One of these little guys was dangling from the outside of the nest. Mama was going crazy, so I climbed up there and helped it back into the nest with a chopstick. Mama tried to bomb me, but I wasn’t even scared. I knew I was doing what was right.

Although there was a moment there when Bonnie wondered if maybe she wasn’t trying to kick the baby out of the nest, but we watched her feeding both chicks throughout the day, so I don’t think she was playing favorites or anything. In fact, before I helped the baby back into the nest, Mama was sitting on the edge with her tail feathers over the chick, trying to keep it from falling any further. Or, at least that’s how it appeared. Who knows what was going on in her head.

Once I had the baby back in the nest and I had backed off, Mama calmed down pretty quickly.