24. Inquiry into Incubation

We're watching the Cornell Lab Bird Cams again.  The Barred Owls have two babies.  They're feasting on snakes, bluejays, mice, chipmunks, shrews.  Every day new snacks arrives in the box. A living snake was in there earlier in the week.  Crazy.

We're waiting for the hawks to hatch.  Every day, a Thirdlander asks, "How long does it take for hawk eggs to hatch?"

I answer that I don't know.

And every day someone says, "You should look it up."

And I say, "You should look it up."

And then the whole cycle begins again.  Today I finally looked it up.  28 to 35 days.  But the Cornell Lab Hawks usually hang out on the eggs for 40 days.  No one knows why.