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and baby peachfront makes three
2003-06-04 - 9:47 a.m.
� 2003 by Elaine Radford, all rights reserved
A suspicion has been growing in my mind over the last few
weeks -- a suspicion that I hesitated to write about for fear
that it would turn out to be wishful thinking.
Today, that suspicion was confirmed.
Courtney is indeed a male, and Ronnie a female, and I can
be confident of this fact without surgical sexing because,
quite simply, for the first time ever, after 13 years,
they have hatched out a bouncing pink naked chick. Whoo-hoo
to the proud parents.
Ronnie is sitting very tight, so I wasn't able to get a picture
of the baby, since I didn't want to keep pestering them. But I
did catch a picture of the broken eggshell from which the cute
pink chicklet escaped.
How could this have happened? Over the years, I had begun to
doubt my initial impressions of the birds and even openly
speculated that they might both be females, because of the
lack of fertile eggs. Courtney, once a runt, became not fat but
rather so settled in his appearance that the word "matronly" slipped
into my mind more than once. Indeed, when he injured his eye earlier
in the year, because of the extra weight and because he wasn't
being his usual grouchy self, I mixed him up with Ronnie and
indeed put Ronnie's name on his vet paperwork.
I only noticed after returning him to the flight that the bird
with the squinty eye was acting very masculine and protective
of the other bird. So it was Courtney who had the hurt eye, and Courtney
who was so tolerant of my handling through the weeks of treatment -- and
Courtney who now, day and night, guards the nest and feeds Ronnie
so that she never has to leave.
Why now, after so many years? I have a two-pronged speculation:
- Being separated for Courtney's vet care in late winter/early spring gave them a greater
impetus to actually mate instead of cuddle when they were placed back
together.
- Every year, in May, I have to move the flight cages to the back aviary for the
termite inspection and treatment. For some reason, the bill came later this year.
Well, yesterday I went ahead and mailed in the payment, with a note requesting that we
delay the inspection a few more weeks. In the future, I will need to find a way to
permanently move my annual inspection to the fall or winter months, or else
I will need to drop Terminix and find a different way to handle the termite
situation. I've got plenty of time to do the research and learn about
my alternatives.
For today, a tip of the steaming hot tea to Courtney, Ronnie, and their
cute new chick.
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