Here's more of the images I took of the Bolsa Chica Killdeer family before the opportunity to record the entire egg hatching series were lost to us.
#1 While we're waiting for the other eggs to hatch, can you tell me how I got here?
You know Ken, I wonder...It seems like at least that one egg was exposed for quite a long time, Mom was sitting on the other one and almost ignoring it. Do you think perhaps she knew it wasn't going to hatch? Seems like she never sat on it when I was there with you folks that Saturday. My faves are #4s (GREAT caption! ), 6 and 8 (another ROTFL caption). Gee, you're GOOD... BTW, BC was a bust for me and Mr Zoom on Saturday, sucky light and not much besides the Usual Suspects though we did see a young Stilt on the back pond where we saw 'em before, he's done growed-up a lot.
trailhiker wrote:
You know Ken, I wonder...It seems like at least that one egg was exposed for quite a long time, Mom was sitting on the other one and almost ignoring it. Do you think perhaps she knew it wasn't going to hatch? Seems like she never sat on it when I was there with you folks that Saturday. My faves are #4s (GREAT caption! ), 6 and 8 (another ROTFL caption). Gee, you're GOOD... BTW, BC was a bust for me and Mr Zoom on Saturday, sucky light and not much besides the Usual Suspects though we did see a young Stilt on the back pond where we saw 'em before, he's done growed-up a lot.
Steve -
Now, there's no way that we would know about that one egg. I was thinking that the purpose in staying off of that one egg was more to reguilate the amount of incubation. She was sitting on both of the eggs on Sunday morning.
Sorry to here about the non-happening on Saturday. The Perigrine and the Skimmers have been pretty reliable in the evening.
- Ken
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