![]() Why intervention of any kind will wreck your viewing of Hope’s activities: Wild peregrines refuse food left by humans. It doesn’t matter where you leave the food. Peregrines are not scavengers (bald eagles are) and we humans are the peregrines’ #1 enemy. and Canada, they were so rare that wildlife officials tried to offer supplemental food to widowed females. The bottom line is, you don’t need to worry about eggs.Īt the end of the last century when peregrines were endangered throughout the U.S. If Hope is delaying incubation, these eggs can wait a very long time.Īnd if she is not delaying: Within the breeding season, peregrines lay a replacement clutch when they find a new mate or if the first clutch fails early in the season. In the end, all five eggs hatched in May. Tasha’s eggs waited three weeks while Dori bonded with Louie and laid her own clutch of three. ![]() In 2010 Tasha laid two eggs at the Gulf Tower in mid March but Dori displaced her and became Louie’s new mate. I do not know the longest amount of time they can delay, but it is long. Peregrine falcons delay incubation of their eggs until the female has laid the next-to-last or last egg. If the eggs are not incubated, but are protected from freezing and overheating (in other words, covered by the adult when temperatures are low or high), the eggs can wait several weeks for delayed incubation to begin and can hatch successfully. Here’s why intervention is unnecessary, why “feeding” her will not work, and why either one of those attempts will wreck your viewing of Hope’s activities. Some of you have even asked that we intervene to rescue and incubate the eggs ourselves, or that we leave food for Hope so she doesn’t have to leave the eggs. Since E2’s death many of you worry that Hope’s eggs at the Cathedral of Learning peregrine nest will not survive. ( You may have seen a bit of this on Facebook. Hope at the nest, 20 March 2016 (photo from the National Aviary snapshot camera at Univ of Pittsburgh) For those of you unfamiliar with the Downtown peregrines’ fickle nest selections, click here to read their history. ( photo of the Gulf Tower peregrine nest from the National Aviary falconcam at Gulf Tower) Have you seen them? Please leave a comment if you have! No peregrines have been seen at the nest since Dori left on Friday morning March 11.ĭori will have to lay eggs soon, but where will that be? She hasn’t been seen at the other nest sites she chose in the past. We thought this showed their commitment to the site.Īlas, it did not. ![]() Unused peregrine nest at the Gulf Tower, Downtown Pittsburgh, March 2016 (photo from the National Aviary falconcam at Gulf Tower)Īnother installment in “All Peregrines All The Time” □Įarly this month we had high hopes that Pittsburgh’s Downtown peregrines would nest at the Gulf Tower this spring because they were seen on camera so frequently.ĭori and Louie visited the nest every day and dug two deep scrapes at the back of the box. ( YouTube videos captured by PixController from the Hays eaglecam. Visit Audubon of Western PA’s eagle Facebook page for more information. Watch the nestlings and chat about them at. The last egg in the nest, Egg #3, is expected to hatch on Friday. Post Gazette: Second eaglet hatches at Hays eagle nest.Trib Live: Second eaglet hatching at Hays nest in Pittsburgh.Second egg hatched 45 hours later on Tuesday March 22 at 9:40pm. KDKA: Experts say outlook great after Hays eaglet hatchesĢ.Post-Gazette: First Hays eaglet of 2016 emerges from its shell.KDKA: First sign of Hays eaglet hatching appears.First egg hatched on Monday March 21 at 12:37 am (just after midnight). Here’s a roundup of Hays nest news from first hatch on Monday to last night’s second hatch. Peregrine news has been so intense lately that I missed telling you about Pittsburgh’s first eaglet of 2016 … and now there are two nestlings at the Hays bald eagle nest. Second egg hatches at Hays bald eagle nest, 22 March 2016, 9:40pm
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