We're just starting to introduce the Tinies to treats. Today I tried them with a bit of spinach, which they ignored. Then, whist they were sheltering in the Eglu, I put some small pieces of apple in the run.
From nowhere (well, from the Eglu) Norman came rushing out and grabbed a piece of apple. He then ran round and round the run with this, what now looked rather enormous, piece of apple in his beak. He ran past his siblings, he ran around again, and then he ran into the Eglu.
Much later, we noticed that Norman wasn't out with the others. Fearing that I had inadvertently killed him with apple, I asked DH to go out and open the nestbox to see if he was in there. DH did so, and Norman ran out into the Run with the apple in his beak. He then proceeded to run around again, cheeping loudly, and dropping the apple on the ground and picking it up again. This went on for some time, so long that was able to go and get my camera, lie on the ground next to the Eglu run, and take some pics.
And here are is one of some of his wonderfully feathered Siblings, onward my brave Hawkmen!*
And here's one of them having a bad hair day
* Very early on, the BlueEggers developed enormous wing feathers, and for ages they looked like Brian Blessed's Hawkmen from the eighties film "Flash Gordon". Since we realised this, every time I look at them I hear Brian Blessed's cry "Onward my brave Hawkmen". Helped by the fact that I've had Queen's Greatest Hits in my car CD player for some time now.
From nowhere (well, from the Eglu) Norman came rushing out and grabbed a piece of apple. He then ran round and round the run with this, what now looked rather enormous, piece of apple in his beak. He ran past his siblings, he ran around again, and then he ran into the Eglu.
Much later, we noticed that Norman wasn't out with the others. Fearing that I had inadvertently killed him with apple, I asked DH to go out and open the nestbox to see if he was in there. DH did so, and Norman ran out into the Run with the apple in his beak. He then proceeded to run around again, cheeping loudly, and dropping the apple on the ground and picking it up again. This went on for some time, so long that was able to go and get my camera, lie on the ground next to the Eglu run, and take some pics.
And here are is one of some of his wonderfully feathered Siblings, onward my brave Hawkmen!*
And here's one of them having a bad hair day
* Very early on, the BlueEggers developed enormous wing feathers, and for ages they looked like Brian Blessed's Hawkmen from the eighties film "Flash Gordon". Since we realised this, every time I look at them I hear Brian Blessed's cry "Onward my brave Hawkmen". Helped by the fact that I've had Queen's Greatest Hits in my car CD player for some time now.
