They were in a tiny cane basket when we first checked them. There were 4 live babies and 1 dead..
Two babies looked to be having a bit of trouble breathing, plus they had a bit of a mucous around their mouths. We removed them from the nest and brought them in and made a nest in our hot box for them.
One unfortunately died overnight and the other was looking semi-okay.. Went out to check the aviary again that day and found one baby in the middle of the aviary on the floor dead
We decided to remove the other baby before it had a chance to get sick or thrown from the nest.The semi-okay baby died the next day - but the healthy dude is thriving and he has been feeding from us extremely well for the last week.
Here is a video of him and his nestmate feeding last night
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVrf_c5Id2c
His nestmate is a plummie which was a whoopsie as we were removing our trellis things full of brush - as we thought no one was nesting, and were also taking the plummies to auction this weekend. When we were removing the brush to put in the bin we stumbled across this little one :/
He is also doing very well and they're good at keeping each other warm
Many thanks to spanna, who is always willing to help. I'm sure you're sick of receiving texts from me by now though ;D
