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Offline Kinderchick

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Re: ON / Hamilton - Sheraton Hotel - 2008-21
« Reply #218 on: April 20, 2013, 23:05 »
Hooray for Madame X! And what a beautiful screen capture, RCF! She is, indeed, a very beautiful bird! :)

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Re: ON / Hamilton - Sheraton Hotel - 2008-21
« Reply #217 on: April 20, 2013, 17:57 »
Thanks for the photo RCF, yep second egg is here.

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Re: ON / Hamilton - Sheraton Hotel - 2008-21
« Reply #216 on: April 20, 2013, 09:24 »
Looks like two eggs to me! :)


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Re: ON / Hamilton - Sheraton Hotel - 2008-21
« Reply #215 on: April 20, 2013, 08:57 »
It looks like Madame X has laid he second egg.  Surge and Madame X have made the scrape very deep this is so it's kind of hard to see, but I'm sure I see a second egg this morning.

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Re: ON / Hamilton - Sheraton Hotel - 2008-21
« Reply #214 on: April 17, 2013, 22:39 »
Hooray for Madame X! I thought she might still have it in her, gran!  ;D

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Re: ON / Hamilton - Sheraton Hotel - 2008-21
« Reply #213 on: April 17, 2013, 20:41 »
Madame X and her egg made the CBC News

Madame X, with her partner Serge, laid the couple's first egg Wednesday morning, sometime between 10:30 a.m. and 10:55 a.m., said Mike Street, a volunteer with Falconwatch, the organization that monitors the couple and its offspring.


http://www.cbc.ca/hamilton/news/story/2013/04/17/hamilton-falcon-first-egg.html

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Re: ON / Hamilton - Sheraton Hotel - 2008-21
« Reply #212 on: April 17, 2013, 16:24 »
She's our beautiful Madame X, 14 years old and still going strong.

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Re: ON / Hamilton - Sheraton Hotel - 2008-21
« Reply #211 on: April 17, 2013, 14:47 »
This falcon sure has a very speckled chest.

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Re: ON / Hamilton - Sheraton Hotel - 2008-21
« Reply #210 on: April 17, 2013, 12:52 »
I thought I saw an egg in the scrape this morning, and Madame X has been in there all morning with Surge hanging around on the ledge.  She moved a little while ago, and now I can't seem to see an egg, but she's been pancaking in the scrape so maybe it's well buried.  Here's hoping for more!

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Re: ON / Hamilton - Sheraton Hotel - 2008-21
« Reply #209 on: April 17, 2013, 12:12 »
Ladies and gentlemen, we have an egg!


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Re: ON / Hamilton - Sheraton Hotel - 2008-21
« Reply #208 on: April 17, 2013, 11:54 »
How exciting for Madame X and Surge :-*

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Re: ON / Hamilton - Sheraton Hotel - 2008-21
« Reply #207 on: April 17, 2013, 11:34 »
Ladies and gentlemen, we have an egg!

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Re: ON / Hamilton - Sheraton Hotel - 2008-21
« Reply #206 on: April 14, 2013, 20:32 »
Well, here's hoping for eggs from Madame X, gran. Talons crossed. :)

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Re: ON / Hamilton - Sheraton Hotel - 2008-21
« Reply #205 on: April 14, 2013, 14:39 »
It's beginning to look like Madame X might be coming to the end of her reproductive life, she is 14 next month  so that could be the reason we don't have any eggs yet.  We're still hopeful since all the other pre-breeding activities have taken place.  She visits the scrape often and usually spends the nights there so maybe she's just waiting for the weather to get a little warmer.  Time will tell.

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Re: ON / Hamilton - Sheraton Hotel - 2008-21
« Reply #204 on: April 06, 2013, 17:59 »
Our falcons here did not migrate, but it seems that egg laying has been delayed.  Madame X usually has her clutch laid by now, but this year the temperatures have been below average and, so far, there are no eggs in the scrape.