OH / Columbus - Rhodes Tower - 2008-16

[Pam]

4 eggs, Durand (I presume) is just sitting in the rain outside of the box - guess she really is confused about this whole process!

[carly]

Yes this would be the time but I don't think she gets it yet.  Both of them seem more like teenagers with runaway hormones and they haven't quite figured out what those 'red consequences' are yet. 

[jadoo]

...Durand...anyway, she's got two eggs in one section, two in another, maybe she's trying to decide which ones she loves more?  ...if there was more canoodling, maybe she's not even done laying yet; but either way, isn't this the time she should start hard incubating? or...any kind of incubating?  

[carly]

Scout just laid egg number 4.  ON the plus side it's closer to egg #1 - so two on one of the box and two on the other.  What will she do next I wonder. 

[RCF]

Here is a link to BCAW, Columbus thread - Durand and Flyboy
She moved the egg back into view, you have to scroll down the page a bit.  

http://www.peregrinefalcon-bcaw.net/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=896&start=380

[Pam]

Three eggs in sight again, no bird in sight though!

[Pam]

and no sign of any bird around - though Donna Daniel says that there are lots of spots where a bird can be sitting close by without being visible on the camera.

[Elaine L]

I only see two eggs, as well.  Where is the third egg?  Unless Durand somehow pushed it over behind the far egg.  Things are very confusing here this year.

[susha]

Oh dear...oh dear...oh dear!!!    Now I only see two eggs!

[carly]

Heh...she hasn't incubated for sure.  Instead of sitting on the egg, she leans into and scrapes!  She's a champion scraper that's for sure!  I keep thinking, she is remembering Hamilton and how deep the scrape there is and is trying to mimic it but it's very different type of pebble she's working with   

[Pam]

Well, we can only watch and hope that she gets it right!

[The Peregrine Chick]

She hasn't started incubating (at least that's how it looks from the photo), when she does, that's when the eggs need to be together.  First day, maybe two, one egg out or not all eggs covered and they can still do okay, but when they settle into hard incubation, she needs to keep 'em together.

Part of the problem seems to be that she has a couple of deep scrapes to use on opposite sides of the box.  Get the eggs in one scrape and they should get the hang of it quickly enough.

[Kinderchick]

She's going to have trouble brooding these eggs as they are now!

That's for sure!

[RCF]

Interesting....no bird in the nestbox now, someone on the ledge.  Those eggs are certainly far apart from each other!  

She's going to have trouble brooding these eggs as they are now!

[Pam]

Interesting....no bird in the nestbox now, someone on the ledge.  Those eggs are certainly far apart from each other!