!!! News of a hatch!! Four hatchlings now observed!
May 24, 2011 - Mississauga - Holcim
CPF Postmaster Reports:
We have only just yesterday received news from Holcim that there has been a photo confirmation of a hatch. .
The second last photo that we received shows the resident adult female in a “brooding posture” as opposed to an incubation posture, as she is covering something under her, with a hunched back and cupped wings. This combined with her lack of interest in the two eggs to the right of her suggests that she is already brooding a hatchling (if not two hatchlings). Subtle differences in the body posturing of the adult female as she was photographed and the event captured in the first photo tell a story of a hatch.
This most recent photo tells the complete story indeed as there are clearly four chicks. Given what we know in that the eggs hatch approx. every other day, the presence of 4 hatchlings, in addition to the first photo of the resident adult female believed to be actually brooding something, and now seeing a photo of all of the hatchlings, the oldest two chicks are at least 15 days to 17 days old as of yesterday.
Sadly, this news may have come too us very late in the game to schedule a banding with all of the other bandings going on, and the other logistics needed to be coordinated, in addition to support of the Rock climbers that is needed to pull off a banding at this site. We will have to dig further into all of the schedules and other logistics to see if this site can be banded.
