Observation date: 12 March 2018
After spending a month shopping for a new nest site, the pair of falcons on the north side settled on last year’s eyrie where they had a failed nesting. Yesterday and today they started incubation. Twice they exchanged sitting on eggs. The female for three hours, the male for one hour.
Feeding at the “butcher bush” Photo by Bob Isenberg
The male has been feeding her for last few weeks while egg laying. He brings mostly small shore birds, but Gordon and I while watching saw a small tuft of bright yellow feathers. It looked to be a Meadow Lark breast. It’s just a guess, but nothing else is that bright of a yellow. I forgot to mention, but between incubation exchanges, he bred her each time.
The south side pair are not nesting yet, but we can always hope they will!
Tiercel arrives with a blue check rock dove for female Photo by Bob Isenberg
Happy trails, Bob
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If this is the second day of incubation, chicks should hatch around April 15. We will know when they have hatched when we see food go into the nest site.
