"We're STILL hungry!"
At the start of the day, it was the same story - the chicks all crying out for food.
"That's more like it."
But now, Battler and Victor have discovered the mealworms in the dish on the dustbin - it's only 7 or 8 metres along the passageway at the side of the house.
"Not another one?"
They have been running a regular shuttle service, and now the chicks are well and truly satisfied. Yesterday we were concerned that they were not getting enough food, because they seemed really desperate to be fed all the time, and often the food brought in was so tiny that we could not see what it was. Now the chicks are snuggled down peacefully in the nest cup, and when Victor brought in a mealworm he had to chirrup quite fiercely to persuade a chick to raise its head.
We counted up later and found that in the half hour period from 9.10am, the parents brought food 43 times - that's once every 42 seconds. Even these chicks' guts cannot continue to digest it at this rate.
Finally, they weren't even facing the hole any more - sleeping it off became the priority.
By the end of the day, it's business as usual - the insatiable appetites had returned.
The chicks became more active during the day. They are occasionally leaving the nest cup, and one made a complete circuit round the edge, before ending in a corner and having a bout of violent wing flapping. This is the first time this wing exercise has been seen, and there were one or two more sessions later.
At the end of the day Battler was desperately trying to brood her chicks. Whether she managed to calm them down eventually will have to remain between them and her as we switched off and left them to it.