2 May 2021
I was not too far off on my timing of the birds hatching. Yesterday, May 1st, I observed the male falcon or tiercel bring in fresh prey and stash it in a larder, one of a few small holes they store food in. Neither of the falcons came to retrieve it in the two hours before I left the Rock.

This morning I saw the female bring into the nest site a plump, juicy morsel. So the chicks must have hatched last night or this morning. In about ten days to two weeks the young will come to the edge of the nest site to defecate over the side. This is something to see. The young fearless standing on the edge inches from a 300 foot fall. The young normally fly in forty four days on a normal year which will be about June 13-14.
See you at the Rock.
Happy trails, Bob