ON / Hamilton - Sheraton Hotel - 2008-21

[Kinderchick]

Hooray for Madame X! And what a beautiful screen capture, RCF! She is, indeed, a very beautiful bird!

[gran2496]

Thanks for the photo RCF, yep second egg is here.

[RCF]

Looks like two eggs to me!

[gran2496]

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.

[Kinderchick]

Hooray for Madame X! I thought she might still have it in her, gran! 

[RCF]

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

[gran2496]

She's our beautiful Madame X, 14 years old and still going strong.

[Moonstar]

This falcon sure has a very speckled chest.

[gran2496]

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!

[RCF]

Ladies and gentlemen, we have an egg!

[MayShowers]

How exciting for Madame X and Surge

[Elaine L]

Ladies and gentlemen, we have an egg!

[Kinderchick]

Well, here's hoping for eggs from Madame X, gran. Talons crossed.

[gran2496]

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.

[gran2496]

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.