They were suppose to be ten days old today. Both of them, anyway.The weaker of the two apparently died. I noticed, at night where both parents were oddly never present, that it was the slower and more static one. It would almost always close its eyes and do nothing. The slightly bigger, more developed and energetic one would usually move around and sometimes climb over it and other fun stuff superiors do to inferiors.The lone bird doesn't mind its sibling is dead, apparently, as I last saw it standing on its body.Now, they're in nest that's in an old abandoned pot with soil. It looks like the corpse isn't going anywhere even if the family tried to do anything, because of the "walls" of the pot relative to the nest.Will the parents freak that one of its kids are dead, and abandon the nest? Or will they just continue feeding the survivor? Will they bother using that nest still after the kid flies off? And holy shit, there's a corpse now, don't I need to take it out?Last oddities: will they bother eating peanuts, as I don't see it on a list of commonly eaten seeds for them. And why the hell are the parents gone at night? Even when they were just born, they were never there. Is it because of neighbors' cats? I saw them one night, but I blocked off the entrance in the gate that they used to get through.
Also, image is from wikipedia. They look just like them, and the page described them right.California, in the horrible Central Valley.