Home Stretch (4-8-98)

It has now been 23 days since June started to incubate her first egg. If everything has gone properly, that egg should hatch sometime next week. Her ever increasing time on the eggs suggests that they become more sensitive to temperature changes as they mature. She left them alone in the cold for hours at a time during  the first couple of days, but now limits her excursions from the nest to less than six minutes. Ward called home at about noon yesterday and she answered several times with her version of the classic hoot (51KB).  Ward made two food deliveries last night and June made a total of three outings from the nest. June behaved as if she were wearing a stop watch when she left the nest--no trip lasted for less than five minutes or more than six minutes. She is now sleeping soundly as shown in this picture.

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