OH / Columbus - Rhodes Tower - 2008-16

[Elaine L]

Durand is looking inside the nestbox while Flyboy is perched on the ledge.  She looks like she is trying to figure things out, and he just looks clueless.  I think that between the two of them, they will figure out what needs to be done with the three round things inside the box.  It would be so much better than waiting until next year. 

[Kinderchick]

... peregrines have been figuring it out without our peanut gallery comments since forever...    

I guess you're right about that, jadoo. LOL!

[jadoo]

...i'm sure it'll all work out, if not this year, then next - remember, this is Durand's first nest, and the peregrines have been figuring it out without our peanut gallery comments since forever...    

[carly]

Hmmm... I wonder how they will incubate the eggs, when they are so far apart? Do they eventually figure it out?

I'm trying to have faith and hoping her hormones will kick in but she's due for egg 4 tomorrow so not much time.  She keeps scrapping and kicking the eggs, honestly surprise she hasn't crushed one yet.  She doesn't seem to have a brood patch yet though today we see she might be developing a bit of one.  NOt sure if her hormones are quite where the should be?  TPC?  I know you have seen stuff like this before but honestly the male isn't even interested in the eggs and she has no clue either. 

[Kinderchick]

Hmmm... I wonder how they will incubate the eggs, when they are so far apart? Do they eventually figure it out?

[Moonstar]

Looking at the web cam here right now.  There are 3 eggs and they are all in different areas.  A bird is there now and tried to settle down on two of them.  He/she has been scraping in the nest and moving around and looking a lot at the eggs.  He/she does not seem to know how to put them together.  The bird has now stepped out ot the nest box and all three eggs are far apart. 

[jadoo]

...third egg for Durand & Flyboy - two eggs in one section of the box, the first egg sitting by itself in a different area - she may not quite have figured out what to do with the eggs, but they sure are arriving on schedule...

[The Peregrine Chick]

Unless the weather in Columbus is terribly cold, the eggs will be fine until she's pretty much finished laying.  Not unusual for birds to not quite figure out what to do with the "roundy things".  Jules and Beau (West Winnipeg) were very much like this last year - neither one of them had any experience but they figured it out in the end and were very successful.  Sounds like Durand knows there's an, lets say, inconsistency with what she's doing and maybe with her next egg the penny (as well as the egg) will drop and she'll get all her eggs safely in one basket  

[jadoo]

...yes, Durand still doesn't seem quite sure as to what's going on, or where she wants these eggs to be sitting;  maybe she wants them laid in one area and incubated in another.  Another thing, Flyboy has been noticably absent for most of the proceedings (more like Fly-by-night-boy, I think), but he's probably young as well...it's an education for us watching these two young ones learning on the fly, so to speak...

[carly]

Well Durand just laid her second egg while we all watched.  Interestingly she had moved her first egg out of the scrape earlier and laid the second one in it's spot however the scrape is so close to the back of the nest box she kept trying and trying to keep it warm but her little head was pushing again the wall.  At one point you could see her looking at both eggs kind of puzzled and now she's left the box.  The eggs are each in different areas..hopefully she figures it out and moves them together in one spot.

[jadoo]

...lovely!...nice to see Durand with her very first egg!..she's currently sitting in the box, eyelids drooping shut - obviously a tiring event...

[birdcamfan]

Admiring the egg. How cute is that!

[skygirlblue]

 

[carly]

Woohooo...egg in the box this morning!!!! 

[Elaine L]

Durand has been on the ledge, or the top of the nestbox practically all day.  It looks to me like she has been doing a lot of calling, looking slightly irritated, but no sign of Flyboy - at least not on my watch.