Yes you read that correctly. No, it's not a typo. Now there's 8 chicks. The egg guesstimate was between 6 and 8 and 8 it is!
Click on the blue numbers to go to the spot in the video when you can hit pause and count all 8 little mouths. 5:18
It's now highly unlikely that there are any more eggs to hatch so keep your fingers crossed that the parents look out for the new arrival because it's tiny compared to the chicks that arrived only 48 hours ago. It's amazing how quickly they grow!
You can see just how tiny at the very start of the video as the female unceremoniously dumps the newborn out of the remaining half of the shell. To be fair she's done this to all of the chicks and so far so good!!
More tomorrow...
11 май 2021
