I believe the peregrine falcon eggs will hatch soon at Pitt. Compared to last week, Dorothy is spending more time incubating than E2. In this picture she seems to be telling him, “Get up! It’s my turn.” She has years of experience hatching eggs while this may be his first year as a dad.
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And maybe – just maybe – the photo at right shows some pips (dents) in the eggs. If so, the chicks are starting the exhausting job of breaking the shells.
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No sign of chick yet, but we have a piece of shell. (Watching the webcam is addictive!)
I just checked the Pitt webcam and I think there’s a small piece of shell next to Dorothy…
Wednesday morning about 8:20, I spot a white piece of something near Dorothy’s head. Could that be a broken piece of egg?
I saw the eggshell as well. I think she ate it because it’s gone. She’s squirming a lot which makes me think “BABY!”
9:15am I spotted the chick!!! I got a really bad screen capture, too. 🙂
9:14 am — I saw the chick as Dorothy and E2 were fussing over it!
Unfortunately I did not have the presence of mind to “printscreen” or go to the 15-second refresh cam, but I saw it….
Daddy checking out the shell – he fussed around Dorothy for a bit as if trying to see underneath her, and then…
she let him (and us!) see.