Loss

I have alot to post about our RAPTOR fundraiser last night, but I will get to that when I feel like it. While doing my daily nest peek at the blubirds, I found all three chicks dead.
There were no parasites, nest damage, blood or injuries to the chicks. Rolling them over, I noticed that their keels (breast bones) were much more prominent than the last check. I had not seen the parents all morning, so I am assuming that they starved. The thing that is really haunting me is that some of their fecal matter attached to them was still wet, so they had not been dead for long.
If I had only checked them sooner…