Our birds are still with us, and getting more and more active. A lot of time is spent on preening, with occasional bouts of violent wing flapping. We are providing good supplies of mealworms, and the hen runs a regular shuttle service after the feeder has been topped up. After we have topped up the supply via a funnel held in an entry port, we bang with the spoon on the arm of the wooden chair beneath, and we think the hen now recognises this welcome sound. The faecal sacs are still being removed regularly - the birds always wait a couple of seconds after delivering food, to see if there is a faecal sack to be removed. On one occasion today, after the cock had fed a chick and removed its sac, the hen arrived and fed another chick in her turn. However she was confused by the stance of the first chick and she pushed her head under its tail as if to ensure she had not missed anything. When a chick has something to deliver, it arches in a tremendous back bend to make it easy for the parent bird to collect and it takes some time to revert to its normal posture.