I think I just heard little peeps   

Matrix over at BCAW pulled some archive photos and Spirit is injured.  Eggs were uncovered for quite awhile again this morning.  I hope she survives this, the intruder seems determined given how many days this has been going on. 

Here if you want to see:

http://www.peregrinefalcon-bcaw.net/viewtopic.php?f=373&t=2075&start=80

New blog up from Kate:

Yesterday morning we were excited that the first peregrine egg hatched at Pitt and looked forward to a second hatching later in the day.

At around 2:15pm the second egg hatched. Hope manipulated it, killed it, and fed it to the first chick.

This is not normal peregrine behavior.

Viewers were shocked and bewildered.  Many of you had questions but I was out of cell range for most of the day, unaware that it happened.

I have never seen this behavior before and don’t know why it occurred.  Here’s what we do know: Peregrines’ lives are very different from ours. Using our human yardstick to understand them — anthropomorphizing — really leads us astray.

I asked Art McMorris, the PA Game Commission’s Peregrine Coordinator, who viewed the archived footage and said the chick was alive but might not have been normal.  In all his years of dealing with peregrines, Art has never seen this before either.

Hope’s behavior was so unusual that there is no information on it.  Many of you speculated about it and asked “Is this why she did it?â€�  In almost every case my answer is “I don’t know.â€�

http://www.birdsoutsidemywindow.org/2016/04/30/bewildering-birth-and-death/?platform=hootsuite

*sigh*   

Can I take this one with me?

He'd probably take it over to the Powers Bldg nest box.  

   We are blessed to have Beauty and DC, yeah they bicker over food but after more recent events at other sites...thank the gods we have 2 fantastic parents.  

No she's had offspring before at the bridge, twice I believe.  No wonder only 2 times if she keeps doing that.  I hope no more hatch.

Apparently every time an egg hatches, she is pulling it away from the others and chaos ensues.  Thankfully the male took over when the first egg hatched this morning...cripes...

Tragedy on second hatch.  Apparently the baby was trying get out of egg, she  killed it and is now consuming it.  Thankfully I can't get the cam at work, BCAW is posting what's going on.  

Edit to add: she's feeding it to the other baby  

Edit to remove the 'stepping part' as the Pitt crew said she bit it (a bite to the head/neck) - no stepping.  I expect people watching were distraught so things got confusing.  Just wanted to set the record straight on that.

An E2 baby...isn't nature wonderful.   

Someone finally came home at 8.12 and is on eggs now.

Carly..any news about Jack?

He and mom are on eggs, no one knows how many as usual. *sigh*

No one has been on eggs for quite awhile now again 

First hatch for O'Connor and Lucky, could be two but she barely let me peek...or it's a gigantor baby! 

Two babies at MEC (Mississauga) seen today when the cam came back up - it was down for 2 days. 

Morgan was born at the Yonge Eglington Site to Haven and Malik in 2015.
820 grams, 23 days old, banded Black Y over 95 with Red Tape