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On 7/15/2020 at 1:26 PM, SirVive said:

She's a golden frizz-crested bird of paradise who needed a bowie knife to help her out of the shell due to her insisting on standing upright and eating all her egg white too quickly. Stewed for 39 weeks for a grand total of 7.3lbs - 1 1/2 weeks and a full pound more than her older sister?

Love your little nestling! Good thing she's a bird; that procedure is considerably more complicated for human babies...

I refused to stop sitting down and position myslef for the proper head-first dive; but they didn't use the bowie knife extraction back in those days. I was just under 10 pounds. My mother never forgave me LOL! 

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On 7/15/2020 at 3:26 PM, SirVive said:

She's a golden frizz-crested bird of paradise who needed a bowie knife to help her out of the shell due to her insisting on standing upright and eating all her egg white too quickly. Stewed for 39 weeks for a grand total of 7.3lbs - 1 1/2 weeks and a full pound more than her older sister?

LOL, congrats!!  She's is the cutest golden frizz-crested bird of paradise I've ever seen!

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8 hours ago, Aveschapines said:

I refused to stop sitting down and position myslef for the proper head-first dive

That means you more resembled the frog family for the first few weeks  ?  Can you still scratch behind your ears with your toes??:classic_laugh:

 

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12 hours ago, SirVive said:

That means you more resembled the frog family for the first few weeks  ?  Can you still scratch behind your ears with your toes??:classic_laugh:

 

No, those days are long gone ? But I did frog-sit (legs in a W position) when I was a kid, until I was told to stop when I was diagnosed with scoliosis.

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On 7/19/2020 at 9:57 AM, Aveschapines said:

I was trying to figure that out too; I didn't notice the legs, and it looked like a fish with a really weird tail! When I see them here they chow down on caterpillars.

There is not a lot of caterpillars around right now, but there is no shortage of grasshoppers.

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You may have noticed a theme developing but as well as being in my overall top ten of favourite birds they are now my  Number 1 for entertainment value (if you get a chance just watch them for a while).

This one snagged a crayfish and resisted several sibling attacks (including grabbing its miniscule wing and trying to drag it underwater) before needing several attempts to swallow it.

They are amazingly self confident at this age - one of the chicks had a confrontation with a Canada Goose and the goose backed off (the adults routinely chased off Mute Swans).

Pied-billed Grebe chick crawfish HVT-7230374.jpg

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