Mockingbird Baby Update
I cannot believe how much bigger and stronger the three remaining mockingbird chicks are now. It has only been a couple days and they have feathers and have lost most of their down.
One of the babies jumped up on a limb of the ficus tree to look around, but he made it back to the nest. Another baby followed suit, but it fell from the nest and the parents are currently pretty busy chasing it around the neighborhood. At my last check, I saw it across the street and two houses down. The mom and dad birds have their hands (wings) full with keeping an eye on the escaped baby and still feeding the two that are still in the nest.
Here is a picture of the first chick to venture out of the nest. He went back in and is sleeping soundly as I write this:
Here is one of the parents. The sun was at the wrong angle, so the picture is washed out, but it is sitting right next to my camera:
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