Into the 4th week now since the CP pair was seen feeding, and finally my first sighting of the chicks, two perhaps having an earlier fleeting glimpse of a pair of beaks.
Hardly chicks now, the active young, as usual seen waiting for the parents at the entrance, but already showing much alertness as it will immediately withdraw into the hole as soon as it senses an alien presence.
Intense feeding continued and I once counted at least 8 feedings within an hour, with waste disposal practically each time following each feed.
And it also looked like it's time to lure the young out, to fledge.
Arriving with figs (the taman presently has a couple of Ficus trees heavy with fruits) at the nest entrance but withholding the feed at the same time was so characteristic of the parent's strategy to encourage the chick to fledge.
Another arrival with beak-full of fruits, another attempt ...
... followed by the predictable housekeeping.
The tireless parent
Every input has to be matched by an output!
There is time too when a parent arrived with seemingly little to show, probably a tiny insect prey, and left almost immediately after it had perhaps deposited the prey into the young inside the hole.
Time when a parent only had responsibility in mind and asked for nothing in return other than the safe fledging of its young.
Arriving and ...
... delivering direct to target.
What looked like another lengthy attempt to lure the young out, feeding away from the nest entrance.
But it didn't look like the young was ready to take the bait, so the feeding simply continued inside the hole nest.
Another comparatively tiny feed for the young, and it looked like this was the last for the morning as neither parent was to be seen for more than an hour now after this.
And there the parent went, and could be heard to call continuously for a while from an adjacent tree, another indication it trying to encourage the young to be out.
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