Bird Cams Around the World

I realize she just laid an egg, but she seems very unsure with her footing this morning. Never seen Clara step on an egg. Saw her do it while she was in labor and just now when she turned around.

Yeah, she's a tad unsteady, needs to rest now.

Darn, I just missed it! Looking forward to your video, SGB.

Poor baby.

Ok now I will watch the video to see again.

The video worked great. SWEET! Thanks, SGB.

Perfect video!

Thank you!

Love the video. Thanks SGB.

Great video SGB. That FC is adorable and is a great partner. He was probably watching her from clsoe by and thought , when she raised up the first time, the egg was here.

I thought that last night and the lighting was so bad could not tell.

i knew someone would catch it this morning

Great captures/video!!!

Clara feeling better. And her two little eggs.

Thanks from me, too, SGB! Great video! What a great mate/father FC is!

so now we wait here next

I hope it's like 30 degrees in SJ as FC has been covering the eggs for quite a while. Funny really, Clara was on the louver and as FC approached, she turned and raised her tail , but he just headed to the ledge and nestbox to sit with the eggs. She is now on the wall watching him. Oh, now he canoodles.

It's about 55 right now.

Glenn S posted an interesting response on Yahoo forum last night regarding FC & Clara appearing to have started hard incubation:

"Long periods" do not equal "hard incubation." The parents have to bring the eggs and the surrounding area up to 99 degrees to start incubation. One of the things we have learned by watching these cams for years is that the adults "rake" gravel toward them until a donut us formed around the scrape. I am convinced that the donut, dike, or ridge, helps seal out the cold and helps maintain temperature for the eggs. The eggs are sitting on a substrate of cold gravel and I am saying that it takes significant effort to bring the gravel of the scrape up to a constant and warm temperature. Once incubation has begun the embryo starts to develop but that does not mean that the eggs must be covered every minute of every day to survive. Eggs are tough. They can go uncovered for an hour or more--and there are records of eggs being uncovered for significantly longer periods. There is some evidence that they begin to shut down when they feel two eggs under them (this is from captive situations when eggs are added to the nest) so they complete the clutch at 4. Think about it. We know that when egg #2 is laid, egg #3 is already on its way down, right? Egg #4 is about to be fertilized at the top of the infundibulum. So if the "shut-down" trigger comes after two eggs, we should get a total of four in the nest. --glenn@scpbrg

Thanks mwplay. I get so stressed out when they hatch so far apart. I always start to worry when the male seems to stay on the eggs.

I used to worry, also ljames , until I realized, they know what they are doing. we are jsut the worry warts.