New Peregrine cam in Australia

[Annette]

Amusingly bad timing by an interloper

While we’re sad we lost one of the two eggs on Saturday we’re still hopeful the remaining egg will be fertile. Swift seems to think it is, and is doing a good job minding the scrape. She remains very quiet while in the eyrie, so much so that an errant cockatoo decided to drop in unnannounced but was moved on very quickly by Swift who defended her ground before any fisticuffs broke out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOkGZuKFoek

[Donna]

Wow, that was quick and awesome!! 

[Annette]

Busted by Swift!

Earlier this morning Swift was caught becoming quite intrigued by the big black bulge on her wall. We’re not sure if she realises there’s something going on behind the perspex but she was indeed interested to figure it out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QaxhMe_P40

[MAK]

Busted by Swift!

Earlier this morning Swift was caught becoming quite intrigued by the big black bulge on her wall. We’re not sure if she realises there’s something going on behind the perspex but she was indeed interested to figure it out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QaxhMe_P40

That was kinda funny! 

[Annette]

Time frame and reference point for Season 5

Just in case anyone’s trying to figure out when we expect to see life in the single remaining egg the count-back should take us through to about 19-22 Sept (i.e. Wednesday to Saturday next week), based on the average incubation rate and duration of approx 29-32 days. This presumes that active incubation began at the onset of the 2nd egg late on 21st Aug. The adults certainly took the task to hand (claw?) by the following morning so as long as we have one fertile egg up in the eyrie we’ve only got a short time to wait now. The cigars are still wrapped and sealed….

The long wait continues

[Donna]

I sure hope this one hatches. Thanks!!

[Kris G.]

I sure hope this one hatches. Thanks!!

Me too!

[MAK]

Me three! 

[patsy6]

No hatch yet, but we're right within the time for one.  It's now 9/20 in Australia, and they said the expected hatch is anywhere from 9/19-9/22.  Fingers crossed!

[Annette]

Media coverage for the Project

As we wait impatiently and nervously for signs of new life up in the ‘Concrete Hilton’ we were visited today by the Prime 7 News team and the Win TV team for some pre-emptive coverage of this, our 5th, observed season’s breeding results. The remaining egg is of good colour and incubating is in earnest by both Swift and Beau, although Beau still seems a little non-plussed at times and is keen to depart when Swift returns. Our surveillance server is humming along well, so if you miss any live action I’m sure we can recover video clips when required. We will certainly upload all interesting video clips as they come to hand.  Again, apologies to all who are getting static pictures on the live cameras; we’re pretty sure now it’s to do with Adobe Flash versions, as we’re getting similar problems inside CSU as well; testing continues. Objective for 2013 season – 100% sturdy camera streaming! The new ledge HD camera will be purchased shortly and will be fitted soon as we’re allowed back in to the eyrie…

Coming shortly – Prime 7 News video clip (thanks Jarrad and team; great fun recording!), and Win News video clip (thanks Laura and team; interesting camera angles!)…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqMqd8UZK-8#ws

[Donna]

Swift just left, hope this eggs hatches. It's due like now!!

[Donna]

Monday mornings are not always bad news. After taking an extra day or two beyond the average incubation period it appears we can now welcome the youngest baby peregrine falcon to our world – Snow, so named after the initial egg was laid during one of this year’s snow storms in August.
Regular checks all this weekend showed that Swift has been quite unsettled & it seems she most probably heard & felt some internal movement from the chick as it struggled to cut the egg open.
It’s middle of the night in Orange so the full video footage and time confirmation will be checked in our Milestone recording system soon as possible later this morning.
If all’s well it’s a big congratulations to Beau & Swift, to our Project team and to all our supporters worldwide!  

[Dumpsterkitty]

 

Congratulations! 

[patsy6]

 

Congratulations! 

Awww, there's the little puffball now!  Thanks for the captures, Ei. 

[Dumpsterkitty]

http://youtu.be/vyS0tPzAUAc

Video 1...although Snow is too young yet to eat...