THEN THERE WERE TEN

One of three nice looking teenager guinea fowl.

Rooster Chicklet interrogates two of the three uninvited guests.

Three of our neighbor's guinea fowl have decided to join our rasp. (A "rasp" is what you call a group of guinea fowl because of the raspy noise they make.)  We started out Monday morning with seven adults and ended up Monday evening with those seven adults plus three teenagers.  Three of the neighbor's youngsters had joined our family of feathered friends.  We are positive that our birds kidnapped these fine looking critters from the across-the-road neighbors.  Now the only question remains of what to do?  If we return the birds to their home they will only come back.  (As if we could ever catch them to return them!) We have been pretty sure for some time that our seven were all male.  We are almost certain that these young birds are females.  It has been a while since we have seen crazy and strange behavior from our rasp as the adults spend the day strutting and sparring and running around in circles to impress the newbies. That is why a group of guinea fowl is also often called "a confusion".

Yes our neighbors did call and ask "Have you seen three of our guinea fowl?"

In case  you've been wondering, here is Mr. Gibson with her young chicks.  The little brown one behind her is Lucky.