I hope you enjoy these amazing pictures, but please note that all photographs are copyright. © Trixie Benbrook 2011
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- Pic 1. Mum & Dad – Psssst! (Love at first sight?)
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- Pic 2. Hmmmm! Eggs!
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- Pic 3. The ‘blob’ – magnified!
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- Pic 4. 2 days – note Scaly’s protective wing…
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- Pic 5. 2 days – one black beak visible.
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- Pic 6. 2 days -on back, note feet and claws.
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- Pic 7. 2 days – Scaly feeding one chick.
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- Pic 8. 5 days – perfectly shaped beak, eyes unopened, note wing size.
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- Pic 9. 7 days – Rainbow feeding chick, wing supporting young. Scaly present too.
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- Pic 10. 9 days – eyes now a slit, beak colour growing.
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- Pic 11. 10 days – Scaly feeding chicks.
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- Pic 12. 10 days – note Scaly’s under-wing colouring (red).
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- Pic 13. 10 days – Scaly preening a chick.
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- Pic 14. 10 days – rolly-polly fat now!
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- Pic 15. 14 days – older chick now standing.
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- Pic 16. 14 days – family settling in for the night.
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- Pic 17. 21 days – wing exercises.
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- Pic 18. Crowded house!
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- Pic 19. 21 days – check out tongue; eyes fully open, but not fully focused.
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- Pic 20. 4 weeks – eyes focused, colouring developing.
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- Pic 21. 4 weeks – snoozing, pinnies in wings developing.
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- Pic 22. 4 weeks – first born at rear noticeably bigger.
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- Pic 23. 5 weeks – “talking together” – note Scaly breast.
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- Pic 24. 5 weeks – Yum! Rear chick – stump of tail taking shape, feathers developed on wing.
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- Pic 25. 5 weeks – head now all aqua – feeding himself.
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- Pic 26. 5 weeks – practicing being ‘grown up’ (crop feeding), and communicating.
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- Pic 27. 5 weeks – C’mon up! First day out of ‘pot’ – Dad encouraging.
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- Pic 28. 5 weeks – Help! Ready to fledge? (Don’t think so…) but a good instinctive reaction…
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- Pic 29. 5 weeks – “You can do it!” – Dad lending a beak…
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- Pic 30. 5 weeks – “It’s mine!” Squabbling over a corn kernel.
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- Pic 31. 6 weeks – Friends.
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- Pic 32. 7 weeks – has Scaly’s underwing colouring (see Pic 12 – 10 days). Tail showing more development.
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- Pic 33. 8 weeks – Red colour emerging on black beak. Scaly breast; aqua head blending to Scaly’s apple-green.
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- Pic 34. 8 weeks – Scaly and Junior. Note Junior’s body size (more Rainbow build than Scaly).
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- Pic 35. 8 weeks – Fledged now, and finding a new home on a branch.
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- Pic 36. 8 weeks – Siblings showing both front and back markings. Scaly has ‘scales’ on his back – the youngsters don’t!
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- Pic 37. 16 weeks – Beak now mostly red – eyes not yet ‘adult’ – fully independent.
A look at Nature.... 
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