Harrisburg banding

The Harrisburg eyases have been ringed today:



SILVER BAND FEMALE - 780 GRAMS



RED BAND FEMALE - 795 GRAMS



BLUE BAND FEMALE - 775 GRAMS



GREEN BAND (BOY) - 675 GRAMS

Rome juveniles: for now goodbye

Now that the juveniles are gone from the nestbox, we hardly ever see them back at the nestsite. So the livestream has ended. That means that we just have to be lucky to catch them.
In the past weeks I taped the whole day on video and picked out the nice pieces to make clips. That is impossible now. So I will close this chapter. I will update you all on the time when they fledge or when pics are available from these 2 flying in the skies over Rome.



This has been a wonderful nestsite with an exceptional quality of live stream. Thank you TERNA.



You will find all the video's from day one here:

http://www.youtube.com/froona33

Harrisburg: 19 days old

The chicks are now roughly half the size of their parents, but their feet are already nearly full-grown, and thus appear disproportionately large. Also at this age, a small patch bare of down begins to appear behind the eyes.

Harrisburg: 16 days old

Around day 16, dark spots can be seen along the edges of the wings, indicating the growth of the flight feathers underneath the covering of down. The down on the head also begins to take on a "rougher" texture around this time.

Harrisburg: 11 days old

Harrisburg: 9 days old

Harrisburg 8 days old

Harrisburg: 5 days old

No fifth hatch this year. The 4 eyases are doing fine and have grown considerable. They are 5 days old now.

Harrisburg: 4 eyases

Yesterday 3 eyases hatched, and this morning there where 4 little white chicklets in the scrape. One more egg to go.

Watch the video of a feeding of today!

Harrisburg: 3 hatches

Harrisburg

Just brooding, and dreaming of 5 white eyases developing within the eggs beneath the,

And those white fluffy thinhs look like this:

Harrisburg