Yup, the Peregrine Falcon eggs are finally hatching!!
Aw and mom was just feeding one of them.
Checked on them today and so far it looks like at least one has hatched. Chances are, one, maybe two, of the four will possibly make it to adulthood, but there is always hope.
Peregrines - munching on a pigeon in a city near you.
These things eat pigeons? Where can I get one? 
Big time pigeon eaters. A couple of sub-species of Peregrine are found in Yurp** and Asia, IIRC.
Fair warning: we have a new courthouse (a couple of years old) in downtown Orlando (very tall art deco-ey). Funny to look up and see vultures circling the building. The building creates a lot of thermal updrafts which vultures use to soar. Evidently they have also been landing on the ledges and pecking at the windows, startling the lawyers and the defendants.
The lawyers call them annoying. I call it professional courtesy.
[And on preview, there are two babies in there! And two eggs to go.]
**Finally got the joke!
Boy, that bird looked really pissed in the webcam shot I just saw.
Check out the baby Bald Eagles near my house, actually about 60 miles away, but still really cool! (W00t!)
screech-owl, thanks again for your previous thread regarding the Kodak bird cams. My wife and I have been enjoying watching them.
VenusProbe, thanks for the Bald Eagle link. For more Bald Eagles, go to
http://www.nu.com/eagles/
They had three babies, but they appear to be down to two now.
I realize now that my last post was ambiguous. I was referring to the Northwest Utilities eagles, not the other eagles or the falcons.
oooohhhh, hurray! i’ve been watching since you posted the site last time. very cool. i hadn’t checked yet today.
Mom’s still been hunkered down over them, so I can’t tell if another one has hatched yet. Yeah, it does look like she’s giving a dirty look to the camera. Pretty soon they’ll be ‘all growed up’: the nestbox looks huge right now, but when they get full-sized, it’ll be a tight fit in there.
Thanks for the Eagle Cams! Our Bald Eagles here in Florida fledged sometime in February or March - nice to see little ones again (eagle breeding season begins around November down here).
they banded and named the birds at kodak today.
a boy, freedom, and a girl, isis. 2 eggs did not hatch. they removed the eggs from the nest to try to determine why they did not hatch. mariah the mom was very concerned about the unhatched eggs. she checked them often and chased the siblings away from them.
check out the new pictures on the site under galleries. the banding day’s pics are the most recent ones.
if you want day to day coverage of the falcons click on the discussion link.
thank you so much for posting this screech-owl, i’m totally hooked.
coldfire, there is a picture in the discussion link that shows two pigeon heads. all that was left of lunch and dinner. those babies are eating high off the pigeon!
…are not so widdle any more. The babies are about half-3/4 grown. Occasionally, you can see the parents perching on the cameras and on top of the nest box, but pretty much they are busy hunting to feed their brood.
Sad that we didn’t get four this year, but hey, two hatched and they were so cute!
Pretty soon they will be venturing out of the box, and we’ll be seeing a lot of flapping as they exercise and test out their wings.
Wish them luck. That’s one helluva drop there.
(And thanks to everyone for watching them - this has been one of my favorite sites and I was glad to share it again with y’all.
<Snicker> Lots of hot air over the courthouse? Whoda thunk it?
Thanks for the link, Screech, the little ones are excessively charming.
Maybe the Vultures were offering some pro-bono work…?
There’s Owl Cam too, if you’re looking for a change of pace. June and Ward are a very successful mated pair of Barred Owls, and have been using the same nesting box for years.
sad news out of toronto.
pounce-kingsley the toronto peregrine was killed apparently in a fight with another raptor. they believe he was defending the nest. p-k and his mate victoria have 5 chicks this year. after finding p-k’s body they watched the nest very carefully, only to find no sign of momma victoria. they have gone into the nest and rescued the chicks. the chicks are just a few days away from flying for the first time.
i found out from reading the canadian site (peregrine-foundation.ca) that victoria is from phila., pa. pounce-kingsley from akron. apparently they did their best work in toronto with 29 chicks total through the years.
Big news on the baby front. Freedom has fledged. Isis is hovering (forgive the pun) on the edge, but hasn’t made the big leap yet. Kever and Mariah have been trying to get her (or more likely him) to go. We can’t see Freedom on the cameras, but mom and dad don’t look terribly worried.
StG
Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.
Yeah, yeah I got the message-- the boss is a c*nt.
Sheesh, you kids with your novelty links!
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isis does look a bit lonely at the nest box. freedom has been spotted futher down the tower. one of the fledge watchers got a picture of him. he is on a ledge on a corner of the building.