4.30 pm - Just got home and Cadence is in the nest box at this time.

5.08 pm - Dad just flew in, bowing session going.. He just wants to get on those eggs  

5.13 pm - She held her ground and he left...and she follows, out on the porch now and out of view.

Could be a half brother, they never band at Jack's other site for several years now...just saying 

Cadence reclaimed the nestbox at 1:45 pm. She has been preening, perhaps pulling feathers in preparation for her brood patch. There are a few seen on the pebbles and they are not from prey.

Thanks was in a meeting and missed it all.  Should be good viewing tonight if she's getting close 

11.34 am and Cadence came in to the nest box, dad did a nice bow and dance for her and bolted.  

12.03 pm and dad is back in the box.  Has a bit of food on his beak so hopefully he ate and also brought Cadence some too 

 

Haha..she wins!  Dad is off and Cadence is in  

8.22 am - left my desk and came back to see dad on eggs 

7.48 am and Cady on railing chatting to male on who is on his eggs.  

7.50 am and she jumps down to porch and into box she goes, chatting away.

8.00 am and stand off continues.  He's pretending she's not there and if he does that, he doesn't have to move..lol

8.04 am and Cadence moves further into the box, male still on eggs. 

5.34 am - Cadence was dozing in the box when I tuned in, went for coffee and she's gone now.

5.52 am - Dad back in on eggs.

Yes I see her Joyce.  She's very much like Beauty, in temperament too ... I see her yell at him sometimes and you see how her mouth is moving and even without sound you know she's taking him to task. 

And I know he'll be a good dad and I know they're just out of sync at the moment - hopefully an 'egg' will re-calibrate him and they'll be on the same page. 

She's expanding her scrape area now, it's massive! 

4.39 pm and Cadence just flew in, she's outside the igloo calling for dad who is pretending he is alseep on the eggs...haha..he's flipping his head back and forth..too funny!  He reminds me of DC..lol..and off the eggs and out he goes...

4.54 pm and dad sneaks back in on the eggs.

5.44 pm and a heated conversation as Cady flew in and got male off eggs and out, she seemed upset and she stepped on both eggs for good measure as she chased him out of igloo.  He took off like a bandit and she's standing quietly by eggs now.  

5.51 pm and she's working on her scrape, she likes the side to the right of the igloo..I've seen her make a scrape there 3 times now.

2.32 pm and Cady in nest box.

2.35 pm well that was interesting, he tried to sneak back in to the box - and she jumped right in front of the eggs and he took off.

2.37 pm and she walked out and down the ledge...

2.40 pm and dad snuck back inside, dozing on eggs

1.19 pm and dad was off the eggs pebble picking when Cadence came in. Bowing and chatting going on. He's been in there a few hours now and he's out as Cadence moves in to take over. Soon as I said that she ran out too.

1.27 pm and he snuck back in and is on eggs.

9.36 am and thank goodness Cady is back and in igloo.  Didn't see where he went as I'm trying to get some work done..lol

9.17 am and whatever is going on out there caught his attention, he's vocalizing and out he went.

9.19 am and he's back on eggs, no sign of Cady yet.