OH / Columbus - Rhodes Tower - 2008-16

[jadoo]

It almost looks like they match the eggs ... 

Is that pinkish colour coming from the lens filter? That's not their real colour, is it?!

...no, they are the normal off-white - that must have just been the light and shadows of that time of day, but i saw what you meant.  They may not really match the leftover eggs, but they don't mind using the eggs as pillows and leaning posts...

[jadoo]

...there was a nice quiet chick-pile when i first tuned in this morning, with mom on the outside ledge - now the chicks are up and moving;  flapping their little featherless wings and staggering around on outsized feet - lol, they look like some sort of awkward prehistoric monsters when they do that...

[Kinderchick]

It almost looks like they match the eggs ... 

Is that pinkish colour coming from the lens filter? That's not their real colour, is it?!

[The Peregrine Chick]

It almost looks like they match the eggs ... 

[Alison]

The cam picture has a somewhat strange pinkish cast . . . Scout and Trooper's two chicks today:

 

[jadoo]

...chicks are napping on their own after their morning feeding, Mom's been doing her morning preening and yoga for the last 1/2 hour on the ledge, in the sun - must be a relief for her to not have to be on the chicks every minute now...

[jadoo]

...oh, and for those who are interested in this kind of thing (YOU know who you are).....the POOP ART has begun!

[jadoo]

..great news about the Radisson hatches!  In Ohio, there are still only 2 chicks, and since they hatched on the 19th, it's pretty obvious the other 2 eggs aren't going to hatch, although they are still being brooded...one of the unhatched ones is the one Scout and Trooper were ignoring for a day or so...but 2 chicks are pretty good anyway, and maybe will give (probably) 1st time dad Trooper an easier time of food provision as they get bigger and more ravenous, than perhaps 4 chicks would...

[Kinderchick]

That is a very cool video, indeed, RCF!  I have never seen/heard that before! I think the Kinderchicklets would really enjoy it! Thanks!

[RCF]

I thought this was pretty cool  , video has the chicks peeping inside the eggs.

"http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/Ui4nCTrYFes&hl=en_US&fs=1&name="

[jadoo]

...feeding in progress!  - still only 2 chicks...

[jadoo]

...caught part of a feeding this morning, still only two chicks, but mom has figured out the distance problem, and is now sitting much closer to the chicks to feed them - no one is stretching too far and falling over, like yesterday...

[Kinderchick]

Very funny to see them lying on their backs for a feeding, since mom won't come any closer! Reach, reach, little ones!

[jadoo]

...and now mom's leaned over so far, SHE fell over...

[jadoo]

...mom's doing a feeding - she seems to stay pretty far away from the chicks when she's doing it - they both lean as far forward as they can go, and fall over...