OH / Columbus - Rhodes Tower - 2008-16

[The Peregrine Chick]

I believe - and TPC can correct if I'm wrong - the pellets are undigested bones, feather and cartilidge from birds they eat.  

You got it ...

[maggieblue]

As it turns out there hasn't been a hatch here yet.    There was just a shift change and there are still four intact eggs.  What looked like a chick turns out to have been a white blob on the camera lens.  So I guess we will have to wait a little longer.

[Pchemist]

yep, I'm sure she's just shading the eggs for temperature control and trying to keep cool herself.  It's spring weather here, so I'm off to play in my flowers.   

[carly]

Wow..that is hot and she's right in the sun...heat it is then, poor thing.  I keep forgetting it's summery in other parts of the world

[maggieblue]

It is warm in Columbus with a forecasted high of 88F. Hopefully Scout and the chick will be in the shade sometime soon.  I did see her move the eggs to the back on one of those horrible rain days that they have had recently so maybe she will do that.

[carly]

I believe - and TPC can correct if I'm wrong - the pellets are undigested bones, feather and cartilidge from birds they eat.  

[Moonstar]

Maybe it is a smudge...let's hope it isn't.  I guess time will tell.  I can't tell whether it is Mom of Dad on the eggs but he/she is panting (if birds do that). 

[Moonstar]

Yesterday it looked like there was a white spot on on of the eggs.  It now looks like a white ball of fluff is there. 
So exciting.

[irenekl]

Oh maybe.  They do that?  Cough up pellets?  I didn't realize they actually swallowed them when they peck around in the gravel.  I'm wondering now if there is a chick or did I confuse a white'ish smudge on the cam lense for a chick??  Did you see one?

[carly]

Could be heat or she could be coughing up a pellet. 

[irenekl]

I'm wondering too about what exactly Scout is doing.  She's breathing heavily and her mouth has been wide open for awhile already.  Looks like distress of some sort, heat or whatever.  Maybe it's nothing.

[maggieblue]

I believe there is a chick just now hatching in Ohio!

Whoo Hoo! A little fluff ball!  I wonder if it is hot there as Scout seems to be trying to shade the chick and eggs. 

[irenekl]

I believe there is a chick just now hatching in Ohio!

[maggieblue]

It seems like forever since they have been on those eggs.  The most recent report from the biologist there says that she is expecting a hatch around next Thursday.     I really loved watching the young here last year.  Hoping for another great year. 

[allikat]

I know, I think they are just about due.  I can't remember when they started incubating.