"Honey, you don't have to kiss my feet."

  Why would her feet be blue?  I've never seen that before.

It may be that it is a genetic trait passed on by Dot.ca.  Rosetta, hatched to Beauty and Dot.ca last year, also had blue feet, as does Tesh's brother, Nor'easter.  Dot.ca's feet are not blue, but he has some relatives with blue feet. 

 

 

See, I'm a big girl and can stand on my own two big blue feet!  (TESH)

Nice to see a picture where Tesh is the only one standing! 

Uh-oh!  I have already experienced the effect of Mercury in retrograde today, and yesterday we named an eyas Mercury when Mercury was in retrograde.  Yikes!   

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larry-schwimmer/mercury-retrograde-june-7_b_5445161.html

 

Well, I think Rhea Mae's legendary appetite has met it's match! No wonder Tesh couldn't stand up!

 

Little Piglet!!!

Yep, she's a big girl.  And look at those gorgeous blue feet!  I think we'll need to come up with a name for that shade of blue.  How about falcon blue?

Little stinker, scared us all stiff too!  I can breathe now! 

And thank you to DEC for sticking around to make sure all was well...

Yes big thank you and big sigh of relief. 

Oh my - I had to walk away from computer.  Just came back, and it's like a miracle!  Heat or dehydration? 
Did the eyases get weighed and checked out?  Will there be a report?

They don't get weighed here, but they are given a general health check. We usually don't hear anything  if all is well, which it usually is.

I really don't know what happened. I wonder if it toppled over & froze like they do when they're threatened. The other 3 barely moved that whole time but they were right side up so they looked OK. They all finally moved when Beauty came to the perch.

DEC reported during banding that she had a very full crop. That might have played a part.

Thank you DEC!  And I apologize for my panicked partially all caps tweet And for spelling eyasses incorrectly in that same tweet.

Hmmmm?

WOW! In all these years I don't think we've ever captured that position before!

Whoa!  Practicing yoga, perhaps?

Bummer! 

Okay kids, everybody look at the camera!

At 10:53 am, the little wanderer went back into the nest box.

I see "Legs" is over there on the right-hand side. 

    



How did he do that?

Yep, I can almost see the thought bubble.

Good morning!

Is it possible we have two blue footed boys and two yellow footed girls this year?  It's a bit hard to tell because the nestbox gravel is not all on the same level, but it looks that way from this picture. 

Well, my opinion...the blue feet on the right are much larger than the blue feet on the left...and right blue feet are about the same size as far left yellow feet. I think there's one of each in each color.

Oh, that would be lovely too.  Matching pairs.  Oh wait...that wouldn't be good. 

Good morning!

Is it possible we have two blue footed boys and two yellow footed girls this year?  It's a bit hard to tell because the nestbox gravel is not all on the same level, but it looks that way from this picture. 

More poop on the main cam.