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Alison:
Despite the fact that none of their five eggs hatched, Yankee and Dixie have not given up. They have started a second clutch. Today, Dixie laid her third egg.

Yankee and Dixie have been staying very close together at the nest site, and have been switching incubating duties frequently.

burdi:
The four overdue eggs were removed this morning and will be sent for testing, as explained on Peregrine Place.

burdi:
This was posted yesterday at 3:04pm on Peregrine Place:

NEWS ALERT: UB The DEC has just informed me that it is accepted that the eggs are no longer viable and they will be removed from the box.and sent to a lab for analysis. It is being planned for tomorrow if everything else is completed today.

Our DEC had to coordinate with UB, the head Wildlife Mgr, get permission from the Albany DEC and the USFWS in Cortland. Nothing could be done before that.

Of course this is very sad for us but at least the birds will no longer have to keep incubating non-viable eggs. The nest box will be checked to try and determine the cause of this year’s problems. I will post any information as it come in.

On a good note for our Peregrine watchers, we have the great Statler cam to follow and I think there is a crack in one egg which I’ve seen to the left.

Peregrine Place: https://www.facebook.com/PeregrinePlaceWNY/

burdi:
Dixie finally went back to the eggs. I didn't see exactly when she moved, but around 3:30 am.
 
At 4:14 am she went to the front (where she had been throughout the evening), then back on the eggs about 4:30 am, and soon off again.

Most of the time I could not see her head, and the view was too grainy to see if she was panting or not.

At 5:30 am she was still standing near the front of the box.

Now it is light again, and I can clearly see her panting while back on the eggs at 5:45 am.

burdi:
It's dark now and Dixie is sitting towards the edge of the box ... but she's not incubating.  Poor birds. :'(  

I've had no problem watching this live cam with IE, but only the first two views work:

http://www.buffalo.edu/falconcam.html

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