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Apollo · **Posted:** Sat Mar 29, 2025 12:29 am

Thank you all for letting us know! Moxie sure is having an interesting nesting season!!
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Shepherd · **Joined:** Mon Apr 28, 2014 3:10 pm **Posts:** 6192

March 18 egg 1

March 22 Egg 2 - by Apollo
date / time for arrival is 9:56pm on 3-22

Egg 3 March 29

Thats quite a span!

:egg14:

Apollo · **Posted:** Sun Mar 30, 2025 11:37 pm

Shepherd wrote:

March 18 egg 1

March 22 Egg 2 - by Apollo
date / time for arrival is 9:56pm on 3-22

Egg 3 March 29

Thats quite a span!

:egg14:

Hey, Shep...

Moxie laid egg #3 on 3-28-25 @7:11pm....still quite a span :3eggs:

Shepherd · **Joined:** Mon Apr 28, 2014 3:10 pm **Posts:** 6192

OK Apollo - this is the 2nd time you've corrected my date! :egg11:

I am surprised she had #3 - will all 3 hatch?

catwoman · **Posted:** Mon Mar 31, 2025 8:13 pm

Still 3, before it gets dark.

catwoman · **Posted:** Wed Apr 02, 2025 11:56 am

There's a raindrop on the screen right over the eggs, so I can't tell how many there are. Assuming there are just 3.

Apollo · **Posted:** Wed Apr 02, 2025 3:21 pm

Shepherd wrote:

OK Apollo - this is the 2nd time you've corrected my date! :egg11:

I am surprised she had #3 - will all 3 hatch?

Not sure, Shep...we are in unchartered territory with Moxie this year. She normal lays eggs every other day and should have had her normal clutch of 4 completed on 3-24 (based on the date of the 1st egg).
So is it her age, are the eggs viable? We simply do not know as we have never encountered this type of behavior for her. i wish I had a better answer. But I sure hope that at least one hatches this year!

Shepherd · **Joined:** Mon Apr 28, 2014 3:10 pm **Posts:** 6192

This is a strange - not good - year -
with falcons - hawk - eagles.
Lot of oddities.

Seems to be a shortage of adult female falcons.
ONLY my guess, no expertise.
Could the gene pool be so small its having an effect?

:16:

Apollo · **Posted:** Wed Apr 02, 2025 5:10 pm

Still 3 eggs as of 4-2-25 @ 3:56pm at a nest exchange

Shep's question about where are all the adult falcons? While this is referencing east coast peregrine's, this article makes you wonder about the avian flu and the number of adult peregrines in the Midwest.

https://www.audubon.org/magazine/why-ar ... Z-Fe5z-Umg

Tsusan · **Posted:** Wed Apr 02, 2025 6:25 pm

Scary to think about!

catwoman · **Posted:** Wed Apr 02, 2025 6:27 pm

Apollo wrote:

Still 3 eggs as of 4-2-25 @ 3:56pm at a nest exchange

Shep's question about where are all the adult falcons? While this is referencing east coast peregrine's, this article makes you wonder about the avian flu and the number of adult peregrines in the Midwest.

https://www.audubon.org/magazine/why-ar ... Z-Fe5z-Umg

Thanks, Apollo. We can only hope that and avian flu is suddenly over like Covid. :girlsad3:

Beth · **Posted:** Wed Apr 02, 2025 7:05 pm

Many thanks Apollo, I have bookmarked the article to show other falcon folks.

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