!!! The cold weather has taken it’s toll
April 24, 2012 - Port Colborne - ADM Mill
Doug Garbutt Reports:
As I said in my last post, it has been hard to get a look at what’s underneath the adults here as they are rarely off the eggs. Yesterday I witnessed the female consuming an egg shell. She was over the scrape & I couldn’t see underneath her so I was hoping an egg had hatched & she was eating the shell for calcium as they normally do. Unfortunately, today I got a good look at the scrape when Mom took a short break from incubation & I could clearly see that there was no young one. In fact there are only 2 of the 4 eggs remaining. It is hard to believe that after 4 weeks of hard incubation that they could loose these eggs. I think that perhaps the frigid weather has played a part in the failure. I’m not too optimistic about the chance that the other 2 eggs are viable but we have our fingers crossed. Hopefully the other nest sites don’t have simalar problems this year.
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