They look like cotton balls with beaks.

And then there were four. It's hard to tell in this photo, but there are four little ones. Our first and second hatches were at the end of last week and the final two hatches were sometime this weekend. All four are doing fine. The box will start to get crowded now as they grow. And they will be growing by leaps and bounds. Soon Hera and Zeus will not be able to sit over all four. We will band them before they are able to fly away. Banding has been scheduled for Thursday, May 28. It's hard to believe that they will develop into the sleek birds that their parents are. Keep watching as their down disappears and their feathers start to grow in.