It's official
Posted on the IWS Facebook Page:
" It appears that the Sauces nest failed today. The egg likely broke midday, based upon the adults' behavior. Because a healthy, full-term chick would fill an egg, making it hard to break, it is likely that the egg was either infertile or the chick died early in development and the recent heat may have caused the rotting egg to explode. Although there is time for another clutch, we have not seen a pair lay another clutch of eggs after incubating more than a couple of weeks. Hopefully they will have better luck next year. "