1. Wed · May 6, 2026 Prose dispatch

    From Five Pale Eggs to First Chicks: Three Days' Watch

    Monday the fourth arrives with the clutch already deep into incubation—Day 8 by my reckoning—and the female has not wavered. She rode out the night tucked tight in the cup, …

  2. Wed · May 6, 2026 Day 12

    Day 12 — Day N — Steady incubation; courtship feeding visits cluster mid-morning and late afternoon

    Through the overnight hours and into early morning, the female stays on the nest cup almost continuously, visible in IR across both Tapo and sunroom interval cameras. A brief gap …