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Today , day 30 for egg 3

May 26

So hatching should be this week to weekend .

Day 33 will be Wednesday May 29

They have been true to the eggs

all has been good but at 1:13 today and intruder on top of box. Female was incubating, at time , it flew off roof and she gave chase. Femaale went out a few times. things seem to be calm now. male on duty

will post photos and and edited video in a bit

do not need this now
female had been a bit watchful and looking at something below outside. around 1:00pm ish
intruder ( 1:11-1;12) flew from left and landed briefly on front.


female in protective mode


she is in but still in protect mode and looking and listening and at about 1:13 , it lands on roof


it peers over roof and flies off to right , and she flew but went to front an d watched and flew to right



she cam back and was still defensive and watching
1:20 there was a fly by and she flew out to right
and back

she kept watching out front an d was full down in protection mode

all seemed ot settle and male came in at 2:40

short video

Video link
https://youtu.be/o5BlcJtDKI0

just a thought, could this be young unbanded fmeale that ha d been at Nutrien . same face markings

now have to be watchful

may 29

have not seen male since just after 8 am , unless I missed an exchange . no t like him. He left with a few chups. first sound I heard in 2 days from falcons

we are to have high winds and rain for next few days. so hope hatches , till weekend. It will be hard to hunt.

I hate the wind at this site particularly

May 29 7:15pm
Hear chirping and she is really shuggling and turning
Edit to say, maybe hatch by morning. Hope to see male

may 30


from Emyrauld this morning

Very noticeable chirping from a chick

thanks emyrauld
I can hear chick a
no sign of male yet.

Very windy and cool today
Rain off and on

Trouble
Unbanded bird, lands on front and tries to go in,
She is mantling her eggs

Hard to tell whether male or female from angle .
Positive thoughts here
Darn floater birds.
Hope our male is around.
Still could not tell about a hatch




video
Video link
https://youtu.be/AZRYfKziTVo

And it comes to front again. Getting braver. Poor female in middle of hatching out eggs

What I would give to see our male.

C***

Still hear chirps. Female still has not left box.
Wish I was a fly on wall.
No time next few days to go out there

5:47
female intruder came in on platform, then to wrung an d resident female chased off
resident female back 5:52pm

9:06pm

this is not good situation though
resident female just calls out fo r first time
it is cold and windy




I am frazzled
and a bit later

May 31
No sign of resident male for 48 hours.
Resident has not been off nest for almost 48 hours
I hatch , and one on way.
Intruder in twice this morning already. ( was on catwalk to front and female mantled, it flew off. Came to front again, and stare down, it flew off )




Strange think is , there is no sound from either. She gave a low call last night after hatch. Other than that , no sound from anyone

Am I wreck, yes.

I have notified all , that have to be notified.
Not sure is this is male or female. Male would make sense , but our male is tough. Hard to imagine , poof. He may be fighting or protecting but should have shown his face , before now
I am praying

9:54an may31
one chick


shell


2 chicks

2 eggs

Genesee may31

We have had a situation develop here.

As of this morning,1 - resident male missing for over 48 hours
2 - female has not been off nest for over 48 hours

3- an intruder has been coming to nest box area, since yesterday.May 30 ( there had been one two days ago( may28) but female chased it out and resident male came in to incubate. There was no sign of anything wrong)
4 - had one egg hatch last evening 9:06pm may30
5- another egg hatched this morning 9:54am May31

Female needs to be able ot get prey to feed chicks and herself( she can not do this alone)

So after notifying the proper authorities, the decision was made early this morning, to remove the new chicks, and 2 pipped eggs.

It had to be done in a timely manner, to make sure first hatch had its first feed within a 24 hour period after hatch.

So [b]4 porcelain eggs have been put in with our female[/b]

This is never an easy decision to make, but it was a necessary decision.

Thank you Emyrauld for helping with observations.


The 2 chicks are doing well. Both have been fed and eggs are being incubated. Things look good for them

NOte:
As of now, resident female left the box to side rail at 9:29pm and back to the front at 9:30pm . she looked around and softly called and then was out again. she came back at 9:32pm . After, looking around she called out softly again, and then went back in to box( not enough time to eat)

So we will wait and see how this all plays out.
thank you
BEV

Look at previous posts and you can see how this all developed.

thanks Mary anne.

not a good time for this to happen. Our resident male has been so great all these years( since 2019) He taught red band when she came in ( 2022 , after we lost our resident female to avian flu). She had a lot to learn and she has really depended on him.
Note:
Intruder was on the top of box roof at 7:40 pm


resident female did go out at 9:29pm/ she went to side fence after looking around, and back in a minute , to thefront. She gave a few soft calls , looked around , and out again at 9:30pm
9:32pm - she flew back to front of the box, gave a few more soft calls and then went into box
It has been a long week so far ( thank you Emyrauld for your eyes also)

hopefully she goes out and has a good meal

have a good evening. tomorrow is a new day