Not sure if anyone saw this or not but it surprised me. Around 11:30 this morning, Beauty flew into the NB with food. Dot grabbed the food and flew off. Beauty and baby were left looking around. I never saw that happen before and wondered about it.
It's happened a few times. This is just my opinion, but I think Dot has been bringing in food. Beauty is taking it for a snack for herself, coming back with it and giving it to Dot to cache. For whatever reason she believes it's not time to feed baby yet.
The feeding that just happened was similar. Dot brought the food. Beauty left with it then came back. This time baby was up & ready & got fed to bursting.
I think-again, my opinion-we're just seeing a variation in behavior consistent with a singleton hatch in June. We're accustomed to a 2+ hatch in May. We've often commented over the years about the "little one in back" not being fed this meal, but trying to remember he'll get fed the next time. Dot is providing as if there are more, Beauty knows how much baby actually needs right now. I wonder how much an individual hatchling actually eats at any given multi-hatch feeding? Probably not as much as we assume.
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