Text: Urmas Sellis
When Saturday morning the fourth chick hatched, the majority of viewers awaited with piety the final hatching. But that didn't happen on Saturday, Sunday, or even Monday. It seems the fifth egg may not hatch…
At the beginning of the workweek on Monday, the real fans watched at first light in hopes of seeing the last chick hatch with their own eyes.
But instead of a hatching chick, viewers saw nature play its cruellest joke—Donna decided that there was one chick too many in the nest and she removed him. She employed the most rational technique called kronism—she ate her own child.
Also, our viewer Bo from the US has assembled a slide show - here.
Padis relieved Donna in the nest and everything proceeded as normal.
In the daytime, human voices could be heard. They probably originated several hundred meters from the nest where a forest is being planted in a clearing.
Since during the coming week we won't have the opportunity to watch the recorded video, we are grateful if viewers can send their own observations about Donna's behavior. We'd especially like to know how it all began in the early morning and how Donna chose that particular chick.
