[rochfalconflyer (Lisa McK):]

rochfalconflyer (Lisa McK): final baby is small  and a male  named cinnamon.

Link:
http://twitter.com/rochfalconflyer/statuses/73044280742129664

I wonder if mini was big enough to be banded?

Wow...does she look like Mariah this morning or what?

I totally do not "get" posting anything new in the forum format so I hope this shows up somewhere.  At 10:58, I saw a very definite /pip crack in one egg in the Main Cam image.  I don't see anyone else posting about it so maybe the thread is somewhere else.
Kapi in VT

You did just fine Kapi!  I was watching Rhea Mae, so I didn't see it.  Had a feeling that's what was going to happen.  At least we know for sure on that egg...

we just wait til we know for sure what's going on

True, ginha...no sense getting impatient at this point...

I totally do not "get" posting anything new in the forum format so I hope this shows up somewhere.  At 10:58, I saw a very definite /pip crack in one egg in the Main Cam image.  I don't see anyone else posting about it so maybe the thread is somewhere else.
Kapi in VT

You did just fine Kapi!  I was watching Rhea Mae, so I didn't see it.  Had a feeling that's what was going to happen.  At least we know for sure on that egg...

A couple of captures, then back to work...


Wings!

   
Babies snatched up...Rhea Mae on guard


Taking Rhea Mae's picture...hope we get to see it!

I often wonder if they know something is up...she's been standing guard for an hour now...

Look at the front egg and you tell me is this a pip?

What Paul said...though it does look more like in than out from this picture...

...going to make a side trip to Linn & Quest?

AWWW!   

I keep thinking of something Siobhan Ruck (anyone ever hear from her?) once said...if you look at it from the front and think white football, it's likely a red-tail.

And, although the colors are off-could be the background & the distance-the face looks very much like the bird on the right here...

(photo by Lincoln Karim)

That's Pale Male on the left with the second female from this season...

My first instinct was this is a red-tail with a VERY light belly band.  Other opinions welcome...my eyes feel about fried...

Posted by Bruce Yolton on his Urban Hawks blog

Joy On Fifth Avenue - May 22, 2011
5th Avenue Red-tailed Hawks

In my post two days ago about signs that show a nest has hatched, I forgot about another way hawk watchers know there are eyasses on the nest.  The eyasses "slice", or in layman's terms defecate.  I recorded this twice on Sunday afternoon, so absolutely, positively the nest has hatched.

6:25AM

So if we are at day 39 or 40, there is still a slight window for the eggs to hatch?   

The textbook average is 33-35 days of hard incubation.  Eggs have hatched after longer intervals.  No time right now for research, but aside from Seneca, the WAY overdue redtail hatch at NYU comes to mind.  

Maybe I've had a bit too much time to think these past 2 weeks, but my thoughts are honestly all over the place.  So I think I just need a topic to put them rather than piecemeal as the thoughts come up. And please do NOT take anything I post here as gospel truth.

I feel very badly that a lot of newbies are looking to us more experienced watchers looking for answers about what is going on when the honest truth is this is new territory for all of us.  I just don't know what to say sometimes, other than que sera sera.

And, as I said to a few people privately while we were in limbo waiting for the 2nd egg to be laid, the way my year has been going so far I REALLY need to have a successful nesting here this year. Expressing it out loud last time worked, maybe it will this time.

There has been a bunch of chatter about Archer two-timing being at the root of whatever is going to happen.  I personally am thinking differently.  I'm wondering if Beauty and/or Archer has an inherent fertility issue.  In 2010 Beauty laid 4 eggs.  2 hatched, the other 2 appeared to have been infertile.  It happens.  That may be what's happening here.  All the years of speculating about Pale Male's nest cradle...his age...yadda yadda...it was apparently Lola's infertility in the end.  Ranger & Hunter have eggs year after year after year...sometimes 2 clutches...never a hatch.  Sometimes that's just the way it is.

I personally don't think Beauty & Unity have any clue that there are eggs by Archer at the other sites.  They obviously now know that the other bird exists, but I think attributing anything happening-or not happening-because of the other nest site is a stretch.  If Beauty's eggs were going to hatch on 05/18 as all of our human counting predicted, they would have hatched on 05/18 whether Beauty was there or off fighting Unity.  It's too far into the incubation process for a change in alert level to change the outcome of a fertile almost ready to hatch egg...in my personal opinion.  The year Mariah was injured the eggs started hatching when they were ready even though she wasn't there.

Archer has been sharing the incubation duties.  Period.  Where he spends his off-egg time is really irrelevant to whether his eggs with Beauty hatch.  Again, my opinion only.  Just need to state my opinion for the record.

And even with all that, I am not giving up on these eggs until Beauty does.  Is it starting to feel like she might be giving up on them?  Maybe.  Only she knows for sure.

OK...I think that's all for now...it's all a learning experience.  Though I am a bit weary of all the "learning experiences" tossed my way lately...