10/16/17 at 1:00 am, Diamond has been sleeping by the chicks, she woke up, did some preening, and is now retucked and sleeping.
I am sorry to be the bearer of bad news. There was a sad post on the CSU blog, which I am bringing over below. The coverage here has been so awesome, especially considering how often the cams are down. We missed this bit of sibling rivalry, though.
Have a good Sunday. Here's hoping for a good day for the littlest chick too.
Molly
Sibling agressionPublished 15 October, 2017 | By Cilla Kinross
I hope this doesn’t keep up. The older chick Marragaay had real go at the younger one, Bali, with considerable blood loss. I was just thinking how well they were doing. I was trying to get up to date, but was only up to noon today, so I decided to fast forward so I could give you an update, when I saw this.
Bad blood between siblings
VIDEO 10/15/17 sibling aggression
https://youtu.be/r_tI0cHFf4sThey are now cuddle up in the corner as if nothing has happened, but Bali is very quiet (but moving). Mum is sitting on the ledge. I haven’t observed this behaviour before in nine years, but it may not be unknown. Bickering yes, but not drawing blood. I’ll check and see how much much prey was brought in this afternoon tomorrow, but I’ve had it tonight.
The only other thing of note to happen is that it’s possible that a couple of bats were brought in as prey very early in the morning. I can’t be sure as the images are not great.