INTERNATIONAL KESTRELS ~ 2014

Priscilla · **Posted:** Wed May 07, 2014 12:22 pm

from FB

Worcester

Incoming... Expecting the first hatching around the 20th.

skygirlblue · **Joined:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 3:18 pm **Posts:** 63313

Steinhuder

Catbird · **Posted:** Wed May 07, 2014 2:15 pm

Ah, cute video of the Steinhuder chicks getting fed today. Thanks SGB!

loza · **Posted:** Fri May 09, 2014 2:37 am

Wloclawek Poland
Kuleczka & Pusio.

It is not easy to take the change :egg19:

Ferenz · **Posted:** Fri May 09, 2014 3:25 am

Berlin - change

9:18am CEST - male

9:19am CEST - female

loza · **Posted:** Fri May 09, 2014 7:11 am

Worcester, UK
9/5 11.40 Change. Eggs did not show :egg17:

skygirlblue · **Joined:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 3:18 pm **Posts:** 63313

Trebon

San Clemente~wonder if she knows she forgot an egg..

Rosenheim

Israel?

Bosuil · **Joined:** Thu Nov 12, 2009 9:27 am **Posts:** 235

Several beautifully clear snapshots from the other Kestrel cams! Thanks to all. Interesting also the Worcester nest on the ridge. Via the Italian forumI noted a Hungarian - link:

link ---> Kestrel in Hungary

Snapshot by Italian forummember Sandrobico

Elyakim Lesser Kestrel - snapshots from yesterday:

Nest 3 - 4 chicks left - # 5 must have died Wednesday. The difference in size with its siblings was larger than of the # 5 in nest 15.

Nest 15 - male feeding and 5 chicks clearly visible.

Haven't watched all day today, just have cam on since 45 min. and didnot see the female of nest 15 turn in for the night - she's usually a bit later than the female of nest 3 and in fact, I donot see her at all, though she might be hidden under the webcam. Still very strange though - one would see her preen and now only the chicks are partially visible from time to time - flapping wings or preening themselves.

Let's watch whether we can see her later on ....

Catbird · **Posted:** Fri May 09, 2014 2:16 pm

Thanks to all for the updates and pictures!

I'll update the Nesting Calendar and Kestrel Cam links page shortly.

Bosuil · **Joined:** Thu Nov 12, 2009 9:27 am **Posts:** 235

Elyakim nest 15 - it is now sure - the female didnot return:

Not good. They're barely 10 days old and just this night it's way too cold - only 12 degrees (it was 33C in the daytime Monday, but temps dropped considerably in second half of this week). They huddle together and squeak - and move and reposition continuously.
Let's see what happens in the early morning, how many survive the night, whether the female will show up and if not, what the male will do. (I did notify the people who put up the nestboxes and webcams.)

First shift change is usually around 6:30 local time, which is 11:30 PM for NY / Eastern time and 8:30 PM Pacific. Hope some of you will watch

around that time!

Catbird · **Posted:** Fri May 09, 2014 9:44 pm

Bosuil - It's 9:41 p.m. NY time, and there's a kestrel keeping the chicks warm. I hope it's the female!

I'll check back on the nest around 11:30 p.m.

skygirlblue · **Joined:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 3:18 pm **Posts:** 63313

They just had a feed in box 15...I only caught the tail of the parent going out the door...so, don't know if it was mom or dad..

Bosuil · **Joined:** Thu Nov 12, 2009 9:27 am **Posts:** 235

Catbird wrote:

Bosuil - It's 9:41 p.m. NY time, and there's a kestrel keeping the chicks warm. I hope it's the female!

I'll check back on the nest around 11:30 p.m.

Thanks Catbird - so she must have fooled me by coming home unusually early + hiding from view all that time! They're alone now - as are the chicks in nest 3, but just saw M deliver a prey to # 15.

Update - just saw V return w prey - and M delivered already 8 preys - and even counted still 5 chicks (hard to get snapshot of that in time) - so all is well!

male

female (only she has a striped tail)

Catbird · **Posted:** Fri May 09, 2014 11:47 pm

Bosuil - I'm glad that was the female!

I just checked the nest again:

And great news now: the female is back with another, bigger breakfast for the chicks!

loza · **Posted:** Sat May 10, 2014 6:04 am

Wloclawek Poland

First CHICK ( S ?) :hatchegg:

Edit :
12.33 First feeding
22'video move two chicks
:hatchegg:

loza · **Posted:** Sat May 10, 2014 2:30 pm

Afternoon with Mom and unless two chicks :loveshow:

Probably, because visibility is poor

Priscilla · **Posted:** Sat May 10, 2014 2:47 pm

Catbird · **Posted:** Sat May 10, 2014 5:34 pm

Thanks, loza, for the great news about the hatches at Wloclawek. :hatchegg:

Switzerland

In other news, Rhine nest #1 had one confirmed hatch on May 8. Since then it looks as if 2 more eggs have hatched. Here's the picture from May 8.

loza · **Posted:** Sun May 11, 2014 4:15 am

Wloclawek Poland

Pusio. :egg17:

7.46Visiting family but did not enter,
and 8.54 new delivery.

I think there are two chicks still

loza · **Posted:** Sun May 11, 2014 11:44 am

Wloclawek Poland
Kuleczka feeding 2 chicks
+ :easterbask:

But this Pusio funny. :egg21:

Came with the mouse in the absence of beads.
He was afraid of their children.
Just as the future mother, took the mouse and fed two children.

17.20 Dinner

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