9.20 pm and someone is back and checking out the egg  

9.25 pm and gone again. 

No one has been on for over 3 hours now - it's minus 4 and with wind chill minus 8 and now the snow has surrounded it.   

I don't know whose those were but I expect they are old.  Still time for eggs for Linn, maybe she is hiding them because people keep spying on her 

He's adorable, love how excited he seemed to be over his first ever egg.   

1st egg for Ralphie and his mate! 

 

I don't go to that part of the city often so it was quite enlightening for me to see it - I really had no idea, I thought it was just that one building we've watched go up on cam but seeing two - side by side was an eye opener.  The second one is worse as they are no balconies or concrete on it - just pure reflective glass.  It must be weird for them seeing moving cranes bringing up large blocks of glass into their air space and then seeing their own reflection in it.

They are losing a large part of their view of the territory as well, give those two buildings block a good portion of it.  If there was another falcon around at some point - I imagine that would only have added to all the confusion.  Although perhaps that might actually be a deterrent for an intruder.

Anyway glad I went, it was bugging me too and now I understand their situation a bit better, I"m not a falcon so I can't speak for them and how they feel about it but I expect any change to their territory would be disturbing for them.

I did think of fledglings - there is still a nice expanse for them to fly out 'straight south', those two buildings don't block everything so that's good - in fact the front of their ledge is 'all clear'.  But you know kids, they never listen and no doubt some of them will eventually run into the glass unless mom and dad take them elsewhere, if they stay south and west of the ledge - it's not too bad.

 Stopped by the site this morning as I had an errand in the down town core so I went out of my way to check on the site.  I don't know it that well but there were lots of cops due to the shooting overnight (someone died). No sight or sounds of falcons when I was there from 9.15 to 10.15. Lots of construction though .

Guys on the one solid reflective glass building - cranes everywhere - they still have 6.5 floors left to glass on that building. The one next to it, cranes and still 5 floors left to glass. Stages on building to the south on both the left and right with window washers - can't remember the names of the buildings but east and west of the Sheraton. The Bay - or Saks as it's now called is full of scaffolding on the outside as well. I saw the shelf that is one ledge over from the nest and observed all the white wash down the face of the building so I assume they perch there quite often.

For perspective:  That glass building you see right in front of the ledge to the left - that's the one that has 5 floors left to put glass on.  To the right of it - which you can't really see save for a sliver, is a brand new solid reflective glass curved building - that's the one that has 6.5 floors left to glass.  It also has one of those cages - that brings men up and down the building - and it was bringing people up when I was down there.  So I can only imagine how distressed the falcons must be.  The two building they have left to put the glass on - it's the top floors so they are at nest ledge level or above - so imagine they can see right into the ledge.

Also to the west and a bit south is King St nest, to the south is Rogers nest site and to the east is Mt Sinai (where Hunter is) and that's about the same distance from them as Stormin's nest is - so they are literally boxed in - and surrounded by cranes and noise.  

It's been a strange day, RM was gone most of it.  Tiago and she both spent a bit of time with egg but Tiago more so.  He's back now but I don't see her yet.  

Lady Millar in Cleveland laid her 4 th egg, 5 days after her 3rd but she was dealing with an intruder too.  And Tiago just flew off as I typed this last line.

Edit to add:  And she heard me, RM is back in the nest box.  Tiago by egg.

Yikes I hope no one got hurt 

She was preening earlier before Tiago came in - a good sign.  Tiago on egg now while she's out for breakfast.

5.35 am and RM perched on edge of nest box. 

5:26 pm. They were together for awhile. He is now gone.

He came in to give her a pep talk.  She's been hunched over for over an hour again.  I wish this wasn't so hard for  her.

RM has been standing kinda in a crouch for the past 20 minutes, not sure if another egg is coming but I'm watching.

11.45 and she's been trying, can see her pushing.

11.54 and shift change. no egg yet.

Caught a shift change a few minutes ago and still 1 egg.  RM looks like she got a nice rest overnight.  Tiago now on egg.

4 eggs