The Birth of a Lego Chick

You should try and read this in a 'Sir David Attenborough" voice:

Yesterday I witnessed the birth of a Lego chick. Their eggs can occasionally be found in a shallow depression in grass lawns and I was lucky enough to find one.

For something so light, the shell of a Lego egg is extremely strong. A hatching Lego chick has to work very hard to escape. To help, it has a protrusion on the top of it's head, which is uses over a period of a few hours to gradually head-but it's way out.

The bump will remain with it for the rest of it's life but when fully grown it may be covered by some form of headgear depending on it's adult occupation.

The hatchlings of some species are helpless and have to be fed and looked after by an adult, but Lego chicks are fully formed (including their bright plumage) on hatching and are able to fend for themselves immediately.

This one disappeared by the time I went back to look for it. No one really knows where they go and what they during their very long lives, but a surprising number turn up in boxes under the bed in human beings spare bedrooms.

Children are particularly fascinated by them of often join in their play but they can be aggressive towards adults, sometimes laying traps with pieces of sharp plastic which can be very painful when stood on with bare feet.