First peregrine egg at Pitt! Dorothy laid it Thursday night, March 20, at 9:37pm.
I happened to be asleep and found out this morning around 5am.
And here’s the first moment of the first egg thanks to @PittPeregrines. (The egg is white in infrared light.)
It seems like we waited forever but Dorothy is right on time.
(photo from the National Aviary falconcam at University of Pittsburgh)
Congrats, Dorothy! Hoping for a good fledge year @ COL.
Kate,
I was watching up until 9:30 and missed it by minutes! How long until we can expect egg number 2?
Sue, egg #2 will arrive in about 2 days
Hooray, this is such wonderful news! Let’s hope this is the first of Dorothy’s eggs, with many more to come. It would be so great if she and E2 were the proud parents of a whole bunch of baby peregrines. Keeping fingers crossed.
Hello Kate,
Hate to always be pestering you about the snapshot cameras, I’m probably the only one who looks at them. It seems that the links to those cameras have disappeared from the Resources section of the left-hand pane of the home page. If you can’t put them there anymore I’ll understand, I just thought I’d ask, since I enjoy watching the nests while I’m at work.
Thanks,
Mary Ann
Mary Ann, they are on the Peregrine FAQ page (actually have always been there): http://www.birdsoutsidemywindow.org/peregrine-faqs/
Hoorah!
Yay!! Great news Kate! Now we sit and wait like the ‘parents’ and start watching for pips. It’s like old times. Thanks for the great news! 🙂
Dorothy doesn’t seem to be into incubating the egg very much. Does anyone else think this as well?
Gail, unlike bald eagles peregrines don’t begin incubation until the next to last egg is laid. Here’s more information: http://www.birdsoutsidemywindow.org/peregrine-faqs/question-sitting-on-eggs-or-not/