Screencaps by Maggy, LK forum
Translation Liis
Image from Tuesday morning at four o’clock, when Klaara went out for eight minutes to stretch her legs
Tawny owl Kodukakk Strix aluco
Early last morning we saw the beginning of the hatching of an owl chick from one egg. The whole day mother Klaara was busy. In the evening about ten o’clock curious father Klaus squeezed into the nest hollow to be sure of the increase of the family.
Considering what we have seen both owl chicks were hatched on April 17.
In the image from daytime yesterday we can still see egg shells in the nest hollow …
In the upper image, from early morning today, only a few pieces of shell can be seen – of course the shell fragments are uncomfortable in the nest and can even injure the newly hatched chicks. The tawny owl female ate the egg shells so that the valuable calcium would not be lost …
Some birds shatter the egg shells finely on the nest bottom, others carry them away from the nest…
