Florence

Giotto and Monna Tessa will be welcoming their 4 eyases on April 21, next Monday. So just a few more days to go, and little sweet eyases will be born here as well.
What a wonderful time of year this is, with all this newborn life coming in to our world. We are all so happy with every newborn peregrine falcon eyas.
A few decades ago this magnificent bird of prey was practically extinct. Due to DDT, eggshells where so thin, they broke immediately under the weight of the incubating parent. Thanks to Rachel Carson who I admire deeply, the world became aware of the disaster that was happening. Her book "Silent Spring" was the start of the way back. It has taken 40 years but now finally the peregrine falcon is not threatened anymore to become extinct and more and more juveniles fledge each summer all over the world. Sadly only 20% of them will survive. Life for a juvenile is very hard en many of the fledglings wont'make it into the next spring. Only the strong and lucky ones will survive.