This is a picture of Nest 1 which shows, if you look carefully, something I have never witnessed in my life - a hatching chick. His siblings are showing full stomachs - the green areas you can see in their necks. It is an amazing sight to see the little chick twisting its way out of the shell. Fascinating.

Just around 7pm we had a first hatching in nest 2. Looks like a litle dark green. No pictures yet as the hen is sitting tight.

A second egg hatched today and Mum left the nest long enough for me to take this picture. Looks like a yellow and a variegated. Fingers crossed for their survival.

If you look to the bottom right of the picture, you can see the hen watching me.
No signs of hatching from hen number two yet.
But I am delighted with this even if they do not survive.
One can't count one's chickens!

Great excitement today - we have the first egg hatching - soft peeping coming from the nest and the briefest of glimpses allowed by the hen. Here is the egg left after the hatching.

This is the first egg of one of the two clutches of three so I am hopeful that the other two maybe fertile and may hatch. Have my doubts about the fertility of the other three under the other hen. Time will tell and the Rollers have 4 eggs due to hatch next week. Exciting times!

Just to give you a contrast, these are my Rollers singing

And now for some more singing - yes the canaries you first see in this are my Rollers.

These little ladies are due to

hatch their clutches of 3 eggs each this week. Fingers crossed.