Exersizing My Perogative

That one about changing my mind.

I sat down and looked through my birdie journal and determined that Tina/NotTina and 16 have laid eggs on the 20th, the 22nd (both broken), the 23rd, and the 25th. That's much too soon for the 2nd pair to be replacements for the first (that should take more like 7-10 days), so damned if I don't now think they're both girls, too. THAT would explain four eggs so close together, as well as their irregular egg-sitting times.

If that's right then only one who hasn't produced any eggs is Walter, who may in fact be the only boy in the bunch. Darn I was looking forward to the first new generation of home-born birdlets.

It's been suggested to me that I can pull a switcheroo, ditching Woo's 4 eggs and swapping BB's eggs into her nest, let Woo and 15 raise those when/if they come and inducing BB to produce 2 more. People do that sort of thing often, apparently pidgies are very good adoptive parents. But I don't think I want to mess with their little lives and manipulate them so much. I guess it's bad enough to keep them confined, as they are, though mine are the "unnatural" color varieties safest kept away from predators. Anyway these are their first eggs and I just want to let them enjoy them.