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Kestrel mother on aloof - No hope for egg in the camera box

The continuing cooperation with the Park Clinic Weißensee also enables us
to send live images from a kestrel nesting box again this year.
Unfortunately, although there will be no oviposition this year,
there will probably be no kestrel cub to marvel at.
Also this year a falcon couple appeared

For several years, one can follow the brood events of the kestrels in a nesting box
in the Park-Klinik Weissensee in Berlin-Pankow by webcam.
Also this year a falcon couple appeared.
A beautiful male and a falcon lady took an interest in the hatchery,
flew at him and began to scrape a nest recess into the soil substrate.
On the first of April, the female laid the first egg. The days passed, no more eggs followed.



On 19.3. succeeded a snapshot, on which one can recognize a bird waiting ring at the right foot of the female.
In another photo is also a blue Darvic ring on the right foot to recognize. This bird
had to have been ringed in the context of the scientific observations taking place in Berlin.

Stefan Kupko, editor of the monitoring area for kestrels in Berlin-West succeeded
on 7.4. then a reading of Darvic ring G 2. "G2 was ringed by me last year on 12.6.18
at the Luther Church in Berlin Schöneberg at the age of 3 weeks.

Interestingly, a week later she was found as a boulder near the church,
cared for a week in the NABU wild bird station, and then came back to me,
finally in late June 2018 in another box in Kreuzberg (Road Traffic Bureau)
Adoption in the excursion phase to be added, "he reported.
So this kestrel has successfully overcome its difficulties as a young bird
and mated with a male in Weißensee in 2019.

The brood in the nest box of Park Clinic Weißensee fails.



Both birds initially appeared regularly in the nesting box and scraped a shallow nest bowl,
in which then the clutch is placed. Without this shallow hollow, the almost round eggs would roll apart.

On 1.4.19 the female then laid the first egg - and it stayed that way.

The photo is from 4.4. 19 - there should have been at least a second egg - if not a third.
From about the third egg, the clutch is "firmly" incubated.
A full clutch can consist of up to 6, rarely 7 eggs.

In the following days both birds kept coming back into the box,
the female as well as her partner could not do anything with the single egg.
A incubation did not take place. He provides his female with prey (here with mouse),
several times took place the prey transfer in the nesting box.



The brood may be housed in a second nesting box located on the other gable side of the clinic building.

Our camera box may only be used as a depot for prey or as a transfer point.
On occasion, we want to check this time locally.

Then we will report something new.

Text: Katrin Koch