Cathedral of Learning Falcon webcam (Pittsburgh) 2014

[Donna]

http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/2014/03/31/she-was-egg-bound/

Dorothy was egg-bound. Read it here by Kate

[carly]

http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/2014/03/31/she-was-egg-bound/

Dorothy was egg-bound. Read it here by Kate

Last year the female at Cobb died on cam due to being egg bound, it was tragic.  

Good she was able to expel it.

[~Sage~]

Dorothy expelled the egg. Will she recover now? Does this mean her egg-laying days are over? What about the eggs in the scrape now?

[Kris G.]

http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/2014/03/31/she-was-egg-bound/

Dorothy was egg-bound. Read it here by Kate

Last year the female at Cobb died on cam due to being egg bound, it was tragic.  

Good she was able to expel it.

I watched that story unfold last year and it was very sad to watch.

[Donna]

http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/2014/03/31/she-was-egg-bound/

Dorothy was egg-bound. Read it here by Kate

Last year the female at Cobb died on cam due to being egg bound, it was tragic.  

Good she was able to expel it.

I watched that story unfold last year and it was very sad to watch.

Me too!!  Awful to watch! I didn't, just checked updates! 

[carly]

Dorothy expelled the egg. Will she recover now? Does this mean her egg-laying days are over? What about the eggs in the scrape now?

Well Kate tweeted earlier that she and E2 were seen mating this afternoon ..so she's obviously recovered!  I don't know what the future will bring...my first experience personally with hen-o-pause in action.  In other elder falcons I've seen on cams, they just stopped laying eggs entirely..no issues like this.

I should also point out that KathyQ is 15 this year and she just laid 4 eggs, so is SW in Cleveland.  And we have Erin and WW here who are both 16 this year - so we'll see if they lay eggs successfully.  Learning experience for all of us. 

[Bird Crazy]

Dorothy expelled the egg. Will she recover now? Does this mean her egg-laying days are over? What about the eggs in the scrape now?

Well Kate tweeted earlier that she and E2 were seen mating this afternoon ..so she's obviously recovered!  I don't know what the future will bring...my first experience personally with hen-o-pause in action.  In other elder falcons I've seen on cams, they just stopped laying eggs entirely..no issues like this.

I should also point out that KathyQ is 15 this year and she just laid 4 eggs, so is SW in Cleveland.  And we have Erin and WW here who are both 16 this year - so we'll see if they lay eggs successfully.  Learning experience for all of us. 

in cage birds egg binding is caused by a lack of calcium, or vitamin D, which allows the body to use calcium, could be Dorthy's diet or vitamin deficiency

[Donna]

  Dorothy dozing with a full crop!

Feel so bad for her, she did her time and now needs to retire! Still.....  Beauty looks so much like her!

pic from fb

[MAK]

  Dorothy dozing with a full crop!

Feel so bad for her, she did her time and now needs to retire! Still.....  Beauty looks so much like her!

pic from fb

 

[Donna]

Cool picture of Dorothy from this past weekend.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Coming in for a landing! @PittPeregrines dropped by to say hey as we took #SchenleyPlaza aerial shots this weekend. pic.twitter.com/JoaDQrlNzK</p>&mdash; Pittsburgh Parks (@pittsburghparks) June 30, 2014
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OOPS!!

[patsy6]

Cool pic of Dorothy from this past weekend:

https://twitter.com/pittsburghparks/status/483614214909870080/photo/1

[patsy6]

Somehow I don't think Dorothy was "dropp[ing] by to say hey."  More like she was dropping by to say "HEY! GET OUT MY TERRITORY!"

[Donna]

Dorothy has been challenged already! She won this first round but will she win the next?   

http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/2014/08/12/dorothy-is-challenged/ by Kate St. John

[Kris G.]

Dorothy has been challenged already! She won this first round but will she win the next?   

http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/2014/08/12/dorothy-is-challenged/ by Kate St. John

Was just going to post this.  Poor Dorothy..challenges ahead. 

[carly]

Hold on Dorothy, Nettie and Tesh possibly on the way to help you!  Glad she is okay for now.