For the past three days Emerald has shared a nest box with Butterscotch despite the other nest box being empty.
Emerald is sharing a nest box with Butterscotch
Butterscotch and Emerald together
They look so cute together. Soon after I took this photo I checked back in on them and I knew that Emerald had just laid because she was standing up next to Butterscotch but no egg was in sight.
I reached underneath Butterscotch and rolled Emerald’s egg out. Butterscotch promptly rolled the egg back underneath herself with her beak. I had to lift Butterscotch to retrieve the egg.
I wonder if Butterscotch has got some kind of telepathic communication going on with Emerald to make her lay her eggs next to her so that she can sit on them. It is interesting and quite funny and sweet.
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Oh they are so clever! Who knows what they are thinking .
Now Butterscotch wants to hatch chicks and Emerald wants to hatch chicks but has not got the patience to sit there so has picked Buttescotch for a surragette mother .
I hadn’t thought of that. I was just thinking of it from Butterscotch’s perspective. Emerald does tend to get her egg laid and then she is off with no hanging about and no shouting about it like the others. They are funny. As you say, who knows what they are thinking.