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NSW - Charles Sturt University - 2018 / Xavier & Diamond
Alison:
Yesterday, Diamond laid her second beautiful egg:
Alison:
Xavier incubating:
Diamond protecting her first egg, while she prepares to lay her second egg:
burdi:
The second egg for 2018 was laid August 22, about 12:22 pm. :)
burdi:
First egg for Diamond
Published 21 August, 2018 | By Cilla Kinross
The first egg arrived at 0207 on Monday morning. I’m afraid I missed the actual event. But it was filmed by BirdieCam in the Northern Hemisphere (Holland?) and her youtube channel can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQvWQiUyDp6oNMlgO6_Jcew
but here is an early glimpse.
Egg number 1 – quite early
Video: 20180820 1st egg 0207 h
I expect egg number two tonight. And hopefully at least a third in a day or two. The female will only sporadically incubate until all her eggs are lain, so they are in ‘sync’, so don’t worry if she seems to leave them. She won’t be far away!
I noticed that Xavier came in with a tiny prey yesterday (thanks to an observant peregrine watcher!) and I’m 99 % sure it was a superb fairy wren – barely a beakful and a first in my books!
Entire update: http://www.gumtreecs.com.au/wordpress/first-egg-for-diamond/
burdi:
Xavier came in just before sunset and presented Diamond with a little gift at 5:31 pm; he then went to sit on their egg for about 10 minutes and left the nest box at 5:40 pm. Diamond returned at 6:09 pm and snuggled down on their egg.
I haven’t been able to track much today but should mention that the nights are still quite frosty in Orange, and on August 19 (just yesterday) it was cold, wet, and very windy!
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