29 April 2022
This morning Ecco brought food before dawn to the Cathedral of Learning peregrine nest. While Morela fed the chicks I watched closely, counting heads and looking for eggs. The chicks obscured the remaining eggs but with the family at three chicks I assume eggs #4 and #5 are still waiting to hatch.
Egg #4 is on its way. Yesterday morning I saw a pip, below, during the 10am feeding.
Will egg #4 hatch today? Will egg #5 hatch next week?
Watch the National Aviary falconcam at Univ of Pittsburgh to find out.
UPDATE 7 May 2022: The fourth egg hatched 3 days late and the chick did not survive. The fifth egg never hatched.
(photos from the National Aviary falconcam at Univ of Pittsburgh)
1st hummer in my yard at feeder yesterday. Back again today. It is actually a male I think. Didn’t get good enough look. Also in last few days at my Squirrel Hill home a ruby crowned kinglet, 8 cedar wax wings, unidentified thrush, 3 chimney Swifts, goldfinches and a warbler probably a female common yellow throat. Also a flyover juvenile Broadwing.
Thanks for posting this update the other day. I’ve been trying to see if any of the others have hatched, but I keep tuning in at the wrong times. Was getting worried, since the Aviary site hadn’t posted an update since the 26th.
Shouldn’t #4 have hatched by now?
2 May 20222, 1:20pm. Yes it just has!