Saturday night, and Charlie and Mandie are 19 days old. And finally, we got them moved to the roomier flower box! But first, some more photos of them aged 11-19 days.
11 days here and here. You can see the tiny feathers especially on Charlie.
12 days here. The little feathers are becoming more noticeable.
13 days here and here. They’re getting to be little feather balls now. That’s Charlie on the left and Mandie on the right. Starting to be some white on their heads now too, especially Charlie.
14 days, a full two weeks, this past Monday. This is the day I first tried moving them to the flower box (not counting the time when they were still inside the eggs). Here they are in the living room. Charlie’s the really white one, behind Mandie. Then here they are in the flower box. Mandie on the left, Charlie on the right. Charlie is definitely going to be white like his parents and Grandfather Henry, while Mandie has been showing the beginnings of a very interesting color. Alas! I had to return the squabs to the living room due to the parents being visibly upset.
15 days and back in the living room. Both squabs have black wingtips now. And another one here. The ear holes are almost completely covered.
16 days here and here. Charlie’s head is a lot more white now.
17 days here and here. They’re really starting to get too big for the living room now.
18 days here. And you can really see the size difference between Charlie and Mandie. Again, I credit the extra couple days in the egg. That plus maybe Charlie really is male and Mandie female.
And that brings us up to today, Saturday, 19 days old and at last successfully removed to the flower box. 
Here and here. The food you see in the one photo, I put it in the flower box to entice the parents in. They weren’t too sure about this at first. But even they seemed to sense the squabs were getting just too darned big. Feedings were starting to become troublesome – the way the squabs were flailing around, it seemed they might poke themselves on a dead-tree twig or even fall out of the pot. Charlie started pecking at the food a little himself, but we noticed it kept falling out of his beak, so we don’t think he’s worked his way up to swallowing yet.
I have three videos, all taken at age 14 days or 2 weeks this past Monday. But I’ll have to load those in the next couple of days. Right now it’s almost 11pm, and both parents are on the rail watching over the squabs, who are over here close to the glass doors in their nice flower box.
