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All Other Topics and Sites => Peregrine Falcons => Topic started by: shep on January 28, 2025, 03:02:46 AM
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LIVE for 25!
Apollo and Freyja
January 28, 2025
https://youtu.be/lF4zVo2Qors
bcaw
https://www.peregrinefalcon-bcaw.net/viewtopic.php?f=351&t=2775
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January 30, 2025
Starling likes the box.
GO AWAY - NOT FER YOU!
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January 31, 2025
SNOWING!
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Falcon seen by Justin Feb. 27th! :D
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March 1, 2025
7.50 am Falcon at house chirping
In the afternoon I heard 2 falcons chirping - but they didnt appear on cam.
(http://m3.gab.com/media_attachments/4b/1d/3c/4b1d3c5db8bf7ef0809f3566b41ce6e9.png)
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March 6, 2025
Another falcon visit today
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March 15, 2025
New link
https://youtu.be/lF4zVo2Qors
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BOTH FALCONS BACK
March 16, 2025
Both male & female visited box
They were inside together doin the peep n bow dance
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EGG
March 27, 2025
Around 8 or 9 pm she laid egg #1
I am very disappointed they removed their chat. :-\
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March 29, 2025
9.20 am I heard lotta kakking
I had 3 cams up - finally found the 'culprit'
I dunno why the kakking.
still one egg, both incubating
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2 EGGs
March 30, 2025
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Here's a pic of the Spartan female and her 2 eggs today about 12-30PM.
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3 EGGs
April 1, 2025
Sometime before 10 am today she laid egg 3
The cam went out for awhile
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4 EGGS
April 3, 2025
11.15 am she just laid egg #4
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This nest box is a good choice for the pairs of peregrines that nest here. The parents are not banded, but hatchlings will be if same as previous years. This might be the 4th year for this location to have a live camera. It's a stationary camera, with sound, and with the time posted in 24-hour format.
Four eggs probably completes the clutch, and the parents are incubating full-time.
Go Winged Spartans !!
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It's incubation time at the Spartan Stadium Falcon nest box. There's a sporting event going on at the stadium around noon when I tuned in. You can hear the announcer. Doesn't seem to bother the peregrine female.
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The Spartan peregrines and their 4 eggs have their incubation routine working.
The keepers have added a protective screen across the space between the perch and the nest box, probably to protect the hatchlings from falling as they start hopping around in just a few weeks.
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yes, thats why the screen.
To keep the young from falling thru
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Things look good here at Spartan Stadium.
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Saturday morning at Michigan State peregrine box, everything looks normal.
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Normalcy is a good thing at the Spartan Stadium nest box.
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Lovely pic of the pair, Apollo and Freyja
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Hey Shep, where did the names come from on these unbanded peregrines?
Things look just fine this morning as the male comes in to incubate the 4 eggs.
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Spartan had chat early, and one of the mods told us their names.
Then they took chat away. dang.
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Yes, too bad there's no chat here. The peregrines are doing what they should be, with a quick changeover at mid day today.
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A few days since posting, and things look much the same. Changeovers as expected, all 4 eggs look OK. Hatch date probably similar to GSB nest box.
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4 EGGS April 3
So we should be on HATCH WATCH
bcaw
https://www.peregrinefalcon-bcaw.net/viewtopic.php?f=351
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Thanks Shep, for hatch watch note! Nothing happening yet at the MSU stadium box.
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May 5, 2025
Cinco de Mayo
I can hear the chicks chirping inside their shells.
noon - Big pip, loud peeps, hatch by tomorrow
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Shep, pip-pip-hooray!!! I suspect the chirping sounds are the male and female talking and not the eggs. I could also be wrong! Anyhow, hatching is likely to be today or tomorrow. Fingers crossed for healthy chicks here.
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HATCH
May 5, 2025
Noon - ONE HATCH
She is eating the shell
You can hear chicks inside shell ... its NOT parent
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Yippee, one chick hatched!
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3 HATCHLINGS
May 6, 2025
There are at LEAST 2 hatched, proly more.
Saw a pile of fluff - no way to count beeks! :D
7.05 am Feeding 3 beeks!
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Shep, at late morning, it looks like 3 of the 4 eggs have hatched here at Spartan Stadium. It's raining and the adult is working to keep the eyases and last egg warm and dry. Check back later to see progress.
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The fourth egg has not hatched yet in late afternoon. Hope for soon. The three hatchlings have had a first feeding from the female who brought a bird carcass to the box.
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The fourth egg has not hatched as of 11:00 MSU time this morning. The three hatchlings appear to be OK. They are cuties, moving around, eating bits of bird that the female brings in. Both adults are tending the little ones.
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Mom, Dad, 3 kids and eggbert :D
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As of late this afternoon, the Spartan box has 3 hatchlings and 1 unhatched egg. The parents are feeding the hatchlings and look how much they have grown in just one day!
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There's still one unhatched egg at the Spartan nest box. The three hatchlings seem to be OK; parents doing what they should be doing.
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The 3 hatchlings seem to be OK this morning, and the fourth egg has not hatched. One parent (male I think) brought a bird for breakfast, don't know what kind, but it was too much to work with so got flown away.
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The 3 Spartan hatchlings seem OK this morning. Parents doing what peregrine parents do.
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The three hatchlings are growing and making more sounds today. They still stay huddled together. Parents feeding of course, and also leaving the babes for slightly longer times.
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that egg aint gonna hatch
LOTS of unhatched eggs this year
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The unhatched egg was broken in views early this morning. The three eyases here are a week old as of yesterday and today.
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Looks good at the MSU nest box. One parent left and shortly after one parent returned with prey still alive for breakfast. Starling maybe. Eeeewwww.
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Yeah - I dont like to see live prey ....
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MSU eyases growing into a bigger pile of three, and at least one can shuffle on its heels. Seemed like a feeding at about 7:30 this morning and not another feeding by 3:00 this afternoon.
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Rainy and cold at MSU this morning. The female's rusty hue is more apparent when she's wet.
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Looks still wet and chilly at MSU this morning, but the parents are busy delivering meals for breakfast and brunch so far today. All 3 eyases are able to sit up on their haunches, and more beginnings of dark feathers are visible. GO! Little Spartans!
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Late afternoon, both parents are bringing food to the eyases. And look how they all can sit up tall today!
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Parent brought a meal for lunch, fairly big bird, could it be a juvenile pigeon? After, each of the eyases sits separately for a short time.
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Feeding continues, eyases are looking fat and bigger every day, developing more dark feathers around the edges of tail and wing.
Last year, banding occurred when the eyases were a month old.
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Three food deliveries this morning. The earliest is a bird with wide horizontal black and white stripes on tail feathers, what was that?
One of the eyases can stand up and stump around in the nest box. Didn't get a pic of wings outstretched, but they are adult length now!
These babies are not fighting over food, maybe just because they are very well fed and don't need to compete.
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MSU 5-29-25 Big eyases, banding time soon
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Some brown body feathers visible on the eyases. Parent was resting on the nest box roof for a while this morning.
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Did they get banded yet?
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No Shep, not as of late this afternoon. These youngsters are a few days older than the GSB peregrines who were banded this afternoon. Not to worry, if there are funds for banding, I'm sure it will happen. We'll keep watching.