Our lovely Emerald and her handsome Sapphire have finally laid an egg. We have been watching all the mating and nesting behaviour and have been eagerly awaiting the first egg, so it was with great joy Mr11 ran down the hallway to share the good news first thing this morning.
Sapphire has been very vocal and active all over the neighborhood this morning , we think he must be telling everyone. Our birds have free access in and out of their cage, so he really can share his good news all over the neighborhood.
Mr7 also observed the kookaburra couple we have been watching in one of our trees and noticed the gentleman kooka feeding his lady this morning, just like Saph has been feeding Em this morning, so he has surmised they might have laid their first egg this morning as well.
This has of course interrupted our day and our chocolate study, we simply had to research every thing about lorikeet breeding and there are endless questions about kookaburra breeding still to be answered, but I have manged to lure the boys back to the table with a bowl of chocolate salad, this is a bit of a Rockpool tradition, and is basically a bowl with mixed pieces of block chocolate in it and it did the trick nicely and they are now writing up and drawing food webs.
2 comments:
Oh how lovely, but you make me feel so guilty as I just took yet another egg away from our cockatiel, she of course does not have a mate and was supposed to be a boy. Everytime she lays eggs she lays more and its so sad. :-(
Your talk of chocolate is so tempting, I might have to add that into our learning somewhere too. hehe!
Glad to see chocolate salad is making its way up north! lol!
I'm sure you'll let us know of any babies. :)
Cath x
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