James River Bridge

Sir James was just going to keep them warm, but these eager customers wanted food! And kept on wiggeling and pushing and screaming until he did go and got some food for his hungry babies.
They are absolutely adorable, these three chicklets. The best part of it is, that they are equally strong, everyone gets the same amount of attention and the same amount of food. In so many nests that's quite different. When I watch these three grow in the past couple of days, it's just amazing how much difference one day makes. So anybody hatching a day later has a serious problem. That is why breeding does not start untill the second last egg has been laid. And for the same reason number one hatching is letting his sibblings know that she or he is on it's way. And cheering the other ones to hatch as well. In this eyrie everything went OK. Except the huge problems with the 4th egg that has not been able to hatch.

Check the way eyases grow everyday:
http://falcoperegrinus-froona.blogspot.com/2008/04/eyases-growth-and-development.html

Rochester

James River Bridge: growing strong

Zwolle

Nijmegen: broken egg?

It seems like one of the 4 eggs in the Nijmegen eyrie is broken. I'm not sure about it, but is does look that way. At the moment the mother is on the eggs, nothing to be seen about shells. Maybe tomorrow the daylight will tell us if there is one egg brokene.
These are the pics to go with it. Just see for your self? Broken, or is it imagination?

Oberhausen: growing so fast!

Terminal Tower Cleveland

Things ar egoing their way overhere. In teh weekends a little peace and quiet. Tomorrow the workers will start again repairing the building with a lot of noise. SW and Buckeye seem to have adapted. The work must be done. No one wants a huge brick to fall on our beloved peregrines, or eyases. The building is not so safe anymore, so repairs are necessary. The workers take the birds into consideration, so not to worry.

De Mortel on Sunday

Toronto Sheraton: Rhea Mae

An update about our beloved Rhea Mae. 2006 Daughter of Maria and Kaver of Rochester.

As told before Rhea Mae Took over the Sheraton Hotel territory in downtown Toronto last august. The resident female was busy with her fledglings and was not seen anymore near the nestsite. Rhea Mae took over and the resident male Tiago was quite pleased with this beautiful very young girl form Rochester. They bonded and spent the winter together at the nestsite.

And this spring we where all hoping Rhea Mae would lay eggs. It is very early in her live. Most females don't start laying eggs before their second adult year.

But our young girl, she did start. On March 28 she laid her first egg, on April 3 her second. Linda Woods reports Rhea Mae produced her third egg on April 5 and much to everybodie ssurprise she even laid a fourth one on April 8.

She and Tiago have started incubation. And is everything goes well around May 10 het first eyas will be born!

Watch the Canadian Peregrine Foundation webcams :

http://www.peregrine-foundation.ca/Web_Cams/TorontoSheraton/index.htm

Rome Eyases

Two eyases it will be here in Rome. The other two eggs will not hatch. Aria and Vento are taking real good care of these two little chicklets. They are so adorable. One can hardly imagine these two fluffy sweeties are growing within 6 weeks into raptors who will kill to survive. Although..... they love the taste of blood already don't they?

Brighton: Sussex Heights

Last sunday it was snowing overhere. Both peregrines kept on protecting their eggs. Of course they do. No matter what they will not abandon their eggs.
Hatching is dus here on April 26, so that's far away.

Columbus Ohio

Incubation on the way. It's raining in Columbus Ohio. Both peregrines keeping the eggs warm and take their turns.
Read all about Scout and Orville and how they where doing last year on the Ohio Peregrine Falcon Blog:
http://ohioperegrinefalcons.blogspot.com/

Heidelberg: waiting for eyases

Nijmegen

The final days before hatching. Only 6 days left and we will have white fluffy eyases here. Eemsmond, De Mortel and Nijmegen will hatch on the same day. that will be a very busy and happy day indeed!

Indianapolis

James River Bridge: feeding

Harrisburg

This is the fourth year this pair of falcons has nested at the nest on the 15th floor of the Rachel Carson building. The female has laid eggs here since 2000 with two different males, the second arrived in 2005 after the original male was discovered injured the previous year. Last year this couple raised 4 fledglings: 2 females and 2 males. Unfortunately 2 of them where found death within 3 months after fledging. One flew against a glass panel and the other agiants electric wiring.
Let's hope this year everything will turn out fine!

Derby Cathedral Peregrine Project

Beautiful sky over Derby today.
Read everything about the Derby Project on the Derby Blog, and don't forget to come back here.
http://derbyperegrines.blogspot.com/

Hatch-egg table

Rome: feeding the eyases

Cobb Island