Cobb Island: 23 days old

As The Cobb island eyases demonstrate, they alternate between standing on their feet and resting on their tarsi.

Rochester: 5 mobile eyases

Oberhausen: 2 left

Spending the night together, but only 2 instead of 3. Where is the little male? Is he allright. Where has he spent the night. So many juvi's have a very bad first fledge.

The 2 females are standing on the ledge training their wings. It takes them much longer to get ready for first flight. They have more growing to do than a male peregrine juvi. A juvi fledges when the time is right. They know for themselves when teh flight feathers have grown enough to make a first flight possible. The flight feathers are not fully grown when they do.

Later that day the little male would make a spectacular appearence flying in on the ledge and proved he's an excellent flyer indeed.

Derby Cathedral Peregrine Project:

The eyases are 10 days old already. How time flies. They are covered now in their second down. The remiges and retrices have started energing. You can see that in teh 2 eldest eyases. The pagatium is growing and turning the arm into a wing.
The eyases are now able to regulate their body temperaturen. However they will still try to make the 4 as one body, and will keep on doing that. By sticking close together with their bellies touching they can exchange bodyheat. This makes it much easier to remain the own body at the right temperature.
They are very sweet chicklets, with the little own catching up on his siblings. It is fun to watch these 4 cuties!

Rome eyases: 34 days old

Brighton Sussex Heights: 16 days old

Terminal Tower Cleveland: banding day

Ohio Division of Wildlife biologists have banded the four eyases this morning, Tuesday May 13. The drawbridge was brought up to prevent the eyases from getting to close to the edge of the ledge. The eyases where brought into the Greenbriar Suite and U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service bands have been attached to their legs. The bands have unique identifying numbers and codes so that the individual falcons can be identified in the future. A blood sample will be drawn for genetic analysis. The youngsters have then been returned to the nest unharmed.

WATCH THE SLIDESHOW



Buckeye and S/W where at the ledge trying to see what was going on with their young. Within a hour or so after the banding everything returned to normal on the 12th floor of the Terminal Tower. The eyases will be able to be identified for the rest of their lives. It is through these bands that we know that Onyx, who fledged from the Terminal Tower in 2006, now has a mate and is nesting at the Tower east building in Shaker Heights.



Band numbers and names
Two males, two females.
Here are the names and band numbers:

S/20 - "Spirit" - female

S/21 - "Tiki" - female

B/60 - "Tiger" - male

B/71 - "Thriller" - male

Zwolle: 18 days old

James River Bridge: 34 days old

Our 3 little Virgina chicklets are 34 days old today. We can see how there is a size difference between them. By the looks of it, 1 male and 2 females. They are getting browner by the day.

Ohio Columbus: first hatch

Columbus officially has a hatch! One of the first looks was had of a small, white, fluffy chick at 6:15 a.m. It's hard to tell for sure when during the overnight hours the chick actually hatched. So far everything looks good at the nest. Scout has been doing a really great job brooding the chick while continuing to incubate the remaining eggs. (The bad part about her doing such a good job is we haven't had much opportunity to see the chick!) She has also brought in food but hasn't fed the chick yet, even with going through the motions. At one point I watched her bring in a plucked bird and vocalize to the chick which stimulated the chick to sit up and open its mouth. The only problem is Scout never leaned over close enough to the chick to actually feed it!

While this lack of feeding might concern some, keep in mind that even after hatching a chick has the remains of the yolk sac within its body to continue to nourish it for at least a day or two.