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So When Did Incubation Start?


Carla merely shelters the eggs, 21 March 2025, 2:37am (picture from the Nationwide Aviary falconcam at Univ of Pittsburgh)

25 March 2025

After Carla laid her final egg within the wee hours of 21 March at 2:07am and I noticed her put together to incubate the following morning at 5:40am, I declared on 22 March that incubation had begun. Was I proper? I’m not so positive anymore.

I checked the falconcam timelapse movies and located that throughout the day of the twenty second Carla and Ecco each gave the impression to be incubating, however that evening Carla spent an hour and a half off the eggs from 2:30am to 4:00am. You may see the hole on this timelapse video.

video from the Nationwide Aviary falconcam at Univ of Pittsburgh

She additionally stood up for half an hour at 5:00am. What was she taking a look at?

Carla is up for two hours on the evening of 22-23 March 2025 (picture from the Nationwide Aviary falconcam at Univ of Pittsburgh)

On the twenty third incubation was extra constant. Carla and Ecco took nearly no break day throughout nest exchanges and Carla slept on the scrape.

Carla sleeps whereas incubating, 23 March 2025, 3:02p (picture from the Nationwide Aviary falconcam at Univ of Pittsburgh)

That evening, 23-24 March, she stayed tight on the eggs particularly whereas it rained. The raindrops seem like snow within the infrared gentle.

(video from the Nationwide Aviary falconcam at Univ of Pittsburgh)

So now I feel incubation started on 23 March 2025.

Solely the peregrines know for positive.

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