Thursday, April 3, 2008
Columbus Ohio
Still just 1 egg. very odd. They are not breeding. Scouts cycle is not quite the way it should be. Some people are asking about eggbound. Well that's not likely the case. Females that are eggbound are very very sick. It doesnot happen very often in wildbirds. And of course it is very hard to observe such a condition. Egg bound chickens are however common. Very sadly indeed. In the poultry industry chickens are exploited in every way possible and stuffed with hormones to produce eggs. A horrible situation indeed.
I don't think Scout is eggbound. It seems a matter of hormones and wheatherconditions.
that has thrown the cycle off quite a bit. Clutchsize and date of egglaying depends higly on temperature and wheather conditions. This egg is probably not viable. It has not been kept warm, since saterday so the embryo might have died.
The couple is at the scrape daily, so I don not think it is necessary to remove the egg to activate Scout to start laying more eggs. If she lays some more eggs we just have to wait and see what happens. And then again the first egg might hatch anyway.
De Mortel live webcam online!!!
Finally, after months of hard work and negotiations, today the webcams are back online.
I would like to thank the new partner Alticom and the new sponsor InterNLnet very much!
We all hope many people all over the world will enjoy this new breedingseason of Pa and his new female S2 together with us.
S2 has laid 4 beautiful eggs from which the first one is expected to hatch on the 19th of April. This is her very first clutch. Last year she adopted Hope and Faith, whose mother was killed by S2 in a territorial dispute.
This year she will be a real mother for her own babies! We are all longing for the moment she will see her own eyas hatch. That will be the highlight of this season for me! I adore this enlighting peregrine which means so very much to me.
Watch the cams:
Cleveland Terminal Tower
Scott Wright who visits the nestsite quite often reports:The birds (Well SW) would not take over the eggs if the guys were near the nest working. She would only come in when they took a break at 10 then again at lunch and the afternoon break. Is the only time SW would come in. She took over the eggs during the 10AM break. Now that the one platform has passed the nest (Note this is the one that will be going up and down all the time) to make it all the up to the top many trips will be made building the lift 6 sections at a time. Soon no more posting to the work on the building thread.
When I asked him how this would affact our beloved peregrines he wrote this:
The birds are proving to be very resilient of human activity near the nest. I am impressed with just how well they are dealing with the situation. Yes I am distressed about the work. This work must be done. Parts of the building have been falling off. A few years ago a large part of the building from up high landed on the 4th floor roof behind the clock. It pancaked an AC unit. It was 4 feet high and was less then 6 inches high after it was hit. Every one, how would we feel if a part of the building landed in the nest killing one or more birds?We would be destroyed. I know I would be a mess.Yes it’s annoying as all get out that the work is progressing. But it has to be done. I know. I have been up on many roofs on the building (now I am no longer allowed to do so) I can speak first hand of all the cracks all over the building. This work must proceed.
So we will all stay close to everything that is happening at the nestsite. Both Buckeye and SW are City Peregrines, used to the loud noises of the big city, used to people. So we just hope for the best!
Thank you Scott Wright for keeping us up to date!
Zurich: there might be eggs
The nestsite on top
2007
The 2 photo's on top: the nestsite is on the chimney of the Kehrichtheizkraftwerkes in Zurich. The chimney is 92 meters high. The platform that you see is the frontpart of the nestsite. On the leftside of the platform is the entrance to the real nest. So there might be eggs, which we do not know about....
We do not see the eyases before they can walk a little bit and come outside to the platform, where they will be fed. Last year there was just one chick which came outside for the first time on the 8th of May. It was then about 3 weeks old. So this is exciting. There might be al lot going on, which we don't know anything about.
Harrisburg
Mom and Dad taking their turns in breeding. Will there be a sixth egg today?? I do wonder 
Oberhausen: 4 eyases!
Finally very clearly visable: 4 eyases. The youngest very small compared to the first born. But I'm shore it will catch up. It is begging and so it will be fed! The eyases are fed every 1.5 hour.
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