The Parent Trap - The Farewell

With a last meal at 7 am, the chicks were bundled up in their nice, clean pet carrier (remember the projectile poop?) and their travel documentation checked and double-checked. I drove to the Airport and dropped the chicks off at the same place I picked them up just seven days ago. Seems longer and shorter than that. I'd grown quite fond of the chicks and while some of that was due to lack of sleep, some of it is because even in just seven days, the chicks had grown so much and were just beginning to act like falcons. Had Trey and Princess adopted these two, we would have been banding them early next week and they would have been flying by this time next month. So much hope on such fragile wings.



Got a call from Phil at Upsandowns Birds to say that "our" chicks had arrived safely and would shortly be placed with adults to continue their development. He promised to take photos of them as they got older and to let us know what happens to them.