Three eggs for King St. First image was taken during and the last image taken at 01:35
It’s a little frustrating down here. Trillium laid her 2nd egg of the year on Fri. Apr. 4th 7am & by noon she was eating it. We may have a possible explanation because on Tues. Apr. 08 there were 3 falcons in the box, Trillum, Bill & another male who were pecking at each other. Perhaps this is the reason for the strange behaviour of eating eggs. However, there is still hope as Trillium produced another egg (3rd) this morning. Hopefully it works out better for them this time.
Caught by mwplay from BCAW, this capture showing 4 eggs!
O’Connor’s egg hiding skills have been spectacular this year. Several of us suspected she had 4 eggs all along especially given her incubation starting on March 31st but she was only showing us 2 or 3 at any given time.
She finally got up and moved the eggs around and DEF from Netherlands was able to catch this wonderful capture of proof of 4 eggs just awhile ago!
Our little MEC hatch is doing very well and I couldn’t resist grabbing some screen shots of him/her to share!
The photos that I took on April 2nd visit at the Holcim Cement nest site of Caspian and Storm.
Enjoy!
Today I stopped in at the William Osler nest site with Bryan, a student conducting his two week placement with us, to check in on Hurricane and Chessie. Both adults were in the tower and after a few minutes Hurricane took off and silently flew to the nest tray behind the eastern H sign. He disappeared into the tray and so Bryan and I met up with Ross for a quick look at the nest tray monitor. When we arrived upstairs Hurricane had already left and there was no eggs in the tray as of yet. Back outside we found both Chessie and Hurricane on the northern H roosting and so we sat down for a while to watch. Hurricane took off after about 10 minutes and put on quite a flight display in response to Chessie’s invitation to breed. They mated after which Hurricane went straight to the nest tray to rearrange things. Chessie flew off and attempted a flight up to the northwest corner of the building but needed a circle out to gain some elevation for the landing. No wonder given the big crop and puffed out abdomen that she is sporting!! We will hopefully have news of the first egg any day now as she looks like she is more than ready!
Great news to report this evening. I stopped in at Canada Square today to check in on the resident adults and found Haven in the west ledge, same ledge as last year, laying down. Stormin was on the top of the wall above the nest and occasionally vocalizing to her. For a brief moment she stood up and revealed the first egg that was beneath her. Congratulations Canada Square on your first egg!!
Thank you to SGB over at BCAW for capturing this photo of the 3 eggs!!!
I had been watching the web cam late last night with Erin standing next to the nest bowl and anticipating she may lay the egg on camera. This morning, egg # 2 !
