I think all of us here at Rfalconcam were losing hope of ever making this announcement this year. Imagine our surprise when the forum came to life this afternoon. Tweets were coming through fast and furious to the Watchers that were out checking on the Rochester Falcons.

After all the turmoil and uncertainty of this year, Beauty has laid an egg. Virtual Falcon Watchers around the world watched Beauty as she entered the nest box this afternoon. She’d been doing that a lot recently, but this would be different. Today, at approximately 5:27 pm, she laid an egg (Wednesday, May 16th).

Beauty and Dot.ca's 1st Egg 5-16-12

So, what happens now? Will Dot.ca help Beauty incubate this egg? Will she lay more eggs? Will this egg hatch?

We’ve been hearing reports from other nest sites. Most have young eyases already hatched. Banding days have been scheduled in many cases. Fledge Watches are being planned. In Rochester, if this egg does hatch, we will be far behind all the others. There are so many questions that we don’t have answers for.

Stay Tuned and keep watching the cameras. It’s too early to know, but maybe, just maybe, we will yet have young Fledglings gracing the Rochester skies.

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