Hurricane and Brooklyn have two male chicks and two female chicks who look to be about 25 days old. Like past years Hurricane'sand Brooklyn's chicks aren't particularly large (thank you Princess and Trey) so I would expect them to start to fledge in about two weeks based on past experience.
We had hoped to get the FalconCam operating here today but it wasn't to be. MTS through their Future First philanthropy program had agreed to help us out with a connection but with the work necessary to get a line in place and our small window of opportunity (I.w., before the chicks fledge) it wasn't feasible so I will be talking with the program to see if they would be interested in helping us out next year instead. No guarantees of course but keep your fingers crossed!
And RCF's sharp eye at the beginning of the month was bang on. She spotted one of the adults with food and thought the delivery looked more like a chick meal than dinner for a hungry incubating adult and she was right looking at the age of the chicks. We weren't sure exactly what we would find - we got the call that MTS would be able to meet us today about the connection and we took the chance that between RCF's observations and a couple of photos Conservation managed to take that the chicks would be old enough to band safely. And though the real reason for our trip wasn't successful, we were able to band which given everyone's schedule at the moment was a stroke of good fortune.
Dennis I'm sure will get his photos processed and posted as soon as he can.
