Beauty Comes Through With First Egg of 2010!
Beauty laid her first egg around 2:38 Rochester time
We’re beside ourselves with glee that Beauty has laid her first ever egg! The pink ovoid appeared just before 2:40PM this afternoon. This is great news after all the ups and downs that we endured in 2009. With this egg and the others that should follow, we’re hopeful that the rich legacy begun by Mariah in 1998 will continue for 2010 and well into the future!
How many eggs will Beauty lay? It’s impossible to say right now. Average clutch sizes are around 3-4 eggs, but since Archer and Beauty are a new pair, she could lay fewer than that. Plus, not all of them may end up being viable. Mariah laid four eggs in her first year with Kaver, but two failed to hatch. Of the two that did, one was Freedom, Archer’s father. What a wonderful string of events that has brought us to this point!
Now that egg laying has commenced, keep a close eye on the Rochester Falconcam to catch all the latest action.
April 8th, 2010 at 3:51 PM
It’s so wonderful to see this! Finally . . . . someone to keep Orville company!
April 8th, 2010 at 4:50 PM
Yippeeee!!! I can’t wait to watch the action.
April 8th, 2010 at 5:07 PM
Hoooray! At last, I am jumping for joy!
April 8th, 2010 at 6:08 PM
Just opened up my internet and my homepage happens to be the Rochester falcon cam and I shout with joy- it’s an egg! I also quickly save a picture of the main camera view and I come onto imprints to see, it is true! Congrats to the new pair! So excited to get back into the cycle of spring egg watching after it seems like such a long break!
April 8th, 2010 at 6:41 PM
Congrats to Beauty!! . . . Is she bringing prey to her egg at 6:35?? What a good mom she’s gonna be!
April 8th, 2010 at 7:40 PM
CLAP! CLAP! CLAP! I’m so happy to see our first egg in 2 years. It was 18 days following the arrival of Archer (on Mar 21st). All that watching the past few days, and missed it! I was in a meeting, but I got a tweety-bird (ringtone) tweet, and it brought a smile to my face. This might be the first egg that we know of, but not her first egg. There is a possiblity that Beauty laid an egg last year, but we will never know since there was nothing found when DEC & crew were able to observe the rain gutter that A&B were favoring. If she ends up with 3-4 eyases, it is going to be a fledge watch challenge for sure this year.
April 8th, 2010 at 8:10 PM
Even now a falcon is sitting on the edge of the box and watching over the precious first egg.
April 8th, 2010 at 9:05 PM
I just now logged onto the website and saw the egg on the live camera – YEA !! This is so exciting !
April 8th, 2010 at 10:03 PM
Does she know what to do? She seems confused.
April 8th, 2010 at 10:10 PM
I’m just curious if they should be covering the egg with the temps down to almost 40? I may have missed someone actually sitting on it, but how much can they leave the egg(s) uncovered without harming them at these temps?
April 8th, 2010 at 11:32 PM
It was a woderful site to see– I’m so happy for her- but she doesn’t seem to be taking care. of the egg.. Is she too young? to know what to do?
April 9th, 2010 at 12:28 AM
The first eggs don’t get incubated unless it’s really cold – otherwise they would hatch too early and would beat out the new ones for food… after all the eggs are layed, the parents will start incubating them non-stop, so that they all hatch at about the same time…
April 9th, 2010 at 5:51 AM
Woo hoooooo!! What wonderful news to wake up to!!! 😀
April 9th, 2010 at 8:30 AM
YEAH!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 (about says it all!)
April 9th, 2010 at 9:32 AM
Falcon eggs do pretty well with chilly temps (above freezing) and not too well with hot weather (above brooding temp). So you may see short sits when it is cool and standing and shading if there is a spell of very hot weather and direct sunlight. As ezsha pointed out, timing is everything, and although we think Beauty may be a first time “mother” she probably has the necessary instincts to guide her on the amount of brooding that is required at the moment.
It will be fun, as the season goes on, to see if Archer is the ardent brooder that Kaver was.
April 9th, 2010 at 9:48 AM
Joyce, I was thinking the same thing that this is not her first egg.
I also felt, but can’t prove, that there was/were a/an egg(s) at Midtown last year.
Larry O
April 9th, 2010 at 1:59 PM
Wow! This is wonderful. : D I still feel a mite stung over poor Mariah’s misfortune, but this is a good turn of events for her grand-daughter at least. Who knows – perhaps Mariah will find a handsome man next year. ^__^
April 9th, 2010 at 2:27 PM
Ashira, Someone did report a “large falcon” on the roof of the U of R School of Medicine and Dentistry on Monday. Mariah, perhaps?
Larry, I hope that if eggs are found anywhere else some kind of security is set up before sharing that information here.
April 9th, 2010 at 3:20 PM
Ooh, thanks, Chrissy! It’s good to hear she might still be around her old nesting site. :9
Oh, I forgot about this until now, but here it is:
I forgot to check the Falconcam yesterday, so I didn’t catch the egg news right away. When I checked it today I saw the egg right away and checked the news – sure enough, it had been announced. Just now I remembered that I dreamed two days ago that Beauty had laid an egg – the morning before she did. : D Prophetic falcon dreams for the win!
April 9th, 2010 at 5:30 PM
I can’t believe it. I haven’t checked this site for quite some time. Today, it popped
into my head, “I need to check to see what (if anything) is happening in Rochester. What luck!!!
Beauty has laid an egg. I will be checking much more frequently now. SPRING
is here!!! I hope everything goes well for Beauty and Archer, and look forward to many many splended pictures.
April 9th, 2010 at 6:24 PM
what wonderful news…have other sites that I watch…but this has my heart
April 9th, 2010 at 9:24 PM
This is so exciting!!. And I lke the pink!
April 9th, 2010 at 10:34 PM
@Chrissy – Larry was talking about the possibility that eggs had been laid at Midtown Plaza last year. 🙂
@Ashira – Archer is Mariah and Kaver’s Grandson. Beauty is from Pittsburg.
April 10th, 2010 at 6:14 AM
I hope someone takes appropriate action re the “BSA Troop 34 Rush NY” graffiti in the main camera view. Was this applied after the first egg arrived or during construction? I don’t remember seeing it before. Is the scrape accessible to anyone who wants to take the effort. Hope not.
April 10th, 2010 at 12:17 PM
Very exciting news! Thanks for the updates and reason the egg is not steadily being incubated. Am wondering what the status will be next month when I’ll be visiting my family in Rochester. Hopefully some new chicks in the nestbox. So much has happened in the Rochester Falcon world this past year. Also looking forward to any news about Mariah.
April 10th, 2010 at 2:27 PM
I love having the multi-view cameras. When it appears as though Beauty is not in the nest box, there she is, just out of sight but in view of camera #1! She seems to be staying quite close to her single egg. Hoping to see a second any time.
April 11th, 2010 at 1:11 AM
Just checked the camera early this morning, and I see two eggs!!!
April 11th, 2010 at 1:40 AM
@Bob P – The Boy Scouts of Troop 34 are the ones who built the nest box for us. They burned their troop number into the back of the box before it was erected.
April 11th, 2010 at 2:17 PM
Carol P – Oops. I meant ‘grand-daughter-in-law’. x3;