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Welcome to the world, fledgling!	Male brings food	Male brings food	Successful transfer!
Second fledgling hides in palm in rain	Two fledglings and maybe more	Two fledglings wait for food delivery	Here's the male with two fledglings
I want to eat NOW!	So eat!	Thank you!	New male doing a great job
Wishing you a good life, fledgling!

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Trude		20-May-2019 00:31
We have had a pair of nesting Black Phoebes in our yard for years, the same female but different males. She was tolerant of us and flew at us for her mealworms while the males were more reserved. The pair just started nesting in March when the male disappeared. She continued bringing food to her nest, and we later saw one fledgling but didn't see it beyond one day. We saw a new male but she kept pushing him away as she began a new nest in a different location (eaves of neighbor's house). Lucky that he hung around because she suddenly disappeared after the eggs hatched. We miss her after six years of daily contact! This new male is a dynamo in taking mealworms to the chicks. Today, in the rain, the chicks fledged (flew from the nest). There’s at least two and probably more. Their tail feathers are so short, they have brown in their wings, and have a yellow gape at the edge of their mouth which will disappear as they finish growing. The male continued to feed them throughout the day, and we got photographs as we laughed. The female's genes live on as we hope the little ones successfully evade the neighbor's cats, feral cats, non-native fox squirrel, Cooper's Hawk, and other hazards. Welcome to the world, little fledglings!

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