They always amaze me...the mum stays in the nest with them for 2 days, getting to know each other I suppose, etc....then she comes out with them when all´s quiet. Then I go in to feed the rabble and she flies over to join in the party, and her little ones just stay tucked out of the way under a bush where she left them. There they stay. I take some small cracked corn for them, and secretly throw it about on the ground while the others are all busy hunting corn in the grass...and then mum flies back over to her babies, calls them min that lovely way that they do, and the little things come out and start pecking about with mum....I don´t have enough time to watch them as much as I´d like....I go down there for 15 minutes and when I get back indoors I find a whole hour has passed! They´re just so watchable. My hubby´s just read out that this January is the hottest one here for 25 years.They are so precious it's so neat they know exactly what to do to find dinner.
