"Travis" wrote in message
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Great H bird pix.

Thanks Travis.

So I guess the mother picks it out of the nest and throws it up and it
stcks on the leaves?

No. They're born with an instinct to poke their little butts up above the
rim of the nest and do their business with surprising force. In the first
day or two when they're little and weak a fair percentage of the "duties"
don't make in far --- some ending up on the rim of the nest. I had read
that the mothers try to clean it up but frankly saw no evidence of that
although she may have gotten rid of a few of them. Nonetheless there were
some on the nest even when the chicks were a week old. But by then the
leaves around them were turning black. Obviously she fed them pretty well
because they sure made a lot of waste.
--
Pat Durkin