GULF TOWERS FALCONS: 2011

Mick · **Posted:** Tue Apr 26, 2011 5:41 pm

Adorable video. I love this pair!

PIP!

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

Dutch Eagle Fan · **Posted:** Wed Apr 27, 2011 5:44 am

First hatch, at 6.31 local time:

Catbird · **Posted:** Wed Apr 27, 2011 6:03 am

Ah, great news and pictures here! (And I can't believe they brought in food even before the first chick hatched. Talk about being prepared!)

ljames · **Posted:** Wed Apr 27, 2011 9:42 am

I see more pink at 9:35. Wonder if another hatch??

ljames · **Posted:** Wed Apr 27, 2011 9:51 am

You know its really an hour later, Don't know why they would be in a different time zone, so it's now 10:50 and the clock on the cam says 9:50 and so does post time. I'm pretty sure I saw a white ball in the back when the pink one was in the front.

Coriena · **Posted:** Wed Apr 27, 2011 10:22 am

ljames · **Posted:** Wed Apr 27, 2011 10:26 am

ljames · **Posted:** Wed Apr 27, 2011 10:35 am

He just brought in prey and she went to get it. I saw two chicks, couldn't take any pictures I was so transfixed about where she was stepping which was all over the chicks. I swear it's a miracle any of them live past the first day. She is feeding away, with her back to us hiding the chicks, but that one was wobbly and the other one didn't know he was out of the egg yet, looked like. :egg9:

ljames · **Posted:** Wed Apr 27, 2011 10:41 am

I think Louie might have come in to be with the chicks, but I can't be sure.

Here's a picture

Mick · **Posted:** Wed Apr 27, 2011 1:24 pm

2 chicks!

Thanks for the video Coriena.

You have some great screen shots Ljames
Thank youu

catwoman · **Posted:** Wed Apr 27, 2011 6:49 pm

That is such a sweet picture where one of the chicks is meeting dad! :flirty:

ljames · **Posted:** Thu Apr 28, 2011 8:46 am

I can see 3 this morning.

Mick · **Posted:** Thu Apr 28, 2011 11:30 am

The 4th, just now.

Edit: Kate's blog said that 3rd was there at first light.

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

Great pics, ljames and Mick...I'm really falling behind... :egg11:

Dutch Eagle Fan · **Posted:** Thu Apr 28, 2011 4:45 pm

Four little beaks to fill :girlluv:

Does any of you recognise the prey? The underside of the wing is bright yellow.

mwplay · **Joined:** Sun Feb 28, 2010 12:15 am **Posts:** 10250

Maybe a yellow-bellied flycatcher?

http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Yell ... catcher/id

Dutch Eagle Fan · **Posted:** Thu Apr 28, 2011 4:55 pm

Thanks, but somehow I think this bird is larger than the fly catcher. But I am not an expert on American birds :wink:

E.T.A.
Could it have been an Oriole ? ? ?

mwplay · **Joined:** Sun Feb 28, 2010 12:15 am **Posts:** 10250

That's okay... I live here and don't know much about birds. Luckily I can identify a scrub jay, crow, mockingbird and peregrine. I'm pretty pathetic besides that...

Maybe a Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker?

http://monarchbfly.com/2007/06/27/yello ... sapsucker/
http://nationalzoo.si.edu/scbi/migrator ... _Sapsucker

Would go along with those spots on the upper breast?

Dutch Eagle Fan · **Posted:** Thu Apr 28, 2011 5:06 pm

Or more specific a Baltimore Oriole

http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/search

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