These are the chicks - growing fast! They are two weeks old, and so far, all eight hatchlings have survived. We have been catching them each evening and putting them - with their two mothers - into a smaller cage overnight, and releasing them in the morning. Tonight will be the first night we leave them out in the garden...
It's too early to be sure, but the way we have been telling male and females apart is the reddish colour on the male's chest, and the very distinctive speckled dots on the females. We are hoping this little one is a girl - in fact we hope most of them are girls! We shall see... They are very happy, and forage easily on their own, as well as preening and taking their first dust baths. It's been an incredibly dry summer and early autumn, and the birds are enjoying the warmth and the dry ground.
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