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Day-18
From Pale Eggs to Gaping Chicks: Three Days at the Nest
The three days folded into a single, cohesive story the moment I spread the footage logs across the table. What struck me first was not any single event but a structural tension: …
Day 18 — Chicks visible in daylight; up to 4 confirmed; 3 unhatched eggs still in cup at 10:51
The female broods without interruption overnight. Chicks appear in IR clips from 02:51 onward—pale rounded shapes at the cup edge when she shifts—and recur in a dozen or more clips …