Xavier flies into the nest with prey (prepared pigeon) & Diamond excitedly takes it & flies off to each her breakfast. X gets his egg time! However, only 25 minutes later, Diamond returns wanting to incubate but X does not want to get up. Diamond has to nudge him off the eggs - X goes to the ledge and jumps off in his GCW fashion. 😂
X returns and wants more egg time, but Diamond is comfortable and does not get up. When she rolls the eggs, X rushes over but is disappointed in having to return to the ledge. Three hours go by with X waiting for his egg time! Finally Diamond will get up and X is right there is take over incubation duties!! YAY Xaiver is rejoicing.
Diamond only took a short break of 25 minutes and she returns again. X does not want to get up and she has to nudge him off the eggs! 😂 Xavier jumps and does a perfect Goodbye Cruel World exit! (shown in both cam views!)
X will return with a starling, It is not Di's favorite food but she takes it anyway to eat! Di returns an hour later and she nudges him off the eggs into another GCW jump (both cams!) X never disappoints a smile with that exit! Thank you for watching!
Video captured & edited by Lady Hawk
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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.
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Courtesy of Falcon Project Orange NSW Australia. Many thanks to Cilla Kinross, principal researcher at CSU.
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