Other Peregrine Projects > USA Peregrines
UT / Salt Lake City - 2008-2013
jadoo:
...more eggshells this morning, and i caught a glimpse of two chicks, one fluffy, and one not-so-fluffy, which i assume means it had just recently broken shell and hasn't had time to fluff up yet; i don't know if there are more than two, because mom's underside is made of glue, i think - she refuses to move off her darlings...
jadoo:
...and just saw a hilarious scene - don't know what the back story was, but after mom left with the remains of dinner, you could hear her talking off-camera; a few minutes later, the male is in the nestbox area, being "herded" in by mom (to show off the new chick???) he almost fell over sideways to get away from her as she followed him in, then he scrambled to the back of the box to give her a very wide berth, and ended up essentially jumping over the eggs, chick, and mom to get the heck out of there ;D ;D
jadoo:
got home around 2:00 or so, saw a glimpse of white while mom was shuffling around, another glimpse about a hour later as she briefly "lost" the chick during an egg shuggle, but no further glimpse until about 5 minutes ago, when dinner finally arrived and mom got down to the business of feeding - still one chick, i don't see any pips or movement out of the 3 remaining eggs; chick doing pretty good, only fell sideways 2 or 3 times... :)
jadoo:
...when i checked 1st thing this morning there were still 4 eggs, i've been out, just got back to find the mom(?) playing with an egg shell - so there's at least one hatch! :D she hasn't moved, so i haven't seen a chick yet, and now i've got to go out again! hopefully, there will be a view later on...i'll keep looking, and post any updates...
Ellie:
Just had a look and no babies that I can see and he/she doesn't have fluffed up feathers to indicate that there might be a hatch.
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