Kitty over at Rfalcon, the Rochester Falcon forum, captured this screen shot of a feeding and you can see 3 heads up for the meal and one little one laying down to the side. I put little pen marks there to point them out.
In another day or so they’ll all be bigger and stronger and we should be able to get sharper photos of them!
Several of us are thinking we may have had a fourth hatch here but it’s hard to confirm at this point. Soon as you think you see a fourth head, another one falls in for the block! If anyone can get a clear screen capture, send it on in to us!
I’ve been trying to get a good screen shot but it’s too difficult as they can’t really hold their heads very long for me to grab one. Saw three little heads clearly now during a shift change. Dad came in to give mom a short break. He didn’t seem to know what to make of the little cotton balls :) He had that new dad, deer in the headlights expression!
So three hatches and one egg to go…stay tuned to see if it hatches!
As darkness fell last night I saw evidence of new egg shell appear from under Quest and this morning confirms that we now have two babies. Quest is feeding them both breakfast now.
Skye is so excited, he keeps flying in with even more food and Quest keeps sending him away 
First time dad Skye came in to meet his first ever offspring just a few minutes ago! I think he’s a little excited!
Checking in this morning and one of the adults has brought food in and is trying to feed the eggs! I’ve seen this on other web cams when they hear the birds peeping from inside the eggs. I can’t tell who it is but my guess is it may be Skye - being a first time about to be dad.
April 15th - 2014
Well, as you can see, Old Man Winter gave us yet another kick in the butt last night and so far this morning and dropping another 2-4cms of snow on us, in addition to running the temps back down to almost freezing again. While no real accumulation happened on the road ways so far given that they were so warm from the last several days of some real spring like temps, the snow has already covered all of the roof tops and parts of the various nest ledges.
The real good protected sites are those with enclosed nest boxes, as seen here at the Duncan Mills nest site where Quest is tucked far back into the nest box well protected from the snow and wind by the nest box roof and walls.
We all awoke this morning to find the entire city rooftops covered with a light covering of white snow, high winds, blowing snow and cold yet again!!
I’m sure that we’re not the only one feeling the pain, as a quick check of all of the web cams had all of the resident adult females down tight to their eggs and in the MEC nest site case, down hard covering the Canada’s first hatchlings.
Stay tuned…
Caught by mwplay from BCAW, this capture showing 4 eggs!
Thank you to mwplay over at BCAW for alerting us to Quest laying egg number 3 which arrived at 6:50 pm tonight!
April 4 - 2014
Sorry not a good picture but we can see egg #2 for Quest and Skye!
Karen Bunney
