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Perhaps the Dad isn't the only one to be tired of the family arrangement. Maybe the chicks themselves decide to go their separate ways.
 
'Perhaps the Dad isn't the only one to be tired of the family arrangement. Maybe the chicks themselves decide to go their separate ways.'



Now you are getting the hang of this, Antique!



So, readers, four weeks of summer remain. The chicks still cheep; they haven’t gone silent yet. They still have plentiful black-head pin feathers. They still cheep piteously if separated from Dad/siblings.



But they wander up to 50 yards from Dad.



Let’s keep observing.
 
We'll call this relevant because snakes predate on chicks.

The text accompanying the clip explains that these two males are fighting for territory, and that's what made me think that the clip is relevant to us.

Bird song, for instance, is open-ended hate crime. Those birds aren't wishing each other a nice day. They're threatening each other. Everywhere. All the time.

And the emus and the kangaroos and the horses and the snakes . . . everywhere you look, critters are vying for territory.

SE
 
'That's pretty tame for a fight!'

I was thinking about that: they got no arms.

There are snakes here, Antique. Over the years, in the garden, under the house, in the car port, in the toilet, in the house.
 
'In the TOILET?? Not my cup of tea!'

In the little room, the toot, which here is on the far side of the car port.

But I thought you'd have asked about the still and sunny morning on which (I just happened to be watching) a big tiger snake glided out from under the house, up over the concrete pad by the side door, and onto the warm wooden boards of the living-room floor. It stayed just seconds, then slid on out.
 
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Dad and The Cheeky Chicks were here yesterday. We found out when Limpy Chick and Offsider rousted them from their shady spot under the fruit trees.



So here is the situation: it’s four weeks to the end of ‘calendar summer.’ The chicks are still chicks – they cheep, and have black-head pin feathers.
 

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