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In this pic the hen who was poking out of the nest in the above picture is now front and center. Unfortunatley the flash sort of washed out her coloring,,,she's called a Type II green faced spangle, a not to common color pattern. Green face, yellow head, blue/turquoise breast, yellow wings with gray "spangling" like lacework, and a green tail. Barely seen behind her is the father of the chicks, a normal blue cock, on the left is a lutino hen and you can again see the English budgie hiding under a nestbox in the background.
Once the chicks hatch the hen will set on them tightly for about 4 days and the "father" will come up to the nest and feed her almost continually throughout the day as she feeds the chicks. Later she will come out of the nest, feed herself get a drink, and the father will also feed her on a perch. Once the chicks start poking their heads out of the nest hole, my favorite time, the father will feed them and also for the first couple of weeks that they're out of the nest.
