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Not an uncommon occurrence, after regurgitating food into the chicks mouths for several minutes, sometimes some food was left at the bottom of the nest. While the parent would fly off one of the chicks would gobble up the left over scraps. But this time two of the chicks decided that they wanted this tasty morsel, and weren't willing to concede the hunk of flesh to its sibling.

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Not an uncommon occurrence, after regurgitating food into the chicks mouths for several minutes, sometimes some food was left at the bottom of the nest. While the parent would fly off one of the chicks would gobble up the left over scraps. But this time two of the chicks decided that they wanted this tasty morsel, and weren't willing to concede the hunk of flesh to its sibling.

DSC_0342 food fight

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