No egg this AM

Cadence is in the igloo tonight!

Egg #2 has arrived per FB

One on ledge.  Finally see a scrape here

Well Yankee hasn't lost his mojo, he just mated with Dixie 

         

Yankee left the nest box...bev got some video of him where you can see his foot.  Swelling has gone down from the other day.

Foot looks quite swollen though and he's not putting much pressure on it, that I can see...poor guy.

Mariah was also (at hatch time) injured 2006. Kaver was at this day a very long time on the eggs.

Kaver did a wonderful job that year. 

Yankee left the nest box...bev got some video of him where you can see his foot.  Swelling has gone down from the other day.  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmjTQjce81s&feature=youtu.be

Foot looks quite swollen though and he's not putting much pressure on it, that I can see...poor guy.

9.20 am and Yankee may be on the egg.  Dixie flew off, my browser crashed and by the time I got it back up and running someone was on the egg.  Can't tell from this angle if it's him but Sage is saying he limped in and took over...that would be awesome!

Edit to add:  Yankee confirmed!  Yay!  He tried to stand a second and couldn't but he looks better than yesterday.

           

                     

Aria and Lucky at the nest tray.

                 

Dixie laid an egg.  No sign of Yankee at all this morning according to reports.

     

Wonderful news! And wherever he is, I hope Diamante is having a great life with a new mate, making more M&K grandbabies.

                       

Female is home now.  She has such a fierce look at times.

Sad she’s not banded...we’ll never know what her history is.

Been trying to read that band .... I'm 99.9% sure it's a 'Y' on the bottom.  That's about all I can say, I can see the second number on top but it's not clear enough at this point to say one way or another what it is.  Which means it could be any male we've ever banded.  Will keep at it!

I’ve tried but only see the “Y� too.

Looks like it's confirmed that it was VV that was killed - the necropsy results confirm she was carrying an egg so it was definitely her as she was about to lay when the fighting started.

https://www.vogelbescherming.nl/beleefdelente/blog/lezen/nieuwe-vrouw-nv-in-de-mortel

I saw that this morning..so very sad.  What a great mom she was.