I said stay over here with your siblings where I can see you!

Yes Momma!

One blue foot, two yellow feet this year. Second down coming in...plucked chicken phase

Going out on a limb early-2 girls and a boy.

But I don't WANT to snuggle under you!

I let them get scattered...she's gonna be mad at me, isn't she?

INCOMING!

Get this eyas a napkin please! 

And the first feeding chart of the season!

Final brooding chart for the 2018 season!

DC’s at it again 

If you look closely you can still see the egg tooth on all 3 beaks

So happy to see Dot got a bite in!

Second breakfast arrives!

Look at those tiny talons! 

Oh god Kitty ... the heck we went through with this band ID as I too said it was Erica.  DNR has her listed as D'arcy and I was told in no uncertain terms to call her D'arcy as that is what is on record with them.

OK!

He seemed surprised to see 3 babies when he came in..it was weird.  Maybe he's dealing with something out there...or maybe I'm just cranky because my Aria has been displaced.  Maybe now that he's seen three he'll get to work!

So I haven't followed here closely...is her mate banded? Are we sure it's the same one?

What a beautiful little juvie! I find the bands hard to read in this pic, especially the numbers.

However, if the bands are indeed 69/BC, black over green, I did find that band number. The juvie would be from the Statler nest in Buffalo. There were two chicks this year, Erica and D'Arcy. At banding, one was given the bands 69/BC, and the other chick had the bands 70/BC.

Shortly after banding, D'Arcy became very ill, and she did not survive, so this juvie would be Erica. Erica was grounded at least once after fledging, and I have heard nothing of her since.

Here are a couple of pics from banding:

I'm just going to post this quote here because I also have the surviving Statler juvie from 2016 listed as Erica. I'm not sure which name is actually correct, but we can hopefully figure it out. I believe Sage had some input as well on FB since she was there at that banding. I didn't actually have a name for the one who didn't survive when I did the family tree, so I can correct that now as well as add band numbers.