MN / Elk River - 2008-22

[eagle63_1999]

Back to eating the egg, oh now scoot it under too, you don't have the room Dad!

[maggieblue]

O.K. forget about the eggshell.  Figure out how to get that wet chick underneath you. 

[Baffled]

Second job for Dad: nest-cleaning. He's already at the pebbles and he hasn't been on the chicks very long at all.
Looks like he's having quite a job scooting the newest chick in underneath!

[carly]

Oh very cool, so different to see it so close up.  Oh and little pink and white baby!!

[eagle63_1999]

There goes Dad eating the egg!

[Baffled]

And Dad's in for the brooding, finally. First job: eating eggshell.

[eagle63_1999]

Dad you can toss one egg to the side, you just have one egg left to incubate and it won't be longer for that one either lol

[Pchemist]

scrawny little bugger when it first hatches!  soon it will be a fluffball though.    then comes "the awkward stage" ....

[Liz]

YAY!!!!    

And Mum screams, "These kids are starving!  For the 3rd time, where the heck is lunch??!"  

[Baffled]

Last egg to go has a big pip in it.

[maggieblue]

And there are three.    The 2 oldest sound like they want dinner.  Poor little new arrival is still all pink and wet.

[eagle63_1999]

Yup I counted a 3rd chick, I can see the fourth working at the egg lol

[Baffled]

Third chick just emerged! Still wet!

[Liz]

LOL   

[maggieblue]

Gee, you sure can hear the Canada Geese going by, loud and clear; they don't seem to bother our falcon mom, but it sure sounded like they were flying by about a foot away from the nest.

I must have missed the geese, or it might have been Mom.  She has a very unusual call and half the time sounds like she is quacking when she greets the male, usually to tell him to go away.  She really sounds like a duck half the time, sometimes a softly calling duck and sometimes a loud and very annoyed duck.