This is probably the smallest chicks of whom we've gotten good pictures. It's about 26 C out, so I guess the parents weren't worried about them getting too cold. (And this parent at least didn't seem overly worried about us.)

Photo credit to Kendrick. (In part because I forgot to reattach the button for the camera on my phone. Oops.)

This time they're squabbling.

Yeah, give me a little encouragement, and it's more chicks.

Though really, they are often not very visible - though they're having more and more trouble fitting under the parents, so mostly what you see if what appears to be an enormously fat dove with fluffed out belly feathers - and the stray foot, beak and wing wiggling about the edges.

I am done with Computational Neuroscience.

And invited to come back and TA it again in a couple of years, assuming I'm still here. (I'm guessing yes. To both. And next time it's all python all the time - or at least all the time when we're using neuron.)

And our doves are at it again. I hope it goes better this time, but...
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