Last night at 9:30pm the third egg hatched at the Cathedral of Learning peregrine nest. Hope immediately ate the egg shell. She did not eat the chick.
This morning there are two nestlings and one egg, as seen in this screenshot when Hope and Terzo did a nest exchange.
All is well.
Welcome to the world, C3.
(photo from the National Aviary falconcam at Univ of Pittsburgh)
🙂 All is well, indeed! …at least for now.
All is well indeed! CONGRATS HOPE AND TERZO!!! Welcome to the world C3!! So glad by to hear that she continues to be a great mom.
Aw, such happy news – I saw her eating the shell last night and wasn’t sure WHAT had happened! Welcome, C3!
Thank goodness, very glad to hear this news
Great news. Looking forward to watching these little ones grow and fledge. Joy replaces dismay and concern. Amazing creatures of nature.
Great news to wake up to!! Looking forward to seeing good things at this nest.
So thankful for this update! Not sure I could handle any more news other than positive!!! Welcome C3!!!
Yeaaaaaaaa 2 chicky’s
Is there something wrong at wild earth? No archives available…
Claire, yes there is a problem with the archives & WildEarth knows about it
Welcome C3. Happy news.
Thank you Kate, for all your updates! Glad to see the two little ones this morning getting fed @ 10:45 EST. I think Terzo was in the box on the chicks and egg, but seemed anxious. Hope finally came back with some food!
Happy news. And Hope just now (10:45 am) brought in brunch. Yay!
Wonderful news. Never a dull moment here! Welcome to the world C3! Thank you Kate.
I’m going to assume that C1, C2, & C3 are the offspring of E2 & Hope, which means that the remaining egg is the offspring of Terzo and Hope.
Have the babies been being fed?
Oops…just refreshed and read above messages. 🙂
I don’t know if any meal was delivered between 10:45 and just now at 3:50, which was another one brought in by Hope. Has anybody seen Terzo bring in food today? Is it odd that Hope is doing the hunting while Terzo is doing the brooding?
Pa Gal, I will discuss this in a blog tomorrow or Tuesday
Thank you, Kate. Will watch for it!
This is so interesting. Much to learn. Hope and Terzo are keeping us in suspense lol
Thanks Kate for all the informative updates.
Kate, is it my imagination or is the smallest one not getting very much to eat? Thanks
janet luzell, please read: http://www.birdsoutsidemywindow.org/peregrine-faqs/question-are-the-chicks-getting-enough-to-eat/
Thanks Kate. I didn’t see that.
Hi Kate, I apologize if this was addressed and I missed it. When the chicks are banded, will a DNA test be done to identify who the father is? Also, will they be examined as last years chick was? Or was that exam done because it was evident that he had a problem? I think I recall that the sex was determined by that exam or a DNA test?
Lisa D,
No DNA test will be done to determine the father. Not only is this not done as part of banding but we have no DNA from the parents so we couldn’t run the test.
Last year’s chick had a special medical exam because it was obvious he had developmental issues.
The sex of peregrine chicks is easy to determine at banding age based on their weight. The males weigh 1/3 less than the females.
The sex of last year’s chick had to be determined from a blood test because his weight was so off that it couldn’t be used as a yardstick for determining his sex. Last year’s chick was very abnormal.
Thank you, Kate! That is very interesting!
Tell us again how you can tell mom from dad, please.
Mary Knapp, see this blog post: http://www.birdsoutsidemywindow.org/2016/04/06/who-is-who-at-the-pitt-peregrine-nest/
Nice to see that the third hatch at the Cathedral was “uneventful” and looking forward to seeing/hearing that that last egg has hatched – three is never a crowd when it comes to peregrine chicks.
Tracy
Project Coordinator
Manitoba Peregrine Falcon Recovery Project
Hope does seem to be a modern female, doing the hunting and bringing home the bacon, er… pigeon, while Terzo seems to be content to be the stay at home dad, preferring to sit on the eggs.
The little chirps the chicks make when they’re being fed are ADORABLE =) And I notice that one of the adults often cries out (or maybe e-chups?) when feeding is happening – it sounds to me like it’s the parent who is not feeding, but the feeding parent always seem to have their back to the camera so I can never tell(!). Assuming it IS the off-screen parent, do we have an idea of what they’re communicating? Is it just ‘bonding’ noises? Is the off-screen parent also asking to be fed? Something else entirely?
Stacyj: I’ve been thinking that the adult who chirps while feeding the chicks is Hope, and it seems to be the falcon version of “open your mouth, here it comes”. The chicks seem to respond to it. I may be way off here, but that was my impression. They are fun to watch.
Claire, that’s exactly what’s happening.
The first two eggs hatched together and now this last a couple days later – I wonder if this new eyas today is Terzo’s? And the remaining egg maybe not fertilized? I guess I have to wait to see!!
The first three were E2’s. Based on the timing of hatching, incubation must have started a few days before the 4th egg (Terzo’s) was laid so it is still developing.
Ah, thanks Claire and Kate – that makes sense!
Is the camera down? there is no picture on the website.
“Is the camera down?” No. There’s apparently a new security layer in the browser. I have heard this is the solution:
“Simply click the “Show All Content” button & the video will appear.”
Trying to figure out how to watch the video on Apple products. Anyone figure this out yet? Missing all of the action! 🙁
I can’t watch the video anymore on my iPhone or iPad. Trying to figure out how to “Show all content”. On these devices…no luck so far.
There is no show all content tab to hit. I watch this from my iPad. How can we see it?? Help please. I am addicted to this cam. Don’t want to miss anything!!
I have an iPad and I can’t watch anymore from the aviary site, but the wild earth site is fine. http://www.wildearth.tv/cam/cathedral-falcons
What I had to do to get the video back in Firefox was click on the icon to the left of the URL in the address bar. It told me that some of the items on the page were not secure (it is an https address, but the video is not secure). I had to then grant an exception to allow the unsecure items on the page to be displayed. Hope this helps somebody.
Getting the video back in Chrome was a two-step process for me: first I had to click the little page icon to the left of the URL and under “Permissions,” select “Always allow on this site,” and then reload the page. THEN, the video still didn’t appear but a little shield icon showed up at the far right-hand side of the browser bar – I clicked that and had to allow it to show unsecure items on the page, and refresh again. It’s possible some Chrome users might only have to do that second step of clicking on the shield icon on the far right-hand side of the browser bar, but if the shield isn’t showing up for you, this is what worked for me.
(Oh shoot, I left off one thing step in my Chrome note above: when I clicked the page icon on the left-hand side, under “Permissions” it was specifically “Plugins” that had to be set to “always allow on this site.” Sorry about that!)
http://www.dosbirds.org/falcon_cam2/
This is the link to the Wilmington, Delaware Falcons where I live. This is my first year watching. I know Hope has has created much stress I wanted to share our four chicks, they are three weeks old this weekend.