Watching gras grow.That must be what it looks like. It is not very exciting incubating eggs. At least not for us the watchers. For the peregrines it is just what they have to do. That is what their hormones say. While we assume that the female is fond of incubating the male is too. Often we can observe how reristant the male is to leave the eggs, when the female comes in the scrape to take her turn. Both enjoy it.Both are very attached to their eggs. And are very envolved in the proces in teh eggs. As soon as hatching approches, the male often comes to visit wehn teh femal eis on teh eggs, to check if their are any signs. As soon as there is a pip both are excited and ar every vocal. Most of the time she is the one who stayes on the hatching eggs. The male stays close by and comes in every now and then to check if the eggs are still there and how far the hatching is.
Brooding, hatching and raising offspring is the essence of their existence.
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