Is this the 3rd egg with a pip?  Or one of the parts?

Pip for sure

I think #3 may be hatching & Beauty is having a heck of a time keeping the other 2 under her at the same time...

Kapi's right...2 hatching the same day is more uncommon than several days between. 

I just went over all the pics of the exposed egg from today and I don't personally see a pip yet...only time will tell.

Interesting...I've always heard about an oil gland that birds have at the base of their tails that they using for preening...I wonder if that yellow spot is it?

I have seen eggs hatch several days after the others and I have seen pip to hatch of 36+ hours.  Not often, but it does happen.  Beauty will be the best judge...she will stop incubating it and push it to the side.  A very late hatch generally does just fine...it takes a while, but eventually catches up.  In their 5-egg years M&K would often have one last hatch long after the first and the last always did fine.

Beauty sporting the latest fashion accessory

Napping after 3rd (or was it 4th?) breakfast

The streaming video is great, and it has finally enticed my lovely wife into sharing the falcon semi-addiction I have experienced for the past seven years. The accompanying staccato, twitterish  chat, however, makes me long for the insight and substance of the old yahoo-based forum postings. 

I personally haven't gotten involved in the "social streaming"...can't access it at work & it interrupts my video feed at home.  I'm sticking with here...the chat feature (when we remember to use it) works very well...and I've gotten used to the way this forum works.  When I have a lot of catching up to do I'l use the unthreaded version, which is more like the old Yahoo board-just takes a bit more scrolling since there's fewer posts per page...

There he is!  But I don't think Beauty is ready to leave...

I was going to use this one until Donna posted the picture of Beauty with the fuzzy eyas from 7:53 this morning. I had to go with that one.

That's fine...that one is a winner too!

Caitie-Bonnie is correct.  Shortly before the eyases hatch they absorb whatever yolk is left into their abdomen to sustain them for the first day.  It can be 24 hours or so before they are fed.  

That is, of course, a moot point now since they had their first feeding this morning...
so cute with their tiny little beaks!

I would like to nominate this picture of the first hatch for picture of the day.  Thank you!

A bit blurry in this light...but they are SOOO cute!

 Must get ready for work...see you all later...

Good morning babies!

You're up early, Ei!  Nice breakfast, too 
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Always up this early...just usually don't visit!



Breakfast!

Good morning babies!