Welcome To The World Chick #2! Baby Falls On Back - Xavier Squishes It! FalconCam Project 😲 10.5.24 скачать в хорошем качестве

Welcome To The World Chick #2! Baby Falls On Back - Xavier Squishes It! FalconCam Project 😲 10.5.24

The second egg hatches today at 05:34:35 Australia time! Xavier brings prey & he tries to entice Diamond up with it by eating. Then he brings it closer to her and she will take it and start eating and go to the corner of the nest. We see when she got up that the second egg has hatched and now we have two beautiful chicks at 02:55. Welcome to the world chick #2. Di will return to brooding and nibble on some eggshell -which is good extra calcium for her. Di will get up and fly off the nest and immediately Xavier comes flying in! He couldn't wait to get to brood two chicks! As soon as he reaches the chicks, the youngest wobbles and falls over onto its back and can't get up at 06:22 . Xavier just sits down on the chicks to brood them with the baby's head hanging out - saying "Dad get up you are squishing me!" Xavier will re-position himself & the youngest chick will roll over and right itself. Just so stinking cute! ♥ Xavier just starts to get comfortable when Di returns to the nest. He only got two minutes of brooding time! But our wonderful Dad gets up and jumps off the ledge -he has a lot of work to do now with two mouths to feed!! Thank you for watching! Video captured & edited by Lady Hawk ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1ST HATCH: Oct 4th 2024 00:24:12 🎉🎉 2nd HATCH: Oct 5th 2024 05:34"35 🎉🎉 GENERAL INFORMATION: This is a research project through Charles Sturt University, Orange, New South Wales Australia, studying the diet and use of a nest box of a family of peregrines living in water tower since 2007. We now have nine years' worth of diet and seven years of behaviour data The cams go right through the year and are in daily use. HISTORY: The birds have been observed using the tower (a working water tower) since 2007, breeding in the box since 2008, with an average of 2.8 eggs per clutch and 1.5 fledges per season. The parents' names are Diamond (female) and Xavier (male). Diamond took over from the older Swift in 2015 and Xavier replaced Bula in 2016 (who in turn replaced our first male, Beau, in 2015). Xavier arrived just as the eggs were hatching and saved the season by providing for Diamond and her three chicks. Assuming that they were at least two years old when they arrived, Diamond is at least eleven years old and Xavier nine (in 2024). The male is 15-20% smaller than the female, has fewer spots on the chest and has brighter yellow-orange talons and beak. The birds do not migrate and courtship rituals and some scrape (nest) building continues throughout the year, intensifying, along with food bringing by the male, in July and August. Eggs are laid usually in late August, with chicks hatching in early October and fledging in mid-November. The youngsters often stay around as late as March being taught to hunt by their parents, and often visiting the nest in the tower, so there is much to watch even out of the main breeding season. One male juvenile stayed until August the following year when his parents blocked his entrance to the box and he took the hint. #falconCam #OrangeCSUfalcons #OrangeAustraliaFalcons #PeregrineFalcons #CSUorangeperegrinefalcons Courtesy of Falcon Project Orange NSW Australia. Many thanks to Cilla Kinross, principal researcher at CSU.    / falconcamproject   Box Cam link: https://www.youtube.com/live/yv2RtoIMNzA Ledge Cam link:    • Ledge Camera -FalconCam Project LIVE