Rural Gardening: Mama Blacktail has a new brood!, 1 by Eufaula

Eufaula wrote:
As you all know the temps this last month were horrible! I was worried that the eggs were going to cook under Mama! Then I noticed how she got off the nest everyday during the hottest part of the day. Whenever the Temps got ove 100 , she would just take longer to return to the nest! She knew that the eggs could survive if she stayed on them! then the funniest thing happened one day during a high temperature and a low humidity, I actually saw her go over to the waterer and dip her wings into the water and wet herself before going back to the nest!