the annual "what have I done????"  capture

this one definitely squeaks louder than words.

Those 5 critters are pretty funny at this stage!!  The general effect is of Brownian motion consisting mostly of falling down without standing up first. Every time I see it I can’t understand it: an owlet is already completely down, and it falls anyway.

An unusually orderly moment:

I just noticed that Chris has added a "donate" button asking for any amount at all to help defray the cost of the cam, which he is supporting entirely on his own this year. He writes

The cost of providing this site’s streaming video averages $19 per day, so far. If you can help offset that expense, please use the PayPal “Donate� button. Thanks!

yikes - $19 a day!

http://www.chrisowlcam.net/2014/

oh, dear.

random thought - Skye, of course, was also the name of the M-K offspring that got a transmitter -- what, in 2005?  funny coincidence.

They eat texas blind snakes all the time!

April 4 – It looks like egg no. 5 hatched today. There is now a smaller, lighter colored owlet among the other owlets.

I suspected it a few hours ago, but just now I definitely saw 4 heads and one egg

(and assorted dead birds and mice - nice decor)

Egg no. 3 hatched at 8:04 PM. Mme. Owl seems to be postponing her constitutional this evening to provide the owlets with their first feedings.

Is she a pro or what? 3 hatchings in one day!

not yet. He doesn't have a lot of money and has no support in this new setup (before he was on the University server), so he can't afford a lot. He's paying for it all himself.

yep!! i was just about to post a picture of that.
What this virtuoso timing may well mean is that she somehow sensed -- back on the 14th or 15th, whenever -- that the one egg out of 5 was maturing too quickly and kept it uncovered for all those hours, then took it back. Too bizarre to comprehend!

"April 1 – 12:38 AM CDT – One egg can be heard 'peeping,' so the hatching process is beginning."

The live cam is up now
http://www.chrisowlcam.net/2014/view-live.html
From what I understand, if you're still browsing with Internet Exploiter you might not be able to watch the motion version. Try anyway, I may have misunderstood.

I saw an owlet moving at 1:35 pm central time; around 3:30 I could swear I saw something else moving under there, as well as an eggshell. She may have 2 today.

http://www.wbez.org/series/curious-city/hawks-rise-109889

there's a nice long, funny version on youtube, if you search "penguin rope" or something like that. Somehow I posted a short one. It goes on and on