2013 Pictures from the Rfalconcam Cameras

[campgee]

In this video,  DC is on eggs.  You can hear eggshell crunching and towards the end of the video (1:46 mark in video), you can hear at least one baby.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZC3kC1jebc#

Thank you so much-that was totally cool to hear! Getting so anxious now!!!! 

Can't watch until I get home...but I heard it live...way cool!

It's so awesome not to have to ever miss a thing with so many dedicated people on the street, in office towers or sitting at their computers at home.  Rochester has the best, hands down.  Thank you all for the work you do, it is so appreciated.

[Dumpsterkitty]

And just browsing over on BCAW I spotted this from Carly by Glen in San Francisco...

Reposting this from Glen (mw also referenced it prior) on Diamnd Lil as it's good info for those new to this process and curious :

Very soon, and for sure by about day 31, we will begin to see DL standing over her eggs and looking down at them, and even vocalizing. Her vocalizations are an encouragement to the youngsters and so I feel a little bit sorry for eggs that hatch inside an incubator. It is one time that a nestbox mic would really pay off for those of us who are hooked on this voyeuristic experience. The chicks peep from within the unhatched and unpipped egg loudly enough to be heard at the nest camera--True! Believe it! I have heard it and then examined the egg to find no airhole at all. There is an air pocket at one end of the egg that the baby thrusts its beak into as the time for hatching approaches. Then, when its body really begins to crave air, it convulses again causing the beak to break a small hole in the shell. It is almost imperceptible. It will not be visible on camera.

It is something that may be "felt" upon tactile examination more than seen. With that hole or "pip" made, the chick is able to get oxygen and build up a little more strength to do the hard work of cutting its way around the eggshell. All this happens in its own time under the strength of the chick. In the old days, we would try to "help" them out of the shell and found that created risk to exposed veins and arteries. As the baby cuts its way around the shell, it is completing its journey toward independence from the eggshell and cannot be hurried. Most of this will occur out of sight beneath momma, but be assured that she is hearing, seeing, and feeling the progress

[Donna]

That video is AMAZING.....crunch crunch!!    Thanks for posting!! 

[Kris G.]

That video is AMAZING.....crunch crunch!!    Thanks for posting!! 

 

[patsy6]

Thanks for the video!  It's so cool to hear the scratching and the peeping and then to watch DC's face as he reacts to it. 

[Bonnie]

Whoa!  Way cool video with sounds. Yup, something going on under there for sure.

[Donna]

All that munching, no pip that I can see yet!
DC on eggs

[Kris G.]

http://www.falcoperegrinus.org/index-en.html


Scroll down on left side to Hatching which explains what happens during the process.

[Dumpsterkitty]

And NCA's marked up version

[Dumpsterkitty]

 

Anyone see a slight raised area top of the nearest egg?

[Donna]

Anyone see a slight raised area top of the nearest egg?

Yes but......Gee, what is it?? LOL

[Dumpsterkitty]

Anyone see a slight raised area top of the nearest egg?

Yes but......Gee, what is it?? LOL

Could be schmutz...or the edge of a pip

[Donna]

Anyone see a slight raised area top of the nearest egg?

Yes but......Gee, what is it?? LOL

Could be schmutz...or the edge of a pip

We saw that earlier, should be bigger by now, unless the chomper is resting!!

[Dumpsterkitty]

Could be schmutz...or the edge of a pip

We saw that earlier, should be bigger by now, unless the chomper is resting!!

I remember watching a video of an incubator hatch...might have been a bald eagle...at any rate, the eyas pushed at the hole, then rested...pushed some more & on & on until the top popped

[rebec7caring]

Does that look like a broken piece of shell behind the three eggs--just down from her breast?  In the 19:59 picture.