It is now 6pm and it's been raining hard most of the day. Nonetheless the cock has regularly been bringing small green caterpillars for the hen to feed to the chicks. Sometime during the day another chick hatched, but it made so little fuss about it that the first we knew was that an egg had disappeared. Although it is difficult to distinguish each separate chick, we think we can now count 6 so at least that balances!
Didn't we do well!