Thanks, Carl! I read on FB yesterday that Diamanté is no longer at CT-another male is there with Gleig.  That's sad news if true.  Any idea who the new male is?

Just beautiful! Thanks, Annette!

2 hatches confirmed!

http://youtu.be/3mWgwlxBzhI

Hatching has started!

 So waiting for DC to come to the nest. I want to see if he still chirps!!

I thought the course of events were: migrator returns, courts female by offering her gifts of food, bonding at the nest site and flying displays.  If she accepts him, knowing he is strong and a good provider, then she mates with him. DC swoops on her for days, no offers of food that we are aware of, no nest bonding but yet she mates with him.  What's wrong with this picture? 

Perhaps the initial assumptions are what's wrong.

Guess Beauty and DC didn't read the manual.

 So waiting for DC to come to the nest. I want to see if he still chirps!!

I thought the course of events were: migrator returns, courts female by offering her gifts of food, bonding at the nest site and flying displays.  If she accepts him, knowing he is strong and a good provider, then she mates with him. DC swoops on her for days, no offers of food that we are aware of, no nest bonding but yet she mates with him.  What's wrong with this picture? 

Kendal brings Quest a gift.
Which she gladly accepts! 

captured by nycbird!! 

Now that's a proper courtship! Food gifts, echupping/bowing in the nestbox! 

The video says Part 1....... is there a part 2???

Here's the link to part 2 & 3 plus a video showing a possible hatch:

http://598075.xobor.com/t90f30-DUKE-FARMS-BALD-EAGLE-NEST-HILLSBOROUGH-NJ.html

By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK
At one degree above freezing it felt like a heatwave this morning! Not much wind and no sun as my day started.
My first run across the Broad St. Bridge(BSB)- found no falcons so as per usual I went to the east side of downtown which had no results either. As I...

Link:
http://rfalconcam.com/falconwatching/?p=9120

Why do you call that a cubby where P and DC go? Do they go in that window? Is there cover for them? Explain cubby please!

I was wondering too! 

http://www.insidebainbridge.com/2013/03/25/six-critically-ill-poisoned-bald-eagles-treated-at-west-sound-wildlife-shelter/

1st egg for T2 and Mom!

And 3 now...

 

Those eggs had to have been destroyed. Why would a hawk do something so reckless? 

They're saying a hatch and maybe two today.

http://youtu.be/mjyo8JetgL0  Posted on Bobbins site

How to defrost a Falcon's nest! 

 

birdgirl814 B just landed on the base of Mercury with prey

I wonder if this was a food gift for him?