BLACKDOG, SHERCO, KING~2016-2017

Shepherd · **Joined:** Mon Apr 28, 2014 2:10 pm **Posts:** 6632

sky, I read your calculations / timeline.
I posted what Amy said for everyone's encouragement!
NEXT YEAR - WAY BETTER CAM! :eggbounce:

skygirlblue · **Joined:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 2:18 pm **Posts:** 64480

skygirlblue wrote:

Reminder to all...GSB has its own thread...since that was the request from 2015... :egg19:

viewtopic.php?f=494&t=2087&p=391025#p391025

In the future, I will be deleting posts that are not related to this thread....thanks in advance!!

I am bumping this up...

skygirlblue · **Joined:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 2:18 pm **Posts:** 64480

King...

about time they zoomed...maybe now we can count eggs..LOL

Shepherd · **Joined:** Mon Apr 28, 2014 2:10 pm **Posts:** 6632

sky, they zoomed king a day or 2 ago
I got a snip
Nora decided - 4 eggs

hehehehehe :teehee:

skygirlblue · **Joined:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 2:18 pm **Posts:** 64480

thanks!! Glad to hear that 4 has been confirmed...

kittenface · **Posted:** Thu Apr 21, 2016 1:50 pm

SHERCO
Raptor Resource Project
[5 hrs ·
A falcon on six eggs? That is what we appear to have at Xcel Energy's Sherco plant in Becker, Minnesota! The first four eggs laid here were fully pigmented, but the last two are lighter in color and easily identifiable. A few possibilities:
The falcon is incubating four eggs laid this spring and two eggs laid last spring. Last year's resident falcon laid four eggs, but none of them hatched. Two of them appeared to have survived the winter and could just be seen toward the back of the box. Did she find them and roll them under her? The two eggs have vanished from their former location.
The falcon was replaced by a new female, who laid two eggs and is incubating the full clutch. Females may incubate a rival's eggs, although I'm more used to seeing either destruction or complete failure when turnover happens at this stage.
The falcon laid a six-egg clutch. Six-egg clutches are very rare, with just six being recorded in Britain and one in the United States according to the book "The Peregrine Falcon" by Derek Ratcliffe. While this is the least likely scenario, it would be amazing if the Sherco falcons were able to hatch and provide for six eyasses!
Hatch was predicted to begin here around May 4th. We'll be watching the site to see what hatches! You can follow Sherco on our website at http://www.raptorresource.org/birdcams/ ... ergy-cams/ (scroll down the page) or at Xcel Energy's site: http://birdcam.xcelenergy.com/Cams/Sherco_Falcon

Shepherd · **Joined:** Mon Apr 28, 2014 2:10 pm **Posts:** 6632

Yes Sherco rolled out last years white eggs and is brooding them too.
I wish RRP had been able to get there and remove them last year

Terka · **Posted:** Thu Apr 21, 2016 3:18 pm

4 + 2 =6

http://www.raptorresource.org/forum/ind ... 7u243jvbr4

:easterbasket:

skygirlblue · **Joined:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 2:18 pm **Posts:** 64480

Is somebody gonna let RRP know that they did NOT lay a 6 egg clutch? hahahahahahaha

KF, what you posted from RRP, is that a quote?...because it doesn't make much sense to me..the original female displaced after laying 2 eggs? I haven't stayed glued to this cam, but I don't think so..

One of the nests that greg septon monitors regularly used to lay 6 eggs..gosh, can't remember which one that is, but after reading his yearly reports, I can remember having to pick my jaw up off the floor...

I just hope that by pulling these old duds in with the other 4 isn't gonna jeopardize those 4 eggs. Heaven knows they have had enough trouble at this nest the past 2 years with no hatches...

(I'm so tired I am just now rambling)...hee hee..

edit to add: Glad you clarified things for them, Shep!!!

kittenface · **Posted:** Thu Apr 21, 2016 10:44 pm

Yes right from the RRP FB page

skygirlblue wrote:

Is somebody gonna let RRP know that they did NOT lay a 6 egg clutch? hahahahahahaha

KF, what you posted from RRP, is that a quote?...because it doesn't make much sense to me..the original female displaced after laying 2 eggs? I haven't stayed glued to this cam, but I don't think so..

One of the nests that greg septon monitors regularly used to lay 6 eggs..gosh, can't remember which one that is, but after reading his yearly reports, I can remember having to pick my jaw up off the floor...

I just hope that by pulling these old duds in with the other 4 isn't gonna jeopardize those 4 eggs. Heaven knows they have had enough trouble at this nest the past 2 years with no hatches...

(I'm so tired I am just now rambling)...hee hee..

edit to add: Glad you clarified things for them, Shep!!!

Shepherd · **Joined:** Mon Apr 28, 2014 2:10 pm **Posts:** 6632

SHERCO April 22
I wonder if Amy wrote the RRP page BEFORE she posted on the RRP forum.
Me n Nora both replied to her. LOL! We are laughing.
I am concerned regarding old eggs

Shepherd · **Joined:** Mon Apr 28, 2014 2:10 pm **Posts:** 6632

King
2 HATCHLINGS!
May 7, 2016 Sataday shepnotes
6.30 am 2 HATCHLINGS! - ? I think ....
Mom shows up with a HUGE prey. O please! pluck it first!
She heard me - carried it out

:hatchegg:

and

?

Coriena · **Posted:** Sat May 07, 2016 10:40 am

Beth · **Posted:** Sat May 07, 2016 6:55 pm

Sherco has a hatch!! Yay :15heartbeat:

Shepherd · **Joined:** Mon Apr 28, 2014 2:10 pm **Posts:** 6632

FANTASTIC!!

:hatchegg:

skygirlblue · **Joined:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 2:18 pm **Posts:** 64480

YEE HAW!!! thank goodness...

thanks Beth...

and thanks for the Vid of King, Coriena!!

Shepherd · **Joined:** Mon Apr 28, 2014 2:10 pm **Posts:** 6632

SHERCO
I think I counted 3 hatchings
I saw a feeding
Mom was in the way! :tantrum2:

If there are 3 it will become evident - beek counting impossible

She had an early falcon visitor - she yelled at it
mate? I dunno

:hatchegg:

kittenface · **Posted:** Sun May 08, 2016 10:52 am

Well I see 2 hatches for sure.

kittenface · **Posted:** Sun May 08, 2016 11:53 am

Shepherd · **Joined:** Mon Apr 28, 2014 2:10 pm **Posts:** 6632

LOL!
first thing this morning, one chick was flopping right and left,
and there was no way I could be sure!
I am happy to have 2

:egglaugh":

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