12 eggs started under two broody hens. 1 hen wasn't reliable so her 4 got tossed.
The other stayed on the eggs but when I candled the other day there were only 4 maybes and 4 nothings.
There's a rooster shooting blanks or missing the target.
The hen was off the eggs this evening and they were pretty cold. Candled and they looked good, no movement. Put her back on them, checked tonight and saw some life. Now safe in the incubator. Day 19.
A #GreyHeron on the #nest with two recently hatched #nestlings.
They’re not pretty but it’s great to see them still doing well, despite the best efforts of #BelfastCityAirport 👍☺️
"The study, led by scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Michigan State University, found that birds are producing fewer chicks when they start breeding too early or too late in the spring season. This type of research is known as phenology, or the study of periodic events in biological life cycles. As climate change results in earlier springlike weather, birds have been unable to adapt their reproductive readiness."