Joined: Wed Jan 02, 2013 10:41 am Posts: 12693
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First shift change was at 7:37 this morning per chat. When I came in at 7:54, Pa was still on egg duty. At 8:42, you could see the female flying from the rear past the left side of the nest and apparently circled back around the front of the nest and landed on the left branch with a fluff delivery. Pa got off the eggs and flew out between the two right branches.
Female down to the eggs, rolled, aerated, settled, brought fluff forward. Female up at 9:48 and aerated the bowl. She turned to the left and reached over and pulled out a pelt from under the fluff pile and took to the front of the nest and ate. At 9:52, she finished eating and went back to the eggs and settled and brought fluff toward herself. Pa returned with a stick at 10:24 flying in from between the two right branches and placed it to the right rails. Then he backed up and onto the female. She was lightly vocal and got out of the bowl and while walking toward the front of the nest, she stepped on the remains of the pelt from earlier. She began to eat, de-fur for a bit, eat. Pa flew at 10:28 toward the left and the female stopped eating to see where he went, then resumed. At 10:32, she downed the rest of the pelt. She picked up Pa's newest stick he placed and moved it out slightly. Then to the bowl to aerate. She stopped at 10:34 and moved to the rear of the nest. Pa returned with another stick at 10:35 that he placed to the left rails. Pa moved another stick to the front rails. She flew out to the left, then toward the rear.
Pa watched her leave, adjusted the stick, then to the bowl and rolled the eggs, settled, brought fluff forward. At 11:02, Pa reached over and moved his stick she had moved out earlier. The female returned to the left branch at 11:44 and Pa was vocal. The female was lightly vocal at intervals and Pa responded. At 11:48, the female eased down the left branch and spread fluff already on the floor. She picked up a small hunk of it with her beak and walked off the branch onto the nest and placed it near Pa. He got up and flew out the left of the nest at 11:49 for the day.
She watched to see where he went, then settled over the bowl and brought fluff closer. She continued incubation through the afternoon and for the most part made single calls for Pa through out the afternoon and early evening at 2:44, 5:16, 5:38, 5:43, 5:53, and 5:55 several calls without any responses from Pa. And possibly others that I didn't catch. Pa did not show up to relieve her before her night incubation. Rocky was seen scampering up a branch at 7:39 that woke her and she tracked him above on a branch then down another, but he did not come onto the nest. The female has changed positions and rolled her eggs several times through out the afternoon and evening. At 1:50 am something startled her awake and she stood up in the bowl and threw her wings out a little. From the approach cam same incident is at 1:52 and something dropped from under the left side of the nest when her head popped up. She went back to sleep with her head tucked at 1:57 and continues to sleep at 2:24 am as I leave.
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