15 March 2017
Early this morning it looked like Hope has laid her first egg of 2017 this morning around 6:30am. We waited for her to stand up … just to be sure.
How did I guess that she had an egg? Because she’s lying flat on the scrape to keep it warm on this 14oF morning!
Click here to watch her on the National Aviary falconcam at the Cathedral of Learning, University of Pittsburgh.
(photo from National Aviary falconcam at Univ. of Pittsburgh)
I just caught I glimpse of it at 7:50 while she as adjusting. The first egg at the cathedral has arrived 🙂
I saw the egg this morning. I took a screenshot of it but am too stupid to figure out how to post it here. Super excited!
It will be nice to have both of the peregrines on camera this year. Hopefully all goes well.
So happy for Hope and Terzo!! Let’s hope this year she doesn’t do anything that we are scratching our heads about.
Hello Kate,
Your server was not reachable a couple of hours ago, and since it’s come back, I’m not seeing an image from the CL snapshot camera. GT snapshot is fine. Wasn’t sure if you knew about it.
am concerned that i have not seen Tersz on cam for 2 days
there is a lot we do not know about nature and it is not as simple as it seems . there are always reasons why they do what they do. but that is the mystery of nature
So is the nature of some humans. They do things that have no justifiable reason.
I was also starting to get concerned because Terzo hasn’t been around since Monday evening, but he finally showed up today at 13:54 cam time and him and Hope have been bowing and chirping over the new egg for at least 4 minutes now!
2 birds squawking up a storm at 14:02.
for the past fifteen minutes (1:55-present) Terzo and hope have been having an earnest conversation at the nest with the egg between them. “Who is going to sit on this?”
Both Hope and Terzo are bowing in the nest right now 2:12 pm. She is showing him the egg!!!!
Since 1:55 they continue to have loud conversation with egg between them…this lasted fifteen minutes. Now Terzo comes and goes but Hope is still just staring at the egg but not sitting on it. If it is as cold in PGH as it is in rochester, that little egg will turn into eggcicle! I hear Terzo screeching and wonder if there is another peregrine out there somewhere….
Saga continues. Perhaps Hope is yelling that it is his turn to sit on the egg!
Hello all, there are only 2 peregrines at Pitt right now. Hope continues to shout at Terzo whenever he perches above her & looks at her. I have no idea why she shouts so much. She is unusual in many ways.
This is a unusual question but can people at the University hear her calling out. She’s so loud. I love watching them just curious.
Oh yes, Nicole. People inside the building can hear it.
Hooray for an egg at Pitt. Poor Terzo. He needs a little set of earbuds-noise canceling!!
Kate, it looks like Terzo in the scrape now. The white line that I see, it that a Crack in the egg? I hope not. Thanks
They were off the egg for over 40 minutes….how long in cold weather before it may not be viable (freeze)? Does anyone know?
Jo, until they begun incubation (which will be several days from now) they can be off the egg just as long as it doesn’t freeze. How long that freezing is so variable (starting temperature of the egg,, microclimate in the scrape, sunshine, wind, etc., etc.). No one can answer that question.
Nicole – I work in the Cathedral, and I could hear them loud and clear. It prompted me to check out the live stream to see what was going on.
Thanks how exciting it is to watch these birds.
I’ve been watching the gulf tower nest on the snapshot cam (CL snapshot cam is up again also) and I think I might have seen 4 eggs while Dori was standing over them after the exchange just now. It’s hard to be sure since I didn’t see them without one of the parents standing over them.
Mary Ann, I’ve heard that there are indeed 4 eggs, seen around 10:20 this morning. Eventually I’ll find out when the 4th was laid.
Nicole,
The week before springbreak I could hear Hope (presumably) calling from all the way behind Soldiers and Sailors Hall and as far west as the Towers. She’s easy to hear when she wants to be and we can hear her all over campus if you know what to listen for. She’s so loud you can hear her over all the traffic even!
Thanks I live over an hour away but would love to come down to listen.
There is an unbanded female at Pitt sitting by the egg. Cam time 12:26 pm. It’s not Hope. Terzo just flew off
Thanks for telling me,Carol D. Yes there was! I can see it in the motion detection snapshots.
I am concerned for Hope. egg is fine, I like this girl.
and loud kaking again
definitely problems. hope someone checks from ground
The nest drama continues for this site. Havent noticed Hope back on nest lately. Wound like to see egg 2 laid so she can begin to incubate. Nice that dori has 4 eggs to incubate now. She will have her hands full. Harrisburgh PA falcon is in snow incubating but hopefully weather will improve for them. These birds are so interesting and definitely intriguing.
Hope’s first egg has been left alone a lot. I hope she’s a better mom than she was last year!
Kate, have you or anyone else seen Hope today? Thanks
Janet, she’s been at the nest since mid afternoon and Terzo brought food for her at 4:35pm.
Thanks kate,I thought that was Terzo. Glad to see she is ok. I really like her alot.
I was glad to finally see Terzo bring a gift. falcons are migrating right now. this could have been a young bird migrating and saw Terzo and that drew her in.
HOpe is a great mom. she stayed with those eggs last year when she was all by herself. We cannot assume to know what happened last year , but I have seen it at northern nests. Only they know why.
so glad all is quiet now
Wonder if Hope’s egg will be viable being left uncovered so much in the cold.
Joyce, the egg will be fine prior to incubation if it doesn’t freeze. Today is above freezing.
Thank you Kate
Hope had her second egg at 6:08!
I see Hope had her second egg. ?
Three eggs for Hope!
Third egg now. Wow. Hope they are up to caring for a big brood. They are going to be busy this year. Fingers crossed that there will be no drama. Mom and dad are such beautiful birds.
At around 3:45 today, both parents were off the GT nest and it looks to me like there are now 5 eggs there.
Mary Ann, cam viewers figured out she probably laid that 5th egg before dawn on Friday. It took this long for us to notice.
Hope has 4 eggs now! Looks like both nests are going to have a full house!
gosh, hope with 4 eggs…maybe she will do better this year.
has Terzo been relieving Hope very much…I keep missing him
Terzo, is incubating often. In the morning and afternoon.
TY. I better watch longer