Oberhausen: goodbye

Zwolle: 30 days old

New Yersey:

Brighton Sussex Heights: 28 days old

The chicks are nearing the midpoint of their transition from down-covered chick to juvenile-plumaged fledgling, and are nearly full-grown in terms of body size and weight. The look huge from some cam angles. But mostly they look healthy and very beautiful.

Nijmegen: 34 days old

Heidelberg; near fledging

2 Eager juvi's flapping on the ledge almost ready for the giant leap into destiny. How excited they must feel. Born with the spirit to fly, but having to wait until the body is ready to carry them through walls of clouds towards the sun. Go loved ones and let the Great Spirit guide your ways.

Italian updates

For weeks we have been following the Italian nestsites of Bologna and Rome. In Bologna 2 out of 4 eggs hatched on April 4. The 2 eyases grew up to beautiful juvi;s who fledged on May 12. The Bologna juvies are doing very well. A couple of friends living nearby go to the towers every day and spotted them. A bad moment for the female who put one talon into a nest and was unable to get free for a while.. then she succeded to fly away safe.



The 2 Rome eyases, so very dear to my heart, who we have all watched by live webcam, have fledged as well. How good for those two proud juveniles. We all remember two very fluffy adorable little eyases who hatched on April 10. It was so sweet to watch them so very moving how fragile. We saw the transform to chicklets and into juveniles.



Giovanna from the Italian Forum writes to me:

The male in Roma fledged on May 21rst.
The female on May 22nd.

We were very concerned about Ponentino (the male): nobody was able to spot nor find him after he fledged.
Tati (the female) fledged successfully and was spottted many times on the roofs around the nest, also fed by her parents.
Finally, yesterday in the evening Niseema was able to see both the juvies together on different ledges of the University's building.



Also the parents were visible around there, so NO DOUBT the two juvies are both safe and sound!!!
The guys in Rome really did a good job! They never left until they could find the "little one".

Thank you Giovanna for the update!

Rochester: growing so fast: 17 days old

Derby Cathedral Peregrine Project: 3 weeks old

The 4 eyases decided they like the other side of the nestbox better. So they moved to stay.
But they did not know we can hardly see them overthere, but fortunately the project member changed the cam. Dear eyases now you can see how much we care for you all. Whatever you decide to do, the 4 of you, we will definitely follow....







The eldest eyases are stepping into their 4th week of development. Their weight is now more than 500 gram each. They are covered in white down, but we can see the retrices and remiges coming through very clearly now. The feathers are still protected by the shaft in which they grow. As we have seen, the chicks are able to walk now instead of moving around on their tarsi. Chicks always start to explore the immediate area around the scrape around this time. The parents stay around to watch the whole thing and to take care nothing happens. The chicks excersise their wings frequently to built up muscle power. They have to, the flight muscles need al lot of training to get strong enough to fly in 3 weeks. They are very communicative as well. They "talk" al lot to eachother and to the parents and have quite a rich language in sounds.

http://derbyperegrines.blogspot.com/

De Mortel 34 days old

The De Mortel eyases are growing very fast into beautiful juveniles. De 2 eldest ones, a male and a female are 34 days old today. The male is, because he is smaller much sooner ready to step outside and will fledge sooner than his sister.
The male was indeed the one who stepped outside today on the gris in front of the nestbox and stayed there for a while. I'm sure his sister will follow soon. The 2 youngest ones, will probably wait a while.