VA / Richmond - Riverfront Plaza - 2009-22

[allikat]

It is...just checked the temp.
31 degrees + humidex = 34 degrees celcius 

[eagle63_1999]

Man she is unsettled. It must be hot there too.

[carly]

Yes there is a big pip on another but then she shuffled around and you can't see it but it's there..lol...nice close up of her feathers and her face too!

[allikat]

Just caught the chick hatching....
I also thought I saw another pip on another egg.

[The Peregrine Chick]

Play the video on the note for today, if you look very very closely, you can see the chicks moving through the pips - its very tiny movments but they are there ...

[carly]

Aww..she's talking to them .... this is so cool!  Great cam operator!!

[carly]

First hatch and cam is zoomed right in on the newborn!!!  Go check it out if you can, it's the closest close up I've ever seen!!!  Looks like number 2 hatching too, pip!!

[allikat]

Thanks for the link Alison...

[Alison]

It's hard to tell - the cam was down for a while today. According to the biologists, there is no sign of a pip so far.

http://www.dgif.state.va.us/falconcam2008/

[allikat]

3rd & 4th pic just looked like a pip, but it could be a down feather from Dad. 
Thanks for the updates Alison!!!

[Alison]

I'm not quite sure which egg you mean, Allikat? In the second last pic, there is a small whitish mark on the middle egg in front. I'm not sure, but I think it is a small piece of a down feather. In the pic below, there is a slight mark on the second egg from the left:

[allikat]

Looked like a pip on that one egg, front and centre??  Maybe?

[Alison]

Dad, Ozzie, was on the eggs again today. Still no sign of a pip, although Ozzie was extremely restless and constantly checking the eggs and listening.

A different way to incubate in the first pic:

 

 

[allikat]

I can't wait to see more little white fluffy cute sweet chicks! 

[Alison]

These eggs should be fairly close to hatching. Dad is on the eggs in the pics below: no sign of a pip yet. It must still be hot in Richmond today.