!!! Some good photos of the hatchlings at the Burlington Lift Bridge.
May 06, 2014 - Burlington - Lift Bridge
CPF Postmaster Reports:
May 5th - 2014
With a huge thank you to PWGSC for sending in some photos of their newest family members of 2014, we can now finally get a good look at the new hatchlings!
While it appears that two of the four eggs have not hatched, the two fluffy white hatchlings are looking pretty good! Given the size of the two hatchlings in the photographs and with comparison to the watchers observations of when the pair went down into full time incubation, it would appear that they were “bang-on” with the predicted hatch date. Observations later reported with food going into the nest box and staying for that extra few minutes before being removed confirmed the hatch.
Good work Bill & Sue!!!
As far as the two un-hatched eggs are concerned, it would appear that this maybe one of those years with a lower hatch and production rate, as so far
this seems to be the case with several other nest sites here in southern Ontario that we are closely monitoring. While the egg production seems to be very good with most all of the known nest sites having produced good clutches of 4 eggs , there has already been some failures with destruction of these eggs and several nests where there are un-hatched eggs altogether.
It will be interesting to see just what happens this season after all is said and done.
Stay tuned for banding information for the Burlington hatchlings.
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