop full and hops to the edge of the box, she is heavily buffeted by the wind, she opens her wings and takes flight
12.59 With the chicks all at the back of the box, the plucked feathers ripple in the wind like a field of barley
13.00 to 15.00 Chicks all huddled at the back of the box
15.00 chicks huddled together in the shade of the back corner. (Very windy yet warm today)
15.05 2 chicks awake and alert
15.06 1 chick awake and alert
15.13 All chicks huddled and resting
15.23 2 chicks awake and preening, resting chick stretched one wing
15.33 All chicks awake, still close together in back corner
15.39 3 chicks huddled and resting
16.17 no change
16.58 all chicks awake and moving within their corner
17.00 Chicks up and about but no adults
17.05 All cuddling up together, still no adults
17.06 Chicks preening
17.08 both parents arrived in the nest one has brought a kill in and feeding the chicks, I see one of the chicks is actually trying to feed from the carcass
17.16 one of the chicks has taken what is left of the carcass but the adult has taken it back
17.20 chick 48 is having a good exercise with wing flapping
17.25 47 and 48 really getting a lot of exercise walking around the scrape a bit wobbly sometimes
17.34 all huddled up the corner for a rest although a bit "fidgety", the wind seems to be blowing in the box
17.37 all sleeping
17.57 bit of a shuffle and eye opening but otherwise quiet, no adults 17.56 Still all quiet, just an eye opening up now and again
18.00 No change - end of report
Thanks to Brendon Ollett, Chris Skipper, Julian Thomas, Debbie Colman and Barbara Gardner for todays blog
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