One didn’t make it.

15 Jan 2017

The week after we had 3 babies fly the nest and go outside, I was vacuuming near the big windows in the lunge room and found a little body under the TV stand – evidently one of the babies had not made it. 

It looked the same level of maturity as the others, but it may have flown out of the nest before we noticed it. It must have crashed into the then-uncovered bit of window and sustained fatal injuries.

I was glad I’d covered up the remaining section of window, but sad that I hadn’t realised what a trap it could be.

I’m amazed that even after the 4 fully-grown fledglings left the nest, there were still more babies chirping inside the hole. The mother must have laid more fertilised eggs and hatched them while the others were still growing. What a change from one baby at a time - no wonder they have been so busy constantly feeding their young